LITTLE THINGS IN ODD SHAPES
Unusual chamber music
4 February - 3 March 2024 (various dates)
Sunday 4 February 2024 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm
A Starlit Grove:
Icantati
Works by Bach, Purcell and Telemann contrasted with arrangements of Ukrainian melodies, and the premiere of a contemporary piece inspired by Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics.
Incantati
- Petra Samhaber (eckart violin)
- Rachel Stott (viola d'amore)
- Ibi Aziz (viola da gamba)
Tickets from £10 available here.
Also part of the Sunday Sundown concert series.
Monday 12 February 2024 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Haydn Goes Tick-Tock:
OAE Experience Ensemble led by Maggie Faultless, plus special guest storyteller Wilf Merttens
Join us for one of Haydn's biggest, where we stretch time itself with the help of a really full orchestra and storyteller Wilf Merttens. We break up the Clock symphony and explore it as an expression of the Enlightenment within the changing landscape of the industrial revolution. Is there a tick-tock in everything? or is it simply a construct of our own making?
Programme
- F J Haydn - Symphony No.101 in D major
- F J Haydn - Allegro from Symphony No.63 in C major
Tickets from £10 available here.
Sunday 18 February 2024 from 6:00pm to 10:30pm
Air, Bellows and Sympathetic Strings
Istante Collective and Friends
Join us for a Scandinavian cruise, led by the charming sound of the native nyckelharpa, and onto a trip through the British Isles. Navigating and blending the baroque and folk repertoire along the way. Who knows where we will finally disembark?
Performers
- Istante Collective
- Nicola Barbagli (flutes, accordion)
- Gabi Mass (fiddle, nickelharpe)
Homemade Baroquestock-focaccia and drinks will be available before, during and after the concert!
Tickets from £10 available here.
Also part of the Sunday Sundown concert series.
Friday 23 February 2024 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Nico’s Favourites (One Year Later):
Istante Collective
Celebrating the first 'birthday' of Nicola's new oboe (the old one sadly got pinched - read here) join us for a confluence of lesser-known but quirky and cool music for oboe, violin, gamba and continuo. Expect to discover something fascinating, and to go home humming a little odd-shaped tune.
Sonatas, fantasias and arrangments by Telemann, Philidor, Schmelzer, Praetorius and...
Istante Collective
- Beatrice Scaldini (violino)
- Nicola Barbagli (oboe, flauto)
- Johan Lofving (theorbo)
- Kate Conway (cello/gamba)
- John-Henry Baker (basse de violon)
Homemade Baroquestock-focaccia and drinks will be available before, during and after the concert!
Tickets from £10 available here.
Friday 1 March 2024 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Key-Crossed Lovers:
Istante Collective
Join us as we look through the keyhole of music into the life and times of Mr and Mrs Danzi-Lebrun. Through their partnership of life and composition they brought a sense of divine melody and song all across Europe. Signora Lebrun was best known as a soprano with extraordinary coloratura abilities; however, perhaps equally if not more unusual was the fact that (as a woman composer) she had published in 1780 two sets of violin sonatas. We complete the programme with music by ‘friends’ of the Lebruns, Mozart and Gatti.
Programme
- W A Mozart - Gran Partita K361 arranged by C F G Schwencke for violin, oboe, viola, cello and fortepiano
- L Gatti - quartet for oboe and string trio in C major
- Franziska Danzi-Lebrun - 2 sonatas for violin and fortepiano op1/2
- L A Lebrun - concerto n.1 in D minor in a new arrangement for oboe, violin, viola, cello, fortepiano by Robert Percival
Istante Collective
- Nicola Barbagli (oboe)
- Beatrice Scaldini (violino)
- TBC (viola)
- Cristina Vidoni (cello)
- Jacopo Raffaele (fortepiano)
Homemade Baroquestock-focaccia and drinks will be available before, during and after the concert!
Tickets from £10 available here.
Saturday 2 March 2024 at 7:30pm to 9:00pm
A FortePiano Affair:
Istante Collective and Hilary Cronin
Music by Mozart, Danzi, Rossetti and Haydn.
Programme
- F. Danzi - Sextet op.10 in E Flat for for oboe, 2 violas, 2 horns and cello
- W.A.Mozart - 'andante' from fortepiano concerto K414
- A.Rossetti - notturno in D for oboe, 2 horns, violin , viola and cello
- W.A.Mozart - 'ch'io mi scordi di te' concert aria for soprano, fortepiano and ensemble K505
Istante Collective
- Hilary Cronin (soprano)
- Nicola Barbagli (oboe)
- Beatrice Scaldini (violino)
- Christiane Eidsten Dahl (violin)
- Nichola Blakey (viola)
- Sam Kennedy (viola)
- David Horwich (horn)
- Peter Moutissius (horn)
- Dominika Maszczynska (fortepiano)
Homemade Baroquestock-focaccia and drinks will be available before, during and after the concert!
Tickets from £10 available here.
Sunday 3 March 2024 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Rautio Piano Trio
A special concert launching the Trio's second album of Beethoven Trios on Resonus Classics, part of their wider project to record the complete cycle on fortepiano. They will perform music from their new album alongside Haydn’s well-loved Gipsy Rondo trio.
The programme will explore the wit, charm and inventiveness of theme and variations shown in each work, and the development of Beethoven’s writing for the genre. It will also feature an artists in conversation event where the musicians talk about their approach to playing on historical instruments and invite questions from the audience.
Signed CDs will be available from the Trio at the concert.
Programme
- Beethoven - Op.44 Trio Theme and Variations
- Haydn - Gipsy Rondo Trio in G Hob XV:25
- Beethoven - Op.11 Trio in Bflat Gassenhauer
- Beethoven - Op.70/1 ‘Ghost’
Rautio Piano Trio
- Jane Gordon (violin)
- Victoria Simonsen (cello)
- Jan Rautio (fortepiano)
Homemade Baroquestock-focaccia and drinks will be available before and after the concert!
Tickets from £10 available here.
Also part of the Sunday Sundown concert series.
The Rautio Trio has released three critically acclaimed albums with Resonus Classics and are frequently heard on BBC Radio 3. They have performed at the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, South Bank, Bridgewater Hall, throughout the UK and in France, Austria and Germany. In 2022 the Trio launched the first volume of the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Trios, recorded on fortepiano, receiving 5 stars in the BBC Music Magazine and glowing reviews in the Gramophone and Early Music Review. The Trio's eagerly awaited second volume is released in March 2024.
The Trio are grateful to the Continuo Foundation for their support.
At Heath Street Baptist Church - see map and get directions.