Shut The Gate Against My Thoughts – St John's Smith Square, London

About this event

This is an intimate voice-and-theorbo recital built around the theme of melancholy in 16th- and 17th-century European music. The program traces melancholy as a recurring source of artistic inspiration and as an emotional state expressed through introspection, romance, longing, and desolation. The theorbo provides both accompaniment and a featured instrumental role through Kapsberger's Toccata, while the vocal sequence moves between English and Italian songs and a sacred motet. The program alternates composers and genres rather than presenting a staged dramatic work.