The Big Baroque Tour of Musical London

Programme

The Big Baroque Tour of Musical London

Handel – Concerto Grosso op 6 No 1
Handel – Aria: Lascia Ch'io Pianga
Handel – Aria: Tune The Soft Melodius Lute
Playford – Divisions on St Paul’s Steeple
Stanley – Solo for Flute and Strings
Locke – Music from The Tempest
Arne – Symphony No 1 in C major
Arne – Songs from Vauxhall Gardens
Purcell – Chaconne
Playford – St Martin's Lane
Handel – Water Music Suite in G

Plus spoken introductions, contemporary newspaper and diary accounts.

Diana Moore Violin
Siu Peasgood Flute
Robin Page Speaker
Purcell Orchestra

Performers

The Purcell Orchestra was founded in 1982 to give one of the very first performances of Purcell's King Arthur on period instruments, in a project devised by Robin Page and Richard Wistreich. The concert took place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, with a group of handpicked singers including Evelyn Tubb and Emily van Evera.

Since then, the orchestra has accompanied numerous choral events, performing many major works of the baroque repertoire, including JS Bach B Minor Mass, St Matthew and St John Passions, Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio; CPE Bach Magnificat; Telemann Tageszeiten; Handel Coronation Anthems, Messiah and Dixit Dominus.

Since 2005, the Purcell Orchestra has given annual performances of Handel's Messiah at Christmas and Bach’s St John Passion on Palm Sunday at the Church of St Mary Abbots, Kensington.