Arcangelo; Carolyn Sampson soprano ; Hugo Hymas tenor ; Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord

Music from the London stage travelled far beyond the capital thanks to arrangements transmitted in manuscript or printed form. The latest leg in Arcangelo’s multi-season English Baroque Journey takes in the musical delights contained in anthologies such as those produced by Henry Playford and John Walsh or carried around the country by itinerant musicians. Carolyn Sampson and Hugo Hymas help bring the world of the Restoration theatres to life in the programme’s first half, while the post-interval bill dives deeply into the cosmopolitan riches of England’s music making in the opening decades of the 1700s.

Henry Purcell – Man is for the woman made
Henry Purcell – I see she flies me
Henry Purcell – No. 5 The Sparrow and the gentle Dove
John Eccles – Hither turn thee
Henry Purcell – Suite
Henry Purcell – Hark! how the songsters of the grove
George Frideric Handel – Lascia ch’io pianga
Thomas Arne – From the dawn of early morning
John Eccles – O ravishing delight
William Croft – Peace is the Song