Tickets are available now from Taunton Visitor Centre ( £10 full price, £5 for students and under 12s free) The second concert at 6pm on Monday May 7th is in the Church of St John the Baptist, Wellington TA21 8QY, when BEMP singers under their principal Musical Director, JanJoost van Elburg, will present a programme… Read More »Folies et Folettes: virtuoso French baroque music for viols and theorbo
Over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend Blackdowns Early Music Projects are promoting two concerts, this is the second second concert, starting at 6pm on Monday May 7th in the Church of St John the Baptist, Wellington TA21 8QY. BEMP singers under their principal Musical Director, JanJoost van Elburg, will present a programme of music… Read More »Iberian Treasury: Renaissance music from Spain and Portugal
BEMP SPRING FESTIVAL: We are delighted to welcome Gawain Glenton to direct a programme of choral music from the Austrian Habsburg court, seat of the Holy Roman Emperors. The full programme will include multivoice works of Gombert, Valentini, Hassler, both Gabrielis, Zanotti. Massaino and Bertali, among others. In addition to voices we will have a… Read More »Felix Austriae: Vienna and the Sound of Habsburg power
BEMP SPRING FESTIVAL: Lynda Sayce will bring a number of her favourite examples of members of the lute family to share in her ‘lute roadshow’, offering a history of the instrument, illustrated with 10 or so different and contrasting lutes covering almost a millennium’s worth of music. Each instrument will be described in its historical… Read More »The Lute Family: A Lecture/Recital by Lynda Sayce ~ a history of the lute
BEMP SPRING FESTIVAL: Newe Vialles first recital in Culmstock last year was absolutely electrifying; Caroline Ritchie and Henrik Persson with Lynda Sayce on theorbo, return to play on Saturday evening May 25th at 8 pm in All Saints’ Church Culmstock. This year's programme will take the audience on a journey from one of the fathers… Read More »L’incomparable Monsieur Forqueray (et ses amis) ~ Recital for Viola da Gamba by New Vialles
BEMP SPRING FESTIVAL: BEMP's Principal Musical Director JanJoost van Elburg brings the Bartholomew Consort of Oxford to complete the Spring Festival series in Wellington School Chapel. The Bartholomew Consort was established under JanJoost in 2001 with members drawn from all over the UK and the Netherlands. The group has performed regularly in Oxford and frequently… Read More »‘Komm, Heiliger Geist’ ~ Guest choir Bartholomew Consort of Oxford
Giovanni Felice Sances (c1600 - 1679) Missa Sancta Maria Magdalenae Heinrich Ignatz von Biber (1644- 1704) Requiem à 15 Director JANJOOST VAN ELBURG Soloists: Amy Haworth, Claire Lees, Caroline Trevor, Ingeborg Bröcheler, Mark Dobell, Mark Bonney, Thomas Flint & Simon Whiteley The Monteverdi String Band, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble Born in Rome, Sances established… Read More »GRAND BAROQUE IV: Sances and Biber in Exeter Cathedral
At last! Real Live Music… The BEMP Third Thursday recital series opens on May 20th in All Saints' Church, Culmstock First up will be Newe Vialles, who are delighted to be returning to Culmstock for a recital of characterful and quirky music from 17th century England. The programme features sumptuous lyra viol music by the… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – Newe Vialles – Good Againe
Two of the West Country’s finest fiddle-players join forces to form this fabulous duo with an innovative take on English traditional music and song. Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll are highly-respected musicians, composers and workshop leaders based in North Devon. They first collaborated as a fiddle duo on a busking trip around Spain and Portugal,… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll – English Fiddles & Folk
The three members of Pandora’s Box, Emily White, John Kenny and Miguel Tantos Sevilliano are bringing a programme entitled The Turning Wheel in which the extraordinary versatility of all three musicians will shine, as instrumentalists playing a range of instruments from sackbut to trombone, baroque violin to bicycle frame (yes!), and as singers, arrangers and… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – Pandora’s Box – The Turning Wheel
