A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR MR RICH
Presented by Neil Jenkins
Edward Lumley Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Presented by Neil Jenkins
Edward Lumley Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Saturday, 26 January 2008, at 5.30 pm
With Neil Jenkins (tenor), Edith Lalonger and Ivan Leymarie (dancers), students from Circus Space, and The Royal Academy of Music Baroque Ensemble, directed by Pawel Siwczak (harpsichord)
1. From the pantomime The Royal Chace or Merlin's Cave (Covent Garden, 23 January 1736)
A 21st century commedia dell'arte re-enactment to Comic Tunes (tunes for the commedia performers) (music attr. John Ernest Galliard, ed. Jeremy Barlow)
Movement devised by Mitch Mitchelson and performed by students from Circus Space: Eleanora dall'Asta, Emily Dixon, Telma Fernandes, Tiago Fonseca, Victor Garmendia, Nikolaj Nielsen, Joanna Pacheco, Gemma Palomar, Nectario S Papadopoulos, Guillermo Porta Gomez, Amber Reed, Craig Reid, Massimiliano Rosseti, Jamie Swan, Tiina Tuomisto
2. From Jephtha (Covent Garden, 26 February 1752)
Recitative 'Deeper and deeper still'; Aria 'Waft her angels through the skies' (words Thomas Morell, music George Frederick Handel)
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
3. Dances
Les Caractères de la danse: Prélude, Courante, Menuet, Bourrée, Chaconne, Sarabande, Gigue, Rigaudon, Passepied, Gavotte, Sonate, Loure, Musette, Sonate (choreography Edith Lalonger, music Jean-Féry Rebel, 1715)
From Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: 'Chaconne d'Arlequin' (Ballet des Nations, Entrée des Italiens) (choreography Pierre de la Montagne, dated between 1700 and 1720, to music by Jean Baptiste Lully)
From Le malade imaginaire: Premier intermède, 'Chacoon for Arlequin', (choreography François Le Rousseau, 1720, to music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
From Neue und Curieuse theatrialische Tantz-Schul (G Lambranzi, 1716): 'Chicona' (choreography Edith Lalonger, music unattributed)
Edith Lalonger and Ivan Leymarie (dancers)
4. From The Beggar's Opera (Lincoln's Inn Fields, 29 January 1728)
Macheath's parting from Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit before his trial at the Old Bailey (Act 3, Scene 11, words John Gay; tunes selected by Gay and set by John Christopher Pepusch, ed. Jeremy Barlow)
Neil Jenkins (Macheath), with students from the Royal Academy of Music: Mary Bevan (Polly), Georgia Ginsberg (Lucy), Alex Sprague (Peachum), Lockit (Elias Benito). Staged by Kate Brown
5. Concerto Grosso in D, Op. 6 No. 4 (Arcangelo Corelli)
Adagio-Allegro, Adagio, Vivace, Allegro
Concertino: Alexis Brett, Emily Dahl (violins), Kathleen Ross (cello)
Ripieno: Eleanor Harrison, Stephen Pedder (violins), Joanne Miller, Ruth Furniss (violas), Kinga Gáborjáni (cello)
Directed by Pawel Siwczak (harpsichord)
6. From the pantomime The Necromancer or Harlequin Dr Faustus (Lincoln's Inn Fields, 20 December 1723)
Charon's song 'Ghosts of ev'ry occupation' (words attr. Lewis Theobald, music by John Ernest Galliard), followed by the final scene in which Doctor Faustus (originally played by John Rich) is swallowed by a dragon (music by Galliard, assembled, edited and arranged by Jeremy Barlow from Covent Garden and Drury Lane pantomimes of the 1720s and 1730s)
Elias Benito (Charon), followed by a 21st-century commedia re-enactment devised by Mitch Mitchelson and performed by students from Circus Space
1. From the pantomime The Royal Chace or Merlin's Cave (Covent Garden, 23 January 1736)
A 21st century commedia dell'arte re-enactment to Comic Tunes (tunes for the commedia performers) (music attr. John Ernest Galliard, ed. Jeremy Barlow)
Movement devised by Mitch Mitchelson and performed by students from Circus Space: Eleanora dall'Asta, Emily Dixon, Telma Fernandes, Tiago Fonseca, Victor Garmendia, Nikolaj Nielsen, Joanna Pacheco, Gemma Palomar, Nectario S Papadopoulos, Guillermo Porta Gomez, Amber Reed, Craig Reid, Massimiliano Rosseti, Jamie Swan, Tiina Tuomisto
2. From Jephtha (Covent Garden, 26 February 1752)
Recitative 'Deeper and deeper still'; Aria 'Waft her angels through the skies' (words Thomas Morell, music George Frederick Handel)
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
3. Dances
Les Caractères de la danse: Prélude, Courante, Menuet, Bourrée, Chaconne, Sarabande, Gigue, Rigaudon, Passepied, Gavotte, Sonate, Loure, Musette, Sonate (choreography Edith Lalonger, music Jean-Féry Rebel, 1715)
From Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: 'Chaconne d'Arlequin' (Ballet des Nations, Entrée des Italiens) (choreography Pierre de la Montagne, dated between 1700 and 1720, to music by Jean Baptiste Lully)
From Le malade imaginaire: Premier intermède, 'Chacoon for Arlequin', (choreography François Le Rousseau, 1720, to music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
From Neue und Curieuse theatrialische Tantz-Schul (G Lambranzi, 1716): 'Chicona' (choreography Edith Lalonger, music unattributed)
Edith Lalonger and Ivan Leymarie (dancers)
4. From The Beggar's Opera (Lincoln's Inn Fields, 29 January 1728)
Macheath's parting from Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit before his trial at the Old Bailey (Act 3, Scene 11, words John Gay; tunes selected by Gay and set by John Christopher Pepusch, ed. Jeremy Barlow)
Neil Jenkins (Macheath), with students from the Royal Academy of Music: Mary Bevan (Polly), Georgia Ginsberg (Lucy), Alex Sprague (Peachum), Lockit (Elias Benito). Staged by Kate Brown
5. Concerto Grosso in D, Op. 6 No. 4 (Arcangelo Corelli)
Adagio-Allegro, Adagio, Vivace, Allegro
Concertino: Alexis Brett, Emily Dahl (violins), Kathleen Ross (cello)
Ripieno: Eleanor Harrison, Stephen Pedder (violins), Joanne Miller, Ruth Furniss (violas), Kinga Gáborjáni (cello)
Directed by Pawel Siwczak (harpsichord)
6. From the pantomime The Necromancer or Harlequin Dr Faustus (Lincoln's Inn Fields, 20 December 1723)
Charon's song 'Ghosts of ev'ry occupation' (words attr. Lewis Theobald, music by John Ernest Galliard), followed by the final scene in which Doctor Faustus (originally played by John Rich) is swallowed by a dragon (music by Galliard, assembled, edited and arranged by Jeremy Barlow from Covent Garden and Drury Lane pantomimes of the 1720s and 1730s)
Elias Benito (Charon), followed by a 21st-century commedia re-enactment devised by Mitch Mitchelson and performed by students from Circus Space
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