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L’ARPEGGIATA: MUSIC FOR A WHILE
BAROQUE JAZZ IMPROVISATIONS ON HENRY PURCELL
Drawing inspiration from Henry Purcell’s famous secular and sacred songs, hymns and dances, Jazz ensemble L’Arpeggiata will take you back to seventeenth-century London with a programme that fuses the theatre and court music of the time with the improvisatory arts of jazz.
Christina Pluhar leads this ensemble of outstanding musician, through a wholesale rethinking of a timeless repertoire, providing the audience with a new perspective on ‘early music’.
Come along and find out just how diverse Purcell can become…
“….an urbane sexiness, far removed from the rather chaste tradition of English Purcell performance.” The Guardian