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Possessed! Demons, Witches and Sorcery

Lucie Skeaping takes her second musical journey through the mysterious world of possession, featuring witchcraft, demons, sorcery and madness, and including pieces by Handel, Tartini, Purcell and Charpentier.

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Sun 1 Nov 2020 14:00
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Music Played

  • John Eccles

    Overture (The Mad Lover)

    Ensemble: Ensemble β€œIl Falcone”.
    • Play me my Songs.
    • Dynamic.
    • 1.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Noires Divinites (Medee)

    Singer: Bernard DeletrΓ©. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • Charpentier: Medee.
    • Erato.
    • 12.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    C'est peu, pour contenter la douleur (Medee)

    Singer: Jill Feldman. Singer: Gilles Ragon. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • Medee.
    • Harmonia mundi.
    • 18.

  • Anonymous

    The Lunatick Lover

    Performer: Richard Wistreich. Ensemble: City Waites.

  • Henry Purcell

    Mad Bess of Bedlam, Z.370

    Performer: Anthony Rooley. Performer: Richard Campbell. Performer: Christopher Hogwood. Singer: Emma Kirkby.
    • EMMA KIRKBY: A PORTRAIT.
    • EDITIONS DE L'OISEAU-LYRE.
    • 2.

  • Henry Purcell

    Bess of Bedlam, Z.370

    Performer: Anthony Rooley. Performer: Richard Campbell. Performer: Christopher Hogwood. Singer: Emma Kirkby.
    • DECCA.

  • John Danyel

    Can doleful notes?

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jonathan Manson. Singer: Iestyn Davies.
    • Flow My Tears.
    • Wigmore Live.
    • 10.

  • Thomas Campion

    Move now with measured sound

    Ensemble: Newberry Consort.
    • A Candle in the Dark: The Newberry Consort.
    • Harmoni Mundi.
    • 18.

  • Robert Johnson

    Full fathom five

    Performer: Julian Behr. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • The Voice Vol 2 - Andreas Scholl.
    • Harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Anonymous

    The Shaking of the Sheets

    Ensemble: Faran Flad.
    • Wild Boar Music.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Saul and the Witch of Endor (Saul)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Singer: Jeremy Budd. Singer: Stuart Young. Choir: The Sixteen.
    • Handel : Saul.
    • Coro.
    • 3.

  • Henry Purcell

    Two daughters of this aged stream (King Arthur, Z.628)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • Purcell: King Arthur.
    • Erato.
    • 27.

  • Henry Purcell

    Wayward sisters / Ruin'd ere the set of the sun (Dido And Aeneas, Z.626)

    Ensemble: Taverner Consort. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Purcell: Dido & Aeneas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Sonata In G Minor, 'Devil's Trill' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andrew Manze.
    • Tartini: Violin Sonatas.
    • Harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Anonymous

    Soulcake Song

    Ensemble: The City Waites.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 7 Oct 2018 14:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
  • Sun 1 Nov 2020 14:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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