Chelys Consort of Viols and Fair Oriana
Ibrahim Aziz, Jenny Bullock, Kate Conway, Alison Kinder, Sam Stadlen
Penelope Appleyard and Angela Hicks
The Musical Menagerie
Chelys and Fair Oriana introduce you to the many animals in their menagerie, from the shepherdess Phyllis with her flock of sheep, a frog and mouse who get married, a flying Pegasus and a lapdog who plays a dangerous game as the favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Not to mention Three Ravens contemplating a rather grisly breakfast, and a dancing baboon! Music by Gibbons, Farmer, Byrd, Ravenscroft, Bennett, Playford, and more.
The finer details…
‘Behind the Music’ FREE pre-concert talk: 6.45pm
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Rear Nave: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Sides: £14 full price | £3 child/student
Bellot Ensemble
Cupid’s Ground Bass
From the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble, this captivating programme explores the extremities of love, through the ground-breaking works of 17th-century Italy, highlighting both the vocal and instrumental innovations of the time. Music by Cavalli, Falconieri, Cazzati, Kapsberger, Strozzi, Uccellini, and Monteverdi.
The finer details…
‘Behind the Music’ FREE pre-concert talk: 6.45pm
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Rear Nave: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Sides: £14 full price | £3 child/student
Ex Cathedra Scholars
Jeffrey Skidmore – Conductor
The Grand Tour – Burney at 300
Handel Zadok the Priest
Purcell Jehovah quam multi sunt hostes mei
Charpentier Transfige dulcissime Jesu
Haydn The heavens are telling (The Creation)
Allegri Miserere
Lotti Crucifixus
Mozart Ave verum
Bach Komm, Jesu, komm
To mark the 300th anniversary of Dr Charles Burney, England’s great eighteenth-century music historian, Ex Cathedra’s Scholars Ensemble invites you to take a musical Grand Tour, inspired by the man whose vivid diary provides some of the clearest portraits of musical life in 18th-century Europe.
Beginning in London and travelling through Paris, Vienna, Rome, Venice and Germany, this programme traces Burney’s remarkable journeys, with glorious music by Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart and Bach, together with the iconic Miserere by Allegri, whose publication by Burney in London in 1771 helped extend its fame and enhance the legend.
From Handel’s Zadok the Priest to Mozart, Beethoven and Bach’s magnificent double-choir motet Komm, Jesu, komm, this is a rich panorama of European choral music, framed by the insight and wit of Shropshire-born Burney, whose work brought the sounds and stories of this music to British audiences.
The finer details…
‘Behind the Music’ FREE pre-concert talk: 6.45pm
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Rear Nave: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Sides: £14 full price | £3 child/student
I Fagiolini
‘We’re not dead yet’ – I Fagiolini at 40
In 1986 another student vocal group gave its first concert with an eclectic a cappella mix of Monteverdi, Grieg, and the Fairy Liquid jingle. 40 years on Monteverdi has remained a constant and Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini have gone on to rethink exactly what a vocal group does, from unstageable a cappella to cross-cultural projects, world première recordings, the podcast Choral Chihuahua – and plenty of film. In an age of AI, I Fagiolini is a hand-painted original. Join them for this anniversary programme of ‘the best vocal ensemble music we know’. Music by Victoria, Wilbye, Weelkes, Vecchi, Monteverdi, Howells, Lesur, Ferré, and more.
The finer details…
‘Behind the Music’ FREE pre-concert talk: 6.45pm
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Rear Nave: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Sides: £14 full price | £3 child/student
Musical & Amicable Society
Fiddlers Three: Music from Charles II’s ‘Private Musick’
A vibrant programme that shines a light on music-making in late-seventeenth-century England and virtuosic writing for violin, exploring music written for and by court musicians of the Restoration period. Well-known works by Purcell, Jenkins and Matteis are presented alongside new discoveries by Mell, Matteis and Isaack.
The finer details…
‘Behind the Music’ FREE pre-concert talk: 6.45pm
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Rear Nave: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Sides: £14 full price | £3 child/student