RESOUNDING SHORES: HAIL, BRIGHT CECILIA

FRI 22 NOV, 7.30PM
GREYFRIARS KIRK, EDINBURGH

Academy Baroque Ensemble and soloists
Dunedin Consort
John Butt conductor
Mariana Rodrigues soprano

JOHN CLERK OF PENICUIK Leo Scotiae Irritatus
PURCELL Hail, Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day) Z 238 (Ed Clifford Bartlett)

The Academy’s first SIDE-BY-SIDE with the Dunedin Consort presents concerts in Edinburgh and the Duke’s Hall. It will feature Purcell’s Hail, Bright Cecilia!, written in honour of St Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, a work in which all instruments have ‘character’ movements and where singers and instrumentalists play equally dramatic roles. Preceding this famous ode is Sir John Clerk of Penicuik’s relatively little-known cantata, Leo Scotiae Irritatus, depicting Scotland’s unsuccessful venture to set up an empire in Panama.


£25 (CONCESSIONS £6/£12.50)
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