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CHORAL AT CADOGAN: SACRED VOCAL MUSIC OF THE RENAISSANCE
30/10/2008
Three of the finest vocal ensembles in the UK bring to Cadogan Hall the music for which they have become internationally renowned. |
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5 STAR : MUSIQUE POUR MAZARIN!
29/10/2008
Le Jardin Secret is a young ensemble that won both first prize and the audience prize in the 2007 Early Music Network International Young Artists’ Competition in York, UK. It’s easy to hear why; there’s a real vibrancy and freshness to these performances that compels one to hit the ‘repeat’ button for virtually every track.
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ARDEE BAROQUE
27/10/2008
14 to 16 November 2008.
Now in its fifth year, Ardee Baroque is still one of the most attractive festivals, both for the music and its beautiful locations in the county of Louth, lying approximately 70 km north of Dublin. The medieval castles and churches surrounding the historic city of Ardee will serve as concert halls during an intense weekend of baroque music. |
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LONDON BACH SOCIETY’S BACHFEST: 2-18 NOVEMBER 2008
27/10/2008
London Bach Society has supported its orchestra since 1968 and the 40th anniversary of Steinitz Bach Players is celebrated at the LBS 18th Bachfest, which begins at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall on Sunday 2 November at 7.30pm in a magnificent programme of Bach’s Weimar cantatas directed by Anthony Robson entitled “JSB at Heaven’s Castle” with soloists Gillian Keith, Michael Chance, Nathan Vale and Peter Harvey. Tickets are £25, £22, £18, and £12.
Online booking:
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk |
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GENEVIÈVE SOLY’S NEW GRAUPNER CD NOW ON SALE
24/10/2008
An exceptional canadian musician, Geneviève Soly, harpsichordist, musicologist, and founder of Les Idées heureuses, delves yet deeper into the undiscovered treasures of composer Christoph Graupner (1683–1760). This is the seventh volume of Partitas for Harpsichord as well as the tenth recording of Soly’s groundbreaking Graupner series for Analekta.
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LES CONCERTS BACH DE LUTRY
23/10/2008
26 October 2008 to 26 April 2009.
Since the first Bach concert was performed at Lutry Church in 1957, the association known as Les Concerts Bach de Lutry has worked to promote awareness of the work of Bach through a concert series that extends throughout the season and also features lectures by specialists. |
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FLORILEGIUM PRESENT THREE PERFORMANCES OF THE MUSICAL OFFERING 27-31 OCTOBER
22/10/2008
Florilegium’s Wigmore Hall concert season starts on Monday 27 October with a performance of JS Bach’s The Musical Offering. This concert will be repeated on Thursday 30 October (Nottingham) and Friday 31 October (Southampton). |
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5 STAR : LES MUSIQUES DE LA COUR DE SAVOIE
20/10/2008
Although an impossible task, this beautifully presented disc attempts to survey the music of the 15th-century court of the Dukes of Savoy, who were lavish patrons of the arts, especially music. Duke Amadeus VIII is remembered for his election as the antipope Felix V in 1439, but he also brought Guillaume Dufay to Savoy. Dufay’s Par le regard de vos beaux yeux is performed, as are several works in the programme, by the excellent countertenor Christophe Carré, and gothic harpist, Marie Bournisien. |
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FESTIVAL MEDIEVAL D'ELX
14/10/2008
24 October to 2 November 2008.
The city of Elche will play host to the 13th Festival Medieval d´Elx from 24 October to 2 November, which focusing on women during the Middle Ages this years coincides with the extraordinary performance of the Misteri d´Elx (Elx Mystery Play), part of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity since the year 2001 and staged on 1 November every even year. |
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EX CATHEDRA OFFERS GROUNDBREAKING PERFORMANCES IN A SEASON WHICH OPENS WITH THE ORIGINAL 1846 VERSION OF ELIJAH...
13/10/2008
Ex Cathedra’s 2008/09 season gets underway this month. It launches with the first complete recreation of the original 1846 version of Mendelssohn’s Elijah in collaboration with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Birmingham’s Town Hall. The season also offers: Lassus’ St Matthew Passion as a context for Ex Cathedra’s performance of Bach’s setting on Good Friday at Symphony Hall; a programme of Monteverdi’s madrigals alongside the Coppini sacred contrafacta; and a midsummer celebration of Handel and Purcell. |
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