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2021-10-05 08:11:21
Back indoors: BREMF returns with an action-packed Autumn weekend
Joglaresa, who appear at BREMF on 24/10/21 (Photo Andrew Mason) Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) has kept the faith these last 18 months via on-line offerings and outdoor Summer concerts, now BREMF is back with an indoor, in-person concert series from 20 to 24 October 2021 taking place in St George’s Church, Kemptown and St Martin’s Church, Lewes Road.The programme includes Clare Norburn's latest concert-play, I Spie, which posits a dramatic spying past for composer John Dowlen, being presented by Norburn's ensemble The Telling (20/10/2021), the festival's own BREMF Consort of Voices in a programme of music by two composers who both died in 1521, Josquin and Fayrfax (21/10/2021), Canzona in French Baroque music by Rameau, Clérambault, Marais and Leclair (22/10/2021), the showcase of emerging talent, BREMF Live! (23/10/2021) and Joglaresa in medieval cantigas telling of weird and wonderful miracles performed by the Virgin Mary (24/10/2021). For those who are not […]
2021-06-02 06:57:45
Bringing live music back to Brighton: BREMF's Midsummer Season
[…] season begins on Saturday 5 June 2021 with The Forest of Mythical Breezes, the duo Flaugissimo in a programme of French baroque music and dance based on classical myths and audience members are invited to bring picnic chairs or rugs and a picnic to enjoy during the performance. The season continues with North Indian dance and storytelling (6 June), renaissance polyphony from the BREMF Consort of Voices, conductor Deborah Roberts, celebrating the Josquin and Robert Fayrfax centenaries (12 June), music from 17th century London and Italy with Lux Musicae London and the Fieri Consort (13 June & 3 July), Pocket Sinfonia and Thomas Guthrie in A Midsummer Night's Dream combining Mendelssohn and Shakespeare (20 June), the Monteverdi String Band's Monteverdi Re-imagined (3 July) and highlights from the earliest opera by a female composer – Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero (11 July). Full details from the BREMF website.
2021-04-28 06:25:34
From Beverley to Budleigh Salterton: festivals coming back to life
[…] Beverley Minster [where my eldest two uncles were christened]. Other performers include Alva (Vivien Ellis voice, Giles Lewin fiddles, bagpipes, Leah Stuttard medieval harps) in Angels in Architecture, La Serenissima with recorder player Tabea Debus, solo violinist Kati Debretzeni in Through the Eye of a Lense, a virtual tour of Europe through the “lens” of a violin, and Ex Corde, director Paul Gameson, in Heaven on Earth: Thomas More’s Utopian Dream, with music by Robert Fayrfax and Josquin des Prez, plus the premiere of a commission by Christopher Fox inspired by Thomas More’s vision. Also taking place over the weekend are the hugely popular Ballad Walks, led by Vivien Ellis, brimming with songs and stories from the streets. The tales span 800 years of history and reveal Beverley’s sometimes murky past as well as the fascinating tales of some of the inhabitants. All five concerts will be filmed and available […]
2018-08-16 23:00:00
Fayrfax Missa O quam glorifica & Motets
Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521)Missa O quam glorificaMotetsThe Cardinall's MusikAndrew CarwoodASV Gaudeamus GAU 142 (flacs & scans)Download
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