Henry Purcell
Symphony; See how the glitt’ring ruler of the day (Arise, my muse, Z.320. Ode for Queen Mary’s birthday)
Welcome to all the pleasures that delight (Welcome to All the Pleasures, Z.339. Ode for St Cecelia’s Day)
Extracts from King Arthur, or the British Worthy, Z.628
Passacaglia: How happy the lover / For love every creature / In vain are our graces
Extracts from The Fairy Queen, Z.629
Third act tune: Hornpipe
See, even night herself is here
Sleep: Hush, no more, be silent all
Symphony, act IV
Now the night is chased away
Phoebus: When a cruel long winter has frozen the earth
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Prelude, act V
Hark! The echoing air a triumph sings
Sure the dull God of Marriage does not hear
Prelude, Hymen, They shall be as happy as they’re fair, Chaconne
Mark how readily each pliant string (Raise, raise the voice, Z.334. Ode for St Cecelia’s Day)
Strike the viol, touch the lute. Come ye sons of Art, away, Z.323 (Ode for Queen Mary’s birthday)
So when the glitt’ring Queen of Night (Of old, when heroes thought it base, Z.333. The Yorkshire Feast Song)
The Sparrow and the gentle Dove (From hardy Climes and dangerous Toils of War, Z.325. Ode for the wedding of Prince George of Denmark and Princess Anne)
Encore: GF Telemann – Mitten wir im Leben sind mit dem Tod unfangen (Dich rühmen die Welten)
Solomon’s Knot
Soprano Zoë Brookshaw, Clare Lloyd-Griffiths
Alto Hugh Cutting, Kate Symonds-Joy
Tenor Thomas Herford, Andrew Tortise
Bass Alex Ashworth, Jonathan Sells (artistic director)
Violin I Kinga Ujszászi
Violin II Guy Button
Viola Joanne Miller
‘Cello Gavin Kibble
Double bass Jan Zahourek
Oboe/recorder Shai Kribus, Robert de Bree
Bassoon Inga Maria Klaucke
Trumpet Russel Gilmour, William Russell
Timpani/percussion Elsa Bradley
Harpsichord/organ William Whitehead
Second performance at 9:00pm
Recorded for later broadcast by Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Review Hamburger Abendblatt
