Artists
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
- Georg Kallweitdirector
- Anna Prohaskasoprano
Archived Event
Shakespeare and Music
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Georg Kallweit director; Anna Prohaska soprano
- Date
- Sun 03 Jun 2018, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- William Shakespeare1564-1616
- Twelfth Night:
- Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- Fantasia upon one note in F Z745
- Raise, raise the voice Z334:
- Mark how readily each pliant string
- Matthew Lockec.1621-1677
- The Tempest:
- Suite from The Tempest
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- Sonata in Three Parts No. 6 in C major Z795:
- III. Largo
- Bonduca, or The British Heroine Z574:
- Sing, sing ye Druids
- Suite from King Arthur
- William Shakespeare1564-1616
- Romeo and Juliet:
- Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- The Fairy Queen Z629:
- The Plaint
Interval
- William Shakespeare1564-1616
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- John Dowland1563-1626
- Come again, sweet love doth now invite
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- The Gordion Knot Unty’d Z597:
- Suite from The Gordion Knot Unty'd Z597
- Dioclesian Z627:
- Oh, the sweet delights of love
- Incidental music for Oedipus, King of Thebes Z583:
- Music for a while
- Let each gallant heart Z390
- John Blow1648-1708
- Suite from Venus and Adonis:
- Suite from Venus and Adonis
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- If music be the food of love Z379c
Encore
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- The Indian Queen Z630:
- They tell us that you mighty powers above
Overview
Shakespeare used music to sound alarms, soothe savage breastsand produce magic. Anna Prohaska, praised by BBC MusicMagazine for her ‘tremendous expressive vitality’, joins Berlin’sAkademie für Alte Musik in theatre songs and other piecesinspired by the Bard.