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Tag Archives: Spiritato!

Baroque this Christmas: La Notte di Natale with Spiritato! and Cambridge Early Music

A Christmas concert with a difference – and, thanks to superb playing from Spiritato!, an immensely enjoyable one. Cambridge Early Music offered a sumptuous feast of Italian Baroque music as their Christmas gift to their audience, focusing on the pastorale form, which Baroque Italian composers traditionally associated with the shepherds of the Nativity. Click here to read…

December 12, 2016 in Concert.

The Also-Ran Who Outran Fate: Daniel Purcell’s Judgement of Paris

In 1701, Daniel Purcell wrote his Judgement of Paris for a competition to encourage the development of English opera, created by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax and his friends. Purcell’s entry came an inglorious third and has been largely neglected ever since. But in the rescuing hands of Spiritato!, the Rodolfus Choir and a strong team…

March 7, 2014 in Baroque, Opera.

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