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Guitars & Theorbo
"Suites Caroline: Restoration Dances" with Endelienta Baroque
Thu 04 May
|St John Smith Square
Time & Location
04 May 2023, 13:05
St John Smith Square, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA, UK
About the event
John Blow Suite from Venus and Adonis
Henry Purcell Suite from Abdelazer
Matthew Locke Music from The Tempest
Endelienta Baroque perform three suites by foremost composers of the English Restoration; Henry Purcell, John Blow, and Matthew Locke.
The music of this programme inherited the French tradition, typified by that of Jean-Baptiste Lully, a style that had proliferated in England upon Charles II’s return from exile.
Locke, as Composer-in-Ordinary to His Majesty, was pivotal in satisfying the Francophile King’s tastes, and his incidental music to The Tempest exhibits all the colour and grace one finds in Lully.
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