Charlston’s heavenly mezzo-soprano voice, Manson’s exquisite gamba and cello playing, and Bucheli’s delicate and sensitive lute playing promise to be perfectly matched with each other and with the music in their fascinating and very varied programme of composers all born before J S Bach (albeit Handel by only 7 weeks).
The centrepiece is a dramatic and impassioned Handel cantata, and the other shorter pieces by Purcell, Dowland, Marais, Charpentier et al are equally riveting. The very intimate JW3 Hall will be perfect for this music.
“Noble tone production, faultless security of technique and intonation made (Jonathan Manson’s) playing pure pleasure.” – Wiener Zeitung
“Charlston’s voice is little short of miraculous… a true star." – The Evening Standard
Programme
Henry Purcell
Music for a while
The cares of lovers
I attempt from love's sickness
John Dowland
In Darkness Let me Dwell
John Dowland
Praeludium
Frogg Galliard
Marin Marais
Suite in A major:
Prélude
Allemande
Sarabande
La Petite Bru
Chaconne
Honoré D'Ambruys
Le doux silence de nos bois
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Celle qui fait tout mon tourment
Sans frayeur dans ce bois
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George Frideric Handel
La Lucrezia
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
Toccata VI
Henry Purcell
Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with Torment from Dido & Aeneas
An Evening Hymn
