Anna Dennis soprano
Nick Pritchard tenor
David Bates director/harpsichord

Blow God spake sometime in visions
Purcell Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes
Monteverdi Lamento della ninfa: non avea Febo ancora 
Monteverdi Beatus vir
Purcell Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary)
Purcell Rejoice in the Lord alway
Purcell In Guilty night (Saul and the witch of Endor) 
Blow Salvator mundi
Carissimi Jephte

Following ‘A French Affair’ in January, where we examine Purcell through a Gallic ‘lens’ we turn our attention to Purcell’s musical connections with his Italian contemporaries. Plus there’s another chance to hear Cassandra Miller’s bewitching Sleepsinging, premiered in January. A reimagining of Purcell’s Fairie Queen, it conjures the half-way point between sleep and wakefulness, to mysterious and hypnotic effect.  

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