The Music Room, Gregynog
Friday, 11 June 2010, 7.30pm
Music for Mrs Arne:
An evening at the Pleasure Gardens
Cecilia Young was born into a musical family in 1711 and had connections with many of the most important musicians in England such as Geminiani, Lampe and her future husband Thomas Arne. According to the Shrewsbury-born music historian Charles Burney, she had ‘a good natural voice and a fine shake [and] had been so well taught, that her style of singing was infinitely superior to that of any other English woman of her time’.
Cecilia met Handel in 1734 and he subsequently created several roles for her including Dalinda in Ariodante, Morgana in Alcina, the soprano solos in Alexander’s Feast and the title role in Athalia. She featured regularly with her husband (whose 300th anniversary falls in 2010) at the Vauxhall Gardens, performing music that he had written for her. This programme features examples of these many roles, interspersed with instrumental music of the time.
Handel, Overture (Alexander's Feast)
Carl Friedrich Abel, Quartet in D major
Arne, The morning
Arne, Where the bee sucks
Felice Giardini, Quartet in E flat major
Handel, Gentle Morpheus (Alceste)
INTERVAL
Handel, Overture (Athalia)
John Frederick Lampe, Pretty warblers
Thomas Arne, By the rushy-fringed bank
Johann Christian Bach, Quartet in C major
Handel, Trio in D major, Op. 5, No. 2
Handel, War, he sung (Alexander’s Feast)
Handel, Softest sounds (Athalia)
Ticket Booking
Tickets: £20.00 (£10.00, young people aged 18 and under)
Section C
(rows L-O)
Section B
(rows D-K)
Section A
(rows A-C)
Peter Collyer, viola
Katherine Sharman, violoncello
Cecelia Bruggemeyer, double bass
Terence Charlston, harpsichord
Emma Kirkby, soprano
London Handel Players
Rachel Brown, flute
Adrian Butterfield, violin/director
Oliver Webber, violin
Gwyl Gregynog Festival 2010
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