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Songs of Passion

Lea Desandre mezzo-soprano; Jupiter Ensemble; Thomas Dunford director, lute

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Date
Tue 16 Sep 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
£40 £37 £33 £27 £18
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket

Important Information

Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 9 April at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.

General sale for this concert will open at 10.00am on Wednesday 23 April.

Artists

  • Lea Desandremezzo-soprano
  • Jupiter Ensemble
    • Louise Ayrtonviolin
    • Ruiqi Renviolin
    • Jérôme Van Waerbekeviola
    • Ismael Campanero Nietodouble bass
    • Arnaud de Pasqualeharpsichord, organ
  • Thomas Dunforddirector, lute

Programme

  • John Dowland
    1563-1626
      • Come again, sweet love doth now invite
      • Semper Dowland semper dolens
      • Go, crystal tears
      • The Frog Galliard
      • Now, O now I needs must part
      • Lachrimae Antiquae
      • Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears
      • The Earl of Essex Galliard
      • Flow, my tears
      • The King of Denmark, his Galliard
      • Can she excuse my wrongs

Interval

  • Henry Purcell
    1659-1695
      • The Fairy Queen Z629
        :
      • If Love's a sweet passion
      • Come, ye sons of art, away Z323
        :
      • Strike the viol, touch the lute
      • O solitude, my sweetest choice Z406
      • Now that the sun hath veiled his light (An Evening Hymn on a Ground) Z193
      • The Fairy Queen Z629
        :
      • Chaconne
      • O let me weep
      • Now the night is chas'd away
      • Dido and Aeneas Z626
        :
      • Ouverture
      • Ah, Belinda
      • Echo dance of the furies
      • Thanks to these lonesome vales
      • The Witche’s dance
      • When I am laid in earth

Overview

Tears of sorrow and joy abound in the music of John Dowland and Henry Purcell, two of the greatest songwriters of all time. Their understanding of life’s fragility and the extreme emotions triggered by love, jealousy and death strike home in this spellbinding programme from Lea Desandre, winner of the Prix de la Critique 2024, and Thomas Dunford’s thrilling Jupiter Ensemble.

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