Mary Queen of Scots
Texts read and music played:
- H.W. Meikle: The Story of Scotland
- Marion Angus: Alas! Poor Queen
- Pierre de Ronsard: Ode a Cassandre
- L’Amour de Moy (16th.c. French song)
- Joachim du Bellay: To the Queen of Scotland
- Mary Queen of Scots: The Absent One
- Claudin de Semisy: Tant que vivray (As Long as I Live)
- Rev. J.A. Carruth: Farewell Tribute of the Fairest to Fair France
- James Ballantine: Mary’s Farewell to France (sung by Flo MacDonald)
- Alexander Scott: Welcome, illustrat Lady and our Queen
- John Knox: Railing against Mary
- Pierre de Chatelard: If thy doom be flame…
- Liz Lochhead: Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off
- Lord Darnley: If langour makis men licht…
- Theodor Fontane, on the death of Riccio
- Felix Mendelssohn: at the Palace of Holyrood, July 1829…
- Felix Mendelssohn: Andante con moto (opening movement of Symphony no. 3, ‘Scottish’)
- William Shakespeare: from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
- From an anonymous Ballad
- Mary Queeen of Scots: (a sonnet to Elizabeth): A longing haunts my spirit…
- Friedrich Schiller: from Maria Stuart (confrontation scene)
- Donizetti: from Maria Stuarda (confrontation scene)
- Elizabeth I of England: The Daughter of Debate
- Mary’s speech in her own defence at her Trial
- Mary’s final words (in Latin) on the scaffold
- Robert Burns: Lament of Mary Queen of Scots
- Henry Purcell: Remember Me…but ah! Forget my fate, from Dido and Aeneas
