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Proms at: music inspired by Shakespeare at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

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Reviewed at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London on 13 August 2016
Purcell, Timon of Athens, Z 632: Curtain Tune
Purcell, Timon of Athens, Z 632: I Spy Celia
Purcell, Timon of Athens, Z 632: I See She Flies Me
Blow, Venus and Adonis: excerpts
Purcell, The Fairy Queen Z 629: Arias
Locke, The Tempest: Curtain Tune
Draghi, The Tempest - Dance of the Fantastick Spirits
Purcell, The Tempest: excerpts
Katherine Watson, Soprano
Samuel Boden, Tenor
Callum Thorpe, Bass
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen, Conductor
Highly-charged performances of the Brandenburgs from Arcangelo
*****
Prom 74: Intimacy and reflection in Handel's Theodora
****1
Magnificent Magnificats from Arcangelo
Meisterliches zum Auftakt des Telemannjahres
*****
Highly-charged performances of the Brandenburgs from Arcangelo
*****
Glyndebourne's Saul still packs a punch 10 years on
*****
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