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Live at the BBC Proms: Jupiter Ensemble makes its Proms debut in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque – John Dowland & Henry Purcell. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London John Dowland: Come again, sweet love doth now invite Lachrimae antiquae The King of Denmark's Galliard Can she excuse my wrongs? Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears The Earl of Essex Galliard Flow, my tears The Frog Galliard Now, O now, I needs must part Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen – ‘If love’s a sweet passion’ Strike the viol The Fairy Queen – Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman An Evening Hymn Laurence Kilsby, tenor Jupiter Ensemble Thomas Dunford, director/lute Formed in 2018 by lutenist Thomas Dunford, the Jupiter Ensemble has enthused audiences around the world. The period-instrument collective makes its Proms debut in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque – John Dowland (in the 400th anniversary of his death) and the ‘British Orpheus’ Henry Purcell. Lending his voice to songs of love’s pains and pleasures is British tenor in the ascendant Laurence Kilsby.