The Elizabethan Trio in performance / produced by April McMahon (Episode 24)

This episode of Focus On Women Composers presents the Elizabethan Trio, a Bay Area group which performs works from the Elizabethan period and other early musical periods. This program set by the Elizabethan Trio is called “Eight Extraordinary Women program.” This program consists of selections of poems, songs, writings, and keyboard works all produced by women of the 16th and 17th centuries. Elinor Armer, a Bay Area composer, set the poems The Flea by John Donne and Sonnet 11 by E. E. Cummings, to music especially for the Trio. The Trio is made up of Laurette Goldberg on harpsichord and virginals; Rella Lossy does the dramatic narrative; and Judith Nelson is the soprano. This tape was made from a performance at 1750 Arch Street in Berkeley. The recording engineer is Bob Schumacher. The pieces performed are The flea / poem by John Donne; music by Elinor Armer — A poem of grief over her brother’s death by Mary Sidney (1561-1621), music by John Bartlett — Alcina’s lament and the sirens’ song from La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina / opera by Francesca Caccini — Lagrime Mie / by Barbara Strozzi — To the ladies / words by Mary Chudleigh — Lieux ecartez / by Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre — Suite in d minor / by Jacquet de la Guerre — Sonnet 11 / poem by E. E. Cummings, music by Armer.