- Amanda Babington, Baroque, Canon's Ashby, Classical, Composers, Corelli, Handel, History, Instruments, Music, Northamptonshire, Players, Strings, Venues, Woodwind
Fiori Musicali have a residency at Canons Ashby which saw them perform at the National Trust several times last week. Every performance there is special but it was even more so this week as it was to celebrate the opening of the newly restored baroque gardens and to commemorate 300 years of baroque composer Corelli.
- Amanda Babington, Baroque, Classical, Composers, Gail Hennessy, Heidi Fardell, History, Instruments, Music, Players, Sally Holman, Strings, Venues, Warwickshire, Woodwind
Considering I’m ‘Fiori Fan’, it's pretty bad that I’ve not seen Fiori Musicali play live despite them being local. So I put that to rights on Thursday when I took a nice drive over Bilton Grange, a lovely old school in Dunchurch, Warwickshire. Friendly greeting from Fiori Musical at Bilton GrangeI was greeted by a grand building and some friendly students who eagerly opened the door for me - a great first impression. Service with a smile!
Did you catch '2Day' on Friday? Radio 2 mixed things up for the day, changing the scheduling to showcase the variety of music played by the station with this year's focus on the 'Orchestra'. Each programme looked at the groups of instruments in an orchestra throughout the day.
I liked that I was learning as well as enjoying a brilliant mix of music. For example did you know that an orchestra does not include a saxophone?
Have you promised yourself that you'll get out a bit more this year? Perhaps you're like me and want to find more out about the history of Northamptonshire and the beautiful location in the county? Maybe you'd like see more live musical performances? Well, this is a post for you!
It's not often that you hear of a classical music concert likened to the mudfest that is Glastonbury but that's just what you can expect from Fiori Musicali's midsummer concert at Wolfhampcote. Obviously just without the mud and rain!
