Bristol Ensemble – Notes for Women at St George's Bristol, Bristol on Saturday 28th April 2018

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Bristol Ensemble – Notes for Women

Part of the St George's Bristol Spring / Summer 2018 Season

Add to my Calendar 28-04-2018 19:30 28-04-2018 21:30 36 Bristol Ensemble – Notes for Women Marking the centenary of women being granted the vote in Britain, the Bristol Ensemble is staging Notes For Women, a year-long celebration of music by women composers. This concert, the first of a series of three in collaboration with St George’s Bristol, illustrates the history of women composers before 1800 with a selection of works from the medieval to Baroque periods. The women of the Choir of Royal Holloway perform music by the medieval German Benedictine abbess, composer and mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The professional orchestra is joined by the soprano Mariana Flores to perform exquisite songs by Barbara Strozzi, the most prolific composer – man or woman – of printed secular vocal music in Venice in the middle of the 17th century. Natalia Lomeiko performs the Third Violin Concerto by the Venetian-born composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Sirmen’s, a pupil of Tartini who became a celebrity soloist of the day. bristolensemble.com / @bristolensemblechapelchoir.co.uk / @RHULChapelChoir ‘The Royal Holloway Choir is adept and musical and…can pull off splendid performances’ BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Special Offer All tickets half price for Students/U18s St George's Bristol, Bristol DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England

Saturday 28th April 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Hildegard of Bingen – O Vis Aeternitatis (Responsorium)
Hildegard of Bingen – Ave Maria, O Auctrix Vite (Responsorium)
Maddalena Laura Sirmen – Violin Concerto in A major, Op.3 no.3
Isabella Leonarda – Sonate duodecima
Francesca Caccini – Ciaconna
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre – Cembalo Suite no.1 in D minor: Prelude
Barbara Strozzi – Lagrime mie
Barbara Strozzi – Begli Occhi
Barbara Strozzi – Sino alla morte
Barbara Strozzi – Arie, Op.8: 'Che si puo fare'

Performers

Rupert Gough – Conductor
Mariana Flores – soprano
Natalia Lomeiko – violin
Roger Huckle – Director

Bristol Ensemble
Women of the Choir of Royal Holloway

Programme Note

Marking the centenary of women being granted the vote in Britain, the Bristol Ensemble is staging Notes For Women, a year-long celebration of music by women composers. This concert, the first of a series of three in collaboration with St George’s Bristol, illustrates the history of women composers before 1800 with a selection of works from the medieval to Baroque periods. The women of the Choir of Royal Holloway perform music by the medieval German Benedictine abbess, composer and mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The professional orchestra is joined by the soprano Mariana Flores to perform exquisite songs by Barbara Strozzi, the most prolific composer – man or woman – of printed secular vocal music in Venice in the middle of the 17th century. Natalia Lomeiko performs the Third Violin Concerto by the Venetian-born composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Sirmen’s, a pupil of Tartini who became a celebrity soloist of the day.

bristolensemble.com / @bristolensemble
chapelchoir.co.uk / @RHULChapelChoir

‘The Royal Holloway Choir is adept and musical and…can pull off splendid performances’ BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

Special Offer

All tickets half price for Students/U18s

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