“We have chosen our concert programme from the final period in the life of Henry Purcell, the 350th anniversary of whose birth we are celebrating in 2009. The first piece will be incidental music to a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s drama Timon of Athens, which Purcell wrote in 1695 (this was the last score he completed). Then we will hear the Yorkshire Feast Song, which has a strongly anti-Catholic mood and was written in 1690 for a celebration of the 1688 “Glorious Revolution”. Its text is by Purcell’s celebrated contemporary, poet Thomas D’Urfey. The poem traces Britannia’s history from the Roman Empire to the accession of the House of Hannover, and it contains some exceptional movements of music, even by Purcell’s standards of genius. The second half of the concert will be devoted to his best known and most popular work, a concert hall performance of Dido and Aeneas. The Purcell Choir received its name because this was the work we performed at our very first concert on May 1st 1990. The female lead, as then, will be sung by Katalin Halmai.” György Vashegyi
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