The Tytuvėnai summer festival, returning to the barn of the Kurtuvėnai manor after a break of several years, invites you to a concert of Shakespearean songs performed by one of the best musicians of this genre, Mateusz Ławniczak (vocals, lute).

16th and 17th centuries music in England is marked by the fact that many composers abandoned polyphonic music and paid more attention to solo songs with accompaniment. Thus, a new genre of lute song - "ayre" - was born, and it soon became very popular. The famous lutenist John Dowland's The First Book of Ayres appears in five editions in less than twenty years, which speaks to the incredible popularity of the new genre. Also in the late renaissance, music became a very common and important part of the dramatic theater. The Willow Song by Tom Morley, or the anonymous It Was a Lover and His Girl, did much to popularize Shakespeare's bloody tragedy Othello and bring it to a wider audience. Songs from performances often traveled through bars and streets. The "Songs of Shakespeare's Age" program consists only of songs from William Shakespeare's plays that could have been used in the breaks between acts of his plays, or simply tunes that were popular in the great playwright's time.