Swift's Salon Programme
Airs and dances
Introduction
Largo and Fugue by William Corbett
Corbett was an English composer and violinist, who lived for some time in Italy – possibly as an English spy!
Reading Lesley Conroy
With Drooping Wings from Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell.
A tragic aria from an opera based on a Greek Myth.
Reading Risteard Fallon
Adagio from Sonata X by Arcangelo Corelli.
Corelli was an Italian composer and well known violinist and is considered one of the masters of the Baroque period
Reading Aideen Caldwell
Allegro from Sonata X by Arcangelo Corelli.
Reading Carol Rooney
Larghetto HWV 369 by George Frideric Handel.
Another master of the Baroque, Handel’s famous oratorio Messiah was first performed in Dublin in 1742.
Reading Lisa Walsh
“Hence, hence with your Trifling Deity.”
An aria by Henry Purcell for the bass voice, played here on the cello. The words tell us to be cheerful in spite of adversity, as we always have the delights of Bacchus, the God of Wine.
Reading Teresa Cleary
Planxty Irwin by Turlough O’Carolan.
O’Carolan invented this obscure word to signify a tribute to a merry host.
Reading Geraldine O’Brien
‘Where Is Love’ from the musical ‘Oliver’
Sung by 12-year-old Cormac Quigney.
Reading Michael McGrath
Planxty Sudley by Turlough O’Carolan.
Reading Clare Kinsella
Lilli Bulero
A march composed by Henry Purcell at the time of the accession of William Third in 1688, in medley with Fanny Power by Turlough O’Carolan