Fate and Fortune

A fabulous story telling evening of Kings, Queens, Gods, Lovers and Reckless Fools. A choreographed programme of beauty, sadness, tragedy, triumphant love and comedy with King Solomon, Casanova, Orpheus, Apollo, Cleopatra and the Sirens being some of the colourful characters.

Inspired music by twelve European composers: Handel, Purcell, Montéclair, Duphly, Arne, Ackeroyde, Albinoni, Merula, Jacchini, Keiser, Telemann and Gagliano.

Wise King Solomon - ah what Fortune!

 

George Frideric Handel

Duet 'Welcome as the Dawn of Day'

Henry Purcell

Song 'By beauteous softness'

 

'My beloved spake'

 

Purcell

Song 'Let us Dance'

The Sailor's Dance

 

Peace

 

Marco da Gagliano

Duet 'Vergine Chiara'

Duet 'O meraviglie belle'

 

The Virgin's Lament

 

Tarquino Merula

Canzonetta 'Hor che'e tempo'

Antonio Maria Bononcini

Duet 'Quis est homo'

Giuseppe Maria Jacchini

Cello sonata in A minor

 

At the Court of Count Waldstein, Castle Duchov, Bohemia

 

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

Cantata 'Mi da pena'

Reinhard Keiser

Duet for Venus and Adonis

 

 

INTERVAL

'Were I a King'

 

Thomas Arne

Song 'Blow, blow thou winter wind'

 

The Last Will and Testament of me, Thomas Chatterton

 

Purcell

Song 'There's nothing so Fatal as Woman'

Samuel Ackeroyde

'From drinking of Sack'

 

The Song of the Sirens

 

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair

Cantata 'Les Syrenes'

 

Medea

 

Jacques Duphly

Two pieces for solo harpsichord

 

A discussion of the day's newspapers

 

Handel

Scene from 'Il Parnasso in Festo'

 

A Letter from Handel to his great friend Telemann

 

Georg Philipp Telemann

Cello sonata in D major

 

The triumph of Love

 

Handel

Scene from the finale of Act 3 of 'Giulio Cesare'