Phantasm Viol Consort: Porträt Henry Purcell, Prophetic Pathfinder

The concerts of the 2025/26 season offer Berlin audiences the opportunity to explore new compositional territory – the works of the English composers Henry Purcell and William Lawes are famous in their homeland, but little known on the European mainland.

In the third concert, Phantasm celebrates one of Britain's most celebrated composers: Henry Purcell, the Orpheus Britannicus, who, at the age of twenty, revived the supposedly outdated compositional technique.

Following the concert, the ensemble invites you to the traditional reception (all attendees receive a complimentary drink) at the bar and a book presentation:

In December, Parsifal's Seduction, a novel by Laurence Dreyfus about the Brahms and Wagner conductor Hermann Levi, was published. The original English version, which appeared in German translation as Parsifals Verführung 2022, is being released in a limited edition, illustrated with artwork by Alexander Polzin.

With:

• Phantasm Viol Consort: Laurence Dreyfus, treble viol & artistic director / Emilia Benjamin, treble viol / Jonathan Manson, tenor viol / Heidi Gröger, tenor and treble viol / Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, bass viol
  
• Guests: Ulrich Wolff, bass viol / Lea Rahel Bader, bass viol
  
• Book presentation: Jean-Claude Kuner
  

Works performed:

• Works by Henry Purcell