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A New Dawn
The Malcolm Rose Memorial Concert: Ensemble Hesperi performs early baroque gems for recorder and harpsichord.
Part of the Brighton Early Music - Autumn 2023 Festival
Add to my Calendar 14-10-2023 13:00 14-10-2023 15:00 36 A New Dawn The inaugural Malcolm Rose Memorial Concert in memory of Lewes-based harpsichord maker, supplier and tuner Malcolm Rose. Ensemble Hesperi performs early baroque gems for recorder and harpsichord including music by Byrd, Playford, Froberger and more. Mary-Jannet Leith recordersThomas Allery harpsichord As a BREMF Live! artist in 2016, Thomas often performed on a wonderful harpsichord by Malcolm, a copy of an anonymous 1667 French instrument, and this programme celebrates the freedom and passion of music from the 17th century. Leading the way into the early Italian baroque, two soaring sonatas from the Stylus Phantasticus by Castello and Pandolfi Mealli are paired with a dramatic solo keyboard toccata by little-known Venetian composer Picchi. From England, catchy variations and Scots tunes, a keyboard fantasia by William Byrd in his anniversary year, and a touch of the 20th century with Rubbra’s meditation on the French chanson Coeurs Désolés; and to celebrate the early French baroque, a painfully beautiful lament by Froberger for solo harpsichord, and a rarely heard sonata by recorder virtuoso and composer James Paisible. Brighton Friends' Meeting House, Brighton DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Brighton Friends' Meeting House
Ship Street
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 1AF
England
Programme
Dario Castello – Sonata Prima from Sonate concentrate in stil modern, libro secondo
Giovanni Picchi – Toccata (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
James Paisible – Recorder Sonata in G minor, Op.1 no.4
William Byrd – Fantasia in G
Edmund Rubbra – Meditazioni Sopra Coeurs Désolés for Recorder and Harpsichord, Op. 67
Henry Playford – A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes: Peggy's the Prettiest; My Lady Hope's Scotch Measure
John Banister – The Division Flute: A Division on a Ground
Johann Jacob Froberger – Lamento sopra la dolorosa perdita della Real Maestà di Ferdinando IV Rè de Romani
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli – Violin Sonata in D major 'La Castella', Op.3 no.4
Performers
Ensemble Hesperi
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Programme Note
The inaugural Malcolm Rose Memorial Concert in memory of Lewes-based harpsichord maker, supplier and tuner Malcolm Rose. Ensemble Hesperi performs early baroque gems for recorder and harpsichord including music by Byrd, Playford, Froberger and more.
Mary-Jannet Leith recorders
Thomas Allery harpsichord
As a BREMF Live! artist in 2016, Thomas often performed on a wonderful harpsichord by Malcolm, a copy of an anonymous 1667 French instrument, and this programme celebrates the freedom and passion of music from the 17th century.
Leading the way into the early Italian baroque, two soaring sonatas from the Stylus Phantasticus by Castello and Pandolfi Mealli are paired with a dramatic solo keyboard toccata by little-known Venetian composer Picchi. From England, catchy variations and Scots tunes, a keyboard fantasia by William Byrd in his anniversary year, and a touch of the 20th century with Rubbra’s meditation on the French chanson Coeurs Désolés; and to celebrate the early French baroque, a painfully beautiful lament by Froberger for solo harpsichord, and a rarely heard sonata by recorder virtuoso and composer James Paisible.
