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| MAY
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| Wed 8 |
Oxford, Bate Collection 1pm. Emmanuel Bach baroque violin recital
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| Fri 10 |
St John's Smith Square Gabrieli Consort & Players. Handel: L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato
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| Sat 11 |
St John's Smith Square 4.30pm. Pavlo Beznosiuk & Friends. Simpson: The Seasons, Walther: Cuccu scherzo
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| Sat 11 |
St John's Smith Square 7.45pm. Imaginarium Ensemble. Janequin, Merula, Uccellini, Biber, Vivaldi
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| Sat 11 |
London, St John's Church, Spencer Hill, Wimbledon SW19 4NZ, 8pm. Concentus VII (Emily Atkinson, soprano; Louise Strickland, recorder; Belinda Paul, oboe; Poppy Walshaw, cello; and Luke Green, harpsichord). Et in Arcadia Ego: Love and Loss in Italian Cantatas. The programme includes works by Handel, Mancini, and Scarlatti. Music by the Commons
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| Sun 12 |
New Malden Methodist Church, High Street, 3pm. DeNOTE Ensemble. Clarinet, strings & fortepiano. Hummel and Mozart. An hour’s music followed by tea and cake. Retiring collection for charity.
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| Sun 12 |
St John's Smith Square at St Peter’s Eaton Sq, SW1, 4.30pm. Andreas Staier (hpschd)
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| Sun 12 |
St John's Smith Square 7.30. European Union Baroque Orchestra. Handel
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| Tues14 |
London, St George's Church Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2HR, 1pm. Chelys Consort of Viols with Illustra Vocal Ensemble. Revelation - a newly commissioned piece by Jill Jarman, Gibbons Short Service. Admission free, retiring collection www.chelys.webeden.co.uk
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| Tue 14 |
Hatchlands Park, nr Guildford. Music from the Court of Louis XIV www.florilegium.org.uk
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| Tues 14 |
St John's Smith Square. Theatre of the Ayre. Pastoral Songs & Duets from 17th C England
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| Tues 14 |
London, Great Hall, Hellenic Centre, 18 Paddington St W1U 5AS. Byzantine Chant Recital. Cappella Romana and the Choir of the School of Byzantine Music, Archdiocese of Thyateira. Free entry but please confirm attendance on 020 7563 9835 or at press helleniccentre.org.
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| Wed 15 |
St John's Smith Square at Westminster Abbey, 7pm. Choir of Westminster Abbey, St James’s Baroque. Purcell
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| Thur 16 |
St John's Smith Square Florilegium. Marais, Rebel, Blavet, Rameau etc
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| Fri 17 |
St John's Smith Square 7pm. Ensemble La Fenice. Il Canto degli Ucelli
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| Fri 17 |
St John's Smith Square 9.30pm. Garth Knox (viola d’amore) Agnès Vesterman (cello)
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| Sat 18 |
London, St Anne's Church Limehouse, Newell Street, E14 7HP, 3pm. Chelys - Ibi Aziz, Emily Ashton, Jenny Bullock, Alison Kinder. Verie Basse - A Baroque programme for four bass viols www.ticketsource.co.uk/chelys or 07949511619 www.chelys.webeden.co.uk
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| Sat 18 |
St John's Smith Square 4.30pm. Le Jardin Secret. Lully, Charpentier, Rameau, Campra etc
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| Sat 18 |
St John's Smith Square 7.30pm. Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Carolyn Sampson (sop) Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann
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| Sun 19 |
Wigmore Hall Thomas Demenga (cello) Bach, Larcher, Demenga
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| Sat 25 |
Finchcocks. The Akenside Players. Trio Sonatas by Purcell, Avison & Handel
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| Tue 28 |
Oxford Faculty of Music, 5.15. Research colloquium on publishing music theory in early 17th C Italy (Abigail Ballantyne)
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| Wed 29 |
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1pm. Mascherata - Catherine Groom (mezzo, Ren harp, recs) Adrian Horsewood (baritone, percussion) Richard MacKenzie (Ren lute, Bar guitar). Love lyrics & love letters - inspired by the Museum’s holdings of Italian drawings & prints, especially Raphael drawings. Madrigals by Raphael’s contemporaries, Tromboncino & Corteccia, instrumental dances & diminutions, selections from the alfabeto repertoire of songs, free improvisation on ground basses. Admission free www.mascherata.co.uk
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| Thur 30 |
Wigmore Hall Stile Antico, Fretwork. Byrd
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| Fri 31 |
Wigmore Hall Christophe Rousset (hpschd) Duphly, Balbastre, Rameau, Royer
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| JUNE
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| Sat 1 |
East Sheen, All Saints Church, SW14. Zadok Baroque Orchestra. JS Bach (Brandenburg 5 and Violin Conc in A min), Fasch, Monn & Quantz www.baroque.plus.com (07935 732689) zadok baroque.plus.com
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| 7-22 |
Spitalfields Festival
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| Sat 8 |
Wigmore Hall Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Corelli, Vivaldi, Platti, Babell, Geminiani
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| Sat 8 |
London, St John's Church, Spencer Hill, Wimbledon SW19 4NZ, 8pm. Poeticall Musicke Music by the Commons
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| Sat 8 |
June Finchcocks. Pellingman’s Saraband. Division-Musick and Dowland
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| Sun 9 |
Wigmore Hall 6pm. Jordi Savall interviewed by Catherine Bott
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| Sun 9 |
Wigmore Hall 7.30. Jordi Savall (treble & lyra viols) Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish harp, psaltery) Frank McGuire (bodhran) The Celtic Viol
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| Tues 11 |
Wigmore Hall Academy of Ancient Music. Handel in Italy. Handel, D Scarlatti, Corelli, A Scarlatti. Pre-conc talk by Richard Egarr at 6.30pm.
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| Wed 12 |
London, Kings Place. Florilegium. Bach Unwrapped. Trio Sonatas; A Musical Offering www.florilegium.org.uk
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| Sat 15 |
London, St Peter's Church Vauxhall, Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY. Chelys Consort of Viols with Chandos Chamber Choir. A new commission by Michael Mullen 'Sadoc Sacerdotes' for 8 viols and voices, and pieces by Byrd, Tallis and Weelkes www.ticketsource.co.uk/chelys www.chelys.webeden.co.uk
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| Sat 22 |
Wigmore Hall Fretwork, Carolyn Sampson (sop). Byrd.
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| Sat 22 |
West Wycombe, Bucks, Church of St Lawrence. The Wooburn Singers. Tallis, Sheppard and modern (Jackson, Rachmaninov, Elgar, Pärt) 01628 672 457 or on the door www.wooburnsingers.org.uk info wooburnsingers.org.uk
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| Sat 29 |
Hambleden, Bucks, St Mary the Virgin, RG9 6RX. Camden Choir. Lassus: Six Motets, Caldara: Regina Coeli Laetare, Handel: The Ways of Zion do Mourn. Tickets £12.50 (free to under 18's & students) by post or on door www.hambleden-valley-churches.org.uk/hambleden_concerts.htm
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| Sat 29 |
London, St Mary-at-Hill, Lovat Lane, EC3R 8EE, 7.30. Free pre-concert talk by Dr Kerry McCarthy at 6.15. Renaissance Singers. Byrd: movements from Mass for Five Voices and the Great Service, and the motets Sing Joyfully and Infelix Ego
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| JULY
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| Wed 3 |
London, St Pancras Old Church, NW1 1UL. Passamezzo. In Peascod Time. A collection of ballads, readings, madrigals, lutesongs, dance melodies & consort music from 16th and 17th C England, inspired by nature and in particular the activities of Summertime and the Harvest. Cavendish, Bennet, Greene, East, Johnson, Pilkington, Purcell and Robinson, and words by Breton, Herrick, Nashe & Shakespeare www.passamezzo.co.uk Tickets (0844 8700 887) www.ticketsource.co.uk/passamezzo or at the door
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| Fri 5 |
St John's Smith Square 7pm. London Oriana Choir. Handel: Israel in Egypt
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| Thur 11 |
St Albans Cathedral 1.15-1.45 Richard Gowers (organ) Bach (retiring collection)
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| Fri 12 |
St Albans Cathedral 1.15-1.45 Joonho Park (organ) Bach (retiring collection)
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| Mon 15 |
St Albans, Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 3pm. Sir Nicholas Kenyon lecture: Bach Today - changing styles in the performance of his music www.organfestival.com 01727 846126
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| Mon 15 |
St Albans Cathedral. Choirs of Salisbury Cathedral, St Albans Cathedral & York Minster. Victoria, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Britten & Duruflé www.organfestival.com 01727 846126
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| Tues 16 |
St Albans, St Saviour’s Church. Brecon Baroque. Vivaldi & Bach www.organfestival.com 01727 846126
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| Wed 17 |
St Albans, St Michael’s Church, 10.15pm. Colin Booth harpsichord recital www.organfestival.com 01727 846126
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| Thur 18 |
St Albans Cathedral 1.15-1.45 Ben Bloor (organ) Bach (retiring collection)
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| Fri 19 |
St Albans Cathedral 1.15-1.45 Peter Holder (organ) Bach (retiring collection)
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| Sat 20 |
London, St John’s Downshire Hill NW3 1NU, 8.15pm. The Bach Players. Italianate sonatas in Paris by Charpentier, Couperin, Rebel etc www.ticketsource.co.uk/thebachplayers (0844 8700 887) www.thebachplayers.org.uk
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| AUGUST
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| Sun 18 |
St Albans, St. Peter’s Church (www.stpeterschurch.uk.com ). Paul Smith 40th birthday concert. A variety of mostly little known choral masterpieces from the 17th and 18th century, bracketed by Vaughan Williams' “Serenade to Music” and Purcell's “My beloved spake”, but also including a wide range of music from John Blow's majestic “God spake sometime in visions” to a Venetian madrigal about fish countertenor gmail.com
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| OCTOBER
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| Sat 5 |
Welwyn Garden City. Red Priest
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London, St John’s Downshire Hill NW3 1NU, 8.15pm. The Bach Players. Cantatas by Telemann, Graupner & JS Bach www.ticketsource.co.uk/thebachplayers (0844 8700 887) www.thebachplayers.org.uk
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Ealing Abbey. The Sixteen
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