Music review: Les Arts Florissants

"Music for a while / Shall all your cares beguile," as English poet John Dryden put it, but who shall beguile the cares of the musicians? Shortly after the Scottish tenor Paul Agnew had sung Henry Purcell's setting of that text, in a beguiling concert at La Maison Francaise on Monday night, the harpsichordist accompanying him, Beatrice Martin, felt faint and asked her colleagues to pause the concert in the middle of a dance from Purcell's G Minor Suite.

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Craig Whitlock 21 Sep, 2011

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