What a summer Fiori has had! – culminating in Haydn’s splendid Maria Theresa Mass in Fotheringhay on 10 August. There was a real end of term feeling for this triumpant performance as choir, soloists and a superb orchestra of strings,…
2 fabulous concerts in the offing this July. Coton Manor Gardens continues our ‘garden’ theme – with an exciting programme of Moravian baroque music entitled Trumpet in the Garden at 4.30pm on Sunday 13 July. A chance to visit these wonderful Northamptonshire gardens…
June is full of music for Fiori. On 12 June we were invited to Wickhambrook in Suffolk, under the auspices of Music in Country Churches.
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…
