Late Night Baroque

Live at the BBC Proms: Jupiter Ensemble makes its Proms debut in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque – John Dowland & Henry Purcell.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

John Dowland: Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Lachrimae antiquae
The King of Denmark's Galliard
Can she excuse my wrongs?
Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears
The Earl of Essex Galliard
Flow, my tears
The Frog Galliard
Now, O now, I needs must part
Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen – ‘If love’s a sweet passion’
Strike the viol
The Fairy Queen – Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
An Evening Hymn

Laurence Kilsby, tenor
Jupiter Ensemble
Thomas Dunford, director/lute

Formed in 2018 by lutenist Thomas Dunford, the Jupiter Ensemble has enthused audiences around the world. The period-instrument collective makes its Proms debut in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque – John Dowland (in the 400th anniversary of his death) and the ‘British Orpheus’ Henry Purcell. Lending his voice to songs of love’s pains and pleasures is British tenor in the ascendant Laurence Kilsby.