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Concerts marked with an asterisk involve viols, as far as we know
February 2012
11 February / 8pm *
Big School, Tonbridge School, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1JP
Phantasm – Director Laurence Dreyfus
‘The English Consort Tradition’
Music for six viols by Byrd, Ward, Jenkins, William Lawes, Tomkins, Purcell and Gibbons
website Box Office: 01732 838698
14 February / 7.30pm
Wilton's Music Hall, London
The King's Consort
Concert for St Valentine's Day
website 020 7702 2789
19 February / 2.30pm *
Jubilee Hall, Wakefield Girls' High School, Margaret Street, Wakefield
Fantasticus
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26 February / 6pm *
St Mary's Church, Boxford, Sudbury C0105JT
Biblical Scenes
Claire Tomlin (soprano), Psalmody, The Suffolk Villages Festival Viol Consort
directed by Peter Holman. William Byrd 'Christ rising again' & 'Susanna fair', Orlando Gibbons 'This is the record of John' & 'See, see the word is incarnate', Matthew Locke 'When the son of man shall come in his glory', Heinrich Schuetz Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV478, Annunciation Dialogue SWV333 & 'Selig sind die Toten die in dem Herren sterben' from Musikalische Exequien SWV281
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March 2012
28 March / 8pm
Wokingham Town Hall
Jennifer Janse (baroque cello)
Telemann, Vivaldi, Gabrielli
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30 March / 7.30pm
The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, Savoy Hill, The Strand, London WC2R 0DA
Tredici Chamber Choir
Palestrina, Byrd, Tallis, Lotti
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30 March / 8pm
Benslow
lute recital tbc
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April 2012
14 April / 2 and 7pm
Queen Mother Theatre, Walsworth Road, Hitchin
Benslow Baroque Opera
Handel: Semele (staged)
25 April / 8pm
Wokingham Town Hall
Jake White, tenor
The Albion Ensemble
Monteverdi, Grandi, Purcell
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May 2012
25 May / 6pm and 8.30pm
Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London
Monteverdi: Combattimento
Director: Andrew Lawrence-King
30 May / 8pm
Wokingham Town Hall
Maria Sanger and Peter Wells (recorders)
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June 2012
5 June / 6pm
St Mary's Church, Hadleigh IP7 5DT
Vivaldi: Venetian Vespers
Timothy Travers-Brown (countertenor), Claire Tomlin (soprano), Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra
directed by Peter Holman. Antonio Vivaldi Magnificat RV610, 'Domine ad adjuvandum' RV593, Nisi Dominus RV608 & Salve Regina RV616,
Nicola Porpora Dixit Dominus
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27 June / 8pm
Wokingham Town Hall
Richard Smith (clavichord)
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