Blackdowns Early Music Projects’ principal director JanJoost van Elburg will The programme will feature spectacular baroque works by Heinrich Biber (1644-1704), Missa Alleluia a 36 and the Vespers a 32. Biber was Kappelmeister of Salzburg Cathedral and explored the musical use of that astonishing building to the full, writing complex choral polyphony for the Archbishop.… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – GRAND BAROQUE II
The first BEMP event in 2016 is on Sunday April 10th at 6pm in St. John the Baptist (Parish) Church in Wellington, led by principal director, JanJoost van Elburg. The programme is called Cantantibus organis, featuring music written around the turn of the 17th century in Rome by Palestrina and his pupils in the Cappella Giulia… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects: Cantantibus organis…
Blackdowns Early Music Projects in association with Utrecht based choir COQU, touring with their guest director JanJoost van Elburg
Blackdowns Early Music Projects in association with Utrecht based choir COQU, touring with their guest director JanJoost van Elburg
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BLACKDOWNS EARLY MUSIC PROJECTS presents selected works from the Eton Choirbook and other contemporary English music The Eton Choirbook was created between 1500 and 1505 and originally contained 93 works by 24 composers from the early Tudor period. It exists in highly decorated manuscript, and was compiled for use in Henry VI's Chapel at Eton… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects: The Eton Choirbook
JanJoost van Elburg will direct choral music retrieved from the archives of the Monasterio de la Encarnacion and Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales in Madrid. This music has rarely been performed in recent times, yet it represents a large body of work by musicians working throughout the 17th century and even later. They were influenced… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects: Maestros del Monasterios
BEMP is offering two concerts of early to mid C17th century German Baroque music over the Bank Holiday weekend, encompassing two ends of the musical spectrum in scale. Enthusiasts of solo instrumental music will be delighted by the first event, a harpsichord recital entitled PRELUDES, PARTITAS & GROUNDS to be given internationally renowned Steven Devine, whose busy… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects German Baroque Weekend: Preludes, Partitas & Grounds
BEMP is offering two concerts of early to mid C17th century German Baroque music over the Bank Holiday weekend, encompassing two ends of the musical spectrum in scale. In the second event, on Bank Holiday Monday, BEMP is very pleased to be offering a large scale programme, GRAND BAROQUE III, which explores just some of… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects German Baroque Weekend: Grand Baroque III
Tickets available through the website, Ticketsource, at Taunton Visitor centre (01823 340470) and at the door for this interesting juxtaposition of Early Renaissance ideas contained in the rhythmically complex Robert Carver Mass Dum Sacrum Mysterium written in about 1510, set against the Vespers of 1612 by Ludovico Viadana, directed by the distinguished conductor and musicologist, Andrew Parrott
