Tracing the influence of the Italian style on French music of the 17th century, this programme includes Giacomo Carissimi’s poignant early oratorio, Jephte, along with choral, solo vocal ensemble, and orchestral works by  Charpentier and Lully. Featuring vocal soloists selected as part of the BREMF Live young artist programme.

Sumei Bao-Smith, Emilia Bertolini & Emily Brown Gibson sopranos
Sophie Timms mezzo-soprano
Bradyn Debysingh tenor
Andrew Robinson baritone

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BREMF Players
Alison Bury leader

Baroque Collective Singers
John Hancorn director

Programme

Giovanni Gabrieli
c.1554/1557-1612Sonata No 21 for 3 violins

Giacomo Carissimi
1605-1674Jephte

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1643-1704O Clementissime

Jean-Baptiste Lully
1632-1687Anima Christi

LullySuite from Armide

LullySalve Regina

CharpentierMagnificat

For the first time London’s leading art & antiques fair, LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair, which returns to its iconic Mayfair location between Wednesday, 23- Sunday, 27th October (preview on the 22nd), will be offering visitors the opportunity to experience the LAPADA Fringe. Handel Hendrix House is thrilled to be presenting a tour and recital as part of the LAPADA Fringe this October. Enjoy a complimentary drink during your visit.

In Handel’s day, the finest and most famous musicians rehearsed for his operas in his dining room in Brook Street. Experience the vibrancy and intimacy of live music in this space as musicians perform music by Handel and his contemporaries. Satoko Doi-Luck and Alice Earll will be joining us for an intimate performance in the Dining room on our 18th century harpsichord.

Tickets: https://tickets.handelhendrix.org/#event_45

Telemann and his friends in Paris

In 1737, Telemann visited Paris at the invitation of some of the greatest musicians in France: the flautist Michel Blavet, violinist Jean-Pierre Guignon, and gambist Jean-Baptiste Forqueray. To celebrate his visit, Telemann's twelve sets of “Paris Quartets” were performed by these musicians and Telemann himself, making friends and making music. Join us for a celebration of this gathering, as recounted by Ensemble Molière.

Georgia Browne - flute
Alice Earll - violin
Kate Conway - viola da gamba
Satoko Doi-Luck - harpsichord

Source: https://www.turnersims.co.uk/events/ensemble-moliere-telemann-his-friends-in-paris/

Telemann and his friends in Paris

In 1737, Telemann visited Paris at the invitation of some of the greatest musicians in France: the flautist Michel Blavet, violinist Jean-Pierre Guignon, and gambist Jean-Baptiste Forqueray. To celebrate his visit, Telemann's twelve sets of “Paris Quartets” were performed by these musicians and Telemann himself, making friends and making music. Join us for a celebration of this gathering, as recounted by Ensemble Molière.

Georgia Browne - flute
Alice Earll - violin
Kate Conway - viola da gamba
Satoko Doi-Luck - harpsichord

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Alice and Satoko will be returning to St Mary’s, Dymock for their 9th year with a programme that promises to transport you to 18th Century France! They will be performing on period instruments and have selected a dazzling array of music you may never have heard of, but guarantee you’ll be tapping your toes to by the end of the evening! Drinks and nibbles will be provided at the interval.

Tickets available online via Eventbrite.

Parking available in the field opposite the pub - The Beauchamp Arms.

Acclaimed local violinist Alice Earll and historical keyboard specialist Satoko Doi-Luck return to present a musical travelogue, with works by Bach, Handel and Corelli. Journey through 18th century Europe in an evening of drinks, discussion and live music played on historical instruments. Alice and Satoko are featured BBC3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble artists.

Saturday 3rd June 2023 

Kempley Village Hall, GL18 2BP 

Doors open 7pm, Concert at 7.30pm

Tickets £15 (10 yrs & under free). Available from: Louise 07891 254372, Louise.earll@gmail.com or on the door.

Acclaimed local violinist Alice Earll and historical keyboard specialist Satoko Doi-Luck return to present a musical travelogue, with works by Bach, Handel and Corelli. Journey through 18th century Europe in an evening of drinks, discussion and live music played on historical instruments. Alice and Satoko are featured BBC3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble artists.

Friday 2nd June 2023

Linton Village Hall, HR9 7RX

Doors open 7pm, Concert at 7.30pm

Tickets £15 (10 yrs & under free).
Available from: LVH@LintonVillage.com or on the door.

Durham Cathedral Choir joins forces with period instrument performers The Avison Ensemble to perform Bach's stunning St John Passion. This unmissable concert will be conducted by Daniel Cook, Master of the Choristers and Organist at Durham Cathedral, with internationally renowned violinist Pavlo Beznosiuk leading the orchestra.

Handel 'Messiah' 

Director Peter Whelan | Soloists Hilary Cronin, Helen Charlston, Mark Chambers, Anthony Gregory, Frederick Long & Edward Grint

In partnership with the Wigmore Hall and Culture Ireland 

The Irish Baroque Orchestra makes its Wigmore Hall debut with Handel’s ‘Messiah; the Dublin premiére of which was a defining moment in Ireland’s cultural history. With step-out solos taken by members of a specially-assembled lineup of stellar singers, this is sure to be a rendering of Messiah unlike any other. 

April 2 Wigmore Hall, London, 7pm | Accessibility Info

Wimbledon Choral, Florilegium and international soloists perform J. S. Bach's masterpiece under the baton of the choir’s Music Director, Neil Ferris.

St. John Passion is the older of the surviving passions by J. S. Bach. It is one of the great Passions, epitomising most music-lovers idea of passion music. This is the second concert of Wimbledon Chorale’s Triptych of Passions.

The concluding concert of the series will take place in Southwark Cathedral on 17 June 2023. Anna Pickard in the Times stated, following our concert in the Royal Festival Hall, that “ Wimbledon Choral…made a lovely sound – clean, clear and bright.”

Florilegium is one of Britain’s most outstanding period instrument groups specialising in music from the 17th and 18th centuries. 

How to Book

Tickets are availble via the Wimbledon Choral website.

A programme that celebrates and explores the coming together of French and Italian musical styles as pioneered by François Couperin and developed by Georg Philipp Telemann. The réunion des goûts was an idea promoted by Couperin in his masterpiece L’Apothéose de Lully published in 1725 and further explored a year later in Les Nations, a four part composition dedicated to the illustration and integration of these national styles. Perhaps with a nod to Couperin, Georg Telemann capitalised on this musical trend with the publication of his ‘Paris’ Quartets. This second set of suites, published in 1738, is more a continuation of the réunion des goûts, despite the French titles and forms.

Ensemble Molière is delighted to perform at the Royal College of Music as part of the New Generation Baroque Ensemble scheme run by BBC Radio 3, NCEM and RCM.

A programme that celebrates and explores the coming together of French and Italian musical styles as pioneered by François Couperin and developed by Georg Philipp Telemann. The réunion des goûts was an idea promoted by Couperin in his masterpiece L’Apothéose de Lully published in 1725 and further explored a year later in Les Nations, a four part composition dedicated to the illustration and integration of these national styles. Perhaps with a nod to Couperin, Georg Telemann capitalised on this musical trend with the publication of his ‘Paris’ Quartets. This second set of suites, published in 1738, is more a continuation of the réunion des goûts, despite the French titles and forms.

Book by email to boasb1@outlook.com or phone 020 7436 0344
Prince for concert: £20 with just pre-concert drink, £35 with drinks & canapés after
Please specify when booking which option you want.

Concert starts at 7:30pm with drinks from 7pm

A programme that celebrates and explores the coming together of French and Italian musical styles as pioneered by François Couperin and developed by Georg Philipp Telemann. The réunion des goûts was an idea promoted by Couperin in his masterpiece L’Apothéose de Lully published in 1725 and further explored a year later in Les Nations, a four part composition dedicated to the illustration and integration of these national styles. Perhaps with a nod to Couperin, Georg Telemann capitalised on this musical trend with the publication of his ‘Paris’ Quartets. This second set of suites, published in 1738, is more a continuation of the réunion des goûts, despite the French titles and forms.

Join Brighton Early Music for a festive performance of Heinrich Schütz The Christmas Story, and seasonal polychoral motets by Schütz, Gabrieli, Praetorius and Mouton. With mulled wine, fizz and mince pies!

Click here for BREMF 2021 Autumn/Winter booking information including our COVID-19 precautions.

Katy Hill soprano
Luthien Brackett mezzo-soprano
Kieran White, Robin Datta and Dominic Wallis tenors
Andrew Robinson baritone
Stuart O’Hara bass-baritone

BREMF Consort of Voices
Deborah Roberts director
soloists Natasha Stone mezzo-soprano; Maria McGuinnessalto; James Elias baritone

BREMF Singers
John Hancorn director

BREMF Community Choir
Andrew Robinson director
with Leah Stuttard harp

BREMF Players
Alison Bury leader
Claire Williams organ

The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble

Themes of comfort, hope and joy run through this epic work; one of Handel's most popular which famously received its première in Dublin in 1742. For these performances the IBO partners with Chamber Choir Ireland to tell this wonderful story, under the direction of Peter Whelan.

​Music of love and loss in the Bach family with Northern Irish vocal ensemble Sestina and guest violinist Rachel Podger at the Cheltenham Music Festival.

More information and tickets can be found here.

​Music of love and loss in the Bach family with Northern Irish vocal ensemble Sestina and guest violinist Rachel Podger at the Purbeck Arts Festival.

More information and tickets can be found here.

Directed by Alfredo Bernadini

Music by Geminiani, Telemann, Fux & Zelenka

Supported by the Italian Institute of Culture, Dublin

€25/€20 (€5 students) | St Ann’s, Dawson St, Dublin

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Congregate for Bach’s grand drama of worship, with the Bach Choir’s annual English-language performance.

James Gilchrist sings the Evangelist and the choir is joined by the period instrument ensemble Florilegium on this Passion Sunday.

Mark the occasion with this much anticipated fixture in London’s musical calendar.

Performers

Florilegium 
David Hill conductor
Ed Lyon tenor, Evangelist *
Mark Stone baritone, Christ
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Christopher Ainslie counter-tenor
Nicky Spence tenor
Neal Davies bass
The Bach Choir 

Repertoire

JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
-: (complete, performed in English)

Fernando HWV 30

Under the title Fernando, Re di Castiglia Handel began to set to music a story about a power struggle between the Portuguese King Dionisio and
his son Alfonso. However, the portrayal of a father-son conflict in the ruling house with parallels to the English situation at the time was probably the reason why Handel wisely relocated the plot to an innocuous eastern milieu and changed the names of almost all of the characters, completing the work as Sosarme, Re di Media. The remaining fragment Fernando, Re di Castiglia has never been performed in its entirety on the basis of the music sources, and we are pleased to present its premiere in London in collaboration with the Halle Handel Festival, using a new critical edition.

Opera Settecento return to the London Handel Festival following a highly successful run of Handel’s pasticcio operas with a talented cast featuring former Handel Singing Competition prizewinners.

Fernando Elvida Dionisio Isabella Sancio Altomaro Alfonso

Owen Willetts countertenor 

Raphaela Papadakis soprano 

Jorge Navarro Colorado tenor 

Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano 

Jess Dandy contralto

David Greco baritone

Hamish McLaren countertenor

Leo Duarte director

Orchestra of Opera Settecento

Tickets: £45, £40, £35, £15, £12 reserved seating Price Category B

In collaboration with the Halle Handel Festival

Morgan Balfour soprano

2019 winner of Handel Aria Competition

Arias from Rodelinda HWV 19
Allegro in C minor HWV 408
Arias from Saul HWV 63
Larghetto – Allegro from Sonata in G minor HWV 364b Arrival of the Queen of Sheba & Arias from Solomon HWV 67 Da tempeste il legno infranto Giulio Cesare HWV 17

Ensemble Molière

Alice Earll violin

Kate Conway viola da gamba 

Satoko Doi-Luck harpsichord

Acclaimed local violinist Alice Earll and historical keyboard specialist Satoko Doi-Luck are back at Kempley Village Hall and will perform music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Hear how the instruments, music and technology developed over this period, all set to a wonderful soundtrack of Palestrina, Corelli, Handel and Mozart. The evening promises to offer an engaging combination of discussion and beautiful music all to be enjoyed with a drink in hand!

Tickets are £12 (free for under 11’s) and are available now from Louise Earll at louise.earll@gmail.com or via the village hall website.

Acclaimed local violinist Alice Earll and historical keyboard specialist Satoko Doi-Luck are back at Linton Village Hall and will perform music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Hear how the instruments, music and technology developed over this period, all set to a wonderful soundtrack of Palestrina, Corelli, Handel and Mozart. The evening promises to offer an engaging combination of discussion and beautiful music all to be enjoyed with a drink in hand!

Tickets £12 and are available now from LVH@lintonvillage.com.

Vivaldi Concerto from Trio Sonata in C major, RV82 

Vivaldi Concerto for Lute in D, RV93 

J. S. Bach Orchestral Suite, BWV 1067 

J. S. Bach Suite in g minor, BWV 995 

Buxtehude Trio Sonata, BuxWV 255 

Thomas Dunford Director/ Lute

Tickets: £15 - £35 plus booking fee. Book Tickets Online Here.

Vivaldi Concerto from Trio Sonata in C major, RV82 

Vivaldi Concerto for Lute in D, RV93 

J. S. Bach Orchestral Suite, BWV 1067 

J. S. Bach Suite in g minor, BWV 995 

Buxtehude Trio Sonata, BuxWV 255 

Thomas Dunford Director/ Lute

Tickets: £15 - £35 plus booking fee. Book Tickets Online Here.

​Music of love and loss in the Bach family with Northern Irish vocal ensemble Sestina and guest violinist Rachel Podger.

More information and tickets can be found here.

Ensemble Molière present Seductive Saboteur - a programme of music exploring the tempestuous relationship between the royal courts of France and England in the 17th Century.

Performers: Alice Earll, Kate Conway and Satoko Doi-Luck

For more information please click here.

Durham Cathedral Choir
The Avison Ensemble

Conducted by Daniel Cook, Master of the Choristers and Organist of Durham CathedralWe are delighted to be performing Handel's famous oratorio with the Choir of Durham Cathedral in the stunning surroundings of Durham Cathedral and under the direction of Daniel Cook, Master of the Choristers and Organist at Durham Cathedral.

Handel composed his Messiah in 1741 and continued to work on it after its initial performance, finally arriving at the version we know today in 1754. Impressive solo arias, including 'Ev'ry valley shall be exalted' and 'Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion' are interspersed with compelling choral sections telling the story of Jesus' birth, life, death, resurrection, and final victory over sin and death. And of course the rousing 'Hallelujah' Chorus is one of the most famous pieces of Baroque choral music, and by far the most widely-known section of Messiah.

Join us for a wonderful festive performance of Handel's ever-popular Messiah and enjoy this wonderfully upliftling music in the run-up to Christmas and in the splendour of Durham Cathedral.