EVENTS

2008

 

March

Saturday 15th, 7pm

J.S.Bach, St. Matthew Passion

The Dunedin Consort and Players,

dir. John Butt

Queen's Hall,

Edinburgh, Scotland

(Tickets £15 (£12), £12 (£9), £9 (£7) Box Office 0131-668 2019)


Wednesday 19th, 7.30pm

J.S.Bach, St. John Passion

Susan Hamilton, soprano
Nicholas Mulroy (Evangelist)
Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Christus)

St. Mary's Music Schooland the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral

The Dunedin Consort and Players

John Butt, Director

St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral,

Palmerston Place,

Edinburgh, Scotland
Tickets (unreserved) £9; concessions £6; schoolchildren £3 available in person or by post from

St Mary’s Music School, Coates Hall, 25 Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 5EL

(cheque payable to St Mary’s Music School) by telephone, using credit/debit card 0131-538 7766 and,

subject to availability, at the door on the night from 6.45pm.

 

April

Saturday 12th, 7.30pm

J.S.Bach Magnificat in D, BWV 243

J.S.Bach Mass in G, BWV 236

J.S.Bach Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11

J.S.Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3

Exeter Bach Society,

dir. Christopher Parrish

St. David's Church,

Exeter, UK

exeterbachsociety.org

 

May

Saturday 10th, 7pm

Glück, Orfeo

Coventry Philarmonic Choir, The Musical & Amicable Society

dir. Steven Russell

Methodist Central Hall,

Coventry, UK

www.covphilchoir.org

 

Monday 26th, 6pm

"A Portrait of William Boyce"

The Worcester Overture (Symphony no. 8 in D minor, 1760) 

'O be joyful in God'

David’s Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (1744)  

with Philippa Hyde (soprano), Patrick McCarthy (tenor)  

Psalmody,

Essex Baroque Orchestra,

dir. Peter Holman           

St Mary's Church,

Hadleigh, Suffolk, UK

Suffolk Villages Festival

 

June

Sunday 15th, 6.30pm

Handel Israel in Egypt

(including a long interval for picnics!)

The Thomas Tallis Society

dir. Stephen Dagg

St. Alfege Church,

Greenwich, London, UK

Thomas Tallis Society

 

Wednesday 18th, 7pm

Purcell/Britten: Three Odes for St. Caecilia

(part of the Aldeburgh Festival)

Counter-tenor: Timothy Travers-Brown

Tenor: Richard Butler and Jeremy Budd

Bass: Benjamin Davies

The Gabrieli Consort and Players

dir. Paul McCreesh

Snape Maltings Concert Hall,

Snape, UK

Aldeburgh Festival

 

July

Sunday 6th, 8pm

Monteverdi Maria Vespers

Soprano: Berit Nordbakken Solset and Anne Mette Balling
Alto: Timothy Travers Brown and Ebba Ryth
Tenor: Nicholas Mulroy and Johan Linderoth
Baritone: Lars Johansson and Daniel Åberg
Bass: Bengt Eklund and Steffen Bruun

Ensemble Alta Punta
Barokksolistene.

dir.Bjarte Eike

Larvik, Norway

Larvik Baroque Festival

 

Sunday 13th July, 3pm

Purcell/Britten: Three Odes for St. Caecilia

Counter-tenor: Timothy Travers-Brown

Tenor: Richard Butler and Jeremy Budd

Bass: Benjamin Davies

The Gabrieli Consort and Players

dir. Paul McCreesh

Brinkburn Priory,

Northumberland, UK

Brinkburn Music Festival

 

Saturday 19th July, 7.30pm

G.F.Handel Messiah

The Choir and Orchestra of St Albans Cathedral

dir. Andrew Lucas

St. Albans Cathedral,

St Albans, UK

www.stalbanscathedral.org

 

Wednesday 30th, 7.30pm

'Glories and Majesty revealed'
Music from the seventeenth century Stuart Catholic Chapels Royal
Matthew Locke - Audi Domine, Jesu auctor clementie
Giovanni Sebenico - Laudate dominum
Innocenzo Fede - Laudate pueri dominum
Antoine Selosse - Toccatas for organ
Gottfried Finger - Sonata No.10

CAPELLA FEDE

dir. Peter Leech,

St Francis Xavier Church,

Liverpool, UK

St Francis Xavier's Church

Capital of Culture Exhibition

 

August

Friday 8th, 5pm

G.F.Handel Theodora (Didymus)

Theodora   Emma Kirkby

Septimius  Richard Edgar-Wilson

Irene         Anna Stephany

Didymus    Timothy Travers-Brown

Dartington Baroque Orchestra

Dartington Festival Chorus

dir. Robert Hollingworth

Dartington International Summer School

 

September

Friday 5th, 7pm

Purcell/Britten: Three Odes for St. Caecilia

Counter-tenor: Timothy Travers-Brown

Tenor: Richard Butler and Jeremy Budd

Bass: Benjamin Davies

The Gabrieli Consort and Players

dir. Paul McCreesh

St. Elizabeth Church,

Wroclaw,

Poland

 

November

Saturday 8th, 7.30pm

G.F.Handel Ode on the Birthday of Queen Anne

H.Purcell My Heart is Inditing, God spake sometime in visions

Bristol Bach Choir

dir. Peter Leech

St. George's Cathedral

Bristol, UK

 

Saturday 15th, 7.30pm

Purcell 'Birthday Ode for Queen Mary' 1694 - Come ye Sons of Art

Purcell 'Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 1683 - Welcome to all the pleasures

Handel Dettingham Te Deum

Hertford Choral Society

London Pro Arte Orchestra

All Saints' Church

Hertford, UK