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Playlist - February 2024
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FIRST PUBLISHED 03 FEB 2024
"Happy, Happy we!" This month's playlist is all about the joy and sorrow of love. Be happy for Acis and Galatea, learn that even Venus needs help in seducing Adonis (she calls on the 'chirping warblers'), feel with lovely but betrayed Selina and praise Molly St George. Enjoy a Barn Dance, a Chaconne, an Irish Air or a beautiful Fantasia ... This playlist is also available on Spotify.
Chelys Consort of Viols
Henry Purcell: Chaconne, Dance for a Chinese Man and Woman
Ceruleo
Henry Purcell: Don Quixote, From Rosy Bow'rs
The City Musick
Maiden Lane
Irlandiani Players
Scotch Airs with Variations, No 6
Molly St George
La Nuova Musica & Tim Mead
John Blow: Lovely Selina, innocent and free from all the dangerous arts of love
Ensemble Augelletti
Anna Amalia: Fugue in C Major
The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
Johann Christoph Pepusch: Chirping Warblers
Farewell Venues! Welcome Pleasure!
Rachel Podger
Georg Philipp Telemann: Twelve Fantasias
Dunedin Consort
G F Handel: Acis and Galatea, Love sounds th' Alarm
G F Handel: Acis and Galatea, Happy, happy we!
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