CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Performance Thursday, October 10, 2013 | 7:30 PM

Carolyn Sampson

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Hailed as “the best British early-music soprano by quite some distance” (Gramophone), Carolyn Sampson comes to Carnegie Hall to perform a recital of delightful art songs and arias by influential British composer Henry Purcell. Hear for yourself why “she tops virtually every Baroque conductor's wish list of soloists” (The Independent, London).

This concert is part of Salon Encores.

Performers

  • Carolyn Sampson, Soprano
  • Beiliang Zhu, Baroque Cello
  • Paul O'Dette, Lute
  • Kenneth Weiss, Harpsichord

Program

    ALL-PURCELL PROGRAM
  • "Thou wakeful shepherd" (A morning hymn)
  • "Music for a while"
  • "Sweeter than roses" from Pausanias
  • "Thrice happy lovers" from The Fairy Queen
  • "Oh! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes"
  • "I attempt from love’s sickness to fly" from The Indian Queen
  • "From rosy bow'rs"
  • "Let us dance, let us sing"
  • "Man is for the woman made"
  • "If music be the food of love"
  • "The fatal hour comes on apace"
  • "From silent shades, and the Elysian groves" (Bess of Bedlam)
  • "O solitude, my sweetest choice"
  • "Hark! The ech’ing air" from The Fairy Queen
  • "When first Amintas sued for a kiss"
  • "Now that the sun hath veiled his light" (An evening hymn)

Audio

Purcell's "If music be the food of love"
Carolyn Sampson, Soprano | Laurence Cummings, Harpsichord | Anne-Marie Lasla, Bass Viol
BIS

This performance is part of Early Music in Weill Recital Hall.

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