The Purcell Quartet

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Although founded in 1983, The Purcell Quartet gave its debut recital after six months’ intensive preparation, on 14 February 1984 at St John’s, Smith Square in London, and has since then undergone just one change of membership, Catherine Weiss replacing Elizabeth Wallfisch as second violin. Through twenty-five years and nearly fifty recordings of a huge range of repertoire, the group has established itself as a leader in the area of baroque chamber music. Nor is its repertoire limited by size: it has taken fully staged productions of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Orfeo to Japan. It also embarked on a series of concerts devoted to the music of Bach at the Wigmore Hall, presenting masses, harpsichord concerti, and cantatas, in which it has collaborated with the very finest singers, among them Susan Gritton, Nancy Argenta, Catherine Bott, Emma Kirkby, Julia Gooding, Michael Chance, Dominique Visse, Guy de Mey, Mark Padmore, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey, and Richard Wistreich. The Quartet has toured the world, including the USA, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Japan, Turkey, and all the countries of Europe. In the United Kingdom it has played at most of the major music festivals, recorded extensively for the BBC, and toured several times with the Early Music Network. During the Bach year, 2000, it presented several programmes of Bach’s music, including two concerts of early cantatas at the Spitalfields Festival, Lutheran Masses in Budap

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Henry Purcell - Sonnatas

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: La Folia and other works

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J.S.Bach -Trio Sonatas

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Biber - Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa - CD1

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7 Sonates, op.2

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A. Vivaldi: Variations on 'La Folia' and other Sonatas

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Capriccio Stravagante, Volume 1

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Biber - Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa - CD2

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Suite Abdelazar

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Capriccio stravagante, Volume 2

Buxtehude - VII Suonate, Op. 1

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Buxtehude - Sacred Cantatas vol. 2

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