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Purcell – Royal Welcome Songs for King James II
The Sixteen; Harry Christophers director
Date
Tue 07 Jun 2016, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • The Sixteen
    • Harry Christophersdirector

    Programme

    • Henry Purcell
      1659-1695
        • Chacony in G minor Z730
        • When on my sick bed I languish Z144
        • True Englishmen drink a good health Z284
        • Ye tuneful muses, raise your heads Z344

    Interval

    • Henry Purcell
      1659-1695
        • A New Irish Tune ('Lilliburlero') in G Z646
        • God is gone up with a merry noise Z107
        • A New Scotch Tune Z655
        • Save me, O God, for thy name’s sake Z51
        • Sound the trumpet, beat the drum Z335

    Encore

    • Henry Purcell
      1659-1695
        • Welcome, Vicegerent of the mighty King Z340

    Overview

    Harry Christophers directs members ofThe Sixteen in works that reveal Purcell’sability to connect with the masses andentertain the elite of Restoration London.

    Their programme addresses matterssacred and secular, touching on thegeopolitics of late seventeenth-centuryScotland and Ireland and closing with oneof the most joyful of all Purcell arias.

    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.

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