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Don Quixote
The English Concert; Anna Devin; Matthew Brook; Harry Bicket
Date
Wed 14 Sep 2016, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • The English Concert
    • Anna Devinsoprano
    • Matthew Brookbass-baritone
    • Danann McAleernarrator
    • Harry Bicketdirector, harpsichord

    Programme

    • Henry Purcell
      1659-1695
        • The Married Beau Suite Z603
          :
        • excerpts
        • The Comical History of Don Quixote Z578
          :
        • excerpts

    Interval

    • Georg Philipp Telemann
      1681-1767
        • Ouverture-Suite 'Burlesque de Quixotte' TWV55:G10
        • Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho TWV21:32
          :
        • excerpts

    Overview

    Tilting at windmills and rescuing phoney princesses, such are the exploitsof the tragicomic knight-errant Don Quixote and his faithful sidekick SanchoPanza.

    The English Concert recounts the adventures of Cervantes’sirrepressibly idealistic hero on the 400th anniversary of the author’s death,aided by Purcell and Telemann’s vibrant visions of the man of La Mancha.

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