Purcell this week
Tonight - Tuesday 3rd March - at Sheffield University the brings its programme of Purcell Fantazias. Wake up you students with your cheap bus fares and your republican attitudes. Eat your Coco Pops.
Tomorrow afternoon - Wednesday 4th March - I'll be tuning in to Choral Evensong at 4pm on Radio 3, live from , Oxford. You'll see from the order of service that Purcell is providing the Introit, Evening Canticles and Anthem:
Introit: Remember not Lord our offences (Purcell)
Responses: Reading
Psalms: 22, 23 (Camidge, Parisian Tone)
First Lesson: Genesis 11 vv1-9
Canticles: Cantate Domino and Deus Misereatur in B flat (Purcell)
Second Lesson: Matthew 24 vv15-21
Anthem: Let mine eyes run down with tears (Purcell)
Hymn: Creator of the earth and skies (Agincourt)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata Settima (Rossi)
Sub-organist:
Director of music: .
The broadcast is repeated next Sunday afternoon at 4pm.
Then tomorrow night - Wednesday 4th March - at the Barbican, William Christie conducts and Le Jardin des Voix match our man with and . The singers are young and yet unknown. This is their big opportunity. They include three sopranos - Emmanuelle de Negri, Katherine Watson, and Tehila Nini Goldstein, one countertenor Maarten Engeltjes, one tenor Sean Clayton and one baritone Andreas Wolf.
On Thursday evening - 5th March, conducts the at . Their programme includes the great alto duet Sound the Trumpet and the old favourite Nymphs and Shepherds Come Away.
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