BURGHCLERE BAROQUE presents
“EXQUISITE AIRS”
Songs by Purcell, Lanier,
Lawes and Johnson
Jenni Harper: soprano
Toby Carr: theorbo
Saturday 14th September 2024 at 6.00pm (doors open 5.30pm)
The Church of the Ascension, Burghclere, near Newbury, Berks. RG20 9HX
Ticket price £10-
You may order tickets by email to theresa@burghclerebaroque.com or by telephone: 01635 276009.
BURGHCLERE BAROQUE CONCERTS
Our next concert:
Friday 20th December: "French Baroque Christmas" featuring music by Purcell's great
contemporary, Marc-
Jenni Harper has a wonderfully light, clear and clean soprano voice, ideally suited to the music of the 17th and 18th centuries in which she specialises, and has performed solos with some of this country’s leading baroque orchestras such as The Academy of Ancient Music. She is a founder member of the ensemble Ceruleo, with whom she has toured the UK and abroad. Their first album, 'Love Restor'd', featuring music by Purcell and his contemporaries, was released to critical acclaim in December 2022. Jenni lives locally, in Whitchurch, and is delighted to have the opportunity to perform so close to home.
Toby Carr is a lutenist and guitarist who performs with most of the principal period instrument ensembles in this country. In this programme he plays the theorbo – a large lute with bass strings housed in its extraordinarily long neck (as depicted so beautifully in our poster picture “Lady with a Theorbo” by John Michael Wright c.1670). The theorbo was considered the ideal instrument to accompany singers in the 17th and early 18th centuries but was also sometimes used a solo instrument in its own right, and the English songs in this programme will be interspersed by Toby performing solos by 17th century contemporary lutenists, the Italian Kapsberger and Frenchman Robert de Visée.