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November
sat22nov6:00 pmsat7:45 pmMusic for Saint Cecilia6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Time
22 November 2025 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Location
St Mary the Virgin, Great Brington, Northants NN7 4JB
Event Details
Music for Saint CeciliaTo celebrate the feast day of St Cecilia (patron saint of music) Fiori present the first ever public performance of Quirino Colombani’s Oratorio
Event Details
Music for Saint CeciliaTo celebrate the feast day of St Cecilia (patron saint of music) Fiori present the first ever public performance of Quirino Colombani’s Oratorio di Santa Cecilia, written for Rome in 1701.
St Cecilia has been the Patron Saint of Music since the 16th century and over the years many composers have feted her (including Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten). This November we celebrate her Feast Day with a performance by Fiori Musicali of Colombani’s Oratorio di Santa Cecilia . This will be the first ever professional public performance of this amazing music, which has lain hidden away in manuscripts for centuries.
The concert takes place on her Saint’s Day (Saturday 22 November) in St Mary the Virgin Church, Great Brington – where the ancestors of the Spencer family lie.
An unique opportunity to discover completely new music from the turn of the 18th century, composed by a skilled and successful Roman composer (albeit little known today) who worked for Prince Ruspoli and the d’Este family.
Colombani Oratorio di Santa Cecilia
The Fiori Musicali Chamber Ensemble
with
Judit Felszeghy soprano
Judith Daykin alto
Jonathan Hanley tenor
Andrew Tipple bass
Penelope Rapson director
This concert is generously supported by the Continuo Foundation
Price
Ticket price
£6.00 – £30.00
December
fri05dec6:00 pmfri7:45 pmGrafton UnderwoodA Candlelight Concert for Advent6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Time
5 December 2025 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Location
St James the Apostle Church, Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, NN14 3AA
Event Details
JS Bach and his circle An atmospheric Advent candlelight concert. Hauntingly beautiful, reflective music for the season before Christmas, performed in the lovely
Event Details
JS Bach and his circle
An atmospheric Advent candlelight concert.
Hauntingly beautiful, reflective music for the season before Christmas, performed in the lovely late 13th-century church at Grafton Underwood, a place noted for its stunning new Thomas Denny stained glass windows.
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 contemporary Georg Kauffmann (Bach’s rival for the post of Kapellmeister in Leipzig) and his pupils Ludwig Krebs and Gottfried Homilius.
Do join us for this special evening.
Mince pies…
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
Tamsin Cowell baroque trumpet
Singers from the Fiori Musicali Choir
Penelope Rapson director/chamber organ
This concert is supported by Mrs Mary Laing
tue23dec6:00 pmtue8:45 pmMr Handel's Messiah6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Time
23 December 2025 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Location
Northampton Cathedral NN2 6AG
Kingsthorpe Road, Northampton NN2 6AG
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 with the Fiori Musicali Chamber Choir with Ailsa Campbell soprano, Oliver Gerrish countertenor, David de Winter tenor, Andrew Tipple bass, Penelope Rapson conductor
Tickets: £15-£40, concessions for children, students and blue badge. Wheelchair users, free ticket for carer.