Details
St George's Church
St George's Road
Kemptown
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 1ED
England
Programme
Francesco Cavalli – Musiche Sacre: No. 23 Canzon à 3
Giovanni Legrenzi – Lumi potete piangere
Tomaso Albinoni – Trio Sonata in D major, Op.3: no.7, Prelude
Giovanni Benedetto Platti – Trio Sonata in D major: Allegro
Jean-Baptiste Lully – Armide: Passacaglia
Dietrich Buxtehude – Trio Sonata in D minor, BuxWV 257
Alessandro Stradella – Sinfonia no.22 in D minor
George Frideric Handel – Cantata Spagnola: No se emendara jamas
Henry Purcell – Fairy Queen: If Love's a Sweet Passion
Honoré d'Ambruis – Le doux silence de nos bois
François Campion – J’ai juré mille fois
Henry Purcell – Ah, how sweet ‘tis to love
Performers
Bellot Ensemble
Musica d'Outrora
The Portrait Players
Rūn
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
20-minute sets from emerging early music ensembles featuring music covering 500 years. Tea and BREMF’s famous home-made cakes will be served in the interval.
Bellot Ensemble: Il Passaggio Del Tempo
Bellot Ensemble explores the development of improvisation and written passaggi/diminutions throughout the baroque period amongst Italian composers. We cover the development of instrumental music, from the Canzone, our own written diminutions of a Legrenzi aria, to the trio sonatas of Albinoni and Platti and we end with Italian-born French composer Lully and his Passacaglia from Armide.
Hannah Blumsohn oboe
Edmund Taylor violin
Tamsin Cowell cornett, recorder
Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez cello
Daniel Murphy lute, theorbo
Matthew Brown harpsichord, organ
Musica d’Outrora: Trio Sonata Unveiled – Tracing Musical Horizons
‘Trio Sonata Unveiled’ is a captivating programme that delves into the origins of the Trio Sonata genre. Featuring Buxtehude’s mesmerising Trio Sonata in D minor (BuxWV 257) and Stradella’s brilliant Sinfonia a Tre, this musical journey juxtaposes the German and Italian baroque traditions, revealing in the process the boundless artistic possibilities within a trio ensemble.
Christi Park violin
Timothy Lin cello
Pablo Devigo harpsichord
The Portrait Players: Love Armed
Whispers from within the obscurity of the forest become bold exclamations of passion throughout this programme presented by The Portrait Players. Through the eyes of 17th and 18th-century characters, we journey to new horizons in the turbulent trials of love.
Claire Ward soprano
Jonatan Bougt lute, theorbo
Miriam Nohl cello, viola da gamba
Rūn: Nuovi Madrigali – Innovative music from the last of the Middle Ages
In this programme Rūn, an ensemble focusing on early European music, will explore the innovative and touching music of 14th-century Italy – the Trecento. They trace the evolution of the madrigal, the distinctive Italian genre, along with two settings of sacred chant from either end of the century, which exemplify some of these transformations.
Daniel Thomson tenor
Daniel Scott recorders
May Robertson fiddle
Jean Kelly harp
