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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 2008
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15 July (Tuesday, 19:30)
St Cuthbert's Church, 50 Philbeach Gardens, London SW5 9EB
EARLS COURT BAROQUE. . ak Ozmo, Director, archlute, baroque guitar; Esther Levin, soprano; Bojan Cicic,
baroque violin; Lucy Hunt, baroque violin; Claire Bracher, viola da gamba; Manuel Minguillón, theorbo,
baroque guitar; 'A Venetian Entertainment in London', Vivaldi, Cervetto, Galliard, Merula, Marini, Ucellini,
Monteverdi.
Tickets: £10. Earls Court Festival, (0207 370 0015).
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15 July (Tuesday, 20:00)
Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
CHARIVARI AGRÉABLE - Isobel Collyer (reader and soprano, Layil Barr (recorder and viol), Kah-Ming Ng (virginals).
The Fayrest Quene: The life and times of Queen Elizabeth I revealed through the Sonnets of William Shakespeare,
featuring Elizabeth's Tilbury speech, songs and dances by Byrd, Dowland, Gibbons, Philips.
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15 July (Tuesday, 19:30)
Wigmore
Hall, London
CONCORDIA
with Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Dowland: Lachrimae, and music by Byrd, Bryars, Williams and Tavener
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18 July (Friday, 13:10)
St Anne and St Agnus Church, Gresham Street (near St Paul's Cathedral).
TRIPTYCH (Eva Caballero, Claire Williams and Alison Kinder).
Boismortier, Locatelli, J S Bach - Sonata I in G major for Gamba and Harpsichord BWV 1027.
Free lunchtime concert.
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20 July (Sunday 19:30)
Grosvenor
Chapel, 24 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London
W1K 2PA.
THE
MARESIENNE CONSORT, Huw Daniel (violin) Graham O’Sullivan
(flute) Bridget Cunningham (hpschd) Ibi Aziz (gamba),
Clare Wilkinson (mezzo). Telemann cantatas & Paris
Quartets.
Tickets: £12.00/£10.00 conc.
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24 July (Thursday 13:05)
St Mary-le-Bow, London EC2V 6AU
Ibi Aziz (viola da gamba) with Masumi Yamamoto (harpsichord)
J S Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba.
Free entry.
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29 July (Tuesday, 17:00)
Dartington International Summer School, Great Hall, Dartington.
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Sweet Delightful Ayres and Sublime Discourses'
Fancies, In Nomines and dance music by the last great English consort composers, commended by Thomas Mace in Musick's Monument of 1676,
including John Ward, John Jenkins and William Lawes, as well as the incomparable Henry Purcell.
Tel: 01803 847077.
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29 July (Tuesday, 20:00)
Exeter College Chapel, Oxford.
CHARIVARI
AGRÉABLE - Isobel Collyer (reader and soprano,
Layil Barr (recorder and viol), Kah-Ming Ng (virginals).
The Fayrest Quene: The life and times of Queen Elizabeth
I revealed through the Sonnets of William Shakespeare,
featuring Elizabeth's Tilbury speech, songs and dances
by Byrd, Dowland, Gibbons, Philips. |
August 2008
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18 August (Monday, 13:00-14:00)
Cadogan Hall, London
Proms Chamber Music (PCM 5). JORDI SAVALL (gamba), Rolf Lislevand (theorbo/guitar) Ortiz: Passamezzo antico; Folia; Ruggiero Romanesca; Passamezzo moderno,
Hume: A Souldiers March; Harke, harke; A Souldiers Resolution, Marais: Pièces de viole, 3è livre - Prélude; Muzettes I/II; La sautillante Sanz Jácaras;
Canarios; Couplets des Folies d'espagne.
Tickets £8, £10, or prom for £5
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September 2008
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14 September (Sunday)
Wigmore Hall, London
FRETWORK "Birds on Fire" Concert to mark the release of Birds on Fire, Jewish
Music for Viols on Harmonia Mundi USA
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October 2008
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6 October (Monday 19:30)
Huddersfield Music Society, St Paul's Hall
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS with Emma Kirkby
‘The Swan and the Nightingale’
Consort songs by William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, together with music as enjoyed by 'gentlemen and merchants of good account' in the City of London around 1600:
Italian madrigals by Luca Marenzio, and sublime fantasias, pavans and galliards by Dowland, Ferrabosco, Holborne and their contemporaries.
Tickets from: Michael Lord, www.huddersfield-music-society.org.uk, telephone: 01484 310104
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7 October (Tuesday 18:30)
Huddersfield University
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Inaugural Lecture-Recital. (details to follow).
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9 October (Thursday)
East Finchley Arts Festival at All Saints Church, Durham Road, N2 9NH.
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
LUPO CONSORT - Christoph Coin (treble viol) Guido Balestracci (tenor & division viol) Martin Zeller (bass viol) François Guerrier (organ).
Fantasias & In Nomines by Tye, Bevin, Coperario, Lupo, Gibbons, Purcell & Locke, and Christopher Simpson's "Autumn" & "October".
Funds raised will be donated to the Kessler Collection Trust.
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November 2008
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29 November
Holkham Hall, Norfolk
FRETWORK. Concert of Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell & Bach, with a guest appearance by Michael Chance
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December 2008
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6 December
Christ's College, Cambridge
FRETWORK A Concert celebrating the tricentenary of the birth of John Milton.
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12 December (Friday)
Milverton Concert Society
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS with Catherine King mezzo-soprano
'Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage' and pm workshop (details to follow).
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January 2009
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24 January (Saturday)
Eton College Concert Subscription Series
FRETWORK. Concert with Emma Kirkby in Eton College |
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25 January (Sunday)
London, Royal Academy of Music.
Concert by FRETWORK and draw for raffle of bass viol made by Pierre Bohr & Sergio Gistri from Italy, Gesina Liedmeier from Holland, Judith Kraft from France,
Tilman Muthesius & Henner Harders from Germany, Jane Julier and Marc Soubeyran from the UK, after Kessler Collection Richard Meares viol.
Raffle tickets (£5 each).
Further information: All funds raised will go to the Kessler Collection Trust.
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February 2009
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1 February
Wigmore Hall, London
FRETWORK with Clare Wilkinson
Music by Goehr, Skeaping, Byrd, Bach, Purcell, Wolf & Wilkinson
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March 2009
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13 March (Friday)
Wigmore Hall, London
CONCORDIA with Robin Blaze. Purcell
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June 2009
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26 June
Stour Festival, UK
FRETWORK. Purcell fantasias & songs with Clare Wilkinson
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July 2009
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14 July (Tuesday)
at the Wigmore Hall
CONCORDIA with Sophie Daneman, James Gilchrist and Roderick Williams. Purcell.
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November 2009
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25 November
King's College, Cambridge
FRETWORK. Concert with Michael Chance
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Last months' concerts
June 2008
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5 June (Thursday, 18:30)
Middle Temple Hall, Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 7BB
CONCORDIA (director Mark Levy) with William Purefoy (part of the Temple Festival 2008)
REGINA MONOLOGUES with Penelope Keith as Elizabeth I
The ageing Elizabeth reminisces about her love for Essex accompanied by the music in which she had taken so much
pleasure. Her beloved Lord Essex is dead for treason; all of the closest councillors and friends upon whom she depended
have passed on. Who is left to listen?
Information and tickets: 020 7427 5641
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6 June
Cambridge College
FRETWORK
Concert of Purcell fantasias
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17 June (Tuesday, 13:00)
All Saints Church, Blackheath, London SE3 0TH
Tal Arbel (gamba) Jorgen Skogmo (theorbo) A recital for many strings and one bow. Music by Marais, Kapsberger and others.
Entrance free.
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18 June (Wednesday, 19:00)
St. Olave's Church, Hart Street, London EC4
PELLEGRINA (Kyoko Murai - soprano; Maria Sanger - recorder; Amanda Seaborn - gamba, Alison Bowler - hpschd) Music from Pepys's London, & his library in Cambridge, with extracts from his diary.
Admission free - donation to charity.
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24 June (Tuesday, 19:30)
London, Great Chamber, Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AN
ROSE CONSORT (viols, pandora and lute) with Katharine Hawnt (soprano) and a professional actor for
some readings. Concert of music by Tobias Hume, Campion, Dowland and Coprario.
Admission free, with wine reception.
Tel. 07764 200125
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