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Tom Service presents the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a performance given at the Corn Exchange, Brighton. Making its debut at the Brighton Early Music Festival, the orchestra's programme explores the highways and byways of English Restoration music.

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Elizabeth Kenny, Alison Bury (leaders)

William Brade: Canzonas 1 & 2 – Allmand – Paduana – Coranta
John Adson: Adson’s Masque
John Coperario: Coperario, or Gray’s Inn the First
Anon: Antimasque Dances - First and Second of the Temple Antic
Anon: Almain: William’s Love
Anon: Spagnoletta
Anon: The Maypole
Matthew Locke: Pavan from Suite No. 1 from ‘The Broken Consort’
Thomas Baltzar: Suite in C (Mov 1: Pavan, Mov 4:Almaine no.2; Mov.9: Sarabande Thomas Baltzar: Variations on John come kisse me nowe
Matthew Locke: Music from ‘The Tempest’
Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre Part I:
Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre Part II

Encore:
Purcell: The Monkey’s Dance

Followed by the third of this week's Schumann focus:

Schumann: Liederkreis, Op.39
Schumann: Widmung, Op.25/1
Brahms: Unbewegte laue Luft, Op.57/8
Brahms: Meerfahrt, Op.96/4
Brahms: O kuhler Wald, Op.72/3
Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe, Op.43/1
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Julius Drake (piano)
Recorded on 16 Feb 2005 at LSO St. Lukes

Schumann: Nachtstucke no.3 in D flat
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
CD: RCA VICTOR
GD86680
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