When all the Birds have Mattens seyd,And sung their thankful Hymnes: ’tis sin,Nay, profanation to keep in…Rise; and put on your Foliage, and be seene To come forth, like the Spring-time, fresh and greene; Robert Herrick So wrote the 17th-century poet…
‘April is the cruellest month’ wrote TS Eliot ‘breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.’ Early April saw our sellout concert of Hildegard and the Billingsgate Trumpet (a fascinating deep dive into medieval music…
‘Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;….. And ever again, in the wink of an eye, Painted stations whistle by.’ (Robert Louis Stevenson 1885). And so it was as Fiori’s director (on a recent adventure aboard one of those smartly efficient German…
So what’s next in the Fiori concert programme? Well, here at Fiori HQ we are putting the finishing touches to our forthcoming summer series. But before the summer series gets going, there’s some rather different to look forward to, as…
We have so much lovely music to look forward to this season:There’s Allegri’s famous Miserere in Cranford St John on Good Friday, then mesmeric and inspired works by Biber, based on the Rosary at Edgcote in May. We celebrate Palestrina’s 500th at Wolfhampcote in June with uplifting choral…
A year full of exciting projects is in the offing! Fiori’s New Year Concert on 18 January heralds the new season with a sparkling concert to mark the 150th anniversary of the great 20th century polymath Dr Albert Schweitzer – Nobel…
What a year it has been! We have been honoured to play again for Music in Country Churches at Geddington where David Blackadder, trumpet royal, was on top form and we had the privilege of playing on the beautiful harpsichord from Boughton House by gracious…
The BIG GIVE Christmas Challenge runs for just 7 days from noon on 3 December to noon on 10 December. Any donation you make during this time to Fiori Musicali is matched £ for £.
22 November is St Cecilia’s day. She was a Roman noblewoman, believed to have lived in the third century and Christian martyr. Her feast day has been celebrated in the Christian church since the fourth century. During the middle…
In the dark days of November 1828 Franz Schubert’s short life came to an end. Schubert – a composer whose extraordinary gift for melody delighted the Viennese concertgoing public in the early romantic era – still enthrals us today with…
