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
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Wed 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