Details
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
London
W1U 2BP
England
Programme
George Rush – The Capricious Lovers: Overture
George Rush – The Capricious Lovers: 'Thus laugh'd at, jilted and betray'd'
Anonymous – Patty of the Mill
Bates William – Pharnaces: 'In this I fear my latest breath'
Samuel Arnold – The Maid of the Mill: 'Hist, hist! I hear my mother call'
Egidio Duni – The Maid of the Mill: 'To speak my mind of womankind'
Carl Friedrich Abel – Symphony in E flat major, Op.7 no.6
Davide Perez – Solimano: 'Se non to moro a lato'
Johann Christian Bach – Ezio: 'Non so d'onde viene'
Felice Giardini – Aria 'Quando mai felici siete'
Thomas Augustine Arne – Artaxerxes: 'Thou like the glorious sun'
Thomas Augustine Arne – Artaxerxes: 'If the river’s swelling waves'
Thomas Augustine Arne – The Guardian Outwitted: 'When from beauty sweetly blooming'
Thomas Augustine Arne – The Guardian Outwitted: Overture
Performers
Jessica Cale – soprano
Alessandro Fisher – Tenor
Ian Page – Conductor
The Mozartists
Programme Note
Ian Page and The Mozartists start their new season with an enticing programme of music composed in London during the 1760s. This was the London that the young Mozart visited in in 1764-65, the London of Dr Johnson and David Garrick, of William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and music enjoyed unprecedented popularity, not just in the theatres at Haymarket, Drury Lane and Covent Garden but also at house-parties, the famous Bach-Abel concert series and the celebrated Pleasure Gardens at Ranelagh, Vauxhall and Marylebone.
This wide-ranging programme of popular hits from the 1760s features two recent winners of the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Award – soprano Jessica Cale (making her eagerly anticipated company debut) and tenor and Associate Artist Alessandro Fisher, currently a BBC New Generation Artist – and Ian Page conducts his award-winning period-instrument orchestra.