Program

Henry Purcell

Suite from Distressed Innocence, Z 577
    Overture
    Air
    Slow Air
    Air
    Hornpipe or Jigg
    Rondeau
    Air
    Minuet

Three Single Songs
    Dear pretty youth, Z 631
    O solitude, Z 406
    Sweeter than roses, Z 585/1

The Grove Scene from Dido and Aeneas, Z 626
    Ritornello
    Thanks to these lonesome vales
    Glitter round a Dance
    Oft she visits
    Ritornello

Suite from The Married Beau, Z 603
    Overture
    Slow Air
    Hornpipe
    Air
    Hornpipe
    Jigg
    Air
    March
    Hornpipe on a Ground

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Suite from The Fairy Queen, Z 629
    Dance for the Followers of Night
    Now the night is chased away
    The Plaint
    Dance for the Chinese Man and Woman

Suite from Dido and Aeneas, Z 626
    Chacony for strings
    Thy hand, Belinda
    Dido's Lament

Artists

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  The Academy of Ancient Music

  The Academy of Ancient Music is renowned for thrilling audiences with its fresh, engaging performances of baroque and classical music. Playing on original instruments and inspired by original soundworlds, the Academy of Ancient Music’s music...

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  William Carter

  Born in Florida, William Carter trained as a modern guitarist with Bruce Holzman at The Florida State University before falling in love with earlier plucked instruments and the world of historical performance. He travelled to London where he...

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  Mhairi Lawson

  Whilst still a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Mhairi Lawson won the International Early Music Network Young Artists Prize with the fortepianist Olga Tverskaya, which led to her first CD recording of Haydn's English and...

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