The Swinging Sixties
16 September 2021 – Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm
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.
| George Rush | Overture to The Capricious Lovers |
| “Thus laugh’d at, jilted and betray’d” from The Capricious Lovers | |
| Anon. | ‘Patty of the Mill’ |
| Samuel Arnold | “Hist, hist! I hear my mother call” from The Maid of the Mill |
| William Bates | “In this I fear my latest breath” from Pharnaces |
| Egidio Duni | “To speak my mind of womankind” from The Maid of the Mill |
| Carl Friedrich Abel | Symphony in E flat major, Op. 7, no. 6 |
| Felice de Giardini | Aria, “Quanto mai felici siete” |
| Johann Christian Bach | “Non so d’onde viene” from Ezio |
| Davide Perez | “Se non ti moro a lato” from Solimano |
| Thomas Arne | Overture to The Guardian Outwitted |
| “When from beauty sweetly blooming” from The Guardian Outwitted | |
| “If the river’s swelling waves” from Artaxerxes | |
| “Thou like the glorious sun” from Artaxerxes |
This concert will be socially distanced. Click here to see how Wigmore Hall are keeping their visitors safe during Covid-19.
Concert ends c.9.45pm, interval 30 minutes.
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
London
W1U 2BP
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/
“Page and his players once again demonstrate their total identification with this music in playing of dizzying drive and accuracy”
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE – EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Swinging Sixties
16 September 2021 – Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm
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.
Programme
George Rush: Overture to The Capricious Lovers
George Rush: “Thus laugh’d at, jilted and betray’d” from The Capricious Lovers
Anon.: ‘Patty of the Mill’
Samuel Arnold: “Hist, hist! I hear my mother call” from The Maid of the Mill
William Bates: “In this I fear my latest breath” from Pharnaces
Egidio Duni: “To speak my mind of womankind” from The Maid of the Mill
Carl Friedrich Abel: Symphony in E flat major, Op. 7, no. 6
Felice de Giardini: Aria, “Quanto mai felici siete”
Johann Christian Bach: “Non so d’onde viene” from Ezio
Davide Perez: “Se non ti moro a lato” from Solimano
Thomas Arne: Overture to The Guardian Outwitted
Thomas Arne: “When from beauty sweetly blooming” from The Guardian Outwitted
Thomas Arne: “If the river’s swelling waves” from Artaxerxes
Thomas Arne: “Thou like the glorious sun” from Artaxerxes
Artists
Practical Information
This concert will be socially distanced. Click here to see how Wigmore Hall are keeping their visitors safe during Covid-19.
Concert ends c.9.45pm, interval 30 minutes.
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
London
W1U 2BP
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/
“Page and his players once again demonstrate their total identification with this music in playing of dizzying drive and accuracy”
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE – EDITOR’S CHOICE