Past Editions
Autumn / Winter 2019
at Heath Street Baptist Church, NW3 1DN
Our first baroquestock autumn concert of 2019 starts with the end of 18th Century in Salzburg. On one side of the town the young Mozart is writing a septet divertimento for his sister's name day, and on the other side is Luigi Gatti, the official Kappelmaister (and therefore considered much more important than the Mozart fam), busy producing masses and all sorts of celebration music for his 'boss', Archbishop Colleredo. But he still finds time to create some really very peculiar chamber music for the talented musicians of the court orchestra. In Gatti's Sextet you'll be able to hear very demanding parts written for cor angais and cello!
Our concert will also include two opera arias arranged for small ensemble and sung by our friend and wonderful mezzo-soprano Emily Gray. And apparently it's not just us who think she's incredible:
One performer stood out as already knowing how to use her dramatic and vocal skills to the utmost: mezzo-soprano Emily Gray (Ottavia).
The Guardian & Observer, July 2017
So around this time in Salzburg, when an opera was successful, publishers and young composers would be ready to produce arrangements of the "best bits". In this way the music could be circulated among small courts, amateur musicians, provincial theatres...fortunately/unfortunately they didn't recordings back then. We aim to make this as a "tradition" of our concerts, and give you the best bits, just like the chocolate balls.
Enjoy the concert with our special baroquestock hot chocolate which will be available at the Apothecary bar(open from 5pm), as well as amazing homemade cakes, of course. 🙂
F. J. Haydn - Deh soccorri un infelice Clelia's aria from l'infedelta' premiata
W. A.Mozart - batti batti bel Masetto from Don Giovanni
(arranged for small ensemble and mezzo soprano)
W. A. Mozart - Divertimento K251 for 2 violins, viola, bass, oboe and 2 horns
Istante Collective
Mezzo-soprano - Emily Gray
Violins - Gabi Mass, Sophia Prodanova
Viola - Cecile Ross
Cello - Alex Rolton
Bass - John-Henry Baker
Oboe - Nicola Barbagli
Bassoon - Catriona McDermid
Horns - Dave Horwich, Daniel de Souza
Standard Tickets - £12
Advance tickets (Online only) - £10
Students: £5 (door only, with Student ID 🙂
Doors open 5pm with Food and Drinks, Music from 6pm
Baroquestock cafe will be serving:
Cakes!
Hot 'Gatti' chocolate
music by Telemann, Purcell, Couperin, Mateis, Barsanti.
Musicians have always travelled, and they always will!
Composers music has always travelled as well (especially after printing music became a business!)
Fidelio Cafe in Farringdon [EC1R 5BX]
The title of our first #NewBachAbel concert is taken from Nicola Mateis's Airs for the Violin - a collection of airs, dances and suites that overlap Italian, French and English musical tastes. Mateis was a highly regarded violin virtuoso, and travelled from Naples to London where he was described as second only to Corelli.
We will also meet Francesco Barsanti, another Italian composer who went even further than London, reaching Edinburgh in 1735, where he published a set of Old Scot's Tunes – traditional melodies to which he added his own bass-lines. In order to be *super authentic*, we thought we would bring some musicians down from Scotland - Lucia, David and Laszlo will be coming especially!
There were also some composers who didn’t travel much and sometimes the music didn’t get further than the desk they were scribbled down on, and also some cases where the music didreach the public…but under a different name than that of the composer. Was this simply a form of celebrity endorsement and product branding? After all, if music published under the name of a famous composer is good for business, does it matter who actually wrote it?
Come to hear an evening of ‘bizzarrie’, gossip, and wonderful forgotten music.
Our programme will include:
N.Mateis - Selection from airs for the violin
N.Barsanti - Selection from Old Scotch Tunes
G.Ph.Telemann - Triosonata in C Minor TWV 42:c2
French Suites of Philidor and Dornel
More music by Vivaldi/Chedeville
Istante Collective
Nicola Barbagli || oboe, recorder
László Rózsa || recorders
Lucia Capellaro || cello/gamba
David Gerrard || harpsichord
at Red Door Cafe, Greenwich [SE10 9JA]
SERIO e FACETO presents
Le Astuzie Femminili
(Feminine Wiles)
Voice - Irene Biancalani
Accordion - Nicola Barbagli
Have you ever travelled to countries and found that you couldn't understand a single word of the local language? We hope you have! This isn't just because meeting different people is great, but also because it's definitely a musical experience. As you slowly move further from your mother-tongue everything is based more and more on sensation, a new sound world is created and interpretation becomes... basically, total guesswork!
But! If you allow yourself to be led by feelings, sound itself will become your understanding, as the story itself is recounted in 'sound'. In this new context, which may well feel confusing, your senses will be highly active and you might discover magical sounds - magical stories! - that you have never heard before. By the end of the evening (maybe with the help of a glass of wine) you'll be able to speak and sing in...Polish? Italian? Neapolitan? Russian?
Come and discover the musical journey to Russia of a young Neapolitan composer, Domenico Cimarosa, and how music can be everybody's language!
We take the name of our show (and perhaps more?) from Cimarosa's first Opera when he came home to Naples, which was premiered on 26th august 1794...
Doors open 7pm
Music from 8pm
Standard Tickets - £7
Advance tickets (Online only) - £5
Students: £5 (door only, with Student ID 🙂
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at Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead [NW3 1DN]
London Haydn Quartet
We're very excited to welcome back the London Haydn Quartet to the intimate settings of Heath St Baptist Church for an all-Haydn string quartet feast.
Haydn String Quartets:
- Op 76 No. 1 in G -
- Op 76 No. 6 in E flat -
- Op 76 No 5. in D -
Violin - Catherine Manson, Michael Gurevich || Viola - John Crockatt || Cello - Jonathan Manson
Doors & The Apothecary Bar open from 7pm, Music from 7.30pm. The Apothecary Bar will serve drinks and home-made Haydn-focaccia before and after the concert!
Standard Tickets - £12
Advance tickets (Online only) - £10
Students: £5 (door only, with Student ID 🙂
One of the world’s leading period instrument string quartets, The London Haydn Quartet was born out of a passion for Haydn. they have received invitations to many of the most important concert series in UK, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. The London Haydn Quartet’s series of recordings of Haydn’s quartets on the Hyperion label (the op 9, op 17, op 20, op 33, op 50, op 54/55 and op 64 quartets to date) have met with international critical acclaim.
The quartet has given recitals of all-Haydn programmes at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Cheltenham Festival, Utrecht Festival, Bath Mozartfest, Klara Festival the Granada International Festival and at Haydn festivals in Esterhazy, Lincoln and Lyon and the English Haydn Festival.
The musicians imbued both works with myriad details of shading and contrast, and beautifully calibrated phrasing
New York Times, January 2014
at Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead [NW3 1DN]
The Carnival Band love performing with Carnival Choirs and would like to invite you to join them for A Carnival of Carols for a special December concert. There are no auditions and the choirs are open to all. Each choir will have a one-day workshop led by Andy Watts at which singers will learn arrangements in four-part harmony from the band's extensive repertoire of festive music. You will be able to download sheet music and recordings to help you learn your part, and on the day of the concert there will be a final rehearsal with The Carnival Band.
As in 2017, Maddy Prior will not be joining us, so the choir will take centre stage and sing about half the items in the concert.
On-line support for Choir members will be given access to downloads of sheet music and mp3 sound files to help them prepare for the concert. Printed music booklets will be given at the workshop. All materials are included in the price.
The number of places is limited to 40 in each choir so early application is recommended. We reserve the right to balance the choir by limiting the number of singers on each voice part.
Cost of combined workshop and concert ticket is £50 (under 19s £25). Please note, choir members are required to sing in the concert and must attend the whole of the workshop day. They must attend the whole three-hour rehearsal on the day of the concert
Workshop: Saturday 16th November 10.00am - 4.00pm
Rehearsal: Saturday 14th December 2.30pm - 5.30pm
Concert: Saturday 14th December 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm (est. finish)
All events take place at Heath Street Baptist Church.
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Fidelio Cafe in Farringdon [EC1R 5BX]
music by Lebrun, Druvshesky, Mozart, Haydn, Giardini
Our second concert of this series will feature a mini-history of the oboe around the second half of the eighteenth century, telling the stories of oboe virtuosi of the time. Some were constant travellers, others court musicians, some were charlatans and others were able promoters of their own compositions as well as being famous teachers.
We start with Friedrich Ramm, court oboist in Munich, who inspired Mozart to write the KV370 quartet in 1781. Then we move to Jiri Druvshesky, who was not just a timpanist and oboist but also a J.S.Bach scholar long before Mendelssohn "rediscovered" Bach's Passions. Istante Collective will bring those unconventional divas back to life for an evening.
Programme will include music and stories form:
Lebrun - Trios op.2 n.3
Stamitz - Quartet op.8n.4
Georg Drushetzky - Quartet in G minor on "B.A.C.H." name
Mozart - Quartet K370
Giardini - Quartetto op.25 n.3
Bochsa - Quartet n.2 in D minor
Istante Collective
Oboe - Nicola Barbagli
Violin - Naomi Burrel
Viola - Elitsa Bogdanova
Cello - Gavin Kibble
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at Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead [NW3 1DN]
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Saraband
A concert of 17th century music from the court, theatre and tavern. From the sorrowful Pavans of Matthew Locke and sumptuous sonorities of Henry Purcell, to tunes by celebrated violinists of the day: Nicola Matteis, John Eccles and superstar Italian - Corelli. Also...Solos for baroque guitar and viola da gamba and sprinklings of the best stories and gossip from circa 1680.
Saraband are joined by their very own Thesp, Rob Maskell - still smelling of greasepaint from his run in 'Fiddler on the Roof' - to take us into the world of the 17th century theatre and tavern with stories and songs by the greatest wits of the age, including the famous scurvy poet, Tom D'Urfey.
Violin - Henrietta Wayne & Sarah Bealby-Wright,
Viola de Gamba & Cello - Kate Conway
Theorbo & Guitar - David Miller
Robert Maskell - Actor/ Balladmonger
Standard Tickets - £12
Advance tickets (Online only) - £10
Students: £5 (door only, with Student ID 🙂
Doors open 5pm, Music from 6pm
at Red Door Cafe, Greenwich [SE10 9JA]
Flauti d’echo explores the huge variety of colours that emerge when one musical line traces in the exact footsteps of another. With playful mirroring, haunting reflections and virtuosic imitations, the programme will include the music of J.S. Bach, Purcell and Uccellini.
Music to include:
W.A.Mozart - Spiegelkanon (K3.284dd; K.Anh.10.16)
Henry Purcell - Chaconne ‘Two in One Upon a Ground’
Marco Uccellini ñ Aria Sopra la Bergamasca
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre - PrÈlude
G.P. Telemann ñ Canon MÈlodieux
Formed by recorder players Tabea Debus and Olwen Foulkes, Flauti díecho create repertoire for the recorder through their own arrangements of fifteenth-eighteenth century music and new commissions. The ensemble engages a variety of different instrumentalists on a project-to-project basis that allows them to communicate their wide range of repertoire to audiences in multiple performance settings. Flauti d’echo were participants of the BREMF Live! Scheme 2017-18 and won the Nancy Nuttal Early Music Prize for Chamber music in 2016. They are the ‘Take Note’ ensemble for Chiltern Arts Festival 2019.
For this special concert you can choose from one of three show times. Each show will last 45mins-1hr. Tea/Coffee will be served until 7pm, and alcohol will be available at all three shows)
The Early Show (kid-friendly!)- 4pm
The Middle Show (less kid-friendly) - 6pm
The Late Show (adult-friendly)- 8pm
Standard Tickets - £7
Advance tickets (Online only) - £5
Students/kids: £3 (door only, with Student ID 🙂
at Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead [NW3 1DN]
A Carnival of Carols
Seasonal music from one of the UKís best-loved earlymusic/folk bands. From Medieval England to ële jazz coolí via Latin rhythms and Cajun beats, The Carnival Band blend the spirit of Christmas with the spirit of celebration the world over to create a delicious Yuletide cocktail. These four musical explorers, well-known for their recordings with Maddy Prior, perform here in their own right playing a cornucopia of instruments and delighting with rich vocal harmony. Their music includes traditional carols such as I
Saw Three Shipsand The Boarís Headand new compositions ranging from the reflective (Bright Evening Star) to the comic (The Lighthouse Keeperís Christmas). The perfect start to the festive season. Suitable for all ages.
Andy Watts - flemish bagpipes, shawm, recorders, clarinet, curtal, melodica, vocals
Giles Lewin - fiddle, shawm, medieval bagpipes, recorders, vocals
Jub Davis - double bass, vocals
Steno Vitale - cittern, acoustic and electric guitar, vocals
Doors open 7pm, Music from 7.30pm
The Apothecary Bar will serve hot snacks & drinks
Tickets £15 / £12 concessions from
carnivalband.com and on the door
Fb: TheCarnivalBandEngland
T: MaddyAndTheCB
An entirely enjoyable evening
The Guardian
The band is terrific
Lancashire Evening Post
Fidelio Cafe in Farringdon [EC1R 5BX]
NewBachAbel Concert Series #3
London 1762: Bach & Abel's first concert
music by Abel, J.C.Bach, Mozart, Haydn
Johan Christian Bach
Quartet in C major W.B 58,
Quartet in A major W.B 59
Quartet in D major W.B 62
Carl Friedrich Abel
Quartet in F major WK 225
Istante Collective
Flute - Falvia Hirte
Oboe - Nicola Barbagli
Violin - Holly Harman
Viola - Cecile Ross
Cello - Harry Buckoke
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Baroquestock 2019: Fine Lines
Jonathan Williams - Conductor
Programme:
• W.A.Mozart - Sinfonia concertante K297b for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra •
• Michael Haydn Requiem •
6.30pm - Doors Open
7pm - Pre-concert Talk with Dr.Alessandra Palidda (Free to all concert ticket holders)
7.30pm - Concert
We invite you to catch at least two of Zelenka’s sonatas in this lunchtime concert special. This is part of the weekly lunchtime concert series which carries on almost every week throughout the year at the church. Free entry with retiring collection, no tickets necessary.
1pm
Zelenka Sonatas No.3, No.4 & No.6
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