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Music For A While

Music For A While

2.30 pm St Francis Xavier (Event 2)

Celebrating the genius of Purcell
Fretwork (Viol Consort) - Wendy Gillespie, Asako Morikawa, Susanna Pell, Richard Boothby, Richard Campbell, Richard Tunnicliffe

Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano

Henry Purcell
Fantazia 4 in G minor
Fantazia 5 in B flat major
Music for a while
Fantazia 6 in F major
Fantazia 7 in C minor
Sweeter than Roses
3 Fantazias in three parts
O Solitude
Fantazia 8 in D minor
Fantazia 9 in A minor
Fantazia 10 in E minor
Fantazia 11 in G major
The Lament from ‘Dido & Aeneas'
Fantazia 12 in D minor
Fantazia ‘upon one note' for five viols

John Joubert Fellowship of the Stretched String Op. 165
(Commissioned by Fretwork for the 350th anniversary of the birth of Purcell, premiered at the Wigmore Hall in February 2009)

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