Thames Valley Early Music Forum
Concerts
Please check details with concert organisers before turning up for a concert, as this information comes from a variety of sources which may not all be accurate.
'*' Venue information available HERE
APRIL
Mon 11 *WH 1pm and livestream. The Cardinall’s Musick. Christ on this cross: a meditation on the crucifixion
Tues 12 *WH 7pm. Dunedin Consort. Bach: St Matthew Passion
Wed 13 *WH 7.30. Stile Antico. Music for Holy Week and Easter
Fri 15 London, St James’s Piccadilly, 7pm. 6 Centuries Chamber Choir, South London Sinfonietta. Bach: St John Passion https://www.wegottickets.com/event/537654
Fri 15 *WH 6pm. Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Caldara, Hasse, Vivaldi, Scarlatti
Sat 16 *WH 7.30. Florilegium. JS Bach & Pergolesi
Mon 18 *WH 1pm. Viktoria Mullova (violin) Alasdair Beatson (fortepiano) Beethoven
Tues 19 *WH 7.30. Gabrieli Consort & Players. JS Bach, inc Easter Oratorio
Sun 24 Croydon, St Matthew's, Chichester Rd CR0 5NQ, 7.30. Michael Strange (organ), the Cambrian Ensemble - Rebecca Collen, Wendy Talbot, Liz Hart, Mary Walton (strings). Music for organ and strings including Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata 35, three preludes from Orgelbuchlein, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Buxtehude: 'Jig' Fugue in C, Handel: Concerto in Bb Op 4/6, Purcell: Suite from Abdelazer, Mozart: Epistle Sonata in C, etc. www.stmatthew.org.uk (020 8680 0655)
Mon 25 *WH 7.30. Jean Rondeau (hpschd) Bach: Goldberg Variations
Fri 29 8 pm. St Michael & All Angels, London W4 1TT. Arculo Consort of Viols, ‘Newark Siege’. Tickets (£15): https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/violncello/t-kvjlql
Sat 30 7:30 pm. St Michael & All Angels, London W4 1TT. Follia & Stanesby Players - Baroque Concertos. Tickets (£15): https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Follia-events/follia-and-stanesby-players-a-cornucopia-of-baroque-concertos/e-pyjbyb
MAY
Fri 6 Discoed. 7.30pm. 'Epitaph for a Green Lover' Music from the song books of Marguerite of Austria
concert posterWed 11 *Hatchlands 12 noon. Guildhall Cantata Ensemble
13-21 *SJSS London Festival of Baroque Music
Fri 13 *SJSS 7.30. A Venetian Coronation (pre-concert talk at 6.30)
Sat 14 Braziers Park College near Wallingford, 11am. Helen Dymond gives this year's 'Glaister Lecture' - 'The Fulfilment of Human Potential in general, and with particular reference to Handel' Courses & Events Listing | Braziers Park
Sat 14 *SJSS 11.30am. Erlend Vestby: Exploration of the Bach cello suites
Sat 14 *SJSS 7.30. London Handel Players. Barbaric Beauty
Sat 14 Teddington. Richmond Opera. Purcell: Dido & Aeneas & Bach: Magnificat in D Richmond Opera
Sun 15 Barnes. Richmond Opera. Purcell: Dido & Aeneas Richmond Opera
Sun 15 *SJSS Illyria Consort & Marian Consort. An Adriatic Voyage
Mon 16 *SJSS 1.05. The Gesualdo Six. Josquin’s Legacy – the Venetian School
Mon 16 *SJSS 7.30. Helen Charlston (mezzo) Toby Carr (theorbo) Strozzi, Monteverdi, Purcell etc
Tues 17 *SJSS 1.05. James Johnstone (organ) Buxtehude
Tues 17 *SJSS 7.30 David de Winter (tenor) & the Brook Street Band. Heinrich Schütz, a German in Venice
Wed 18 *SJSS 7.30. Southbank Sinfonia Baroque. Telemann, Muffat, Biber, Locatelli, Handel
Thurs 19 *Hatchlands 12 noon. Ashley Solomon (flute) & Steven Devine (hpschd etc) Bach family: music for flute and obbligato harpsichord
Thur 19 *SJSS 7pm. Choir of Westminster Abbey, St James’ Baroque. Monteverdi: Vespers
Fri 20 *SJSS 7.30 Joanna MacGregor (piano) Bach: Goldberg Variations
Fri 20 *SJSS 9.45pm Siglo de Oro. Lassus in Venice
Sat 21 *SJSS 7.30. Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque. Vivaldi: Four Seasons
Tues 24 7.00pm St George's Church Hanover Square, Mayfair, London, W1S 1FX. Modern-day premiere of Handel's pasticcio opera Caio Fabbricio HWV A9 with London Early Opera directed by Bridget Cunningham
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/319464726597 www.londonearlyopera.org
Thur 26 *Hatchlands 10-11.30. Alec Cobbe tur of the Cobbe Collection of composer keyboard instruments
Fri 27 London, Holy Trinity Church, Stroud Green. The Telling. The May Songs thetelling.co.uk
Fri 27 *WH 7.30. Gabrieli Consort & Players. JS Bach inc Ascension Oratorio
Tues 31 *WH 7.30. Arcangelo. Mozart & Haydn
JUNE
Mon 6 *WH 7.30. Solomon’s Knot. JC Bach & JS Bach
Wed 8 *WH 7.30. La Nuova Musica. Monteverdi madrigals
Sun 12 *WH 7.30. Fretwork. Taverner, Byrd, Purcell, Gibbons etc
Mon 13 *WH 1pm and livestream. Nevermind (flute, violin, gamba, hpschd) Jacquet de la Guerre
Sun 19 *WH 7.30. The Sixteen. Welcome Song & Coronation music for James II
Mon 20 *WH 7.30. Raffaele Pe (countertenor)La Lira di Orfeo. Monteverdi, Cima, Castello etc
Wed 22 *Hatchlands 12 noon. Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists
Wed 22 *WH 7.30. Jean Rondeau (hpschd) Thomas Dunford (lute) French baroque
Thur 23 7.30. St Mary Aldermary, London, Orlando Chamber Choir, directed by Lucy Goddard, presents “Isle of Song”, a bird's-eye view of British choral music throughout time. www.orlandochoir.org.uk/events
Fri 24 *WH 7.30. Dunedin Consort. Handel: Acis & Galatea (original Cannons version)
Sat 25 London, St George’s Bloomsbury. *Renaissance Singers concert
Thur 30 *Hatchlands 12 noon. Royal College of Music Historical Performance Faculty. 18thC English chamber music
JULY
8-16 York Early Music Festival
Mon 4 *WH 1pm live & livestream. Trio Mediaeval
Fri 8 London, Hoxton Hall, 6.30. *Spitalfields Music Festival. Aisha Orazbayeva (bar violin) Biber: complete Mystery sonatas pt 1. Pt 2 at 8.30pm
Sat 9 Stowe House, Temple of Concord & Victory. *Renaissance Singers concert
Sun 10 London, Hoxton Hall, 6.30. *Spitalfields Music Festival. Aisha Orazbayeva (bar violin) Biber: complete Mystery sonatas pt 1. Pt 2 at 8.30pm
Wed 13 London, the Great Hall, North Wing, St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1pm Ensemble Hesperi www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/city-music-foundation-2939667631
Sat 16 *WH 7.30. Mahan Esfahani (hpschd) JS Bach: Art of Fugue
Wed 20 *WH 7.30. Ensemble Marsyas. JS Bach
Fri 22 West Green House gardens, Hants, 7.15pm. Handel: Acis and Galatea performed in concert by The Sixteen for West Green House Opera www.westgreenhouseopera.co.uk
Mon 25 *WH 1pm. Mario Brunello (violoncello piccolo) JS Bach: violin sonata 1, partitas 1 & 2
Mon 25 *WH 7.30. Mario Brunello (violoncello piccolo) JS Bach: violin sonatas 2 & 3, partita 3
Mon 25 Stroud Green Festival, Finsbury Park 8pm. The Telling. Into the Melting Pot thetelling.co.uk
Tues 26 West Green House, Hants, 5pm. West Green House Opera Early Music Evening. Miriam Allan and Elizabeth Kenny perform English Lute Songs in the Theatre Lawn Pavilion followed by dinner in their beautiful Greenhouse. Finally, a concert of Purcell highlights including King Arthur and Fairy Queen in the Theatre Lawn Pavilion directed by Christopher Bucknall www.westgreenhouseopera.co.uk
AUGUST
Sun 7 London, St Mary's, Barnes. The Telling. Vision
Mon 8 Stroud Green Festival, Finsbury Park 8pm. The Telling. Vision thetelling.co.uk
SEPTEMBER
Wed 7 *Hatchlands 12 noon. Benjamin Alard (clavichord) Froberger, Fischer, Buxtehude, JS Bach, CPE Bach etc
Wed 14 *Hatchlands 12 noon. Avionam Shalev (clavichord, hpschd, piano) Bach and E W Wolf
Thur 22 *Hatchlands 12 noon. Marcia Hadjimarkos (fortepiano)
OCTOBER
Thur 13 *Hatchlands 10-11.30. Alec Cobbe tur of the Cobbe Collection of composer keyboard instruments
22 Renaissance Singers
NOVEMBER
9-12 London International Festival of Early Music
DECEMBER
Sat 3 Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire. The York Waits with Deborah Catterall
Sat 3 Berkhamsted Music Society. Ensemble Hesperi www.berkhamstedmusic.co.uk
Sat 10 Renaissance Singers
Updated 11-04-2022