APRIL 2008
Thur 10 London, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, SW1. Whitehall Choir. Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers (020 7720 4374)
Fri 11    WH London Handel Players. Handel chamber music, inc contemporary arrangements of arias
Tues 15  WH The King’s Consort. Vivaldi, Geminiani, Corelli.
Thur 17  Barbican. Academy of Ancient Music. Handel: Flavio
18-20    Bath. Bach Festival Weekend (01225 463362)
Sat 19    London, Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden WC2. Maresienne Consort – Huw Daniel (vln) Ibi Aziz (gamba) Bridget Cunningham (hpschd). Bach trio sonatas arrangements (020 8888 6155).
Sat 19    Guildford Cathedral. The Sixteen (01483 547870) or Online booking: (01904 658 338)
Sat 19    SJSS Exmoor Singers of London, Charivari Agréable Simfonie, Jane Booth (basset clarinet) Mozart Requiem & Clarinet Concerto
Sun 20   London. The Sixteen insight day.   Online booking: (01904 658 338)
Tues 22 Cadogan Hall. Musica Viva perform in a charity fundraising concert with international soprano Kathryn Harries and friends. Baroque concertos for recorder and strings played on period instruments (07980 638 937).
Wed 23 Hatchlands, 12 noon. Terence Charlston (clavichord).
Thur 24 Greenwich, Old Royal Naval Chapel. The Sixteen. Thy Muse lives on…Treasures of Tudor England.  Online booking: (01904 658 338)
Thurs 24 London, The Red Hedgehog, N6, 7.30pm. The Hauschka Ensemble (Jeremy Brooker, Classical and Baroque barytons; Ibi Aziz, viola da gamba) performs Baroque and Classical music for the baryton, one of the rarest and most complex string instruments in the world. Original works by Joseph Haydn, Gottfried Finger and Andreas Lidl.  Tickets: £12/£10  Tel: 0208 348 5050.
Fri 25    Oxford, University church. The Sixteen (0870 7500659) or Online booking: (01904 658 338).
Sat 26   London, Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, Liddon House, 24  South Audley St, W1. Duetto – a recital for two viols. Tal Arbel & Ibi Aziz (gamba).  Hume, Boismortier, Schenck, Couperin, Mozart, Schaffrath etc. (020 8888 6155).
Sat 26   SJSS English Baroque Choir, Brandenburg Sinfonia. Bach: Mass in B min
Tues 29 WH Gabrieli Consort & Players. Purcell: Come ye sons of art away, Dido & Aeneas.

MAY 2008
Sat 3     St Albans Cathedral. The Sixteen (01727 890256) or Online booking: (01904 658 338).
Sat 3     Hampstead Parish Church, Church Row NW3, 7.30 pm. Hampstead Chamber Choir, David Allinson, with organ and period ensemble. Walter, Praetorius, Schutz, Scheidt, Bach. (020 8348 4899).
Sun 4     RFH Angela Hewitt (piano) Bach: Well-tempered Klavier bk 2.
Mon 5    WH Academy of Ancient Music. Bach Brandenburg Concertos. Pre-perf talk at 6pm.
Tues 6   SJSS 1.15pm. Cantandum. Choral Eucharist. Victoria, Palestrina
Wed 7   Hatchlands, 12 noon. Royal College of Music Historical Performance Dept. Rameau, Handel, Telemann
Fri 9     Loughton, Lopping Hall, Loughton High Rd (5 minutes from Loughton Station). Mary Wroth's Loughton: Its Music, Its Magic. An evening of readings from Wroth and her contemporaries, with the Erato Consort singing Madrigals of the period. Wroth was the first woman to publish, in 1621, a prose romance in England.  Loughton Festival (020 8508 2512).
Sat 10 Nordern Farm Centre for the Arts. Charivari Agréable. London and the Hanoverians. Torelli, Purcell, Handel.
Sun 11 London, St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington Church Street, N16. 6pm.  The Sonority of Strings.  A concert on baroque instruments, directed from the organ by Peter Holman. Biber, Rosenmüller, Muffat, J.B. Bach, Schmelzer, and Telemann etc. Buses: 73 (from Angel tube), 76, 67 (from Dalston-Kingsland Silverlink) (020 8985 3724) Online booking
Wed 14  Hatchlands, 12 noon. Royal Academy of Music Baroque Ensemble. Bach, Telemann
Wed 14  Nordern Farm Centre for the Arts. Windsor Box & Fir Company. At their Majesties Pleasure. Jenny Thomas (bar fl) Michael Sanderson (baritone/ bar violin) Ian Gammie (gamba/ theorbo) Katharine May (hpschd)
Wed 14 QEH    OAE Rameau, Mozart, Haydn.
Thur 15 QEH   The Sixteen. Monteverdi, Henze.
Thur 15 SJSS 7.30pm  Carolyn Sampson (sop) English Concert. The Triumph of Peace I. Handel, Rameau.  Lufthansa Festival.
Fri 16   SJSS  7.30pm   Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe. Bach.  Lufthansa Festival.
Fri 16   London, St Martin-in-the-Fields Festival, 10-11pm.  Fretwork with Clare Wilkinson. Late night concert of music by Byrd, Dowland, Purcell and Michael Nyman.  Tickets £15 unreserved
Sat 17  SJSS 4.30pm. Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) with Concordia.  Knock’d on the Head - Music from the time of the English Civil War. Lufthansa Festival.
Sat 17  SJSS 7.30pm  Ensemble San Felice.  Handel: Rodrigo
Sat 17  London, St. John’s church, Spencer Hill, Wimbledon SW19. The Academy Chorus and Baroque Players. Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610. (020 8946 7312)
16-18   Maidenhead. Nordern Farm Centre for the Arts early music weekend.
Sun 18  Manoukian Music Centre, Westminster School, 3pm.  Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini investigate the world of Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.  Radio 3 Discovering Music.   Lufthansa Festival.
Sun 18  London, Grosvenor Chapel, 6pm. Renaissance Singers. Byrd, Tomkins.
Sun 18 Nordern Farm Centre for the Arts, 11.45am. Lunchtime Concert. Gary Cooper (harpsichord)
Sun 18  Nordern Farm Centre for the Arts, 2.30pm. Gary Cooper, Masterclass
Sun 18 Richmond, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, 11am. Duo Dorado - Hazel Brooks (violin) & David Pollock (hpschd). Viva Vivaldi!   (020 8940 3633).
Sun 18 Oxford, Holywell Music Room. The Burney Players. Handel, Corelli, Geminiani etc
Sun 18 London, St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, 7pm. Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor) Wallfisch Band. A la Battaglia! Biber, JC Bach, Schmelzer, Vivaldi. Lufthansa Festival.
Mon 19 SJSS 7.30 Ensemble Pierre Robert. Peace Sacred, Peace Profane. Brossard, Lully. Lufthansa Festival.
Mon 19 SJSS 10pm Céline Scheen (sop) Labyrinto, Paolo Pandolfo (bass viol, dir) Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke. Lufthansa Festival.
Tues 20 SJSS 7.30 Maria Cristina Kiehr (sop) Concerto Soave. Et in terra pax. Motets & instrumental music by Monteverdi, Legrenzi, Mazzocchi etc. Lufthansa Festival.
Tues 20 SJSS 10pm Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz (fl/dir) Music from the Court of Frederick the Great by Quantz, Bach, Telemann, Frederick the Gt.  Lufthansa Festival.
Wed 21 Westminster Abbey 7pm. Choir of Westminster Abbey, St James’s Baroque. The Triumph of Peace II. Blow, Handel. Lufthansa Festival.
Sat 24  Tudor style banquet with the Waites of Gloucester. Cotswold Early Music Festival (01285 640194).
Sun 25  WH English Concert. Vivaldi, Nardini, Sammartini, Brioschi
Wed 28 Hatchlands, 12 noon. Pawel Siwczac (hpschd)
Sat 31   SJSS   Purcell Singers & Orch. Bach: Mass in B min.

JUNE 2008
Tues 3  Fairfield Halls, Croydon 1.05pm. Duo Dorado. A Baroque Musical Feast.
Wed 4   Hatchlands, 12 noon. Katherine Fuge (sop) David McGuinness (virginals)
Wed 11 Hatchlands, 12 noon. Nadja Zwiener (violin) Kasia Tomczak (hpschd) Bach
Wed 11 RFH  OAE,  Andreas Scholl (countertenor) James Bowman (presenter). Bach, Handel, Vivaldi.
Tues 24  London, Great Chamber, Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN at 7.30pm.  Rose Consort (viols, pandora and lute) with Katharine Hawnt (soprano) and a professional actor for some readings. Concert of music by Tobias Hume, Campion, Dowland and Coprario. Admission free, with wine reception.   (07764 200125)
Wed 25 Hatchlands, 7pm. Davitt Moroney (hpschd) Couperin
Thur 26 Hatchlands, 7pm. The Bach Players. Schmelzer, Haydn, Biber, Boccherini
Fri 27   Ampthill, Bedfordshire, St Andrew's Church, Rectory Lane, 9pm. Duo Dorado (01525 403033)

JULY 2008
Wed 9  Hatchlands, 12 noon. Carole Cerasi (hpschd)
Fri 11   East Clandon parish church. Tessa Forbes (alto) Sebastian Forbes (organ)
Camerata Orian. Purcell, Buxtehude, Bach, Handel, Loeillet, Pergolesi (01483 223751)
3-12     York Early Music Festival (01904 658338)
Tues 15 WH Concordia with Robin Blaze. Dowland: Lachrimae pavans and consort songs.
Fri 18    London, St Olave's Street, Hart Street, London at 7pm.    Pellegrina
"Music from Pepys's London". Pellegrina will perform music being played in London when Pepys was writing his diary, and music from his Library in Cambridge, together with extracts from his diary. A concert hosted by St Olaves. Admission free. Donation to charity.
Sat 19   London, Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley St, W1. Maresienne Consort, Clare Wilkinson (mezzo) Telemann cantatas (020 8888 6155)
23-26   Cotswold Early Music Festival (01285 640194).
Thur 31 Fenton House, Hampstead Grove, London NW3 6RT. Duo Dorado. Late 17th and 18th century music by Corelli, Scarlatti and Vivaldi using Fenton House’s 1770 Shudi/Broadwood harpsichord. (0871 527 1887).

AUGUST
Mon 18  London, Cadogan Hall, 1-2pm. Jordi Savall.   Proms Chamber Music (PCM 5). Music by Ortiz, Hume, Marias, and Sanz. Tickets £8, £10, or prom for £5

SEPTEMBER
Sun 1 London, Wigmore Hall.  Fretwork "Birds on Fire" Concert to mark the release of Birds on Fire, Jewish Music for Viols on Harmonia Mundi USA

NOVEMBER
13-16   Greenwich International Music Festival and Exhibition

DECEMBER
11-15   York Early Music Christmas Festival (01904 658338).

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