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The Baroque Collective is arranging a concert series in the near future and is available for concerts and festival bookings. Examples of Programmes for 2009: Opera and Song
A wronged woman, a betrayed heart, a noble queen. One of Purcell’s finest works, Dido and Aeneas was first performed in 1689 and tells of the desertion of Dido by Aeneas and her subsequent death by her own hand. Featuring Dido’s beautiful lament ‘When I am laid in earth’ this is a drama of great tragedy and violence. The Players led by Alison Bury and professional team of soloists The Singers Directed by John Hancorn Semi-staged concert performance Fee: £4,200 Handel (1685-1759): Acis and Galatea Handel’s tuneful and mostly lighthearted pastorale was among the composer’s most popular works in the 1700s. The story tells of Galatea transforming her lover Acis into a fountain after he has been killed by the jealous Polyphemus and features the famous bass solos ‘I rage, I melt, I burn’ and 'O ruddier than the cherry', and the tenor aria ‘Love in her eyes sits playing’. The Players led by Alison Bury and professional team of soloists The Singers Directed by John Hancorn Semi-staged concert performance Fee: £3,250 Extra cost for professional ensemble of 8 singers £1600 The Cares of Lovers A programme exploring the universal theme of love including Henry Lawes’s charming ‘Dialogue on a Kiss’, Purcell’s ‘Music for a while’, extracts from ‘Dido and Aeneas’, and lute solos by John Dowland. A perfect evening’s entertainment. ‘Evelyn Tubb is a singing actress with graceful presence, alert eyes, distinct and communicative words, pure pitch, a timbre that can swell and sparkle without losing steadiness, definite notes and fluent divisions, bold graces and adornments that ring out freely’. Opera Magazine Evelyn Tubb, soprano John Hancorn, baritone Michael Fields, lute and theorbo David Wright, harpsichord Fee: £2,750 Instrumental Groundes, Ayres and Dances
Music for violins and lute from seventeenth-century England.
John Playford’s ‘The Division Violin’ was published in 1684 and features lively and virtuosic variations with a repeating ‘Ground Base’, based on popular songs of the day such as ‘John Come Kiss Me Now’ and ‘Johney Cock thy Beaver’. Marketed as ‘the First Musick of this Kind ever published’ it was immediately reprinted with ten extra songs and was widely known and performed. The composer Matthew Locke followed Charles II into exile and eventually wrote for his Royal Wind Band and Royal Band of Violins. He resisted the fashionable French style of the day and his music remained original, very English, and rather eccentric. This programme features his colourful Suites of Airs and Dances. Purcell represented the culmination of English 17th Century music and is arguably England’s greatest composer. His rich, Italiante trio-sonatas include a Chaconne on a ground bass – continuing the theme of this programme. Alison Bury and Henrietta Wayne, violins Music by Mozart for clarinet and strings including the one of the greatest masterpieces of the repertoire, the Clarinet Quintet. Divertimento in D for string quartet Clarinet Quintet Violin Virtuosi of the Baroque French and Italian baroque music by two of the great violin virtuosi of the day – Vivaldi and the less well known but equally brilliant Jean-Marie Leclair Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Sonata for two violins and basso continuo, op.1 no.11 Sonata for cello and basso continuo, op.14 no.6 Sonata for two violins and basso continuo ‘Folia’ op.1 no.12
Jean-Marie Leclair(1697-1764) Sonata for two violins and basso continuo, op.4 no.3 Sonata for two violins without bass, op.12 no.5
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) From ‘Nouvelles Suites de pieces de Clavecin Alison Bury and Henrietta Wayne, violins Emily Robinson, cello Maggie Cole, harpsichord Fee: £1400 Choral Selections from the following: 6 solo voices, with 2 violins and continuo Fee: from £1500 |
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