March 2006:
Hanbarne Baroque Ensemble: Festival of European Sacred Music(PDF File)
Sunday, 5 March at 7.30 Imperial College Union Chamber Choir
Saturday, 11 March at 7.30 Hanbarne Baroque Ensemble:
Festival of Sacred Music (1) France : le Siècle d'Or
Couperin, Charpentier, Campra, Nivers, Boyvin
Sophie Boyer, Marie Degodet, Marie-George Monet (singers) Sean Joseph (Viole de gambe) Tim Roe (harpsichord/chamber organ)
This delectable vocal trio, trained in the traditions of Hervé Niquet's Le Concert Spirituel and William Christie's Les Arts Florissants, brings authentic colours of late 17 th c. French Latin to classics such as the Charpentier Magnificat, F.Couperin's Leçons de Ténèbres, with more rarely heard vocal solos, and interludes for gamba (Marais) and organ (Boyvin).
Sunday, 12 March at 7.00 University of London Union Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich: 8 th Symphony
Saturday, 18 March at 7.30 Hanbarne Baroque Ensemble:
Festival of Sacred Music (2) The Englishe muse
Dowland, Purcell, Humfrey, Pergolesi, Handel
With Sarah Busfield (soprano), Christine Petch (mezzo), Lara James & Sara Struntz (violins), Ruth Player (viola), David Parsons (theorbo), Sean Joseph (gamba), Tim Roe (harpsichord & chamber organ)
Thursday, 23 March at 7.30 Ensemble Ne Plus Ultra
Festival of Sacred Music (3) Spanish cathedral music in the golden age
Francisco Guerrero and contemporaries
An ensemble with a growing reputation for consistent revelation of the gems of this repertoire, on CD and in concert.
Saturday, 25 March at 7.30 Hanbarne Baroque Ensemble:
May:
Festival of Sacred Music (4) German Kapellmeisters
Australian counter-tenor Glenn Kesby and American soprano Emily Atkinson put Bach's achievements in the context of work by five other Kapellmeisters (Graun, Schmelzer, Zelenka, Telemann, Schütz) and London 's opera tycoon, Georg F. Händel, who found time in the 1720s to write settings of German texts by Brockes, the Hamburg poet.
Alexander Koshelev (oboe), Sara Struntz and Lara James (violin), Ruth Player (viola), Poppy Walshaw (cello), Tim Roe (harpsichord/organ).
Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 7.30 Choir of the 21 st century (dir. Howard Williams)
Thursday May 4th at 7.30
Royal College of Music Bach Ensemble (dir. Ashiq Aziz)
PERGOLESI Stabat mater
BEETHOVEN 3rd Symphony ('Eroica')
Admission FREE
Saturday, May 6th 2006 at 7.30
CC21 (Choir of the 21st century), directed by Howard
Williams
John Reid - piano
Tim Roe - organ
PURCELL : Thou Knowest,Lord, the secrets of our hearts.
Lord, how long?
Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes
SCHUBERT Ständchen (TTBB), Gebet (SATB)
BRITTEN Choral Dances from Gloriana
Interval
PURCELL: O Lord, God of Hosts
Hear my Prayer, O Lord
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem
SCHUBERT Psalm 23 (SSAA), Des Tages Weihe (SATB)
BRITTEN Rejoice in the Lamb
Admission £10
June 10th 2006
RCM Junior Department: annual choirs spectacular
June 14th 2006
Cathy Lamb recital at 1:05 Admission free
June 20th 2006
An evening of French music for Female Chorus
Francis Poulenc |
Litanies a la Vierge Noire |
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Ave Maria from the Dialogues of the Carmelites |
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Ave Verum Corpus |
Maurice Durufle |
Tota Pulchra Es |
And a selection of works by Faure, Franck, Delibes and Caplet, with a Louis Vierne organ solo
Organ: Christopher Cromar Director:
Sofi Jeannin Foissard July 1st 2006
Bruckner Mass in E minor
Bruckner 3 motets
Beethoven Rondino
Vox Cordis, with Orchestra of St Paul's (… Covent Garden )
Conductors Ben Palmer and Matthew Altham
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