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Occasional Odes

Name: Occasional Odes
Start: 2025-01-19T12:00:00
Location: Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

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Odes for special occasions frame this opening programme, from Purcell’s ‘From hardy climes and dangerous toils of war’, performed at the wedding of Prince George of Denmark and Princess Anne, to one of his finest and most wistfully beautiful odes, ‘Love’s goddess sure was blind’, written in 1692 for the birthday of Queen Mary. In between, we hear Locke’s ‘The Oxford Ode’, commissioned in 1672 for the annual degree ceremony at Oxford’s Sheldonian ...

Program

Henry Purcell - Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind

Matthew Locke - Suite in D minor

Henry Purcell - Fantasia No. 8

Henry Purcell - From hardy climes and dangerous toils of war

Participants

Eamonn Dougan

Director

Royal Academy of Music

Producer

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1 dates (19 Jan - 19 Jan)