Mahan Esfahani and Dame Sarah Connolly

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Wigmore Hall36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Andriessen, Louis (1939-2021)	Overture to Orpheus
Dowland, John (1563-1626)	Come heavy sleep
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)	O Solitude, Z 406
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)	We sing to him whose wisdom form'd the ear, Z 199
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)	The Fairy Queen, Z 629: One charming night
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)	I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams Z388
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784)	Sonata in E flat major, Fk.5
Martinů, Bohuslav (1890-1959)	Two Impromptus for Harpsichord, H 381
Tippett, Michael (1905-1998)	Songs for Ariel

Performers

Mahan Esfahani	Harpsichord
Dame Sarah Connolly	Mezzo-soprano

Mahan Esfahani performs on both harpsichord and piano today for a programme with mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, which concludes with Sir Michael Tippett’s Songs for Ariel, three works written to accompany the Old Vic’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in 1962.

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Mahan Esfahani and Sarah Connolly at Wigmore Hall

David Karlin, 15th June

A varied programme of harpsichord pieces interleaves with songs from Shakespeare and the following century.

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