Amor vince ogni cosa - Love conquers all Sigismondo d’India: Il Pastor fido Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Amor vince ogni cosa Claudio Monteverdi: Volgendo il ciel - Movete al mio bel suon Tickets £12.00, students £6.00 BEMP specialises in performance of unusual early music, and this programme of consort music is no exception, in which three different… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects- Amor vince ogni cosa
Blackdowns Early Music Projects are delighted to welcome ANDREW PARROTT as guest director for this project, internationally renowned for his groundbreaking work with the Taverner Choir, Consort and Players (and much else besides) and winner of the 2014 York Early Music Festival Lifetime achievement award. On May 4th Andrew will give a pre concert talk… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – Missa Superba
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
