The final line-up for the 2009-10 series is shown below. To buy tickets visit the Booking page of this website, where you can download a booking form to print out and send back to us.
| Sunday 28th February 2010, 4pm In Echo La Suave Melodia Gawain Glenton (cornetto/voice) Kirsty Whatley (triple harp) Robert Glenton (bass violin) La Suave Melodia mines the extraordinarily beautiful repertoire of early 17th century Italy to reveal the characters of three contrasting but mutually compatible instruments: the cornetto, triple harp and bass violin. Alongside the towering figures of Monteverdi and Frescobaldi, In Echo presents music by Rognoni, Cima, Falconiero, Trabaci and Kapsberger in a programme of songs and sonatas, both solo and ensemble, sacred and secular, from such culturally enticing cities as Venice, Rome, Naples and Milan. |  |
Website: www.inecho.co.uk
Ticket availability: Good
| Saturday 20th March 2010, 7.30pm Horses Brawl Wild Lament Laura Cannell (fiddle, recorder, crumhorn) Adrian Lever (guitar) The feisty and experimental duo Horses Brawl draw listeners into a world where driving folk rhythms collide with the high and low musical cultures of ancient Europe and beyond. Improvising around phrases and fragments of music drawn from over eight centuries they transform them into their own mesmerising and spellbinding compositions. |  |
Website: www.horsesbrawl.co.uk
Ticket availability: Good
Previous concerts this season:
| Saturday 28th November 2009, 7.30pm Passacaglia A Chearful Collection Annabel Knight (flute) Oliver Webber (violin) Reiko Ichise (viola da gamba) Robin Bigwood (harpsichord) Passacaglia’s A Chearful Collection re-discovers an array of wonderfully accessible and tuneful sonatas and keyboard works by Thomas Arne, in celebration of his 300th birthday year in 2010. Complemented with music by contemporaries Handel, Oswald, Abel and JC Bach, some with a regional twist from Scotland and Ireland, Passacaglia offers a tantalising glimpse into the musical world of London’s famous Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. |  |
Website: www.passacaglia.com
| Sunday 31st January 2010, 4pm Terence Charlston The King’s Hunt This fascinating programme explores the interchange of ideas and musical taste between Restoration England and mainland Europe, especially France. It includes music by Blow, Bull, Froberger, La Barre, Purcell and from the recently discovered Selosse manuscript, performed on the harpsichord and clavichord. |  |
Website: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/terence.charlston
| Sunday 7th February 2010, 4pm David Breitman Canadian pianist David Breitman returns to The Workshop Series with this wide-ranging programme exploring the development of works for the early piano. Sonatas, variations and fantasias by Haydn, CPE Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. |  |
Web: www.analekta.com/en/artists/David-Breitman.90.html