Parthenia Video

Live performance of William Lawes (1602-1645) Set a6 in g min.
Saturday, May 17, 2014 at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields in Manhattan.
Performed by PARTHENIA (Beverly Au, bass viol, Rosamund Morley, tenor viol, Lawrence Lipnik, tenor viol and Lisa Terry, bass viol) with guest artists Shira Kammen and Robert Mealy, violins. (http://www.parthenia.org)
PARTHENIA records for MSR Classics (http://www.msrcd.com/). Bookings by GEMS Live! Artist Representatives (http://gemslive.org/home.html). PARTHENIA ‘s concert season is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Parthenia is a fiscally sponsored organization of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a member of Early Music America and Chamber Music America.
For more information, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting -jamesarts@att.net (http://www.jamesarts.com/)

Parthenia Viol Consort (Lawrence Lipnik, Rosamund Morley, Beverly Au and Lisa Terry) with guest Motomi Igarashi perform the Complete Book of 1610 by Michael East, April 2019 in New York City, in a concert with the madrigal ensemble Les Canards Chantants.
This volume contains a remarkable cycle of eight profound fantasias for five viols, all with titles like "Amavi: I have loved" and "Triumphavi: I have triumphed."

PARTHENIA VIOL CONSORT and DASHON BURTON, bass-baritone, from a live performance October 6, 2016, NYC

"O Fortune" from "Nothing Proved," a song cycle for viol consort, soprano and electronics, by Kristin Norderval. From a live performance on April 2, 2013 at The Players Theatre in NYC, as part of the 2013 Women's Work Festival at the Players Theatre in NYC.

The piece was commissioned with funds from the Jerome Foundation, and is based on poems by Queen Elizabeth I. The poem O Fortune was written by Elizabeth I while under house arrest during the reign of Queen Mary.

Performed by Parthenia - Beverly Au, Lawrence Lipnik, Rosamund Morley and Lisa Terry, viols - http://www.parthenia.org with Kristin Norderval, soprano and electronics. http://ensemble-pi.org/members/kristin-norderval

Text for "O Fortune"

O Fortune, thy wresting, wavering state
Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit...

Much suspected by me
Nothing proved can be
Quoth Elizabeth, prisoner

Oh Fortune, thy wresting, wavering state
are fraught with cares my troubled wit
Whose witness this present prison late
Could bear, where once was joy's loan quit...

No crooked leg, no bleared eye
No part deformed out of kind
Nor yet so ugly half can be
As is the inward suspicious mind

Oh Fortune!
Thou causedst the guilty to be loosed
From bands where innocents were inclosed
And caused the guiltless to be reserved
And freed those that death had well deserved.

Oh Fortune, thy wresting, wavering state
Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit...

But all herein can be nothing wrought
So God send my foes all they have thought

Oh Fortune...

Parthenia's concert season is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Parthenia is a fiscally sponsored organization of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a member of Early Music America.
For more information, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - jamesarts@att.net
http://www.jamesarts.com/

Parthenia is represented by GEMS Live! Artist Management, Christian Kriegeskotte, Sr. Artist Rep., and records for MSR Classics.
http://gemslive.org/aboutus.html

Parthenia Viol Consort (Lawrence Lipnik, Rosamund Morley, Beverly Au and Lisa Terry) with guest Motomi Igarashi perform the Complete Book of 1610 by Michael East, April 2019 in New York City, in a concert with the madrigal ensemble Les Canards Chantants.
This volume contains a remarkable cycle of eight profound fantasias for five viols, all with titles like "Amavi: I have loved" and "Triumphavi: I have triumphed."

Long live fair Oriana by Ellis Gibbons (1573-1603)
THEATRICAL MUSIC for DRAMATIC TIMES
Filmed Live at The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
February 7, 2020

Songs and instrumental pieces from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration

Parthenia Viol Consort, Daniel Moody, countertenor
Lawrence Lipnik, treble and tenor viol, Rosamund Morley, treble viol. Beverly Au, bass viol, Lisa Terry, bass viol
with Motomi Igarashi, tenor viol and Charles Weaver, lute

Text and Translation:
"Long live fair Oriana
Hark, did you ever hear so sweet a singing?
They sing young love to waken
The nymphs unto the woods their Queen are bringing
There was a note well taken!
O good! hark how joyfully 'tis dittied
A queen and song most excellently fitted
I never heard a rarer
I never saw a fairer
Then sing ye shepherds and nymphs of Diana
Long live fair Oriana."

Visit Parthenia's official site:
http://parthenia.org

Videography by Asaf Blasberg
http://asafblasberg.com

Audio by Peter Karl Studios
http://peterkarlstudios.com/

Filmed in 4K Ultra HD. Click on the gear icon and select the 2160p
4K setting (if you have a 4K monitor).