These Distracted Times - Kammerkonzert
PROGRAMME
HENRY PURCELL We sing to him
HENRY LAWES Love’s Fruition
MATTHEW LOCKE Bone Jesu
MATTHEW LOCKE Verbum Patris
HENRY PURCELL Fantasy and Ground (Cembalo solo)
HENRY PURCELL If Music be the food of Love
JOHN BLOW Why does my Laura shun me?
THOMAS TOMKINS A sad paven for these distracted tymes
WILLIAM LAWES Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
HENRY PURCELL What hope for us remains
JOHN BLOW Tell me no more
HENRY PURCELL Here the Deities approve
JOHN BLOW Sabine has a thousand charms
PATRICK AYRTON Improvised fantasia on a given theme
PELHAM HUMFREY A hymne to God the father
HENRY PURCELL An evening hymn
(program without intermission)
Alex Potter countertenor
Patrick Ayrton cembalo
ABOUT THIS CONCERT
The Seventeenth Century was one of the most violent and turbulent in the history of the British Isles with the Civil War and dramatic execution of Charles I at its centre. Yet it was also a time of a great flowering of all the arts: painting, architecture, poetry and, of course, music.
The most famous composer of the century was Henry Purcell (1659-1695), who came to be called „Orpheus Britannicus.“ Presented here is music by Purcell but also music by composers from the entire century, including John Blow, Pelham Humpfrey and Matthew Locke, Thomas Tomkins, and William and Henry Lawes. This music takes us through a huge range of emotions, including joy, piety, sadness and of course some wonderful examples of the famous „British humour!“
- Photo (c) Foppe Schut
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