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Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries
Friday 10 February 2023, 7.30pm
Laidlaw Music Centre, University of St Andrews, Queen’s Terrace, St Andrews KY16 9QF
Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of H.I.F. Biber’s Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. In the three central sonatas Ricardo Barros dances as a third partner in the music.
Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries
Saturday 9 April 2022, 4.00pm
Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF
Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of H.I.F. Biber’s Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by J.P.
A musical offering
Saturday 18 December 2021, 7.30pm
Georgian Concert Society: St Andrew’s & St George’s West, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons.
Biber: the Joyful Mysteries
Thursday 9 December 2021, 7.00pm
Cambridge Early Music: Little St Mary’s Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QG
Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play the first five of Biber’s Mystery or Rosary sonatas, concerned with the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play music by composers of Biber’s time.
A musical banquet
Sunday 5 December 2021, 3.00pm
Seaford Music Society: Seaford Baptist Church, Belgrave Road, Seaford BN25 2EE
A festive programme of Baroque music from various European countries.
The music
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704): Rosary sonatas (the Joyful Mysteries) – The Annunciation
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657–1714): Sonata seconda in E minor
Giovanni Geronimo Kapsberger (c.
All Bach
Saturday 24 July 2021, 7.00pm
King’s Lynn Festival: St Nicholas’ Chapel, St Ann’s Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1NH
For our first concerts since March 2020 and the eruption here of the Covid pandemic, we return to the music of J.S. Bach. Substantial pieces that feature the flute open and close the concert: the B minor Orchestral Suite and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto.
All Bach
Wednesday 21 July 2021, 3.00pm
Haddo House, Methlick, Ellon, Aberdeenshire AB41 7EQ
For our first concerts since March 2020 and the eruption here of the Covid pandemic, we return to the music of J.S. Bach. Substantial pieces that feature the flute open and close the concert: the B minor Orchestral Suite and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto.
All Bach
Sunday 18 July 2021, 3.00pm
Concerts at Cratfield: St Mary’s, Church Road, Cratfield, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0BU
This concert has now been cancelled
The music
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750):
Suite in B minor for flute and strings, BWV 1067
Canons from the Goldberg Variations,
Bach and Buxtehude: 25th anniversary concert
Thursday 15 July 2021, 7.30pm
St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
Coming out of the long break of the Covid pandemic, we return to our founding inspiration: the music of J.S. Bach, complemented here with a piece by Dieterich Buxtehude, Bach’s admired older colleague. The group was founded in 1996 and gave its first concerts the following year.
All Bach
Friday 9 July 2021, 7.30pm
Chichester Chamber Concerts: Assembly Room, Chichester Council House, North Street, Chichester PO19 1LQ
For our first concerts since March 2020 and the eruption here of the Covid pandemic, we return to the music of J.S. Bach. Substantial pieces that feature the flute open and close the concert: the B minor Orchestral Suite and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto.
A musical offering
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 8.00pm
Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,
Bach and Buxtehude
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 5.00pm
Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA
Coming out of the long break of the Covid pandemic, The Bach Players return to their founding inspiration: the music of J.S. Bach, complemented here with a piece by Dieterich Buxtehude, Bach’s admired older colleague.
Bach and Goldberg: master and student
Thursday 28 January 2021, 7.30pm
Chichester Chamber Concerts: Assembly Room, Chichester Council House, North Street, Chichester PO19 1LQ
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso harpsichordist employed by Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, who commissioned a set of variations from Bach to combat his sleeplessness. Goldberg was their first performer.
All Bach
Tuesday 26 January 2021, 5.00pm
Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA
We return to the music of J.S. Bach in two concerts of about an hour each. At 5 pm we play two of Bach’s great works that feature the flute: the B minor Orchestral Suite and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto.
A musical offering
Saturday 23 January 2021, 7.30pm
Georgian Concert Society: St Andrew’s & St George’s West, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons.
Biber: the Joyful Mysteries
Tuesday 8 December 2020, 7.30pm
Great St Mary’s, Senate House Hill, Cambridge CB2 3PQ
In this concert Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play the first five of Biber’s Mystery or Rosary sonatas, concerned with the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber’s time: Buxtehude and Pachelbel.
The Grand Tour
Sunday 29 November 2020, 3.00pm
Seaford Music Society: St Leonard’s Church, Church Street, Seaford BN25 1LR
Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’.
>>> As a precaution against spreading Covid-19, this concert has been cancelled
The music
Nicola Matteis (c.
Bach and Goldberg: master and student
Sunday 4 October 2020, 3.00pm
Haddo House, Methlick, Ellon, Aberdeenshire AB41 7EQ
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso harpsichordist employed by Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, who commissioned a set of variations from Bach to combat his sleeplessness. Goldberg was their first performer. As well as being a student of Bach,
Bach and Goldberg: master and student
Friday 2 October 2020, 7.30pm
St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso harpsichordist employed by Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, who commissioned a set of variations from Bach to combat his sleeplessness. Goldberg was their first performer. As well as being a student of Bach,
Bach and Goldberg: master and student
Wednesday 30 September 2020, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso harpsichordist employed by Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, who commissioned a set of variations from Bach to combat his sleeplessness. Goldberg was their first performer. As well as being a student of Bach,
The Grand Tour
Saturday 11 July 2020, 5.00pm
St Swithin’s Church, Clunbury, Shropshire SY7 0HG
Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’.
>>> As a precaution against spreading Covid-19, this concert has been cancelled
The music
Nicola Matteis (c.
The Grand Tour
Friday 10 July 2020, 7.00pm
Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT
Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’.
>>> As a precaution against spreading Covid-19, this concert has been cancelled
The music
Nicola Matteis (c.
The Grand Tour
Thursday 25 June 2020, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’.
>>> As a precaution against spreading Covid-19, this concert has been cancelled
The music
Nicola Matteis (c.
Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries
Saturday 4 April 2020, 7.30pm
Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF
Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of H.I.F. Biber’s Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by J.P.
Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries
Sunday 29 March 2020, 5.00pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of H.I.F. Biber’s Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by J.P.
Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries
Sunday 15 March 2020, 5.00pm
St Swithin’s Church, Clunbury, near Craven Arms, Shropshire SY7 0HG
Following their first Biber concert at St Swithin’s, in December 2018, Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of the Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it.
Stabat Mater
Saturday 7 March 2020, 7.30pm
St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB
Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater text was hugely popular and remains so – it is often thought of as ‘the’ version of the Stabat Mater. The concert also includes the Sinfonia and Sonata al Santo Sepolcro by Vivaldi – his only sacred instrumental pieces.
Pour le souper du roi
Wednesday 22 January 2020, 7.30pm
Influence Church, Victoria Road, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 4AS
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.
Biber: the Joyful Mysteries
Wednesday 4 December 2019, 7.30pm
Clitheroe Grammar School, Sixth Form Centre, York Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 2DJ
In this concert Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play the first five of Biber’s Mystery or Rosary sonatas, concerned with the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber’s time: Buxtehude and Pachelbel.
A European Christmas
Sunday 1 December 2019, 5.00pm
St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
A concert in celebration of Advent and Christmas, starting with music from the Austro-Italian seventeenth-century Catholic tradition; from the Annunciation to the birth of Jesus, with the focus on Mary and the baby Jesus. After the interval: the eighteenth-century Lutheran tradition in Germany with two cantatas by J.
A European Christmas
Thursday 28 November 2019, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
A concert in celebration of Advent and Christmas, starting with music from the Austro-Italian seventeenth-century Catholic tradition; from the Annunciation to the birth of Jesus, with the focus on Mary and the baby Jesus. After the interval: the eighteenth-century Lutheran tradition in Germany with two cantatas by J.
A musical offering
Sunday 3 November 2019, 3.30pm
Brighton Early Music Festival: St Paul’s Church, West Street, Brighton BN1 2RE
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,
Couperin: l’Art de la Danse
Sunday 20 October 2019, 2.00pm
Two Moors Festival: New Assembly Room, South Molton, Devon EX36 3AB
We present a variety of François Couperin’s instrumental compositions in both the Italian and French styles: formal dances and character pieces, sonatas and harpsichord solo pieces. Our dancers will dance where appropriate. This is an exploration: can music be danced to,
Mystery Sonatas
Friday 24 May 2019, 8.15pm
Oud-Katholieke Kerk ’t Huis te Poort, Dam 30, 3111 BD Schiedam, The Netherlands
Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play a selection of Biber’s Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber’s time.
The music
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704):
From the Joyful Mysteries:
The Annunciation
Dieterich Buxtehude (c.
Mystery Sonatas
Sunday 19 May 2019, 6.30pm
St Saviour’s Church, Eton Road, South Hampstead, London, NW3 4SU
Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play a selection of Biber’s Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber’s time.
The music
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704):
From the Joyful Mysteries:
The Annunciation
Dieterich Buxtehude (c.
Dance of the Nations
Saturday 11 May 2019, 7.15pm
London Festival of Baroque Music: St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
The Bach Players join hands with Ricardo Barros’s Mercurius Company to present a concert that embodies the European idea in music and dance. Musicians and dancers have always travelled, both in mind and in body,
A hop and step across the Channel: learn to dance a Gavotte and a Menuet with Ricardo Barros
Saturday 11 May 2019, 10.30am
London Festival of Baroque Music: St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
Follow English dancing master Mr Isaac’s footsteps and hop across the channel for a dancing ‘entente cordiale’. Learn contredanses in the two most popular forms of the Baroque period: the gavotte ‘La Bonne Amitié’ by Feuillet (1706) and the ‘Menuet Anglois’ by Lorin (1698).
Dance of the Nations
Thursday 9 May 2019, 7.30pm
The Garage, 14 Chapel Field North, Norwich NR2 1NY
The Bach Players join hands with Ricardo Barros to present a concert that embodies the European idea in music and dance. Artists have always travelled and this programme will take you on a journey across the continent.
The Seven Last Words
Sunday 31 March 2019, 5.00pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
In the approach to Easter, The Bach Players perform Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words in the version for string quartet. Haydn’s composition was extraordinarily popular in his own time; following the original composition for full orchestra, he wrote the chamber version and then another for orchestra and choir.
The Seven Last Words
Saturday 30 March 2019, 7.30pm
St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB
In the approach to Easter, The Bach Players perform Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words in the version for string quartet. Haydn’s composition was extraordinarily popular in his own time; following the original composition for full orchestra,
Biber: the Joyful Mysteries
Sunday 9 December 2018, 5.00pm
St Swithin’s Church, Clunbury, Shropshire SY7 0HG
In the days leading up to Christmas, Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform the first five of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704). In these sonatas, Biber’s highly descriptive music addresses and describes the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it.
A musical offering
Saturday 20 October 2018, 8.15pm
Paaskerk Baarn, Oude Utrechtseweg 4a, 3743 KN Baarn, The Netherlands
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,
A musical offering
Thursday 18 October 2018, 7.30pm
St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,
A musical offering
Wednesday 17 October 2018, 7.30pm
Dorset County Museum Concert Society: St Mary’s Church, Edward Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2HJ
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons.
A musical offering: the art of eloquence
Sunday 14 October 2018, 3.00pm
Little Missenden Festival: Church of St John the Baptist, Little Missenden, Amersham, Bucks HP7 0RA
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that looks both back to the tradition in which he worked and forwards to the music of his sons.
A musical offering
Saturday 13 October 2018, 7.30pm
Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,
A musical offering: the art of eloquence
Thursday 11 October 2018, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that looks both back to the tradition in which he worked and forwards to the music of his sons. We play this dazzling piece in the context of music by Bach’s esteemed elders: Buxtehude and Pachelbel
The music
Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706): Canon in D major
Johann Pachelbel: Suite in F sharp minor
Dieterich Buxtehude (c.
Couperin: l’Art de la Danse
Sunday 2 September 2018, 3.00pm
Utrecht Early Music Festival: Hertzzaal Tivoli Vredenburg, Vredenburgkade 11, 3511 WC Utrecht
We present a variety of François Couperin’s instrumental compositions in both the Italian and French styles: formal dances and character pieces, sonatas and harpsichord solo pieces. Our dancers will dance where appropriate. This is an exploration: can music be danced to,
Italy versus France
Thursday 5 July 2018, 7.00pm
Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT
Italian or French? In the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe, two national musical styles were seen as opposing and in contest, though composers increasingly brought them together. This concert brings the styles to life in works by some of the brilliant composers of the times: Corelli,
Italy versus France
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Italian or French? In the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe, two national musical styles were seen as opposing and in contest, though composers increasingly brought them together. This concert brings the styles to life in works by some of the brilliant composers of the times: Corelli,
Pour le souper du roi
Sunday 13 May 2018, 3.00pm
London Festival of Baroque Music: St Peter’s Church, Eaton Square, 119 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV and Louis XV. The featured composers were among their favourites, allowed into the inner circle of the king and given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private chambers.
Biber: the Glorious Mysteries
Saturday 12 May 2018, 7.30pm
St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB
The third of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic’s, and in the appropriate liturgical season.
Stabat Mater
Tuesday 13 March 2018, 7.30pm
Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA
Boccherini’s Stabat Mater is a work of compelling intensity that stands out among the many settings of this text. We are performing the original, chamber version of the piece, scored for string quintet with two cellos;
Stabat Mater
Saturday 10 March 2018, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
Boccherini’s Stabat Mater is a work of compelling intensity that stands out among the many settings of this text. We are performing the original, chamber version of the piece, scored for string quintet with two cellos; interspersed will be movements from Haydn’s The Seven Last Words.
Stabat Mater
Thursday 8 March 2018, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Boccherini’s Stabat Mater is a work of compelling intensity that stands out among the many settings of this text. We are performing the original, chamber version of the piece, scored for string quintet with two cellos; interspersed will be movements from Haydn’s The Seven Last Words.
Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries
Saturday 24 February 2018, 7.30pm
St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB
The second of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic’s, and in the appropriate liturgical season.
Biber: the Joyful Mysteries
Saturday 2 December 2017, 7.30pm
St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB
The first of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic’s, and in the appropriate liturgical season.
Sound the trumpet!
Sunday 22 October 2017, 5.00pm
Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF
To mark our twentieth anniversary, we return to our beginnings to present an all-Bach programme: two joyous, well-known cantatas, complemented by two celebrated instrumental works. ‘Weichet nur betrübte Schatten’ is a wedding canata for solo soprano voice;
The Food of Love
Saturday 14 October 2017, 7.45pm
Georgian Concert Society: St Andrew’s & St George’s West, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA
Shakespeare’s plays were at the heart of the Restoration theatrical repertory. Freely adapted, with lavish music and spectacular staging, a number of them remained popular even after a new Restoration repertory had developed.
Sound the trumpet!
Saturday 7 October 2017, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
To mark our twentieth anniversary, we return to our beginnings to present an all-Bach programme: two joyous, well-known cantatas, complemented by two celebrated instrumental works. ‘Weichet nur betrübte Schatten’ is a wedding canata for solo soprano voice;
Sound the trumpet!
Thursday 5 October 2017, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
To mark our twentieth anniversary, we return to our beginnings to present an all-Bach programme: two joyous, well-known cantatas, complemented by two celebrated instrumental works. ‘Weichet nur betrübte Schatten’ is a wedding canata for solo soprano voice; ‘Jauchzet Gott’ gives virtuosic parts to solo soprano and trumpet.
In the Company of Gods: music by François Couperin, Marin Marais, and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Friday 7 July 2017, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
The court of Louis XIV did indeed become a parnassus – a source for some of the greatest music and poetry of the time. In this concert we focus on private music for the King, by Marin Marais,
In the Company of Gods: music by François Couperin, Marin Marais, and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 7.00pm
Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT
The court of Louis XIV did indeed become a parnassus – a source for some of the greatest music and poetry of the time. In this concert we focus on private music for the King,
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts
Sunday 14 May 2017, 6.30pm
St Michael’s Church, Cobham Close, Battersea, London SW11 6SP
A feast of Jean Philippe Rameau: his Pièces de clavecin en concerts, with some shorter works by him and his contemporaries
The music
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764): Pièces de clavecin en concerts for harpsichord,
Stabat Mater
Saturday 25 March 2017, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater text, the Concerto Madrigalesco by Vivaldi and one of his Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro, and a Mystery Sonata by Biber
The music
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36): ‘Stabat Mater’
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Concerto Madrigalesco in C minor
Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in C minor
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704): Rosary Sonata 10,
Stabat Mater
Thursday 9 March 2017, 7.30pm
Thursday 9 March, 7.30 pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater text, the Concerto Madrigalesco by Vivaldi and one of his Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro, and a Mystery Sonata by Biber
The music
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36): ‘Stabat Mater’
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Concerto Madrigalesco in C minor
Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in C minor
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704): Rosary Sonata 10,
Pour le souper du roi
Wednesday 15 February 2017, 7.30pm
Dorset County Museum Concert Society, Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.
Pour le souper du roi
Sunday 12 February 2017, 6.30pm
St Michael’s Church, Cobham Close, Battersea , London SW11 6SP
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.
Christmas concert
Saturday 17 December 2016, 8.15pm
Paaskerk Baarn, Oude Utrechtseweg 4a, 3743 KN Baarn, The Netherlands
An anthology of seasonal music from Advent to Christmas, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and from all over Europe
The music
H.I.F. von Biber (1644–1704): ‘Annunciation’ from the Mystery sonatas
Tarquinio Merula (1595–1665): Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna
Claudio Merulo (1533–1604): Toccata ottava
Giacomo Carissimi (1605–74) ‘Salve salve puellule’
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713): Concerto Grosso in G minor,
Handel’s Messiah: come & sing + concert
Saturday 3 December 2016, 7.00pm
Heath Street Choir (Joe Wagott, director)
with The Bach Players (Nicolette Moonen, leader)
Heath Street Baptist Church, 84 Heath Street, London NW3 1DN
The Bach Players join Heath Street Choir in a come & sing day, leading to a concert performance of Handel’s Messiah in the evening.
Coffee and cabbage
Sunday 9 October 2016, 5.00pm
Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF
Two of J.S. Bach’s loved secular cantatas – essentially small-scale operas for soprano and bass voices – are given in the context of his fifth Brandenburg Concerto and canons from the Goldberg Variations
The music
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750):
Brandenburg Concerto no.
Coffee and cabbage
Saturday 8 October 2016, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
Two of J.S. Bach’s loved secular cantatas – essentially small-scale operas for soprano and bass voices – are given in the context of his fifth Brandenburg Concerto and canons from the Goldberg Variations
The music
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750):
Coffee and cabbage
Thursday 6 October 2016, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Two of J.S. Bach’s loved secular cantatas – essentially small-scale operas for soprano and bass voices – are given in the context of his fifth Brandenburg Concerto and canons from the Goldberg Variations
The music
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750):
Brandenburg Concerto no.
Pour le souper du roi
Saturday 17 September 2016, 7.30pm
Totnes Early Music Society, St Mary’s Church, High Street, Totnes TQ9 5NN
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.
The Seasons
Sunday 21 August 2016, 7.30pm
Binham Priory, Binham, Norfolk NR21 0DQ
A summer concert of music by Vivaldi, Biber, Guido, and others. This is programmatic music, expressing the themes of nature. You will hear cuckoos, nightingales, frogs, ducks, and thunder too. Although some of these composers are not well known,
Pour le souper du roi
Wednesday 20 July 2016, 7.00pm
Fenton House, Hampstead Grove, Hampstead, London, NW3 6SP
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.
Stabat Mater
Saturday 11 June 2016, 7.30pm
Music in Lyddington: St Andrew’s, Lyddington
In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater text, the Concerto Madrigalesco by Vivaldi and one of his Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro, and a Mystery Sonata by Biber
The music
Giovanni Batista Pergolesi (1710–36): ‘Stabat Mater’
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Concerto Madrigalesco in C minor
Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in C minor
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704): Sonata 10,
The Food of Love
Saturday 4 June 2016, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
Shakespeare’s plays were at the heart of the Restoration theatrical repertory. Freely adapted, with lavish music and spectacular staging, a number of them remained popular even after a new Restoration repertory had developed. In this programme, music by Henry Purcell is placed alongside that of his predecessors,
The Food of Love
Thursday 2 June 2016, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Shakespeare’s plays were at the heart of the Restoration theatrical repertory. Freely adapted, with lavish music and spectacular staging, a number of them remained popular even after a new Restoration repertory had developed. In this programme, music by Henry Purcell is placed alongside that of his predecessors,
Laments for Passiontide
Saturday 5 March 2016, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
The lament became an established musical genre and in this concert we present examples of this expressive form over two centuries, from Italy and Austria. Perhaps the first example of the musical lament was Monteverdi’s ‘Lamento d’Arianna’: a five-part madrigal,
Laments for Passiontide
Thursday 3 March 2016, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
The lament became an established musical genre and in this concert we present examples of this expressive form over two centuries, from Italy and Austria. Perhaps the first example of the musical lament was Monteverdi’s ‘Lamento d’Arianna’: a five-part madrigal,
Bach’s library
Saturday 14 November 2015, 7.30pm
Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF
A selection of pieces that J.S. Bach had in his library and which provide a context for his celebrated Orchestral Suite in B minor
The music
Johann Bernhard Bach (1676–1749): Ouverture no.
Bach and before: music at St Thomas’s Leipzig
Saturday 31 October 2015, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
Music by three predecessors of J.S. Bach as Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig – Schein, Schelle, Kuhnau – and the first cantata that Bach composed for his new job there: the magnificent ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’ (BWV 75)
When Bach was given the post of Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig he joined a long line of musicians in this position,
Bach and before: music at St Thomas’s Leipzig
Thursday 29 October 2015, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
Music by three predecessors of J.S. Bach as Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig – Schein, Schelle, Kuhnau – and the first cantata that Bach composed for his new job there: the magnificent ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’ (BWV 75)
When Bach was given the post of Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig he joined a long line of musicians in this position,
Pour le souper du roi
Saturday 10 October 2015, 7.30pm
Finchcocks Musical Museum, Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 1HH
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.
The Seasons
Saturday 18 July 2015, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
A summer concert of music by Vivaldi, Biber, Guido, and others. This is programmatic music, expressing the themes of nature. You will hear cuckoos, nightingales, frogs, ducks, and thunder too. Although some of these composers are not well known,
The Seasons
Thursday 16 July 2015, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
A summer concert of music by Vivaldi, Biber, Guido, and others. This is programmatic music, expressing the themes of nature. You will hear cuckoos, nightingales, frogs, ducks, and thunder too. Although some of these composers are not well known,
Baroque in the summertime
Saturday 27 June 2015, 8.00pm
The Derwent Singers (Richard Roddis, conductor)
with The Bach Players (Nicolette Moonen, leader)
St Mary’s Church, Bridge Gate, Derby DE1 3AU
A concert featuring the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. The Missa Brevis in A major is a joyous and sparkling work,
‘A wonder has appeared in Paris’: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Sunday 17 May 2015, 3.30pm
London Festival of Baroque Music: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN
Chamber music composed by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, including solo pieces for the harpsichord played by Béatrice Martin – in the exquisite surroundings of the Wallace Collection
The music
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729):
Trio Sonata in D major
Suite in D minor (from Pièces de clavecin)
Violin Sonata in F major
Suite in A minor (from Pièces de clavecin)
Trio Sonata in C minor
The musicians
(Nicolette Moonen violin,
An Italian in Paris
Thursday 7 May 2015, 7.30pm
The Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, GU4 7RT
Works by the first composers in France to explore the Italian style, this concert features Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, celebrated in the year of her 350th anniversary. More than a mere ‘woman composer’ (though she was,
A musical offering
Tuesday 24 March 2015, 7.30pm
Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Warwick
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann
The music
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Paris Quartet no.
A grand tour of Europe
Saturday 21 March 2015, 7.30pm
Sevenoaks Music Club: Ship Theatre, Sevenoaks
Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’
The music
Nicola Matteis (c. 1670– c. 1715): Ground after the Scotch humour
Nicola Matteis: Suite in A minor
Christopher Simpson (c.
A musical offering
Saturday 28 February 2015, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann
The music
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Paris Quartet no.
Stabat Mater
Thursday 26 February 2015, 7.30pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, and the astonishing and rarely heard ‘Il pianto di Maria’ by Ferrandini, formerly attributed to Handel, together with two of Vivaldi’s Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro
The music
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710–91): ‘Il pianto di Maria’ (formerly attributed to Handel)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi: Suonata à 4 al Santo Sepolcro in E flat
Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in C minor
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto Madrigalesco in D minor
The musicians
(Sally Bruce-Payne alto,
A musical offering
Friday 13 February 2015, 7.30pm
Cambridge Early Music: Cambridge
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann
The music
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Paris Quartet no.
A Christmas present
Friday 12 December 2014, 7.30pm
Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann
The music
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba,
A Christmas present
Wednesday 10 December 2014, 7.30pm
Chester Music Society, Chester
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann
The music
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Paris Quartet no.
Sleepers awake!
Saturday 8 November 2014, 8.15pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
The Advent cantata ‘Wachet auf’ in the setting by J.S. Bach (BWV 140) and two versions by Dieterich Buxtehude, and chamber music by Buxtehude and Erlebach
The music
Dieterich Buxtehude (c.
Sleepers awake!
Thursday 6 November 2014, 7.30pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
The Advent cantata ‘Wachet auf’ in the setting by J.S. Bach (BWV 140) and two versions by Dieterich Buxtehude, and chamber music by Buxtehude and Erlebach
The music
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Cantata ‘Wachet auf!’,
A grand tour of Europe
Friday 10 October 2014, 7.30pm
Egremont, Cumbria
Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’
The music
Nicola Matteis (c. 1670– c. 1715): Ground after the Scotch humour
Nicola Matteis: Suite in A minor
Christopher Simpson (c.