Suite from John BlowVenus and Adonis

Suite from Henry Purcell Abdelazer

Music fromMatthew Locke The Tempest

Bringing to life themes of love, death and revenge, this programme showcases how instrumental incidental music was a vital tool in enhancing the dramatic power of Restoration stage works. Including a specially-compiled suite of John Blow’s music for , the seminal English masque with its roots in Ovid’s original tragedy, we also hear music from Purcell’s Abdelazer suite (the from which was used by Benjamin Britten as the theme for his set of variations in ) and Matthew Locke’s dramatic music written for a 1667 production of .Venus and AdonisRondeauThe Young Person’s Guide to the OrchestraThe Tempest

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