Welcome to all the Pleasures

A 25th birthday calls for a rousing celebration and we intend to mark it in suitable style.

Join us for a celebratory event centred around Purcell’s magnificent Welcome Odes, in the company of a host of Dunedin favourites and friends from over the years. Music by Handel, Corelli and Blow completes this virtuosic feast — the perfect showcase for our wonderful singers and instrumentalists.

And, like all good birthdays, this one will end with a great party. We hope you will join us after our concert at Greyfriars Kirk for a slice of cake, a glass or two of bubbles and a late-night celebration.

John Butt: director

Julia Doyle: soprano

James Hall: countertenor

Thomas Hobbs: tenor

Robert Davies & Edward Grint: bass

John Blow: Chacony

Henry Purcell: Welcome to all the Pleasures

Henry Purcell: Why, why are all the muses mute?

George Frideric Handel: Suite in D major for trumpet and strings

Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1

Henry Purcell: Arise my muse

Presented by Dunedin Consort