Stefanie True & Shizuko Noiri
O solitude
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Recorded live at the Gertrudiskapel Utrecht, 25 August 2020
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About this concert
Soprano Stefanie True and lutenist Shizuko Noiri bring together songs by John Dowland, Thomas Campion, Henry Purcell, and others. This concert was recorded during the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2020.
Programme
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John Dowland
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Praeludium instrumental
Weep you no more sad fountains1563-1626 -
Thomas Campion
Shall I come, sweet love, to thee?
Fain would I wed a fair young man
Never weather-beaten sail1567-1620 -
Robert Johnson
Have you seen but a white lily grow?
Dear, do not your fair beauty wrongca. 1583-1633 -
Nicholas Lanier
Mark how the blushful morn
No more shall meads be deck'd with flowers1588-1666 -
William Webb
As life, what is so sweet
ca. 1600-1657 -
Henry Purcell
O solitude
An evening hymn1659-1695
Musicians
- Stefanie True soprano
- Shizuko Noiri lute
About the performers
Canadian-born Stefanie True has enjoyed performing worldwide, and is a singer equally at ease on both opera and concert stages. She has appeared in many of the world’s great concert halls and theatres. Stefanie has enjoyed many repeat collaborations with groups such as Vox Luminis, La Risonanza and La Cicala, with all of whom she has made several audio and video recordings. In 2011, Stefanie placed first in the London Handel Singing Competition (Adair Prize), and won second prize in the John Kerr Award competition 2010 in Kent, UK. She studied voice with Catherine Robbin at York University (Toronto), and went on to study at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague with Barbara Pearson, Diane Forlano, Jill Feldman, and Michael Chance, where she completed her Master’s degree in Early Music.
Born in Kyoto, Japan, Shizuko Noiri graduated in musicology from the Doshisha women's college in Kyoto. She began studying the lute with Ichiro Okamoto. She later moved to Switzerland, where she continued her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, specialising in the lute and Renaissance and Baroque performing practices under Eugen Dombois and Hopkinson Smith. She obtained her solo diploma in 1991. Performing under René Jacobs, Shizuko Noiri has over the last 20 years appeared in many opera productions. She has given masterclasses in Aix-en Provence, the Czech Republic, and at Tokyo’s University of the Arts.