Artists
- Trevor Pinnockdirector, harpsichord
- Matthew Truscottviolin
- Huw Danielviolin
- Alfonso Leal del Ojoviola
- Jonathan Byerscello
- Pippa Macmillanviolone
- Thomas Dunfordtheorbo
- Theatre Music
- Dido and Aeneas
- Date
- Tue 13 Oct 2015, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- The Double Dealer Z592:
- Overture
- The Marriage-Hater Match’d Z602:
- As soon as the chaos was made into form
- The Double Dealer Z592:
- Hornpipe
- The Mock Marriage Z605:
- Man is for the woman made
- Transcription of Lully's 'Scocca pur'
- The Comical History of Don Quixote Z578:
- From rosy bow'rs
- Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias Z572:
- Scotch Tune
- Minuet
- Hornpipe
- The Comical History of Don Quixote Z578:
- Let the dreadful engines
- The Gordion Knot Unty’d Z597:
- Chaconne
- A Fool's Preferment Z571:
- I sigh'd, and I pin'd
- 'Tis death alone
- Suite in G minor Z661:
- Saraband
- A Fool's Preferment Z571:
- I'll mount to yon blue Coelum
- I'll sail upon the dog-star
- The Libertine Z600:
- Nymphs and shepherds
Interval
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- Dido and Aeneas Z626
Overview
The politics of national identity, the royal successionand parliamentary faction, all hot topics in the late1600s, found their way into the plots of plays andsemi-operas intended to delight and entertain London’stheatre-goers.
Purcell’s fine incidental music to piecessuch as Shadwell’s The Libertine and D’Urfey’s A Fool’sPreferment set the scene for Dido and Aeneas, oneof the most celebrated of all English operas.
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.