We’re delighted that, following the success of last year’s programme, we will be once again be running a weekly early chamber music series this summer in the spectacular surroundings of Christ Church Cathedral. Programmes will include a Mozart string quintet and flute quartet, music from La Chapelle Royale at Versailles, Purcell’s Fantasias and Trio Sonatas, Bach’s Art of Fugue, and ravishing arias by Handel.
Concerts will be on Tuesdays at 8pm between 28th June and 2nd August.
The events are:
28th June Composé a l’ordre du Roi - Music for the French royal court by Couperin Download Texts / Translations
Danni O’Neill, Holly Teague - Soprano; Edmund Saddington - Baritone; Anna Curzon, Davina Clarke - Violin; Reiko Ichise - Basse de Viole; Edward Higginbottom - Organ
5th July Art of Fantasia and Fugue - Masterful counterpoint by Henry Purcell and J.S. Bach Download Programme
Pavlo Beznosiuk - Violin; Rachel Byrt - Viola; Katherine Sharman - Cello; William Whitehead - Harpsichord/Organ
12th July Melodic Inspiration - Mozart’s Flute Quartet K. 285 and String Quintet K.515 Book Tickets Download Programme
Caroline Balding, Jean Paterson - Violin; Rachel Byrt, Vanessa McNaught - Viola; Gabriel Amherst - Cello; Jonathan Slade - Flute
19th July An Evening of Musick with Mr Pepys - Music from the theatre, chamber, and library of Samuel Pepys Book Tickets / Download Programme
Ian Wilson - Recorder; Bojan Cicic - Violin; Susanne Heinrich - Bass Viol; Lynda Sayce - Theorbo/Guitar; Christopher Bucknall - Harpsichord/Organ
26th July Florid Sentiments - Arias and chamber music by Handel, Corelli, and Babel Book Tickets / Download Programme
Elspeth Piggott - Soprano; Jane Downer - Oboe; Jean Paterson - Violin; Imogen Seth-Smith - Cello; Steven Grahl - Harpsichord
2nd August The Other Virgin Queen - Music by Stradella, Leonarda, Corelli, and Handel at the Court of Queen Christina in Rome Book Tickets / Download Programme
Persephone Gibbs, Elizabeth MacCarthy - Violin; Imogen Seth-Smith - Cello; Christopher Bucknall - Harpsichord
IT&T is very grateful for the support of John Osborn and Continuo Foundation towards the costs of this project.
FREE TICKETS are available to audience members ages 8-25 thanks to the generosity of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust
