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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

8 July (Tuesday, 13:00)
York Early Music Festival

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Three Britons in Brussels
Consort music by John Bull, Richard Dering and Peter Phillips

15 July (Tuesday, 19:30)
St Cuthbert's Church, 50 Philbeach Gardens, London SW5 9EB

EARLS COURT BAROQUE. . Žak 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).


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.

15 July (Tuesday, 19:30)
Wigmore Hall, London

CONCORDIA with Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Dowland: Lachrimae, and music by Byrd, Bryars, Williams and Tavener

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.


18 July (Friday, 19:30)
Gower Festival, St Mary's, Rhossili

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS with Catherine King mezzo-soprano
'Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage'

19 July (Saturday)
Gower Festival

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS with Catherine King mezzo-soprano
Workshop for Singers/Viols (details to follow)

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.


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.


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.


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.

31 July (Thursday, 17:00)
Dartington, Great Hall

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Hume (details to follow)

      

August 2008

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


      

September 2008

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

      

October 2008

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


7 October (Tuesday 18:30)
Huddersfield University

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Inaugural Lecture-Recital. (details to follow).

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.


24 October (Friday)
The Sage, Gateshead

CONCORDIA with The King's Singers
Treason and Dischord - William Byrd and the Gunpowder Plot

www.thesagegateshead.org


      

November 2008

Amersham Music Club (details to follow)

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage

29 November
Holkham Hall, Norfolk

FRETWORK. Concert of Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell & Bach, with a guest appearance by Michael Chance

      

December 2008

4 December (Thursday)
Bedford Music Club

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS with Catherine King mezzo-soprano
Lullaby (details to follow).

6 December
Christ's College, Cambridge

FRETWORK A Concert celebrating the tricentenary of the birth of John Milton.

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).

      

January 2009

24 January (Saturday)
Eton College Concert Subscription Series

FRETWORK. Concert with Emma Kirkby in Eton College

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.


      

February 2009

1 February
Wigmore Hall, London

FRETWORK with Clare Wilkinson
Music by Goehr, Skeaping, Byrd, Bach, Purcell, Wolf & Wilkinson

      

March 2009

13 March (Friday)
Wigmore Hall, London

CONCORDIA with Robin Blaze. Purcell

      

June 2009

26 June
Stour Festival, UK

FRETWORK. Purcell fantasias & songs with Clare Wilkinson

      

July 2009

14 July (Tuesday)
at the Wigmore Hall

CONCORDIA with Sophie Daneman, James Gilchrist and Roderick Williams. Purcell.

      

November 2009

25 November
King's College, Cambridge

FRETWORK. Concert with Michael Chance

      

Last months' concerts

June 2008

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


6 June
Cambridge College

FRETWORK
Concert of Purcell fantasias

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.


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.


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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