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August
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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
September
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St Mary & St Edmund, Lower Catesby, Northamptonshire, NN11 6LF
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Hey diddle diddle,The
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Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Kerstin Linder-Dewan takes us on a journey tracing the hypothetical travels of her baroque violin – an instrument made in London around 1750.
Along the way she explores the music of South American composer Anton Zipoli, music by Bach’s beloved elder brother JJ Bach, Czech composer František Benda and 18th-century Portuguese violinist-composer Pedro Lopes Nogueira, amongst others.
This concert takes place in the tiny, tucked away church in Lower Catesby.
Detailed programme tbc.
Kerstin Linder-Dewan violin
Penelope Rapson chamber organ
October
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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.
fri16oct6:00 pm7:45 pmMozart Clarinet Quintetwith Colin Lawson. Tickets available.6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
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St. Peter & St. Paul's Church, Deddington, Oxfordshire OX15 0TG
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with Colin Lawson Joining Fiori for this unforgettable music is renowned classical clarinet specialist Colin Lawson – Mozart
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with Colin Lawson
Joining Fiori for this unforgettable music is renowned classical clarinet specialist Colin Lawson – Mozart expert and until recently head of The Royal College of Music.
This is Mozart at his finest – and to contrast we also include music by Mozart’s favourite clarinettist Anton Stadler, as well as a clarinet quartet by his pupil Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Colin Lawson plays on a bassett clarinet – the instrument these composers wrote for!
Hummel Clarinet quartet in E flat
Anton Stadler Caprice no.2 for solo clarinet
Mozart Clarinet quintet in A K581
Colin Lawson clarinet
Malu Lin Swayne violin
Kelly McCusker violin
Nichola Blakey viola
Poppy Walshaw cello
November
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Candlelight Concert for AdventJS Bach and his close circle An atmospheric Advent Candlelight concert, performed in the delightful village church at Pattishall, dating back to before the Norman Conquest
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Candlelight Concert for Advent
JS Bach and his close circle
An atmospheric Advent Candlelight concert, performed in the delightful village church at Pattishall, dating back to before the Norman Conquest and recorded in the Domesday Book.
Beautiful 18th-century music for baroque oboe and trumpet with voices and organ, including chorale preludes by the great JS Bach, as well as music by his rarely heard contemporary Georg Kauffmann (Bach’s rival for the post of Capellmeister in Leipzig) and his pupils Ludwig Krebs and Gottfried Homilius.
Hauntingly beautiful, reflective music for the season before Christmas. Do join us for this special evening.
including:
JS Bach Chorale prelude on ‘Wachet auf’
G Homilius Chorale prelude on ‘Nun freut euch’
G Kauffmann Chorale prelude on ‘Gelobet seist Du’
Krebs Chorale prelude on ‘Nun freut euch’.
JS Bach ‘Jesu joy of man’s desiring’
Gail Hennessy baroque oboe
Rebecca Toal baroque trumpet
Singers from the Fiori Musicali Choir
Penelope Rapson director/chamber organ
December
tue22dec6:00 pm8:45 pmMr Handel's MessiahTickets available.6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
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Northampton Cathedral NN2 6AG
Kingsthorpe Road, Northampton NN2 6AG
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Fiori’s splendid pre-Christmas concert to welcome in the festive season in the fine surroundings of Northampton Cathedral …. the full panoply of the Fiori Musicali
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Fiori’s splendid pre-Christmas concert to welcome in the festive season in the fine surroundings of Northampton Cathedral …. the full panoply of the Fiori Musicali Chamber Orchestra, the Fiori Choir, stunning soloists, trumpets and drums in Handel’s much-loved Messiah – a work the composer completed in just 24 days, and one which comes alive again at every performance. Not to be missed!
Begin Christmas in style! Do bring a cushion!
Fiori Musicali baroque Chamber Orchestra
Fiori Musicali Chamber Choir
Katy Hill soprano
Oliver Gerrish countertenor
Ed Hastings tenor
Andrew Tipple bass
Penelope Rapson conductor
Tickets: £15-£45, concessions for children, students and blue badge. Wheelchair users, free ticket for carer.