Exeter Cathedral

BEMP's biennial Grand Baroque series was somewhat interrupted due to circumstances we all hope are now well behind us… We return with a flourish in 2022, bringing perhaps the most grand of all baroque works to life in Exeter Cathedral, Mass in B minor by JS Bach. Bach was feeling his years when he completed… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – J S Bach Mass in B minor

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

In a combined choir of over 200 voices, Wellington Choral Society, together with Exmouth and Exeter Choral Societies, will be performing Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony, under the baton of their shared Music Director, Laurence Blyth.  They will be accompanied by the Exeter Symphony Orchestra and the concert will take place in the magnificent surroundings… Read More »Wellington Choral Society – Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ‘A Sea Symphony’

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