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July
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Fiori Musicali Chamber OrchestrawithKerstin Linder-Dewan violin Penelope Rapson director/harpsichord
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Fiori Musicali Chamber Orchestra
with
Kerstin Linder-Dewan violin
Penelope Rapson director/harpsichord
August
Time
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St Mary the Virgin, Fotheringhay
Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, Oundle, PE8 5HZ
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Fiori Musicali Chamber ChoirwithAdrian Woodward cornetto, recorderSue Addison slide trumpet and sagbuttMartyn Sanderson sagbuttPenelope Rapson director
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Fiori Musicali Chamber Choir
with
Adrian Woodward cornetto, recorder
Sue Addison slide trumpet and sagbutt
Martyn Sanderson sagbutt
Penelope Rapson director
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Following the popularity of our Castle Ashby concert in late July, we are delighted
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Following the popularity of our Castle Ashby concert in late July, we are delighted to announce that distinguished Swiss guitarist Christoph Denoth will give an additional solo recital in the delightful country church at Tyringham, near Newport Pagnall in August.
Renowned for his critically acclaimed recording of Dowland, Mister Dowland’s Midnight – Denoth will open this programme with music by John Dowland. And his programme continues with an exciting display of virtuosic solo guitar music from Spain and South America.Denoth’s career has seen him perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, and at many key venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, as well as the Mozarteum in Salzburg and Carnegie Hall.
Described by the critics as ‘a master of his instrument’ and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Denoth is a musician not to be missed!
Dowland Frog Galliard
Dowland The Shoemaker’s Wife
Sor Theme and variations from Mozart’s Magic Flute
Villa-Lobos Préludes
Granados Danza Española
Falla Homenaje – Tombeau de Debussy
Albéniz Sevilla
Albéniz Asturias
Concert in aid of St Peter’s Church, Tyringham
October
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Location
St Nicholas Church, Potterspury, Towcester, NN12 7PU
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This is the last in a series of four concerts Pied Piper Remembered, celebrating the
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This is the last in a series of four concerts Pied Piper Remembered, celebrating the remarkable life & work of DAVID MUNROW – one of the great pioneers of ‘early music’. Munrow was an inspiration to thousands. His regular radio slot ‘Pied Piper’ had countless listeners enthralled, as he deftly opened up a world of lesser-known repertoire to a wider public.
Fiori’s final concert fetes Munrow the bucolic flauto player. Wherever the Pied Piper led the children of Hamelin (up the mountains, away to Transylvania – the stories vary), the legend with its roots in medieval folklore continued to resonate, inspiring Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and of course Robert Browning’s famous poem, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. All recount how the Piper is hired by Hamelin to rid the town of its plague of rats. And how the rats, mesmerised by the sound of the Piper’s magical flute, are enchanted away.
Turns out, this is no legend. On the facade of the Pied Piper house in Hamelin, an inscription reads: “A.D. 1284 – on the 26th of June – the day of St John and St Paul – 130 children – born in Hamelin – were led out of the town by a piper wearing multicoloured clothes. After passing the Calvary near the Koppenberg they disappeared forever.” Some link the story to the St Vitus dance, a form of mania, where people danced compulsively till they dropped. (There was an outbreak in Erfurt, near Hamelin in the 13th century, when young people danced uncontrollably out of the town for 12 miles!)
So for our final concert in homage to Munrow we shamelessly integrate the thrilling madness of St Vitus with the brilliance of Vivaldi in a feast of inventive chamber concertos featuring Munrow’s immortal flauto.
Vivaldi Chamber Concerto in G min RV103
Vivaldi Sonata for recorder & bassoon in A min RV86
Vivaldi Sonata in C RV801
Vivaldi Chamber Concerto in G min RV105
Schickhardt La Folia op.6 no.6
Vivaldi La Pastorella in D RV95
Fiori Musicali Chamber Ensemble
Heidi Fardell recorder
Gail Hennessy oboe
Rebecca Hammond bassoon
Poppy Walshaw cello
Penelope Rapson organ/director
Fiori are very grateful to the Continuo Foundation for supporting this concert.