Music for Awhile Candlelit Concert at Stapleford Granary: Purcell Bach and Handel Christmas Programme at Stapleford Granary, Stapleford on Monday 12th December 2022

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Music for Awhile Candlelit Concert at Stapleford Granary

Purcell Bach and Handel Christmas Programme

Add to my Calendar 12-12-2022 19:45 12-12-2022 21:45 36 Music for Awhile Candlelit Concert at Stapleford Granary Artistic Director of Music for Awhile, violinist Margaret Faultless is a leader of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and for ten years was the leader of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. She is Director of Performance at the Faculty of Music in Cambridge and Head of Historical Performance at The Royal Academy of Music. She and Simon Whistler co-founded Music for Awhile in 1996 as a collective of Europe’s most established early music performers, inspiring audiences with repertoire from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries using the instruments of the time. They are renowned for their adventurous programming, with a special flair for tailoring adaptations of large-scale works for intimate venues.   Tonight's concert is one such programme. It opens with two pieces by Purcell - a pioneering early concert work for trumpet and a thrilling set of variations - and features arias from Bach's much-loved exploration of the Christmas story. A generous selection of pieces from Handel's perennial favourite The Messiah brings this glorious programme of festive music to a close.  Stapleford Granary, Stapleford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Stapleford Granary
Bury Road
Stapleford
Cambridgeshire
CB22 5BP
England

Monday 12th December 2022
7:45 PM

Programme

Henry Purcell – Trumpet Sonata in D major, Z.850
Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio: Selections
George Frideric Handel – Messiah: highlights
Henry Purcell – Fantasy 'Three parts upon a ground', Z.731

Performers

Judy Louie Brown – mezzo-soprano
Malachy Frame – baritone
David Blackadder – trumpet
Margaret Faultless – violin / director
Rachel Stroud – violin
Andrew Skidmore – Cello
Ann Curzon – violin / viola

Programme Note

Artistic Director of Music for Awhile, violinist Margaret Faultless is a leader of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and for ten years was the leader of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. She is Director of Performance at the Faculty of Music in Cambridge and Head of Historical Performance at The Royal Academy of Music. She and Simon Whistler co-founded Music for Awhile in 1996 as a collective of Europe’s most established early music performers, inspiring audiences with repertoire from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries using the instruments of the time. They are renowned for their adventurous programming, with a special flair for tailoring adaptations of large-scale works for intimate venues.

Tonight's concert is one such programme. It opens with two pieces by Purcell - a pioneering early concert work for trumpet and a thrilling set of variations - and features arias from Bach's much-loved exploration of the Christmas story. A generous selection of pieces from Handel's perennial favourite The Messiah brings this glorious programme of festive music to a close.

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