The Playhouse Sessions
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Label: Rubicon
Cat No: RCD1096
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 23rd September 2022
Contents
Works
Can She Excuse Puck's WrongOver Hill, Over Dale
The Newcastle Set
You Spotted Snakes; Hush No More
Niel Gow's Lament for the Red, Red Rose
Dido and Aeneas
Music for a while, Z583
Of Old, when Heroes though it was Base, Z333
The Washerwoman Set
Othello
Artists
Bjarte EikeBarokksolistene
Works
Can She Excuse Puck's WrongOver Hill, Over Dale
The Newcastle Set
You Spotted Snakes; Hush No More
Niel Gow's Lament for the Red, Red Rose
Dido and Aeneas
Music for a while, Z583
Of Old, when Heroes though it was Base, Z333
The Washerwoman Set
Othello
Artists
Bjarte EikeBarokksolistene
About
The alehouse musical culture developed into playhouses, and music halls, selling tickets and subscriptions. Operas, masques, dance, jesting (the first stand-up comedians maybe?), all this prepared the way for the first public concert hall to be established. Nights in these places though would still be bawdy - stage fights, cross dressing, elements of pantomime, songs sung to popular tunes of the day, satire - always a good draw, and a good number of rustic clowns, bawdy wenches and fools thrown in for good measure.
Think of these back rooms as a very English mix of Shakespeare, commedia dell’arte, juggling with music by Purcell, folk tunes, and sea shanties. After the misery of the Commonwealth and Cromwell’s dictatorship, the public were in the mood to party. Playhouse is your invitation.
“There are some things you just can’t fake. The chemistry of a group is one of those - the sparks of musical energy that fly when certain artists collide. Bjarte Eike’s Barokksolistene is an alchemical miracle of an ensemble... pure musical gold” - Gramophone
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