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Europe by candlelight: Padmore follows Charles Burney at the Sam Wanamaker

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“Padmore makes every word intelligible, while still being able to develop the colours”
Reviewed at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London on 6 December 2015
Biber, Sonata no. 3 in F major
Dowland, Come Again, My Love
Dowland, Pavan
Dowland, In darkness let me dwell
Purcell, Morning Hymn "Thou wakeful shepherd"
Purcell, Harmonia Sacra: An Evening Hymn on a ground
Geminiani, Violin Sonata in D minor, Op.4 no.4
Alborea, Cello Sonata in D major
Burney, Oh Sylvia
Charpentier, Airs sur Les Stances du Cid
Handel, La resurrezione (Quando é parto)
Handel, Samson: Total Eclipse
Biber, Sonata Violino solo representativa
The English Concert
Mark Padmore, Tenor
Nadja Zwiener, Violin
Joseph Crouch, Cello
William Carter, Lute
Harry Bicket, Director, Harpsichord
A radically trad Fidelio at Garsington
****1
Ravishing Rodelinda: Handel al fresco at Garsington Opera
****1
Rameau meets The Kardashians: Platée at Garsington
***11
Handel's Brockes Passion resurrected by The English Concert
****1
Heavenly Bach from Iestyn Davies at the BBC Proms
****1
Top Mozart from Kristian Bezuidenhout and The English Concert
*****
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