Richard III and Robert Herrick
Playlist: Texts read and Music played
1. William Walton: Prelude to Richard III
2. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act I, Scene I, ll. 1 — 41
3. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act V, Scene 3, ll. 316 — 352
4. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act V, Scene 4, ll. 1 — 13
5. Dufay Collective: ‘Robertsbridge Fragment’ — ‘Retrove’
6. The Ballad of Bosworth Field, c. 1490 (?)
7. 15th. c. English Church Music: ‘Doleo super te’
8. Robert Herrick: ‘To Daffodills’
9. Robert Herrick: ‘To Blossoms’
10. Robert Herrick: ‘Corinna’s going a Maying’
11. William Lawes: ‘Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may’ (words by Robert Herrick)
12. Carol Ann Duffy: ‘Richard’
13. Robert Herrick: ‘Upon His Departure Hence’
14. ‘Worldes blis … ‘ (Medieval English song)
15. Ralph Vaughan Williams: ‘Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis’