SOMNIA: Music of Dreams

Programme

Enter a world suspended between sleep and wakefulness, memory and imagination. Music by the Renaissance composer and lutenist John Dowland and his contemporaries is interwoven with new arrangements, improvisation, and Joel Frederiksen's reimagining of Nick Drake's song Pink Moon. Like a dream, the boundaries of time begin to give way. The pre-concert talk explores ideas of sleep and dreaming that inspired artists and poets around 1600.

1 pm: Pre-Concert Lecture — Dream Worlds, Then and Now

2 pm: Concert

Performers

Emma-Lisa Roux — soprano, lute
Lucine Musaelian — soprano, viola da gamba
Renaissance transverse flute (tba)
Joel Frederiksen — bass, lute, direction

“Dreaming Pink” with Lucine, Joel and Emma-Lisa / May 2026 Festival Espurnes Barroques