Bonum est Confiteri Domino: Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1645-1704
O Sing unto the Lord: Henry Purcell 1659-1695
Wellington’s specialist early music groups combine for a splendid concert of English and French festal psalm settings. Soloists Baroque Voices, period instrumental ensemble Academia Sanctae Mariae and The Tudor Consort collaborate in this very special performance by the two leading composers of the early baroque.
Programme
I will give thanks: Henry Purcell 1659-1695
Fantasia a 4: Henry Purcell
Fantasie on One Note: Henry Purcell
Chaconny: Henry Purcell
O sing unto the Lord: Henry Purcell
Interval
Concert a 4: Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1645-1704
Bonum est Confiteri Domino: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Baroque Voices
Soprano Pepe Becker (director), Nicola Edgecombe
Alto Andrea Cochrane, Christopher Warwick
Tenor Alastair Carey
Bass David Morriss
Academia Sanctae Mariae
Violin Gregory Squire (leader), Shelley Wilkinson
Viola Fiona Haughton
Cello Katrin Eickhorst-Squire
Viola de gamba Robert Oliver (director)
Organ Douglas Mews
Douglas Mews plays the Drake Chamber Organ, part of the Keyboard Collection
at the School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington
This concert was part of the 2005 Performance Series.