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Items are taken from Early Music News, Thames Valley Early Music Forum, and from viol consorts themselves, with thanks.
You are strongly advised to check on concert dates, times etc with the organisers!
 
July 2009
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11 July (Saturday)
Cheltenham Festival
FRETWORK, 'Birds on Fire', Jewish music for viols
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14 July (Tuesday)
Wigmore Hall
CONCORDIA with Sophie Daneman, James Gilchrist and Roderick Williams.
'The Wild Musician Sings' - including Cantatas,
Sonatas and an Ode to Saint Cecilia. Purcell brings his
uniquely English voice to these Italianate forms.
Box office 020 7935 2141
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14 July (Tuesday)
York Early Music Festival
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols.
'Alpha & Omega': the first and last English viol consorts, from the early Tudors to Purcell. The incomparable fantazias by Henry Purcell
stand at the end of a remarkably rich line of English consort music. Here a selection of Purcell's pieces in 3, 4 and 5 parts is
contrasted with music by his Tudor precursors Lloyd, Bevin, Parsley and Byrd, mostly using intriguing and cunning compositional devices.
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15 July (Wednesday, 22:00-23:00)
All Saints Church, North Street York, Concert by Candlelight - York Early Music Festival
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS with Evelyn Tubb (soprano)
Tallis is Dead, and Music Dies.
William Byrd commemorated several of his friends, patrons and other personalities at the Elizabethan court in heartfelt elegies for
solo voice with the plangent accompaniment of viols. Consort music by Tallis and dances by Holborne provide a backdrop for Byrd's
elegies for Lady Magdalene Montague, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir Philip Sidney and his Chapel Royal colleague Tallis.
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27 July (20:15)
Dartington, Totnes (Dartington Summer School)
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland with Emma Kirkby soprano, David Miller lute and surprise guests.
'From Teares to Turnips'
A sweep across London's varied musical scene four hundred years ago, with songs and instrumental dances and fantasias by Byrd, Brade and Coprario,
ranging from the darkest melancholy of Dowland to the street scenes of Gibbons' 'Cries of London'
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August 2009
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08 August (14:30)
St Francis Xavier Church, Hereford
FRETWORK with Clare Wilkinson.
Music for a while - celebrating the genius of Purcell
John Joubert, The Fellowship of the Streched String Op. 165 (commissioned by Fretwork for the 350th anniversary of the birth of Purcell)
2009 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford. |
November 2009
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01 November
The Old Market, Hove, Sussex
FRETWORK. 'Birds on Fire': Jewish Music for Viols
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13 November (13:00)
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
PHANTASM Complete Purcell Consort Music
Lunchtime Concert -Works for three, four, five, six and seven viols as part of Phantasm's residency at the University of Oxford and sponsored by the Faculty of Music.
A workshop on Compositional artifice in Purcell\'s Consort Music will follow at 4pm
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25 November
King's College, Cambridge
FRETWORK. Concert with Michael Chance and Nicholas Daniel.
Premier of new work by Alexander Goehr and music by Sir John Tavener, John Woolrich, Orlando Gibbons, Sally Beamish and Purcell.
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December 2009
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06 December
St John's, Smith Square, London
FRETWORK. Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri with The Purcell Quartet, Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels & Peter Harvey.
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June 2010 (!)
Last months' concerts
June 2009
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26 June
Stour Festival, UK
FRETWORK. Purcell fantasias & songs with Clare Wilkinson
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