Augustin Cornwall-Irving – lute
‘Music from early English lute manuscripts’

The Programme

‘Music from early English lute manuscripts’

Two fantasias from the Willoughby lute book

Quadro Pavan

Pavane

The Queen’s Almaine
Heaven and Earth/The King’s Pavane
Queene Maries Dumpe

Pavane to Delight
Galliard to Delight

Pavane
Galliard

Playfellow
The Night’s Watch Almain
Fantasy

Cotton’s Goodnight

The Artist

Augustin Cornwall-Irving is a lute, guitar and theorbo player from London who studied at the Royal College of Music as David Laing Scholar, and as Ian Evans Lombe Scholar. In 2018 he performed in the Anne Boleyn Music Book concert at the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, celebrating a treasured manuscript of early 16th century music held by the RCM, and gave a lecture recital on the history of the lute as part of the RCM Guitar Festival. The following year he performed in Emma Kirkby’s 70th anniversary concert at Dartington Hall and began performing with the lute song group Dowland Works. Since then, he has performed in venues including St John’s Smith Square, Lewes Festival of Song, St Peter’s Belsize Park, Trinity College Cambridge and Utrecht Early Music Fringe Festival.

In 2020 he gave a solo lute recital for HRH The Prince of Wales, as well as appearing on the BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show. More recently, he recorded with the Taverner Consort for their 50th anniversary recording, and in 2022 he won first prize in the RCM Historical Performance Competition (winner of the Century Fund Prize and the Richard III Prize).