Chamber Music in Adelaide

Adelaide Baroque

For decades Adelaide Baroque has received acclaim for fine performances from the vast repertoire of baroque music.

The Shakespearean Connection
Politics, Plots, and Passion in Poetry

SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER, 3PM

St John’s Church, 379 Halifax Street, Adelaide

William Shakespeare has inspired an extraordinary musical ‘afterlife’. This program resurrects the rich musical connections between the theatre, the streets of London, the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts, as reflected in his plays and poetry. It incorporates his regenerated songs set to music by well-known composers such as Thomas Morley, Robert Johnson and William Byrd, Henry Purcell and Thomas Arne. It also explores the variety of instrumental music for keyboard, string and woodwind consorts so frequently alluded to by Shakespeare. The spirit of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage will be regenerated with Adelaide Baroque’s faithful interpretation of well-known songs such as “Where the bee sucks”, “Full Fathom Five” and “It was a Lover and his Lass”, together with intricate consorts on such themes as “The Leaves be green” and “Walsingham” (How should I your true love know).

ARTISTS
Lynton Rivers, Jayne Varnish [Renaissance Recorders], Catherine Finnis, Graham Strahle [Viols], Louisa Perfect [Soprano & reader], Emma Horwood [Soprano, Harp & reader], Lesley Lewis [Harpsichord].