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Barts Great Hall
St Bartholomew's Hospital
West Smithfield
City of London
London
EC1A 7BE
England
Programme
Henry Purcell – Music for a While
Henry Purcell – I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly in Vain, Z.630/17c
George Frideric Handel – Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle, HWV 205 no.4
George Frideric Handel – Pensieri notturni di Filli, HWV 134
George Frideric Handel – Semele, HWV 58: 'Oh Sleep, why dost though leave me'
George Frideric Handel – Theodora: 'As With Rosy Steps'
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Tre giorni son che Nina
Henry Purcell – Two in One upon a Ground, Z.627
Henry Purcell – The Fairy Queen: Extracts
Performers
Joanna Harries – mezzo-soprano
Ensemble Augelletti
Programme Note
"But the remedy, which of all others bids fairest to relieve the patient, is musick…”
Reflections on ancient and modern musick with the application to the cure of diseases (Richard Brocklesby, 1749)
A patient is seized with fever and delirium - will they make it through the night?
Join us in the candlelit Great Hall of London’s oldest working hospital for an evening of eighteen century music and readings with mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries ("emotional force" - The Times) and Ensemble Augelletti ("elegant pathos and rip-roaring technical dexterity" - The Arts Desk).
Featuring music by Handel, Purcell and their contemporaries, readings from historic medical treatises and texts created in workshops at Barts Hospital.
