The English Concert play Purcell, Locke, Blow & Gibbons | Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE0087

The English Concert play Purcell, Locke, Blow & Gibbons

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Label: Wigmore Hall Live

Cat No: WHLIVE0087

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 23rd June 2017

Contents

Works

Blow, John

Chaconne in G major

Gibbons, Christopher

Fantasy-Suite in D minor

Locke, Matthew

The Tempest: Incidental Music

Purcell, Henry

Dioclesian, Z627
» Oh! the sweet delights of love
Draw near, you lovers, Z462
If music be the food of love, Z379
O, fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, Z402
Oedipus, Z583
» Music for a while
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585
» My dearest, my fairest (D Purcell)
» Sweeter than Roses
The Fairy Queen, Z629
» Chaconne
» One charming night (Act 2)
» The plaint (Act 5)
» They shall be as happy as they're fair
The Female Virtuosos
» Love, thou art best

Artists

Rosemary Joshua (soprano)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
The English Concert

Conductor

Harry Bicket

Works

Blow, John

Chaconne in G major

Gibbons, Christopher

Fantasy-Suite in D minor

Locke, Matthew

The Tempest: Incidental Music

Purcell, Henry

Dioclesian, Z627
» Oh! the sweet delights of love
Draw near, you lovers, Z462
If music be the food of love, Z379
O, fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, Z402
Oedipus, Z583
» Music for a while
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585
» My dearest, my fairest (D Purcell)
» Sweeter than Roses
The Fairy Queen, Z629
» Chaconne
» One charming night (Act 2)
» The plaint (Act 5)
» They shall be as happy as they're fair
The Female Virtuosos
» Love, thou art best

Artists

Rosemary Joshua (soprano)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
The English Concert

Conductor

Harry Bicket

About

Renowned period ensemble The English Concert and Harry Bicket are joined by two singers at the height of their powers, bright-voiced soprano Rosemary Joshua and the graceful mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, as they delve into the musical world in which Henry Purcell was immersed.

Through the course of this concert, recorded live at Wigmore Hall, we explore the music of 17th-century England; from the irresistible Suite from The Tempest by Matthew Locke to John Blow’s spritely Chaconne in G, crowned by beautifully crafted and luminous songs by Purcell himself.

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