Event

Our Own Orpheus

Uniting his works with the Italian masters
that inspired him, MVSICA ANTICA
perform Henry Purcell 's haunting sacred
scena In Guilty Night alongside Luigi Rossi's
little-known cantata Disperar di se Stesso,
before culminating in a semi-staged
performance of some of the songs that earned
him the title 'Orpheus Britannicus'.

Programme:

Henry Purcell: In Guilty Night (Saul and the Witch of Endor)
Luigi Rossi: Disperar di se Stesso

Henry Purcell:
If music be the food of love
O Solitude my sweetest choice
O fair Cedaria, hide those eyes
My dear, my Amphitrite, from The Tempest (or The Enchanted Island)
My dearest my fairest
I attempt from love's sickness to fly, from The Indian Queen
Hosanna to the highest
Man is for the woman made
If Love's a Sweet Passion, from The Fairy Queen

Sopranos: Jessica Eucker, Miranda Ostler
Tenor: Andrew Woodmansey
Bass: Chris Jeanes

Harpsichord: Oliver Doyle
Cello: Suzie Capps

A bar will be open from 6:30pm selling wine, gin cocktails, home-made sloe gin and cream teas. All proceeds go to the upkeep of Holy Trinity Church.