Saturday 25 August 2001 7:30 pm
Love’s Labyrinth – a Dramatic Entertainment Devised by Peter Holman
| Gottfried Finger (c.1660 – 1730) | Sonata No. 4 in D minor |
| Jeremiah Clarke (1674 – 1707) | ‘Must I a girl forever be’ from The Island Princess (1699) |
| Francis Forcer (1649 – 1705) | What means those am’rous curls of jet? |
| Jeremiah Clarke | ”Tis sultry weather, pretty maid’ from The Island Princess |
| Air in D major | |
| Giovanni Battista Draghi (d. 1707) | The Italian Ground |
| Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) | I came, I saw, and was undone (The Thraldom), Z375 |
| You say ’tis love, Z628/35, from King Arthur (1691) | |
| She loves and she confesses too, Z413 | |
| The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 | |
| Entry in C major | |
| While you for me alone had charms, Z524 | |
| Lorenzo Bocchi (fl. early 18th century) | Sonata in D minor |
| Henry Purcell | Why, my Daphne, why complaining?, Z525 |
| Jeremiah Clarke | Rant |
| Henry Purcell | He himself courts his own ruin, Z372 |
| Oh! how you protest and solemnly lie, Z605/1, from The Mock Marriage (1695) | |
| John Eccles (c.1668 – 1735) | ‘Proud woman, I scorn you’ from The Mad Lover (1700) |
| Henry Purcell | Bacchus is a pow’r divine, Z360 |
| Thomas Williams (d. c.1700) | Ground in D minor |
| Gottfried Finger | Aria in D major from Sonata No. 2 for bass viol & continuo |
| Pelham Humfrey (1647 – 1674) | How severe is forgetful old age |
| Robert King (1676 – 1728) | The fire of love in youthful blood |
| Henry Purcell | No more, sir, I’d e’en give it o’er, Z588/3, from Sir Anthony Love (1690) |
| Oft am I by the women told, Z505 |
- Opera Restor’d
- Rebecca Saunders soprano
- Giles Davies baritone
- Susannah Pell bass viol
- Taro Takeuchi theorbo & baroque guitar
- directed from the harpsichord by Steven Devine
- Production directed by Jack Edwards
Opera Restor’d’s innovative new programme traces the ups and downs of love from youth to extreme old age. Songs and dialogues are woven into a fully-staged dramatic tableau that takes the two characters and the audience from first love and romantic passion to bleak despair, with plenty of irony and humour.
‘an imaginative show’ – Early Music Review