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Dunedin Consort
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Blow, Croft, Draghi, Hall and Purcell

Dunedin Consort; Nicholas Mulroy director, tenor; Jessica Cale soprano; Samuel Boden tenor; Chris Webb bass

Programme & Song Text
Date
Tue 18 Nov 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

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Artists

  • Jessica Calesoprano
  • Samuel Bodentenor
  • Chris Webbbass
  • Nicholas Mulroydirector, tenor
  • Dunedin Consort
    • Matthew Truscottviolin I
    • Huw Danielviolin II
    • Thomas Kettleviola
    • Jonathan Mansoncello, viola da gamba
    • László Rózsarecorder
    • Olwen Foulkesrecorder II
    • Toby Carrtheorbo
    • Stephen Farrorgan

Programme

  • Henry Purcell
    1659-1695
      • Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia's Day) Z339
  • Henry Hall
    c.1656-1707
      • Yes, my Aminta, 'tis too true

Interval

  • John Blow
      • An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell

Overview

Restoration London leaps to life in the Dunedin Consort’s programme. They begin and end with Purcell’s odes to music’s patron saint and include a solemn trio sonata by the Anglo-Italian composer Giovanni Battista Draghi. Henry Hall’s ode and John Blow’s memorial setting of verse by John Dryden express the grief felt by Purcell’s friends and colleagues following his tragically early death in 1695.

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