Fiori Musicali News

The clocks have changed.  The seasons change.  And Fiori are gearing up for our winter season.  To kick things off we have a concert on 22 November – St Cecilia’s Day.

Fiori are thrilled to announce that we have been selected as one of the 22 established ensembles nationally who have been successful in the latest round of Continuo Foundation grant awards.

Fiori Musicali are honoured to have been asked to help mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of Northampton in a grand concert.

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,…

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…