The Great Hall, Dartington
Friday to Sunday 23rd - 25th March 2012
Baroque and the Golden Age of English Music
The era of Henry Purcell and Dido and Aeneas is often referred to as The Golden Age of
English Music. This weekend (which will culminate in a concert performance of the opera)
also celebrates some of the great composers who preceded and followed Purcell: Dowland, Lawes, Locke, Boyce and Handel – nearly two centuries of music in England, suggesting
that this Golden Age was far from a brief interlude.
Devon Baroque’s third ‘Experience’ weekend includes an exciting array of events and, for
the title role of Dido, we have invited one of the most striking mezzos of our time: Meg
Bragle. Well-known scholar-performer and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny will also be in
residence all weekend and Peter Medhurst will deliver what promises to be a fascinating
talk on Handel and his legacy.
Tickets for individual concerts are available from Dartington Box Office (see below).
Scroll down to see details of the weekend in a reproduction of the brochure. You may
need to click on Zoom in your menu bar to read the text. If you would like one or more brochures, please email Jeremy Logie at: jeremy.logie@talk21.com with your name and
postal address or call him on 01803 862795.
Concert programmes
FRIDAY 23 MARCH at 8pm
An English Banquet
Meg Bragle (mezzo soprano)
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
Rachel Chaplin (oboe)
Margaret Faultless (violin)
Andrew Skidmore (cello)
Andrew Wilson-Dickson (harpsichord)
Now hath Flora robb'd her bowers
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Thomas Campion
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Qual musico gentil
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Nicholas Lanier
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Fantasia (lute solo)
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Philip Rosseter
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O my Clarissa
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William Lawes
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O let me still and silent lye
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Man's life is but vain
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Harpsichord solo from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
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The Plaint
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Henry Purcell
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Bid the Virtues from Come Ye Sons of Art
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When first Amintas sued for a kiss
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Sonata op.1 no.2 (oboe solo)
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Thomas Vincent
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Violin Sonata in A major
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William Croft
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Aria con Variazioni
(The Harmonious Blacksmith) HWV 430
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G.F. Handel
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Trio Sonata in D minor H 831
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Tickets £15, concessions £14, students £5
SATURDAY 24 MARCH at 8pm
The Golden Age of English Music
Devon Baroque directed by Margaret Faultless
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
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G.F. Handel
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Suite from The Tempest
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Matthew Locke
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Lachrimae
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John Dowland
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Concerto Grosso op.3 no.2
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G.F. Handel
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Suite from Venus & Adonis
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John Blow
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Concerto à 7
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William Jackson
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Concerto Grosso no.9 (after Scarlatti)
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Charles Avison
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Symphony no.4
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William Boyce
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Tickets £18, concessions £17, students £5
SUNDAY 25 MARCH at 3pm
Dido and Aeneas
A concert performance of Henry Purcell's opera
Devon Baroque directed by Margaret Faultless
Dido
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Meg Bragle
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Aeneas
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Christopher Adams
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Belinda
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Emma Walshe
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Second Woman
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Amy Carson
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Sailor
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Gwilym Bowen
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Spirit
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Stephen Carter
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Tickets £17, concessions £16, students £5
Tickets for concerts can be obtained from Dartington Box Office 01803 847070 (12.30 to 7pm every day), by email: arts@dartington.org or online at:
http://www.dartington.org/arts/devon-baroque-english-baroque-weekend
The following is the programme for 11.45am on Sunday 25th March in the Ship Studio. Admission to this recital is only available to those participating in the whole weekend.
Golden Age of the English Baroque
James Risdon – Recorders
Emily White – Violin and Sackbut
Jonathan Watts – Harpsichord
This programme brings together works by some of England’s most celebrated Baroque composers, as well as those who made England their home.
Greensleeves to a Ground
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Anon
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Trio Sonata op.2 no.1a
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G.F. Handel
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Flow my Tears
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John Dowland
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Sonata in G for recorder & continuo
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Guiseppe Sammartini
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'Two in one upon a Ground' from Dioclesian
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Henry Purcell
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Sonata V in G (in imitation of Corelli)
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William McGibbon
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Ground (after the Scotch humour)
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Nicola Matteis
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