Artists
- Phantasm
- Elizabeth Kennytheorbo
- Date
- Tue 09 Jun 2015, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Orlando Gibbons1583-1625
- Fantasy a 3 No. 3
- Fantasy a 3 No. 4
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- Fantasia a3 No. 1 in D minor Z732
- Fantasia a 3 No. 2 in F major Z733
- Fantasia a 3 No. 3 in G minor Z734
- Matthew Lockec.1621-1677
- The Flat Consort 'for my cousin Kemble'
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- Fantasia a 4 No. 4 in G minor Z735
- Fantasia a 4 No. 5 in B flat major Z736
- Fantasia a 4 No. 12 in D minor Z743
Interval
- William Lawes1602-1645
- Royall Consort No. 5 in D major
- John Wardc.1589-1638
- Fancy a 5 No. 1
- Fancy a 5 No. 5
- Matthew Lockec.1621-1677
- Consort of 4 Parts in D minor
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- Fantasia a 4 No. 10 in E minor Z741
- Fantasia a 4 No. 9 in A minor Z740
- Fantasia a 4 No. 11 in G major Z742
Overview
Contemplation and cultivation of the imagination appear to have been central to the English fantasia.
Purcell’s contribution to the genre, as so often with his work, reached heights rarely scaled by others, although he was clearly inspired by the legacy of compositions by Orlando Gibbons, William Lawes, Matthew Locke and John Ward.
Phantasm’s programme digs deep into the seventeenth-century viol consort tradition to reveal its greatest treasures.
Henry Purcell: A Retrospective is made possible thanks to all our contributors to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund important artistic projects.