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Children's Messiah

Wednesday 17th December 2025 at 4.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.
Messiah in Edinburgh

Wednesday 17th December 2025 at 7.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.

Nardus Williams, soprano
Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Dingle Yandell, bass
Messiah in Perth

Thursday 18th December 2025 at 6.30pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available from the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall website.

Nardus Williams, soprano
Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Dingle Yandell, bass
Children's Messiah

Friday 19th December 2025 at 4.00pm

St Aloysius's Church, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Tickets available from the RCS website.
Messiah in Glasgow

Friday 19th December 2025 at 7.00pm

St Aloysius's Church, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available from the RCS website.

Nardus Williams, soprano
Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Dingle Yandell, bass
Christmas Oratorio

Monday 22nd December 2025 at 7.30pm

Smith Square Hall, London

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Parts I, II and III)
Heinrich Schütz, Hodie Christus Natus Est SWV 456

Tickets available from the Sinfonia Smith Square website.

Hilary Cronin, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah

Tuesday 23rd December 2025 at 7.30pm

Smith Square Hall, London

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available from the Sinfonia Smith Square website.

Hilary Cronin, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone

Messiah

Monday 15th December 2025 at 7.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings, director and harpsichord

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets at the Barbican website.

Nardus Williams, soprano
Reginald Mobley, counter-tenor
Thomas Walker, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass-baritone
Christmas Oratorio

Saturday 13th December 2025 at 7.30pm

Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden

Polyphony
Britten Sinfonia
Stephen Layton, conductor

J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Parts I, II, III and VI)
(Consort and step-out soloist)

Further details and tickets at the Britten Sinfonia website.

Zoë Brookshaw and Lucy Cox, sopranos
Angharad Rowlands and Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-sopranos
Sebastian Hill and Archie Inns, tenors
Malachy Frame and Jon Stainsby, baritones
Christmas Oratorio

Friday 12th December 2025 at 7.00pm

St John's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Norwich

Polyphony
Britten Sinfonia
Stephen Layton, conductor

J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Parts I, II, III and VI)
(Consort and step-out soloist)

Further details and tickets at the Britten Sinfonia website.

Zoë Brookshaw and Lucy Cox, sopranos
Angharad Rowlands and Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-sopranos
Sebastian Hill and Archie Inns, tenors
Malachy Frame and Jon Stainsby, baritones
Bach x Palestrina

Monday 8th December 2025 at 6.30pm

National Centre for Early Music, York

The Marian Consort (Rory McCleery, director)
English Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble (Gawain Glenton, director)

A celebration of Palestrina’s 500th anniversary would not be complete without looking at how hugely influential his music has been on subsequent generations, among them the towering figure JS Bach. As well as making his own performing edition of Palestrina’s Missa sine nomine, Bach also performed works by Palestrina’s Italian contemporaries from the anthology Florilegium portense with his choir at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, singing them so often that the books had to be replaced in 1729 as thy had been ‘sung to pieces’! We hear these alongside festive motets by Palestrina and works from Heinrich Schütz’s seminal Geitliche Chormusik, which also wears its Italian influence prominently and is dedicated to the city of Leipzig and the musicians of the Thomanerchor.

Further details and tickets at the NCEM website.
The Language of Flowers

Sunday 7th December 2025 at 7.30pm

Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and recently commissioned works.

Further details and tickets at the Barbican website.

Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
Amy Bryce, Madrigals for Plants
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
Francisco Guerrero, Ego flos campi
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vidi speciosam
Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
Sebastián de Vivanco
Veni dilecte mi
Sicut lilium
Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary
Wintering

Friday 5th December 2025 at 7.00pm

Bristol Beacon

The Marian Consort
Manchester Collective

The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

Further details and tickets at the Bristol Beacon website.

Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
Samantha Fernando, Wintering
Wintering

Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 7.30pm

Sir Jack Lyons Hall, York

The Marian Consort
Manchester Collective

The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

Further details and tickets at the York Concerts website.

Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
Samantha Fernando, Wintering
Bach Vespers

Sunday 30th November 2025 at 6.30pm

Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 62
(Consort and step-out soloist)

and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

Johann Joseph Fux, Ouverture K357/1
Dieterich Buxtehude, Chorale Prelude 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' BuxWV 211
Johann Ulrich Steigleder, Chorale Prelude 'Vater unser' (No. 7)
Andreas Raselius, Wir glauben all an einen Gott
J.S. Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 62
Johann Joseph Fux, Ad te, Domine, levavi animan meam
J.S. Bach, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645

Emily Atkinson, soprano
Mercè Bruguera Abelló, mezzo-soprano
Matt Supramaniam, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

The City Bach Collective
Hazel Brooks, leader
Wintering

Saturday 29th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Tung Auditorium, Liverpool

The Marian Consort
Manchester Collective

The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

Further details and tickets at the Tung Auditorium website.

Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
Samantha Fernando, Wintering
Wintering

Friday 28th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Howard Assembly Room, Leeds

The Marian Consort
Manchester Collective

The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

Tickets and further details at the Opera North website.

Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
Samantha Fernando, Wintering
Wintering

Thursday 27th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Stoller Hall, Manchester

The Marian Consort
Manchester Collective

The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

Further details and tickets at the Stoller Hall website.

Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
Samantha Fernando, Wintering
Wintering

Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 1.00pm

Wigmore Hall, London

The Marian Consort
Manchester Collective

The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

Tickets and further details at the Wigmore Hall website.

Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
Samantha Fernando, Wintering (world première, commissioned by Wigmore Hall)
The Prince of Music: Palestrina at 500

Saturday 15th November 2025 at 7.30pm

St Thomas's Church, Salisbury

Sarum Consort
Alastair Carey, director

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli
Canticum canticorum
Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae
Assumpta est Maria

Tickets and further details at the Sarum Consort website.
Charpentier Cantatas | London International Festival of Early Music

Friday 14th November 2025 at 7.30pm

St Michael and All Angels, Blackheath

GSMD Cantata Project
Academy of Ancient Music
James Johnstone, musical director

Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Le Reniement de Saint Pierre

Les Plaisirs de Versailles
(Comus)

and airs de court by Michel Lambert

Tickets and further information at the LIFEM website.
Charpentier Cantatas

Thursday 13th November 2025 at 6.00pm

Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London

GSMD Cantata Project
Academy of Ancient Music
James Johnstone, musical director

Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Le Reniement de Saint Pierre

Les Plaisirs de Versailles
(Comus)

and airs de court by Michel Lambert

This is a free event, for which no tickets are required.
Further information at the GSMD website.
Vale of Tears | City of Derry International Choir Festival

Thursday 23rd October 2025 at 7.30pm

Guildhall, Derry

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Funerary motets by members of the Bach family preface Heinrich Schütz's Musicalische Exequien and a new work inspired by Schütz's example.

Further information and tickets at the City of Derry International Choir Festival website.

Johann Christoph Bach, Mit Weinen hebt sichs an
Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen tod
Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, kom
Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien: I. "Nacket bin ich von Mutterliebe kommen"
David Fennessy, Two pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672): "Naked"
Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien: II. "Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe"
David Fennessy, Two pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672): "In Frieden (In peace)"
Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien: III. "Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener"
Music for Queen Mary

Saturday 18th October 2025 at 2.15pm

Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Early Opera Company
Christian Curnyn, director

The Early Opera Company celebrates the Netherlands' old dynastic and artistic ties with England, with odes by Purcell to Queen Mary and songs by Constantijn Huygens.

Further information and tickets at the Concertgebouw website.

Nicholas Lanier, No more shall meads be decked with flowers
Matthew Locke, Suite from The Tempest
Constantijn Huygens
De profundis clamavi
Aubade: Le reveil de Calliste
Serenade: Ne crains point le serain
Aria: Con la candida man
Henry Purcell
Come ye sons of Art
Celebrate this Festival
Funeral Music for Queen Mary

Anna Dennis, soprano
Samuel Boden, haut-contre
Nick Pritchard, tenor
Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
Samuel West, narrator (script by Tom Guthrie)
Pater Peccavi: Music from Renaissance Portugal

Saturday 11th October 2025 at 7.30pm

St Andrew's Church, Lyddington, Rutland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

Further information and tickets at the Music in Lyddington website.

Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
Duarte Lobo, Pater Peccavi
Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' from Missa Veni Domine
Filipe de Magalhaes, Commissa mea pavesco
Aires Fernandez, Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
Duarte Lobo, 'Gloria' from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Commissa mea pavesco
Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa Veni Domine
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adoramus te
Duarte Lobo, 'Benedictus' from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Emendemus in melius
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
Manuel Cardoso, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Tradent enim vos
Duarte Lobo, Audivi vocem de caelo
Pater Peccavi: Music from Renaissance Portugal

Friday 10th October 2025 at 7.45pm

Stapleford Granary, nr. Cambridge

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

Further information and tickets at the Stapleford Granary website.

Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
Duarte Lobo, Pater Peccavi
Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' from Missa Veni Domine
Filipe de Magalhaes, Commissa mea pavesco
Aires Fernandez, Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
Duarte Lobo, 'Gloria' from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Commissa mea pavesco
Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa Veni Domine
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adoramus te
Duarte Lobo, 'Benedictus' from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Emendemus in melius
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
Manuel Cardoso, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Tradent enim vos
Duarte Lobo, Audivi vocem de caelo
Lingua Ignota | Music@Malling

Friday 26th September 2025 at 1.00pm

Malling Abbey, West Malling, Kent

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by the twelfth-century abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen is interspersed with new works by leading female composers of the present day.

Further details and tickets at the Music@Malling website.
The performance will be preceded by a free talk at 12.15pm: Hildegard's biographer, the distinguished music critic Fiona Maddocks, in conversation with Festival director Thomas Kemp.

Kerry Andrew, Hevene Quene
Hildegard of Bingen, O frondens virga
Claire Cope, I lie alone (world première)
Hildegard of Bingen, O viridissima virga
Zoë Martlew, Lingua Ignota (world première)
Hildegard of Bingen, Caritas abundant in omnia
Elizabeth Maconchy, Propeta mendax
Hildegard of Bingen, O splendidissima gemma
Joy Nkoyo, I write to you now (UK première)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, In the Crypt of the Wood
A Celebration of Orlando Gibbons

Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 1.00pm

St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey

St Margaret's Consort
Greg Morris, director

400 years after his death in 1625, this concert celebrates the life and work of Orlando Gibbons in a building which held particular family significance for him. Besides serving as organist of Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal, Gibbons was also a parishioner of St Margaret’s, and his seven children were all baptised in the church. Illustrating his standing as one of the most melodious and inventive of English Renaissance composers, the programme includes some of his finest church anthems and organ music, as well as his madrigal "The Silver Swan," a setting of words by Sir Walter Raleigh, who lies buried beneath the altar of St Margaret’s.

Further details and tickets at the Westminster Abbey website.
The Prophetic Bird: an Aviary in Song

Sunday 21st September 2025 at 3.00pm

St Nicholas Church, Chiswick

Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Gavin Roberts, piano

A recital presented in association with the Finzi Friends. Songs with ornithological connections by Finzi, Gurney, Howells, Rubbra, Britten, Robin Milford, Imogen Holst, Judith Weir and Cecilia McDowall chart a journey through the seasons.

Tickets available on the door; tea and cake will be served after the performance.

Gerald Finzi, 'Before and After Summer'
Robin Milford, 'If it's ever spring again'
Benjamin Britten, 'Proud Songsters' from Winter Words
Gerald Finzi, 'It was a lover and his lass' from Let us Garlands Bring
Ivor Gurney, 'Spring' from Five Elizabethan Songs
Imogen Holst, 'Weathers'
Judith Weir, 'White Eggs in the Bush' from The Voice of Desire
Cecilia McDowall, 'Angel Radar' from Flights of Angels
Gerald Finzi, 'Summer Schemes'
Gerald Finzi, 'As I lay in the early sun'
Ivor Gurney, 'All night under the moon'
Gerald Finzi, 'Overlooking the River'
Gerald Finzi, 'The Too Short Time'
Judith Weir, 'The Voice of Desire' from The Voice of Desire
Herbert Howells, 'King David'
Ivor Gurney, 'On the Downs'
Judith Weir, 'Written on Terrestrial Things' from The Voice of Desire
Edmund Rubbra, 'A Widow Bird sate mourning'
Herbert Howells, 'Before Dawn'
Gerald Finzi, 'Proud Songsters'
Gerald Finzi, 'A linnet in a gilded cage'
An Auld Alliance | Melrose Music Festival

Friday 12th September 2025 at 7.00pm

Melrose Parish Church
Melrose, Scotland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books.

Further details and tickets available from the Melrose Music Festival website.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Felix namque (Plainchant)
'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
John Buchan, Psalm 128
'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
David Peebles, Psalm 150
Pierre Certon, Inviolata
David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
The English Concert at Anima Mundi

Tuesday 9th September 2025 at 9.00pm

Cattedrale e Camposanto di Pisa, Italy

The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, director

Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria RV589
Joseph Haydn, Missa in angustiis ('Nelson Mass')

Tickets available here.

Hilary Cronin, soprano
Sara Mingardo, contralto
Stuart Jackson, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
The Atonement | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor MiniFestival

Friday 15th August 2025 at 7.30pm

King's College London Chapel

English Chamber Voices
The Choir of King's College London
English Chamber Orchestra
Joseph Fort, conductor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, The Atonement (chamber version, arr. Joseph Fort)

Tickets via Kings College London.
Hail, Queen of Heaven | Festival Internacional de Música Las Navas del Marqués

Friday 18th July 2025 at 8.00pm

Castillo-Palacio de Magalia
Las Navas del Marqués, Spain

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Following a week as guest tutors at the Zenobia Música International Singing Week in Ávila, the Marian Consort present a programme of music celebrating two Renaissance composers associated with the city, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Cristóbal de Morales.

Ave regina caelorum (plainchant)
Cristóbal de Morales
Ave regina caelorum
'Kyrie' from Missa de Beata Virgine
Oliver Tarney, Prayer to the Mother of God
Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Gloria' from Missa Trahe me post te
Joy Nkoyo, I write to you now (world première)
Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa Trahe me post te
Cristóbal de Morales
O sacrum convivium
'Agnus Dei' from Missa de Beata Virgine
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum
Cristóbal de Morales, Ave Maria
The Language of Flowers | Harrogate International Festival

Sunday 6th July 2025 at 8.00pm

St Wilfred's Church, Harrogate

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, juxtaposed with recently commissioned works.

Further details and tickets at the Harrogate International Festivals website.

Kyrie Orbis Factor (plainsong)
Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
Hugo Bell, Hermitage
Nneka Cummins, Awake
Hildegard of Bingen, O viridissima Virgo
Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Sebastián de Vivanco
Veni dilecte mi
Surge propera
Sicut lilium
Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary
Francisco Guerrero, Ego flos campi
Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo

Saturday 5th July 2025 at 7.30pm

Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington

Teddington Choral Society
Julian Collings, conductor

Joseph Horowitz, Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
(Captain Noah)

Further details at the Teddington Choral Society website.
Bach Vespers

Sunday 29th June 2025 at 6.30pm

Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam BWV 7
(Consort and step-out soloist)

and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.
Gloria!

Saturday 28th June 2025 at 7.00pm

St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey

St Margaret's Consort and Choristers
The English Concert
Greg Morris, director

Henry Purcell, O Sing unto the Lord Z 44

J.S. Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
(Step-out soloist)

Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria RV 589

Tickets and further details at the Westminster Abbey website.
Songs of the Soul | Louth Contemporary Music Society

Saturday 14th June 2025 at 8.00pm

St Nicholas Church of Ireland, Dundalk

Chamber Choir Ireland
Nils Schweckendiek, conductor

Kevin Volans, Glosa a lo Divino
Sarah Davachi, Songs of the Smile's Fig (world première)
Beat Furrer, Selections from Enigmas

In the closing concert of Louth Contemporary Music Society's summer festival, Chamber Choir Ireland performs music of peace, strangeness, and hope. Led by Guest Director, Nils Schweckendiek, the programme features a setting of words by St John of the Cross to unearthly harmonies by Kevin Volans, and a new meditation by Canadian composer, Sarah Davachi.
Choral Sketches

Thursday 12th June 2025 at 5.00pm

St Finian's Lutheran Church, Dublin

Chamber Choir Ireland
Nils Schweckendiek, conductor

Works by Bianca Gannon, Laura Heneghan and Caterina Schembri

The final performance read-through of three new choral works developed through Choral Sketches, a professional development programme for composers delivered by Chamber Choir Ireland and the Contemporary Music Centre.

Further details and booking at the Chamber Choir Ireland website.

Laura Heneghan, Veins of Water
Caterina Schembri, Ode to Psyche
Bianca Gannon, New Work
Feis Ceoil Choral Conducting Competition Final

Sunday 8th June 2025 at 2.00pm

Purcell House, DCU All Hallows Campus, Dublin

Chamber Choir Ireland
Nils Schweckendiek, adjudicator

The finalists of the 2025 Feis Ceoil Choral Conducting Competition will rehearse and perform with Chamber Choir Ireland.
Further details at the Feis Ceoil website.
Dunster Festival Finale

Monday 26th May 2025 at 3.30pm

Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Spiritato!
Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

J.S. Bach, Mass in G Major BWV 236
(Step-out soloist)

J.S. Bach, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich BWV 17
J.S. Bach, Du Wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23
Johann Kuhau, arr. J.S. Bach, Der gerechte kommt um

Further details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.
Treasures from the Sistine Chapel

Saturday 24th May 2025 at 7.30pm

Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A celebration of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, "the eternal father of Italian music", in his 500th anniversary year. The programme also features music from the greatest composer of an earlier age, Josquin Desprez, as well as masterpieces by Palestrina’s Roman contemporaries, students and successors, showing his music in context and revealing the network of musical and personal connections underlying these astonishing pieces.

Further details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Ave Maria a8
Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es, caelorum regina
Benedicta es, caelorum regina (plainchant)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 'Kyrie' from Missa Benedicta es
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria a8
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Sicut cervus
Magnificat a8
Super flumina Babylonis
Francesco Soriano, after Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 'Gloria' from Missa in Papae Marcelli
Ruggiero Giovannelli, 'Kyrie' from Missa Vestiva i colli
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Brevis
Felice Anerio, Ave regina caelorum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Salve regina a8
Hidden Polyphony

Saturday 17th May 2025 at 7.30pm

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort
RSNO
Thomas Søndergård, conductor
Anna Dennis, soprano

Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)

Further information and tickets at the RSNO website.

G.F. Handel, Water Music Suite No. 3
Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)
Henk de Vlieger/Richard Wagner, The Ring: an orchestral adventure
Hidden Polyphony

Friday 16th May 2025 at 7.30pm

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
RSNO
Thomas Søndergård, conductor
Anna Dennis, soprano

Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)

Further information and tickets at the RSNO website.

G.F. Handel, Water Music Suite No. 3
Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)
Henk de Vlieger/Richard Wagner, The Ring: an orchestral adventure
Afternoon Choral Recital | London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

Tuesday 13th May 2025 at 3.15pm

Southwark Cathedral

LFCCM Festival Singers
Alastair Carey, director

A selection of works drawn from LFCCM's Call for Scores.

Further details at the LFCCM website.

Cassie White, O for a closer Walk with God
Dominic McGonigal, Ubi caritas
Richard Barnard, Tantum ergo
Joseph Schubert, Ave Verum Corpus
Phillip Cooke, Salve Regina
Gregory Rose, When David Heard
Sara Ramos Contioso, Hoc est corpus
CF Thompson, Ave Verum Corpus
Paolo Furlan, O salutaris hostia
Richard Nye, Fear not, for I am with you
Tomas Bezkorowajnyj, Call to Remembrance
Łukasz Urbaniak, Exsultate Deo
Compline | London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

Monday 12th May 2025 at 8.30pm

All Saints Church, Fulham

LFCCM Festival Singers
Alastair Carey, director

Works by young composers, submitted for LFCCM's Call for Scores, in a liturgical performance.

Further details at the LFCCM website.

Benedict Moriarty, Renew us by Your Spirit
John Smith, Te lucis ante terminum
Philip Godfrey, Let There Be Light
James D'Angelo, Nunc Dimittis
Ernest Chui, An Easter Flower Gift
Will Jefferies, Behold the Saviour of Mankind
The Language of Flowers | SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele

Wednesday 7th May 2025 at 7.30pm

Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Speyer

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and recently commissioned works.

Tickets and further information via the SWR website. This concert will be broadcast on SWR Kultur Radio on May 29th.

Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
Francisco Guerrero, Ego flos campi
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vidi speciosam
Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
Amy Bryce, Madrigals for Plants (world première)
Sebastián de Vivanco
Veni dilecte mi
Surge propera
Sicut lilium
Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary
The Passing of the Year

Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 7.00pm

Stoller Hall, Manchester

ORA Singers
Suzi Digby, conductor
Katie Derham, reader

A programme of music marking the stages of the liturgical year, revolving around Jonathan Dove's song cycle for double choir and piano, The Passing of the Year.

Tickets and further information at the Stoller Hall website.

Epiphany
Magi videntes stellam (plainchant)
Orlando de Lassus, Omnes de Saba
Emily Pedersen, Reflection on Lassus, Omnes de Saba

Lent and Passiontide
Pablo Casals, O vos omnes
Peter Philips, Ecce vicit Leo

Easter
Victimae Paschali laudes (plainchant)
Gregorio Allegri, Christus resurgens

Jonathan Dove, The Passing of the Year
Annabel Baxter, Spring

Trinity
John Sheppard, Libera nos
Ryan Wigglesworth, Libera nos

All Saints and All Souls
William Byrd, Justorum animae
Tom Coult, Reflection on Byrd, Justorum animae

Advent and Christmas
Adrian Peacock, Venite Gaudete!
Hodie Christus est (plainchant)
David Norland, Visitation
Steven Sametz, Gaudete
St Matthew Passion

Saturday 19th April 2025 at 2.00pm

Melrose Parish Church

The Borders Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra
Robert Marshall, conductor

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion
(Christus and bass soloist)

Tom Raskin, Evanglist
Georgie Malcolm, soprano
Cath Backhouse, mezzo-soprano
David Lee, tenor
Jon Stainsby, bass-baritone
St John Passion with AAM

Friday 18th April 2025 at 3.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

The Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings, director

J.S. Bach, St John Passion

Further details and tickets at the Barbican website.

Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
Dingle Yandell, Christus
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Ed Lyon, tenor
Jonathan Brown, bass-baritone
Pater Peccavi: Music of Lamentation

Friday 4th April 2025 at 7.30pm

St John's Church, Silverdale, Lancashire

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

Further information and tickets available here.

Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
Duarte Lobo, Pater Peccavi
Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' from Missa Veni Domine
Filipe de Magalhaes, Commissa mea pavesco
Aires Fernandez, Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
Duarte Lobo, 'Gloria' from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Commissa mea pavesco
Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa Veni Domine
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adoramus te
Duarte Lobo, 'Benedictus' from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Emendemus in melius
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
Manuel Cardoso, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Tradent enim vos
Duarte Lobo, Audivi vocem de caelo
Pater Peccavi: Music of Lamentation

Thursday 3rd April 2025

St George's Church, Tombland, Norwich

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
Duarte Lobo, Pater Peccavi
Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' from Missa Veni Domine
Filipe de Magalhaes, Commissa mea pavesco
Aires Fernandez, Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
Duarte Lobo, 'Gloria' from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Commissa mea pavesco
Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa Veni Domine
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adoramus te
Duarte Lobo, 'Benedictus' from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Emendemus in melius
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
Manuel Cardoso, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Tradent enim vos
Duarte Lobo, Audivi vocem de caelo
The Quality of Mercy

Sunday 30th March 2025 at 2.00pm

Cowdray Hall, Schoolhill, Aberdeen

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

An a cappella programme for the season of Lent, featuring Renaissance polyphony alongside music by Francis Poulenc and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Tickets available via the Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums website.

Francis Poulenc, Tristis est anima mea from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Orlandus Lassus, Tristis est anima mea
Francis Poulenc, Vinea mea electa from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Imogen Holst, 'Kyrie' from Mass in A minor
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Orlando Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
James Macmillan, Miserere
Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Sarah MacDonald, Crux fidelis
Anna Meredith, Heal you
William Harris, Bring us, O Lord God
William Byrd, Iustorum animae
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, The Dead
Francis Poulenc, Timor et Tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Imogen Holst, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass in A minor
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, At the round earth's imagined corners
John Sheppard, Libera Nos I
The Quality of Mercy

Saturday 29th March 2025 at 7.00pm

Dundee Parish Church, Dundee

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

An a cappella programme for the season of Lent, featuring Renaissance polyphony alongside music by Francis Poulenc and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Tickets available via the Dundee City Box Office.

Francis Poulenc, Tristis est anima mea from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Orlandus Lassus, Tristis est anima mea
Francis Poulenc, Vinea mea electa from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Imogen Holst, 'Kyrie' from Mass in A minor
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Orlando Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
James Macmillan, Miserere
Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Sarah MacDonald, Crux fidelis
Anna Meredith, Heal you
William Harris, Bring us, O Lord God
William Byrd, Iustorum animae
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, The Dead
Francis Poulenc, Timor et Tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Imogen Holst, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass in A minor
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, At the round earth's imagined corners
John Sheppard, Libera Nos I
The Quality of Mercy

Friday 28th March 2025 at 7.30pm

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

An a cappella programme for the season of Lent, featuring Renaissance polyphony alongside music by Francis Poulenc and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Tickets available via the Queen's Hall website.

Francis Poulenc, Tristis est anima mea from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Orlandus Lassus, Tristis est anima mea
Francis Poulenc, Vinea mea electa from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Imogen Holst, 'Kyrie' from Mass in A minor
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Orlando Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
James Macmillan, Miserere
Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Sarah MacDonald, Crux fidelis
Anna Meredith, Heal you
William Harris, Bring us, O Lord God
William Byrd, Iustorum animae
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, The Dead
Francis Poulenc, Timor et Tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Imogen Holst, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass in A minor
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, At the round earth's imagined corners
John Sheppard, Libera Nos I
The Quality of Mercy

Thursday 27th March 2025 at 7.30pm

St Aloysius's Church, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

An a cappella programme for the season of Lent, featuring Renaissance polyphony alongside music by Francis Poulenc and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Tickets available via the RCS website.

Francis Poulenc, Tristis est anima mea from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Orlandus Lassus, Tristis est anima mea
Francis Poulenc, Vinea mea electa from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Imogen Holst, 'Kyrie' from Mass in A minor
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Orlando Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
James Macmillan, Miserere
Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Sarah MacDonald, Crux fidelis
Anna Meredith, Heal you
William Harris, Bring us, O Lord God
William Byrd, Iustorum animae
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, The Dead
Francis Poulenc, Timor et Tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Imogen Holst, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass in A minor
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, At the round earth's imagined corners
John Sheppard, Libera Nos I
Transatlantic: Classical Masters

Thursday 13th March 2025 at 7.30pm

Milton Court, London

The Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings, director

Music by the Brazilian composer-priest José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, set alongside that of his fellow classical masters Mozart and Haydn.

Further information at the AAM website. Tickets available via the Barbican website.

José Mauricio Nunes Garcia
Overture in D major
Dilexisti justitiam
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major
José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Tantum ergo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ave verum corpus
Joseph Haydn, Divertimento in G major
José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Litany of the Sorrows of Our Lady

Katherine Spencer, clarinet

Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
Rebekah Nießer-Jones, mezzo-soprano
Rory Carver, tenor
Jon Stainsby, bass-baritone
Transatlantic: Classical Masters

Wednesday 12th March 2025 at 7.30pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

The Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings, director

Music by the Brazilian composer-priest José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, set alongside that of his fellow classical masters Mozart and Haydn.

Further information at the AAM website. Tickets available via Cambridge Live Tickets.

José Mauricio Nunes Garcia
Overture in D major
Dilexisti justitiam
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major
José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Tantum ergo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ave verum corpus
Joseph Haydn, Divertimento in G major
José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Litany of the Sorrows of Our Lady

Katherine Spencer, clarinet

Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
Rebekah Nießer-Jones, mezzo-soprano
Rory Carver, tenor
Jon Stainsby, bass-baritone
Reformations: Cantata

Friday 7th March 2025 at 7.30pm

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

Jan Dismas Zelenka, Lamentation V
Georg Philipp Telemann, Du aber, Daniel
J.S. Bach, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ('Actus Tragicus') BWV 106
David Fennessy, Bog Cantata (first performance)

Discovered in a County Tipperary bog in 2006, the early medieval Faddan More Psalter manuscript provides the starting point for David Fennessy’s seductively scored new cantata. Its mellow instrumental hinterland echoes that of the young J.S. Bach’s heart-stopping Actus Tragicus which, like his friend Telemann’s Du aber, Daniel, seeks consolation in the sublime interplay of recorders and violas da gamba.
Tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

Nardus Williams, soprano
Jess Dandy, alto
Ed Lyon, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Reformations: Cantata

Thursday 6th March 2025 at 7.30pm

Milton Court, London

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

Jan Dismas Zelenka, Lamentation V
Georg Philipp Telemann, Du aber, Daniel
J.S. Bach, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ('Actus Tragicus') BWV 106
David Fennessy, Bog Cantata (first performance)

Discovered in a County Tipperary bog in 2006, the early medieval Faddan More Psalter manuscript provides the starting point for David Fennessy’s seductively scored new cantata. Its mellow instrumental hinterland echoes that of the young J.S. Bach’s heart-stopping Actus Tragicus which, like his friend Telemann’s Du aber, Daniel, seeks consolation in the sublime interplay of recorders and violas da gamba.
Tickets at the Barbican website.

Nardus Williams, soprano
Jess Dandy, alto
Ed Lyon, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Mass in B Minor | Bath Bachfest

Saturday 22nd February 2025 at 7.30pm

Bath Abbey

The English Concert
Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor BWV 232

Tickets and further information at the Bach Bathfest website.

Isabel Schicketanz and Joanna Songi, soprano
Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
Samuel Boden, tenor
Florian Störtz, bass-baritone
Mass in B Minor

Thursday 20th February 2025 at 7.30pm

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

The English Concert
Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor BWV 232

Tickets and further information at the St Martin-in-the-Fields website.

Isabel Schicketanz and Joanna Songi, soprano
Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
Samuel Boden, tenor
Florian Störtz, bass-baritone
City of Echoes

Friday 14th February 2025 at 7.30pm

Church of St Mary the Virgin
West 46th Street, New York

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music from 16th-century Rome

Further details and tickets at the Miller Theatre website.

Felice Anerio, Ave Regina caelorum
Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
Josquin des Pres, Ave Maria... virgo serena
Jean L'Heritier, Surrexit Pastor Bonus
Orlande de Lassus, Regina caeli laetare a7
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum a8
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata
Jean de Mouton, Ave Maria gemma virginum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 'Kyrie' from Missa Benedicta es
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (arr. Francesco Soriano), 'Gloria' from Missa Papae Marcelli
Benedicta es, caelorum regina (plainchant)
Vicente Lusitano: Black Composer of the Renaissance

Saturday 8th February 2025 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Cathedral
Portland, OR

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery director

Tickets and further details at the Cappella Romana website.

Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
Orlandus Lassus, Regina caeli laetare à 7
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Salve Regina à 8
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
Cristobal de Morales, Sancta Maria
João Lourenço Rebelo, Panis angelicus
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8
Vicente Lusitano: Black Composer of the Renaissance

Friday 7th February 2025 at 7.30pm

St Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
Seattle, WA

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Further details and tickets at the Cappella Romana website.

Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
Orlandus Lassus, Regina caeli laetare à 7
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Salve Regina à 8
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
Cristobal de Morales, Sancta Maria
João Lourenço Rebelo, Panis angelicus
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8
Messiah | La Folle Journée

Thursday 30th January 2025 at 9.00pm

Auditorium Apollon, Cité des Congrès, Nantes

Dunedin Consort
Johanna Soller, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (Dublin version, 1742)
(Bass II soloist)

Rowan Pierce, soprano
Helen Charlston, alto I
Judy Louie Brown, alto II
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Stephan Loges, bass I
Jon Stainsby, bass II
Susanna

Sunday 26th January 2025 at 6.00pm

Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Susanna

Tickets and further details at the Wiener Konzerthaus website.

Anna Dennis and Jessica Cale, sopranos
Alex Potter, counter-tenor
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
Susanna

Friday 24th January 2025 at 7.00pm

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Susanna

Tickets at the St Martin-in-the-Fields website.

Anna Dennis and Jessica Cale, sopranos
Alexander Chance, counter-tenor
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
An Auld Alliance

Friday 10th January 2025 at 11.00am

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books, presented alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

Tickets and further information at the RCS website.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Felix namque (Plainchant)
'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Kenneth Tay, Duo Seraphim
Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
David Peebles, Psalm 150
Pierre Certon, Inviolata
Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
Messiah | Sinfonia Smith Square Christmas Festival

Monday 23rd December 2024 at 7.30pm

Smith Square Hall, London

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Further information at the Sinfonia Smith Square website. This event has now sold out.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
James Gilchrist, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
Christmas Oratorio | Sinfonia Smith Square Christmas Festival

Sunday 22nd December 2024 at 7.30pm

Smith Square Hall, London

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Parts I, II, and III)
Arcangelo Corelli, Christmas Concerto

Tickets at the Sinfonia Smith Square website.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
James Gilchrist, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah in Nottingham

Saturday 7th December 2024 at 7.00pm

Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

Nottingham Harmonic Choir
Orchestra da Camera
Richard Laing, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah
(Baritone soloist)

Tickets and further details at the Nottingham Harmonic Choir website.

Rebecca Bottone, soprano
Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Turner, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fauré and Stanford centenary concert

Saturday 23rd November 2024 at 7.30pm

St John the Evangelist, Barnet

Barnet Choral Society
Rory McCleery, director

Gabriel Fauré, Requiem Op. 48
C.V. Stanford, Mass in G
Giacomo Puccini, Requiem

Tickets and further information at the Barnet Choral Society website.

Catriona Holsgrove, soprano
Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
Graham Neal, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
An Auld Alliance

Sunday 17th November 2024 at 3.00pm

Michael Jaharis Recital Hall, Haverford College
Ardmore, PA

The Marian Consort

A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books, presented alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

Further information at the Haverford College website.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Felix namque (Plainchant)
'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
John Buchan, Psalm 128
'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
David Peebles, Psalm 150
Pierre Certon, Inviolata
'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
An Auld Alliance

Saturday 16th November 2024 at 7.30pm

Church of St Mary the Virgin
145 West 46th St, New York, NY

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books.

Further information at the Miller Theatre Early Music Series website.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Felix namque (Plainchant)
'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
John Buchan, Psalm 128
'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
'Credo' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
David Peebles, Psalm 150
Pierre Certon, Inviolata
'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
An Auld Alliance

Friday 15th November 2024 at 7.30pm

St Mark's Episcopal Church
Columbus, OH

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books.

Further details at the website of St Mark's Music Series.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Felix namque (Plainchant)
'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
John Buchan, Psalm 128
'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
'Credo' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
David Peebles, Psalm 150
Pierre Certon, Inviolata
'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
An Auld Alliance | Vanguard Concerts Series/ArtsLIVE

Sunday 10th November 2024 at 3.00pm

Roger Glass Center for the Arts
University of Dayton, OH

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books, presented alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

Further details at the website of the Roger Glass Center for the Arts.
Tickets available here.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Felix namque (Plainchant)
'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
John Buchan, Psalm 128
'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
David Peebles, Psalm 150
Pierre Certon, Inviolata
'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
An Auld Alliance

Friday 8th November 2024 at 7.30pm

Cathedral of St John the Evangelist
Cleveland, OH

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books, presented alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

Thanks to a generous endowment from the family of Helen D. Schubert, admission to this concert is free. Further information is available at the website of the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Felix namque (Plainchant)
'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
John Buchan, Psalm 128
'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
David Peebles, Psalm 150
Pierre Certon, Inviolata
'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
Seeing through Sound

Sunday 27th October 2024 at 7.30pm

Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Tim Shephard, speaker

A visual and aural feast featuring some of the greatest painters and composers of the Renaissance. New music by Barbara Monk Feldman provides a contemporary meditation on the experience of viewing Renaissance art.

Further details and tickets at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre website.

Nuper almos rosa flores (plainchant)
Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
Ave Maria (lauda; plainchant)
Johannes Brassart, Ave Maria
Regina Coeli antiphon (plainchant)
John Dunstaple, Regina Coeli à3
Jean Mouton, Gloria from Missa Tu es Petrus
Barbara Monk Feldman, Watchman (Marian Consort commission; world première)
Heinrich Isaac, Ne più bella di queste
Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella
Philippe Verdelot, Dormend'un giorno
Josquin des Près, "Domina labia mea aperies" from Miserere mei
An Auld Alliance

Friday 18th October 2024 at 7.30pm

Kings Place, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century partbooks, alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

Tickets and further details at the Kings Place website.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Felix namque (Plainchant)
'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
John Buchan, Psalm 128
James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
David Peebles, Psalm 150
Pierre Certon, Pater Noster/Ave Maria
Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
Last of the Leaves

Sunday 13th October 2024 at 4.00pm

St Stephen's, Dulwich

The Concordium String Ensemble
Lucy Goddard, conductor
Anthony Friend, clarinet

Stephen Dodgson, Last of the Leaves
(Baritone soloist)

The programme will also feature Leoš Janáček's Suite for Strings and Gerald Finzi's Clarinet Concerto.
This performance is generously supported by the Stephen Dodgson Charitable Trust and the Finzi Friends.
Seeing through Sound

Friday 11th October 2024 at 7.30pm

Wiltshire Music Centre
Bradford on Avon

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Tim Shephard, speaker

A visual and aural feast featuring some of the greatest painters and composers of the Renaissance. New music by Barbara Monk Feldman provides a contemporary meditation on the experience of viewing Renaissance art.
The concert will be preceded at 6.30pm by a talk by Prof Tim Shephard.

Tickets and further details at the WMC website.

Nuper almos rosa flores (plainchant)
Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
Ave Maria (lauda; plainchant)
Johannes Brassart, Ave Maria
Regina Coeli antiphon (plainchant)
John Dunstaple, Regina Coeli à3
Jean Mouton, Gloria from Missa Tu es Petrus
Barbara Monk Feldman, Watchman (Marian Consort commission; world première)
Heinrich Isaac, Ne più bella di queste
Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella
Philippe Verdelot, Dormend'un giorno
Josquin des Près, "Domina labia mea aperies" from Miserere mei
Charpentier and Rameau

Wednesday 9th October 2024 at 7.30pm

Milton Court, London

The Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings, director

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Actéon
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pygmalion

Further details at the AAM website; tickets at the Barbican website.

Anna Dennis and Rachel Redmond, sopranos
Katie Bray, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker, tenor
Charpentier and Rameau

Tuesday 8th October 2024 at 7.30pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

The Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings, director

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Actéon
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pygmalion

Further details at the AAM website.

Anna Dennis and Rachel Redmond, sopranos
Katie Bray, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker, tenor
Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

Saturday 5th October 2024 at 6.00pm

Évora Cathedral, Évora, Portugal

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by Vicente Lusitano and his Portuguese contemporaries.

Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Duarte Lobo, 'Introitus' from Missa pro defunctis a8
Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' and 'Gradual' from Missa pro defunctis a8
Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine de sede
Duarte Lobo, 'Offertorium' from Missa pro defunctis a8
Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
Estêvão Lopes Morago, Versa est in luctum
Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa pro defunctis a8
Filipe de Magalhães, Commissa mea pavesco
Duarte Lobo, 'Agnus Dei' and 'Lux aeterna' from Missa pro defunctis a8
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Estêvão de Brito, Vidi Dominum
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata a8
Candlelight Concert | Hexham Abbey Festival

Sunday 29th September 2024 at 7.30pm

Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Further details at the Hexham Abbey Festival website; tickets available from the Queen's Hall Arts Centre box office.

Venite exultemus Domino (plainchant)
Thomas Tallis, O come in one to praise the Lord
James MacMillan, O Radiant Dawn
John Tavener, The Lord's Prayer
Felix namque (plainchant)
'Kyrie' and 'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
William Byrd, Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Magnificat a4, 7th Tone (Anonymous, from the Carver Choirbook)
William Byrd, Salve Regina
Te lucis ante terminum (plainchant)
Ben Rowarth, Night Prayer: Psalm 134
Jonathan Dove, Into Thy Hands
Gustav Holst, Nunc Dimittis
Brahms Requiem Choral Workshop

Saturday 28th September 2024 at 2.30pm

St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London

Sonoro
Neil Ferris, conductor
Libby Burgess, piano

Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem
(Baritone soloist)

A come-and-sing choral workshop, led by BBC Symphony Chorus and Sonoro conductor Neil Ferris.
Tickets and further details at the Sonoro website.
Singing in Secret | Musica Sacra Maastricht

Saturday 21st September 2024 at 2.00pm

Kapel Zusters Onder de Bogen, Maastricht

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music for clandestine devotion by William Byrd: the complete Mass for Four Voices, and the Propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi.

Further details and tickets at the Musica Sacra Maastricht website.
Recorded for future broadcast on NPO 4 Klassiek.

William Byrd:
Adorna thalamum tuum
Senex puerum a5
Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Civibat eos
'Kyrie' and 'Gloria' from Mass for Four Voices
Oculi omnium
'Credo' from Mass for Four Voices
Sacerdotes Domini
'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Mass for Four Voices
Ave verum corpus
'Agnus Dei' from Mass for Four Voices
Quotiescunque manducabitis
Salve regina
Light of the World | Music@Malling

Friday 20th September 2024 at 1.00pm

Malling Abbey, West Malling, Kent

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Greta Mutlu, violin

The Marian Consort explore music from England’s turbulent 17th Century. Doleful works from the dying embers of the English Renaissance by Byrd and Tomkins are contrasted with the Italianate brilliance of the ‘English Orpheus’, Henry Purcell, and with contemporary works by John Woolrich and Deborah Pritchard.

Tickets and further details at the Music@Malling website.

Deborah Pritchard, Light of the World
William Byrd, Retire my soul
John Woolrich, 'A Hymn on Melancholy' from Three Choruses
Henry Purcell, Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?
Deborah Pritchard, Heart of Light for solo violin (world première)
Thomas Tomkins, Then David mourn’d
Henry Purcell, Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes mei
John Woolrich, 'The Years Glide Swiftly' from Three Choruses
Henry Purcell, Remember not, Lord, our offences
John Woolrich, 'A Hymn against Despair' from Three Choruses
John Blow, Salvator Mundi
Deborah Pritchard, The Light Thereof
Bach Vespers

Saturday 27th July 2024 at 6.30pm

Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort BWV 168
(Consort and step-out soloist)

and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

Georg Philipp Telemann, 'Ouverture' from Concerto in B flat major TWV 55:B1
Heinrich Isaac, Ecce Deus adjuvat me
J.S. Bach, Chorale Prelude 'Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottessohn' BWV 601
Samuel Scheidt, Chorale Prelude 'Vater unser im Himmelreich' SSWV 104
Andreas Raselius, Wir glauben all an einen Gott
J.S. Bach, 'Herr Jesu Christ! dich zu uns wend' BWV 332
J.S. Bach, Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort BWV 168
J.S. Bach, 'Air' from Suite No. 3 in D BWV 1068
J.S. Bach, Allabreve in D BWV 589

Emily Atkinson, soprano
Tristram Cooke, counter-tenor
Graham Neal, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

The City Bach Collective
Hazel Brooks, leader
In Sorrow's Footsteps | Ryedale Festival

Thursday 25th July 2024 at 7.30pm

Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Further details and tickets at the Ryedale Festival website.

Tomás Luis de Victoria, Salve regina à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
Gregorio Allegri, Lamentations
Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria' from Missa 'Salve'
Gregorio Allegri, Miserere
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, Ave Maria
Tomàs Luis de Victoria, 'Sanctus' and 'Agnus Dei' from Missa 'Salve'
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, Regina caeli
James Macmillan, Miserere
Triple Concert | Ryedale Festival

Wednesday 24th July 2024 at 7.00pm

Castle Howard, North Yorkshire

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

As part of Ryedale Festival’s famed triple concert, the Marian Consort presents a programme opening with the world première of a new piece by Sarah Frances Jenkins, inspired by the stunning Pre-Raphaelite designs of Castle Howard’s chapel. Works by English Renaissance composers Weeles, Dowland and Byrd are juxtaposed with contemporary commentary in works by Laurence Osborn.

Further details and tickets at the Ryedale Festival website.

Sarah Frances Jenkins, New work (world première)
Thomas Weelkes, Death hath deprived me
Laurence Osborn, Spare Parts (i): loop (after Weelkes)
John Dowland, His golden locks
Laurence Osborn, Spare Parts (iii): spring (after Dowland)
William Byrd, Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

Sunday 21st July 2024 at 5.00pm

Wallfahrtskirche Hohenstadt ("Mariä-Opferungskirche")
Festival Europäische Kirchenmusik, Schwäbisch Gmünd

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

Tickets and further information at the Festival website.

Tomás Luis de Victoria
Ave regina caelorum à 8
Missa 'Ave regina caelorum' à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Beati omnes
Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8
The Language of Flowers | Cheltenham Festival

Sunday 7th July 2024 at 6.00pm

Christ Church, Cheltenham

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and newly commissioned works.

Further details and tickets at the Cheltenham Music Festival website.

Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
Laura Cannell, For the Plants that Bind Us (world première)
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
Sebastián de Vivanco
Veni dilecte mi
Surge propera
Sicut lilium
Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary (world première)
Duruflé Requiem

Saturday 6th July 2024 at 7.30pm

St Andrew's Church, Surbiton

Teddington Choral Society
Julian Collings, conductor

Maurice Duruflé, Requiem
(Baritone Soloist)

Further details at the Teddington Choral Society website.

The programme will also feature choral works by Gabriel Fauré and Déodat de Séverac.

Clara Kanter, mezzo-soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Rebecca Hepplewhite, cello
Peter Jaekel, organ
Phil Culling, piano
Face to Face | Aldeburgh Festival

Saturday 15th June 2024

Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape Maltings, Suffolk

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, musical director
Helen Atkinson, sound designer
Ell Potter, actor
Liv Penny, film
Tom Taylor, visuals
Becky Namgauds, movement director
James Hardie, creative producer

Renaissance madrigals by Casulana, Gesualdo, Meldert, Cipriano de Rore, Rossi and Giaches de Wert and new music by Joanna Ward form the core of a rich, emotionally charged musical encounter - part performance, part installation - developed in a residency with Britten Pears Arts.

Further details at the Aldeburgh Festival website; this event is now sold out.

Cipriano de Rore, 'Da le belle contrade d'oriente'
Giaches de Wert, 'Occhi de l'alma mia'
Michelangelo Rossi, 'Occhi un tempo mia vita'
Leonard Meldert, 'Il più leggiadro viso'
Cipriano de Rore, 'Solea lontana'
Maddalena Casulana, 'Morir non può'l mio core'
Carlo Gesualdo, 'Sparge la morte'
Joanna Ward, new works

11.00am, 1.00pm and 3.00pm
Lunchtime concert at St Margaret's Church

Wednesday 12th June 2024 at 1.00pm

St Margaret's Church, Westminster

St Margaret's Consort
Greg Morris, conductor

St Margaret's Church has a rich and fascinating history. This concert explores the wealth of connections between the church and prominent composers, literary figures and political thinkers over the course of the past 500 years, including the world première of a work by a member of the current Consort.

Further details at the Westminster Abbey website.

William Byrd, O quam gloriosum
Nicholas Ludford, 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa Sabato
Robert Whyte, Christe qui lux es et dies (3rd setting)
Henry Purcell I was glad
Gareth Treseder, Certum tenentes ordinem (world première)
Charles Villers Stanford, Praised be Diana (words by Sir Walter Raleigh)
Ignatius Sancho, Thou soft flowing Avon (words by David Garrick)
Edwin Lemare, Andantino in D flat
Hubert Parry, "But let my due feet never fail" from L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso (words by John Milton)
Mystic Ritual | Aldeburgh Festival

Monday 10th June 2024 at 8.00pm

Blythburgh Church, Suffolk

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Daniel Pioro, violin

Tom Coult’s new reimagining of music by the medieval abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, and the Byzantine mystic, Kassia, are a wonderful match for The Marian Consort’s interest in marrying ancient and contemporary musical influences into a new and coherent whole. Created especially for Blythburgh Church at dusk, this flow of music spans millennia and links two of the earliest female composers with classics of the choral repertoire.

Tickets and further details at the Aldeburgh Festival website.

Tom Coult (after Hildegard of Bingen), O Ecclesia
Tom Coult (after Hildegard of Bingen), O Euchari (Britten Pears Arts commission / first performance)
Tom Coult (after Kassia), Hymns of Kassiana (Britten Pears Arts commission / first performance)
John Tavener, Mother of God, Here I Stand
Arvo Pärt, Morning Star
Arvo Pärt, Da pacem Domine
Gaspar van Weerbeke, Mater digna Dei
Jean Lhéritier, Ave domina mea
Josquin des Prez, Ave Maria
Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

Saturday 1st June 2024 at 9.30pm

Basilica di San Vitale, Ravenna

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

Further information and tickets at the Ravenna Festival website.

Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Regina caeli à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8
The Language of Flowers | Dunster Festival

Friday 24th May 2024 at 7.30pm

Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and a newly commissioned work.

Details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
Sebastián de Vivanco
Veni dilecte mi
Surge propera
Sicut lilium
Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary (Marian Consort commission)
The Hunt of the Unicorn | London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

Saturday 18th May 2024 at 7.30pm

St George's, Bloomsbury

The LFCCM Singers
Alastair Carey, director

A selection of the medieval “unicorn” tapestries, portraying key moments in the life of Christ, are accompanied by contemporary sacred music from the Festival’s “Call for Scores” project in this depiction of the journey from Christmas to Easter.

Further details and tickets at the LFCCM website.
Scattered Rhymes

Wednesday 15th May 2024 at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, London

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

Tickets from the Wigmore Hall website.

James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem
The Marian Consort in Penzance

Tuesday 14th May 2024 at 7.30pm

Penzance Catholic Church

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Works by Byrd, Tallis, Parsons, and contemporary composers.

Further details and tickets at the festival website.
Scattered Rhymes

Sunday 12th May 2024 at 7.30pm

Laidlaw Music Centre
University of St Andrews

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

Tickets via the Byre Theatre website.

James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem
Scattered Rhymes

Saturday 11th May 2024 at 7.30pm

Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

Tickets via the RCS website.

James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem
Scattered Rhymes

Friday 10th May 2024 at 7.30pm

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

Tickets via the Queen's Hall website.

James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem
Scattered Rhymes

Thursday 9th May 2024 at 7.30pm

St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

Tickets at the Aberdeen Performing Arts website.

James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem
Bach Vespers

Sunday 28th April 2024 at 6.30pm

Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Wahrlich, wahrlich ich sage euch BWV 86
(Consort and step-out soloist)

and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

J.S. Bach, 'Sinfonia' from Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis BWV 21
Melchior Franck, Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
J.S. Bach, Chorale Prelude 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her' BWV 638
Samuel Scheidt, Chorale Prelude 'Vater unser im Himmelreich' SSWV 104
Balthasar Resinarius, Wir glauben all an einen Gott
J.S. Bach, 'Herr Jesu Christ! dich zu uns wend' BWV 332
J.S. Bach, Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch BWV 86
Heinrich Schütz, 'O süßer, o freundlicher' SWV 285
Johann Pachelbel, 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' P.58

Emily Atkinson, soprano
Judy Louie Brown, mezzo-soprano
Tom Kelly, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

The City Bach Collective
Hazel Brooks, leader
Hymn of Praise

Friday 26th April 2024 at 7.00pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
London

The Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sir András Schiff, director

Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 2 ("Lobgesang")

Further details and tickets at the OAE website.

Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Symphony No. 2 ("Lobgesang")

Alina Ibragimova, violin
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Hilary Cronin, soprano
Nick Pritchard, tenor
Sir András Schiff, fortepiano / director
Seeing through Sound

Friday 19th April 2024 at 6.30pm

V&A South Kensington, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Tim Shephard, speaker

A visual and aural feast featuring some of the greatest painters and composers of the Renaissance. New music by Barbara Monk Feldman provides a contemporary meditation on the experience of viewing Renaissance art.

Further details and tickets at the V&A website.

Nuper almos rosa flores (plainchant)
Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
Ave Maria (lauda; plainchant)
Johannes Brassart, Ave Maria
Regina Coeli antiphon (plainchant)
John Dunstaple, Regina Coeli à3
Jean Mouton, Gloria from Missa Tu es Petrus
Barbara Monk Feldman, Watchman (Marian Consort commission; world première)
Heinrich Isaac, Ne più bella di queste
Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella
Philippe Verdelot, Dormend'un giorno
Josquin des Près, "Domina labia mea aperies" from Miserere mei
Handel, Corelli and Ferrandini

Wednesday 10th April 2024 at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, London

The English Concert
Harry Bicket, director
Emily D'Angelo, mezzo-soprano

G.F. Handel, Donna, che in ciel HWV 233
and works by Corelli and Ferrandini

Unfortunately, Emily d'Angelo has withdrawn from this performance due to illness; Iestyn Davies will now perform in her place, but the programme has been amended accordingly and I will no longer be participating. Further details are available at the Wigmore Hall website.

G.F. Handel, Concerto grosso in A, Op. 6 no. 11, HWV 329
Giovanni Ferrandini, Il pianto di Maria
Arcangelo Corelli, Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6 no. 4
G.F. Handel, Donna, che in ciel HWV 233

(For the amended programme, see the Wigmore Hall website.)
St John Passion

Saturday 30th March 2024 at 2.00pm

Melrose Parish Church

The Borders Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra
Robert Marshall, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion
(Christus and Bass arias)

Tom Raskin, Evangelist
Georgie Malcolm, soprano
Judy Louie Brown, mezzo-soprano
Chris Elliott, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
St John Passion with Polyphony

Friday 29th March 2024 at 2.30pm

St John's, Smith Square, London

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion

Tickets at the SJSS website.

Nick Pritchard, Evangelist
James Rutherford, Christus

Rowan Pierce, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Ruairi Bowen, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass
Divine Revolutions with Daniel Pioro

Thursday 28th March 2024 at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Daniel Pioro, violin

Violinist, composer and ardent advocate for new music Daniel Pioro collaborates with the Marian Consort.

Further details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

Hildegard of Bingen, arr. Tom Coult, O ecclesia oculi tui (world première)
Hildegard of Bingen, arr. Daniel Pioro and the Marian Consort, O virtus Sapientie (world première)
Nick Martin, Growth Rings (UK premiere)
J.S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004, with accompanying chorales in the Chaconne
From Darkness into Light | Bach Weekend

Friday 22nd March 2024 at 7.30pm

Kings Place

Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger, director and violin

For the opening concert of the Kings Place Bach Weekend, a musical journey of spiritual transformation for Eastertide.

Further details and tickets at the Kings Place website.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150
Johann Michael Bach, Ach wie sehnlich
Dieterich Buxtehude, Ciaccona in E minor BuxWV 160 (transcribed for string quartet by Brian Clark)
Dieterich Buxtehude, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BuxWV 76 and Klaglied BuxWV 76b
Johann Sebastian Bach, Lobet den Herrn BWV 230
Johann Michael Bach, Es ist ein großer Gewinn
Johann Christoph Bach, Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein / Ciaconne from Meine Freundin ist schön
Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4

Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-soprano
Gwilym Bowen, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger, director and violin
The Language of Flowers | Music at Oxford

Saturday 16th March 2024 at 6.00pm

St Barnabus Church, Jericho, Oxford

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort continues its residency at Music at Oxford, with an exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and newly commissioned works.

Full programme details at the Music at Oxford website.

Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
Laura Cannell, For the Plants that Bind Us
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
Sebastián de Vivanco
Veni dilecte mi
Surge propera
Sicut lilium
Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary
Electra Perivolaris, Our Shared Planet (world première)
The Language of Flowers

Thursday 14th March 2024 at 7.00pm

St George's Colegate, Norwich

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and newly commissioned works.

Further details and tickets at the Marian Consort website.

Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
Laura Cannell, For the Plants that Bind Us (world première)
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
Sebastián de Vivanco
Veni dilecte mi
Surge propera
Sicut lilium
Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary (world première)
English Music for Lent

Saturday 9th March 2024 at 7.30pm

St Martin's Church, Epsom

Epsom Choral Society
Peter Jaekel, organ
Julian Collings, conductor

John Stainer, The Crucifixion
and other penitential works by English composers

Details and tickets at the Epsom Choral Society website.

John Stainer, The Crucifixion
Edward Elgar, The Spirit of the Lord
Gerald Finzi, Lo, the full, Final Sacrifice
Herbert Howells, Like as the Hart
John Ireland, Greater Love
Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

Sunday 18th February 2024 at 4.00pm

Duke University Chapel, Durham, North Carolina

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

Tickets and further details at the Duke Arts website.

Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Magnificat à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Regina caeli à 8
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
João Lourenço Rebelo, Panis angelicus
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8
Lecture recital with Prof Michael Noone

Wednesday 14th February 2024 at 12.30pm

Gasson 100, Boston College

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Motets by Vicente Lusitano, Diego de Bruceña, Juan de Anchieta and Tomás Luis de Victoria
Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

Tuesday 13th February 2024 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Chapel, Boston College

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

Further details at the Boston College website.

Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Regina caeli à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Magnificat à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8
Vicente Lusitano: a lecture recital

Monday 12th February 2024 at 4.15pm

Memorial Chapel, Wesleyan University, Connecticut

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director and speaker

Motets by Vicente Lusitano and his contemporaries.

Further details at the website of the Wesleyan University Center for the Arts. This event will be preceded by a workshop with Wesleyan's Collegium Musicum.
Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

Sunday 11th February 2024 at 4.00pm

Music Before 1800
Corpus Christi Church, 529 W 121st St, New York

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

Tickets and further details at the Music Before 1800 website.

Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Magnificat à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Regina caeli à 8
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
João Lourenço Rebelo, Panis angelicus
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8
Dixit Dominus at Wigmore Hall

Monday 29th January 2024 at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, London

The English Concert
Harry Bicket, director

G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus HWV 232
and Italian cantatas

Full details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website (though nb this concert has now sold out)

G.F. Handel
Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi HWV 197
Trio Sonata in B flat HWV 402
Il duello amoroso HWV 82
Dixit Dominus HWV 232

Lucy Crowe and Joanna Songi, sopranos
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
James Way, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass-baritone
Fauré Requiem

Saturday 20th January 2024 at 7.30pm

St James's, Piccadilly

Sonoro
The Dionysius Ensemble
Neil Ferris, conductor

Gabriel Fauré, Requiem Op. 48
(Baritone soloist)

and a selection of French music

*Unfortunately this concert has been postponed until the autumn*

Gabriel Fauré:
Cantique de Jean Racine
Ave verum corpus
Tantum ergo
Lili Boulanger, Pie Jesu
Rebecca Dale, Panis Angelicus
Cécile Chaminade, Meditation
Camille Saint-Saëns Choruses, Op. 68:
"Calme des nuits"
"Les herbes et les arbres"
Lili Boulanger, Sous bois
Francis Poulenc, Exsultate Deo
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem
London Voices in Lucerne

Friday 5th January 2024 at 7.30pm

KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

London Voices
City Light Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Griffiths, conductor

Music by John Powell

A "concert screening" of How to Train your Dragon, with live performance of the film soundtrack.
Messiah with Polyphony and OAE

Saturday 23rd December 2023 at 7.30pm

St John's, Smith Square, London

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available at the SJSS website.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah in Glasgow

Thursday 21st December 2023 at 7.00pm

St Aloysius' Church, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland website.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Bethany Horak-Hallett, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Gregory, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah

Thursday 21st December 2023 at 4.00pm

St Aloysius' Church, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Tickets available from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland website.
Messiah in Edinburgh

Wednesday 20th December 2023 at 7.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Bethany Horak-Hallett, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Gregory, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah

Wednesday 20th December 2023 at 4.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.
Messiah in Perth

Tuesday 19th December 2023 at 7.00pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available at the Perth Concert Hall website.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Bethany Horak-Hallett, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Gregory, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah

Tuesday 19th December 2023 at 4.00pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Tickets available at the Perth Concert Hall website.
Christmas Concert

Saturday 16th December 2023 at 6.30pm

St John the Evangelist, Barnet

Barnet Choral Society
Rory McCleery, director
William Whitehead, organ

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Songs by Peter Warlock, and other seasonal music

Tickets available here.
Christmas Fantasia

Saturday 9th December 2023 at 7.30pm

Chandlers Ford Methodist Church, nr. Winchester

Romsey Choral Society
Richard Pearce, conductor
Richard McVeigh, organ/piano

Seasonal music including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols and songs by Wolf and Cornelius

Tickets available here.

Peter Cornelius (arr. Ivor Atkins), The Three Kings
Trad. French (arr. David Willcocks), Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Hugo Wolf, Schlafendes Jesuskind
Peter Cornelius, "Christbaum" (from Weihnachtslieder)
Mateo Flecha el Viejo, Ríu, Ríu, Chíu
and seasonal carols
A Jacobean Christmas | York Early Music Christmas Festival

Thursday 7th December 2023 at 7.00pm

National Centre for Early Music, York

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Nicholas Morris, organ

The Marian Consort return to York with a programme of festive music from the Stuart court.

Further details and tickets at the NCEM website.

Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
William Byrd, This day Christ is born
Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
William Byrd, Lullaby
Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
John Amner, O ye little flock
Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
John Bull, The Star Anthem
A Jacobean Christmas | Cambridge Early Music

Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 7.30pm

Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Nicholas Morris, organ

A seasonal programme featuring early English composers at their most unbuttoned and celebratory, with music written for the famously festive Stuart court.

Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
William Byrd, This day Christ is born
Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
William Byrd, Lullaby
Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
John Amner, O ye little flock
Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
John Bull, The Star Anthem
A Jacobean Christmas | Music at Oxford

Saturday 2nd December 2023 at 6.00pm

St Barnabus Church, Oxford

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Nicholas Morris, organ
with singers from St Barnabus Church Choir and Jericho Youth Choir

The Marian Consort continue their residency with Music at Oxford, with a programme of festive music from the Stuart court.

Further details and tickets at the Music at Oxford website.

Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
William Byrd, This day Christ is born
Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
William Byrd, Lullaby
Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
John Amner, O ye little flock
Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
John Bull, The Star Anthem
A Jacobean Christmas

Friday 1st December 2023 at 8.00pm

Little Missenden Church (St John the Baptist), Buckinghamshire

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Nicholas Morris, organ

A seasonal programme featuring early English composers at their most unbuttoned and celebratory, with music written for the famously festive Stuart court.

Further details and tickets at the Little Missenden Festival website.

Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
William Byrd, This day Christ is born
Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
William Byrd, Lullaby
Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
John Amner, O ye little flock
Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
John Bull, The Star Anthem
A Jacobean Christmas

Thursday 30th November 2023 at 7.00pm

St George's Colegate, Norwich

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Nicholas Morris, organ

The Marian Consort returns to Norwich with a festive programme that features early English composers at their most unbuttoned and celebratory, with music written for the Stuart court. Alongside these are more intimate, introspective sacred works by a golden age of English composers – Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes and Bull – that in some cases belie their creators’ often colourful personal lives.

Tickets available here.

Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
William Byrd, This day Christ is born
Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
William Byrd, Lullaby
Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
John Amner, O ye little flock
Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
John Bull, The Star Anthem
Laurence Osborn Day

Saturday 25th November 2023 at 3.00pm

Wigmore Hall, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Two works by Laurence Osborn (b. 1989), including one new commission, alongside works by four composers from earlier periods.

Further information and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

Thomas Weelkes, Death hath deprived me
Ruth Crawford Seeger, 'To an Unkind God' from 3 Chants
John Dowland, His Golden Locks
Laurence Osborn, Spare Parts (first performance)
Guillaume de Machaut, Quant en moy
Thomas Weelkes, Whilst youthfull sports
Ruth Crawford Seeger, 'To an Angel' from 3 Chants
Laurence Osborn, Juvenilia
Snape Residency: Open Session

Friday 10th November 2023 at 3.00pm

Jerwood Kiln Studio
The Maltings, Snape

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Helen Atkinson, sound designer

A first public sharing of work developed over the course of the Marian Consort's week-long residency with Britten Pears Arts at Snape Maltings.

Further details at the Marian Consort website.
The Judgement of Paris

Saturday 28th October 2023 at 7.15pm

Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

Cambridge Handel Opera Company
The Academy of Ancient Music
Julian Perkins, director

John Weldon, The Judgement of Paris

Read more about this first modern revival of Weldon's opera here.
Bach Actually | Brecon Baroque Festival

Friday 20th October 2023 at 7.30pm

Brecon Cathedral

Brecon Baroque
Joanne Lunn, soprano
Rachel Podger, violin and artistic director

J.S. Bach, "Audition Cantatas":
Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23
as part of an all-Bach programme to open the 2023 Brecon Baroque Festival

Full details at the Brecon Baroque Festival website.

J.S. Bach
Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV 51
Violin Concerto in G minor BWV 1056a
'Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' Ihn' BWV 1127

Joanne Lunn, soprano
Martha McLorinan, mezzo-soprano
Gwilym Bowen, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger, leader and artistic director
New Worlds: South American Baroque

Monday 16th October 2023 at 9.00pm

Duomo di Monreale, Sicily

Academy of Ancient Music
Bojan Čičić, leader and director

Music by Domenico Zipoli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni da Palestrina and Roque Jacinto de Chavarria.
(Consort and step-out soloist)

Further details and tickets at the website of Bellini International Context.

Anon, Hanacpachap cussicuinin
Pasquini, 'Sinfonia' from La Sete di Christo
Domenico Zipoli, Tantum Ergo
Domenico Zipoli, Verso do organo
Alessandro Scarlatti, Dixit Dominus
Domenico Zipoli, Confitebor tibi
Diego Sanchez de Cáseda, Silencio, no chiste al aire
Domenico Zipoli, Beatus Vir
Giovanni Gabrieli, Sonata No.21 for 3 violins
Domenico Zipoli, Laudate Dominum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Magnificat primi toni
Biagio Marini, Sonata in eco for 3 violins
Domenico Zipoli, Tantum Ergo
Alessandro Scarlatti, 'Gloria Patri' from Dixit Dominus
Roque Jacinto de Chavarria, Naranjitay Hisiño
William Byrd 400 | Music@Malling

Friday 29th September 2023 at 1.00pm

Malling Abbey, West Malling, Kent

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort celebrates the legacy of William Byrd, 400 years after his death, in a programme that juxtaposes a selection of his music with new works by Brian Elias and Deborah Pritchard.

Tickets and further details at the Music@Malling website.

William Byrd, Memento Domine
Deborah Pritchard, Light of the World
William Byrd, Domine praestolamur
William Byrd, Audivi vocem
Deborah Pritchard, Audivi vocem
William Byrd, Tristitia et anxietas
William Byrd, Lullaby
Brian Elias, Lullaby
William Byrd, Circumdederunt me
Bach and Handel | Hexham Abbey Festival

Saturday 23rd September 2023 at 7.30pm

Hexham Abbey

Hexham Abbey Festival Chorus
David Murray, conductor

G.F. Handel, Four Coronation Anthems
J.S. Bach, Magnificat
(Baritone soloist)

Laurie Ashworth, soprano
Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Hurndall-Smith, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Singet dem Herrn | New Paths Festival

Friday 22nd September 2023 at 8.00pm

St Mary's Church, Beverley

New Paths Voices
Ian Wilson, recorder
Libby Burgess, chamber organ and director

Three of J.S. Bach's motets, interspersed with music on a celestial theme for recorder.

Further details at the New Paths Festival website; tickets available via Ticketsource.

J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn
Jacob van Eyck, Divisions on Onse Vader in Hemelryck
J.S. Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm
Christiane Martini, La Luna
J.S. Bach, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Compline at New Paths Festival

Thursday 21st September 2023 at 10.00pm

Beverley Minster

New Paths Voices

The ancient office of compline, including music by William Byrd to mark 400 years since his death.

Further information and registration at the New Paths Festival website.

Music to be performed as part of the liturgy:
John Sheppard, Libera nos, salva nos
William Byrd, Miserere mei
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Music for the Queen of Heaven | Korkyra Baroque Festival

Wednesday 13th September 2023 at 7.00pm

Parish Church of St Nicholas, Račišće, Croatia

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries, interspersed with a selection of new works.

Clemens non Papa, O Maria vernans rosa
Ben Rowarth, Ave Maris Stella
William Byrd, Audivi vocem de caelo
Deborah Pritchard, Audivi vocem
William Byrd, Tristitia et anxietas
Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God
William Byrd, Memento Domine
Julije Skjavetić, Asperges me
William Byrd, Lullaby
Brian Elias, Lullaby
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Music for the Queen of Heaven | Korkyra Baroque Festival

Tuesday 12th September 2023 at 9.00pm

St Mark's Cathedral, Korčula, Croatia
(note change of venue from Franciscan Monastery, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Badija)

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries, interspersed with a selection of new works.

Further details and tickets at the Korkyra Baroque Festival website.

Clemens non Papa, O Maria vernans rosa
Ben Rowarth, Ave Maris Stella
William Byrd, Audivi vocem de caelo
Deborah Pritchard, Audivi vocem
William Byrd, Tristitia et anxietas
Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God
William Byrd, Memento Domine
Julije Skjavetić, Asperges me
William Byrd, Lullaby
Brian Elias, Lullaby
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Music from the Dunkeld Partbooks | Lammermuir Festival

Saturday 9th September 2023 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The so-called ‘Dunkeld’ Partbooks give a glimpse of the musical riches found in Scotland in the period before the Reformation, combining motets by the latest and greatest continental composers sourced directly from Paris with mass settings by more local musicans, among them the beautiful anonymous Missa Felix namque.

Further details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.

Felix namque (plainchant)
Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
Pierre Certon, Pater Noster/Ave Maria
Jachet of Mantua, Descendi in hortum meum
Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
Claudin, O Maria stans sub cruce
Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo
St Mary's Church, Haddington: A Glory of the Middle Ages

Saturday 9th September at 3.00pm and 4.30pm

St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Lizzie Swarbrick, historian/speaker

Art historian Lizzie Swarbrick leads an afternoon programme guiding visitors in a kinetic experience around St Mary’s, Haddington as it might have looked and sounded before the siege of Haddington in 1548.

Further details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.
Les Troyens | BBC Proms

Sunday 3rd September 2023 at 4.00pm

Royal Albert Hall, London

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Dinis Sousa, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

Further details and tickets at the BBC Proms website.

Cassandre: Alice Coote
Énée: Michael Spyres
Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
Panthée: Ashley Riches
Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
Hécube: Rebecca Evans
Didon: Paula Murrihy
Anna: Beth Taylor
Narbal: William Thomas
Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby

Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.
Les Troyens | Musikfest Berlin

Friday 1st September 2023 at 5.00pm

Philharmonie Berlin

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Dinis Sousa, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

Further details and tickets at the Berliner Philharmoniker website.

Cassandre: Alice Coote
Énée: Michael Spyres
Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
Panthée: Ashley Riches
Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
Hécube: Rebecca Evans
Didon: Paula Murrihy
Anna: Beth Taylor
Narbal: William Thomas
Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby

Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.
Les Troyens | Versailles

Tuesday 29th August 2023 at 6.00pm

Château de Versailles, Paris

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Dinis Sousa, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

Further details and tickets at the Château de Versailles Spectacles website.

Cassandre: Alice Coote
Énée: Michael Spyres
Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
Panthée: Ashley Riches
Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
Hécube: Rebecca Evans
Didon: Paula Murrihy
Anna: Beth Taylor
Narbal: William Thomas
Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby

Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.
Les Troyens | Salzburg Festival

Saturday 26th August 2023 at 5.00pm

Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Dinis Sousa, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

Further details and tickets at the Salzburg Festival website.

Cassandre: Alice Coote
Énée: Michael Spyres
Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
Panthée: Ashley Riches
Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
Hécube: Rebecca Evans
Didon: Paula Murrihy
Anna: Beth Taylor
Narbal: William Thomas
Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby

Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.
Les Troyens II: Les Troyens à Carthage | Festival Berlioz

Wednesday 23rd August 2023 at 9.00pm

Cour du Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Dinis Sousa, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens Acts III, IV & V: Les Troyens à Carthage

Full details and tickets at the Festival Berlioz website.

Didon: Paula Murrihy
Énée: Michael Spyres
Anna: Beth Taylor
Narbal: William Thomas
Panthée: Ashley Riches
Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby
Ascagne: Adèle Charvet

Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.
Les Troyens I: La prise de Troie | Festival Berlioz

Tuesday 22nd August 2023 at 9.00pm

Cour du Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens Acts I & II: La prise de Troie

Full details and tickets at the Festival Berlioz website.

Cassandre: Alice Coote
Énée: Michael Spyres
Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
Panthée: Ashley Riches
Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
Hécube: Rebecca Evans
Byrd at Elizabeth's Court | York Early Music Festival

Tuesday 11th July 2023 at 1.00pm

National Centre for Early Music, York

The Marian Consort (Rory McCleery, director)
The Rose Consort of Viols

Settings of psalms and spiritual poetry for voices and viols by William Byrd, juxtaposed with examples of Byrd's instrumental music and a new work by Juta Pranulyte.

Further details and tickets at the NCEM website.

William Byrd
Have mercy upon me, O God
Rejoice unto the Lord
Thomas Tallis
O sacrum convivium
Fantasia a5
William Byrd
Ye sacred muses
A Voluntarie for Lady Nevell
La Virginella
Lullaby
Pavan & galliard a5
Juta Pranulyté, Lullaby (first performance)
William Byrd
Come to me grief for ever
Browning a5
O God that guides the cheerful sun
Byrd at Secret Prayer | York Early Music Festival

Monday 10th July 2023 at 7.30pm

National Centre for Early Music, York

The Marian Consort (Rory McCleery, director)
The Rose Consort of Viols

A recreation of music for a Mass as it might have been practised in the 1580s at a Catholic house in Protestant England: held in secret and performed to music by England’s leading composer, William Byrd. In this performance combining voices and viols, the sublime Mass in 5 Parts is interspersed with the Propers for Candlemas from Byrd’s Gradualia, varied versions for viol consort of the Latin plainsong ‘In nomine’, and intense motets whose texts seem to reflect the oppression suffered by the worshippers.

Further details and tickets at the NCEM website.

William Byrd
Mass for Five Voices
Suscepimus Deus - Sicut Autivimus
Nunc Dimittis
Diffusa est gratia
O salutaris hostia
Responsum accepit Simeon
Miserere mihi, Dominum
interspersed with 'In nomine' pieces for viol consort.
Inviolata at the Aldeburgh Festival

Saturday 24th June 2023 at 11.00am

Orford Church, Suffolk

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A triptych of linked settings of the Inviolata, by Josquin des Prez, Vicente Lusitano and Roderick Williams; and three pieces reflecting on the annunciation, connected both by their Marian texts and their interest in the music of the past.

Further details and tickets at the Britten Pears Arts website.

Josquin des Prez, Inviolata
Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata
Jonathan Harvey, The Annunciation
Anonymous (Josquin des Prez?), Missus est angelus/A une Dame
Roderick Williams, Inviolata (after Lusitano)
Holy Week in Renaissance Rome | Thaxted Festival

Saturday 17th June 2023 at 7.30pm

Thaxted Parish Church, Essex

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of penitential music from Renaissance and early Baroque Rome, culminating in Domenico Scarlatti's setting of the Stabat Mater.

Further details and tickets at the Thaxted Festival website.

Felice Anerio, Ave regina Caelorum
Grigorio Allegri
Lamentations
Miserere
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
Sicut cervus
'Agnus Dei' from Missa Brevis
Domenico Mazzocchi, Vide Domine
Felice Anerio, Ad te lavavi
Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater
Holy Week in Renaissance Rome | Naunton Music

Friday 16th June 2023 at 7.00pm

St Andrew's Church, Naunton, Gloucestershire

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of penitential music from Renaissance and early Baroque Rome, culminating in Domenico Scarlatti's setting of the Stabat Mater.

Booking details at the Naunton Music website.

Felice Anerio, Ave regina Caelorum
Grigorio Allegri
Lamentations
Miserere
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
Sicut cervus
'Agnus Dei' from Missa Brevis
Domenico Mazzocchi, Vide Domine
Felice Anerio, Ad te lavavi
Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater
Princess Ida

Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th June at 7.00pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
London

Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
John Wilson, conductor

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Princess Ida

A semi-staged performance with narration by Simon Butteriss.
Full details at the OAE website.

Princess Ida: Sophie Bevan
Prince Hilarion: Benjamin Hulett
King Hildebrand: Robert Hayward
King Gama/Narrator: Simon Butteriss
Lady Blanche: Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Lady Psyche: Bethany Horak-Hallett
Melissa: Marlena Devoe
Cyril: Ruairi Bowen
Florian: Charles Rice
Arac: Morgan Pearse
Guron: Robert Davies
Scynthius: Jonathan Brown
Sacharissa: Claire Ward
Dunster Festival Service

Sunday 28th May 2023 at 11.00am

Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous, from the Dunkeld Partbooks)
Imogen Holst, A Hymne to Christ
Thomas Tallis, Loquebantur variis linguis
Singing in Secret | Dunster Festival

Saturday 27th May 2023 at 7.00pm

Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort returns to the Dunster Festival with ‘Singing in Secret’, a programme exploring clandestine Renaissance musical masterpieces alongside works by contemporary British composers, including music by Italian nun Raffaella Aleotti, who was described as “not human, but truly an angelic spirit”, and the “English nightingale” William Byrd in his 400th anniversary year.

Further details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

Philippe de Monte, Super flumina Babylonis
William Byrd, Quomodo cantabimus
Amy Stewart, Hannah (first performance)
Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
Caroline Shaw, Dolce cantavi
William Byrd, Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
William Byrd, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass for Three Voices
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
Judith Weir, Madrigal
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata
On the Outside Looking In | Music at Oxford

Saturday 20th May 2023 at 7.30pm

SJE Arts (St John the Evangelist, Iffley Road), Oxford

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort begins its residency with Music at Oxford, with a programme showcasing new and marginalised compositional voices, alongside the recusant English composer William Byrd in his anniversary year.

Full details at the SJE Arts website.

Philippe de Monte, Super flumina Babylonis
William Byrd, Quomodo cantabimus
Amy Stewart, Hannah (first performance)
Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
Caroline Shaw, Dolce cantavi
William Byrd, Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
William Byrd, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass for Three Voices
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
Judith Weir, Madrigal
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata
A Winged Woman | Perth Festival of the Arts

Thursday 18th May 2023 at 7.30pm

St John's Kirk, Perth

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Scottish and continental music from the golden age of Polyphony found in Scottish manuscripts, alongside two major new works by award-winning composers Dani Howard and Electra Perivolaris.

Further details and tickets at the Perth Festival of the Arts website.

Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es, caelorum Regina
Josquin des Prez, Salve celeberrima virgo
David Peebles, Quam multi Domine
Dani Howard, Unbound
Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
Jachet of Mantua, Descendi in hortum meum
Anonymous, Descendi in hortum meum
Adrian Willaert, Infelix Ego
BBC Radio 3 In Tune

Tuesday 16th May 2023 at 6.00pm

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort perform live on BBC Radio 3, ahead of performances in Perth, Oxford and Dunster.
Hail, O Queen

Sunday 14th May 2023 at 7.30pm

Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

A programme inspired by the figure of the Virgin Mary which explores her shifting status as both mother of God and a young woman, through settings of texts both familiar and new.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Assumpta est Maria
Joanna Ward, Hail, O Queen
Giles Swayne, Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall, There is no rose
Kerry Andrew, Apples, Plums, Cherries
Carlo Gesualdo, Ave, dulcissima
Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria WAB 6
Hail, O Queen

Saturday 13th May 2023 at 7.30pm

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

A programme inspired by the figure of the Virgin Mary which explores her shifting status as both mother of God and a young woman, through settings of texts both familiar and new.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Assumpta est Maria
Joanna Ward, Hail, O Queen
Giles Swayne, Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall, There is no rose
Kerry Andrew, Apples, Plums, Cherries
Carlo Gesualdo, Ave, dulcissima
Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria WAB 6
Hail, O Queen

Friday 12th May 2023 at 7.30pm

St John's Kirk, Perth

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

A programme inspired by the figure of the Virgin Mary which explores her shifting status as both mother of God and a young woman, through settings of texts both familiar and new.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Assumpta est Maria
Joanna Ward, Hail, O Queen
Giles Swayne, Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall, There is no rose
Kerry Andrew, Apples, Plums, Cherries
Carlo Gesualdo, Ave, dulcissima
Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria WAB 6
Hail, O Queen

Thursday 11th May 2023 at 7.30pm

St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

A programme inspired by the figure of the Virgin Mary which explores her shifting status as both mother of God and a young woman, through settings of texts both familiar and new.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Assumpta est Maria
Joanna Ward, Hail, O Queen
Giles Swayne, Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall, There is no rose
Kerry Andrew, Apples, Plums, Cherries
Carlo Gesualdo, Ave, dulcissima
Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria WAB 6
Carmina Burana

Saturday 22nd April 2023 at 7.30pm

Medina Theatre
Newport, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight Cantata Choir
Rachel Tweddle, conductor

Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
(Baritone soloist)

*Unfortunately I had to withdraw from this concert due to illness. I am very grateful that William Dazeley was able to replace me at short notice."

Gilliam Ramm, soprano
Matthew Howard, tenor
William Dazeley, baritone (replacing Jon Stainsby)
Grier and Tavener at the SJSS Easter Festival

Friday 7th April 2023 at 8.00pm

St John's, Smith Square

London Choral Sinfonia
Michael Waldron, conductor

John Tavener, Mother and Child
Francis Grier, Sword in the Soul: A Meditation for Good Friday

Samantha Bond and Anton Lesser, narrators
Brian O'Kane, cello
James Orford, organ
St John Passion with Polyphony

Friday 7th April 2023 at 2.30pm

St John's, Smith Square

Polyphony
Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion

Tickets and further information here.

Nick Pritchard, Evangelist
James Rutherford, Christ
Rowan Pierce, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Ruari Bowen, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass-baritone
Fauré and Haydn with the Burford Singers

Sunday 2nd April 2023 at 7.30pm

The Church of St John the Baptist, Burford

The Burford Singers
The Cotswold Chamber Orchestra
Brian Kay, conductor

Joseph Haydn, Missa in Angustiis ("Nelson Mass") Hob.XXII:11
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem
(Baritone soloist)

Sarah Power, soprano
Emily Gray, mezzo-soprano
Peter Martin, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Ethel Smyth Mass in D

Saturday 1st April 2023 at 7.30pm

St Martin's Church, Dorking

Brockham Choral Society
Cole Bendall, conductor

Ethel Smyth, Mass in D
(Baritone soloist)

Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Toward the Unknown Region

Further information at the Brockham Choral Society website.

Joanna Tomlinson, soprano
Judy Louie Brown, mezzo-oprano
Joshua Baxter, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
dans un train / wagon zac

23rd March at 2.30pm (schools performance), and 24th March at 10.00am (schools performance) and 8.00pm (full performance)

Grand Angle, Voiron, France

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

A new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

*Due to industrial action in France, the performance scheduled for 2.30pm on 23rd March was postponed to the same time on 24th March*
New Worlds: South American Baroque

Saturday 18th March 2023 at 8.00pm

Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk, Antwerp

Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings, director

Music by Domenico Zipoli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni da Palestrina and Roque Jacinto de Chavarria.
(Consort and step-out soloist)

Part of the Baroque Influencers festival. Tickets and further details at the AMUZ website.

Anon, Hanacpachap cussicuinin
Pasquini, 'Sinfonia' from La Sete di Christo
Domenico Zipoli, Tantum Ergo
Domenico Zipoli, Verso do organo
Alessandro Scarlatti, Dixit Dominus
Domenico Zipoli, Confitebor tibi
Diego Sanchez de Cáseda, Silencio, no chiste al aire
Domenico Zipoli, Beatus Vir
Giovanni Gabrieli, Sonata No.21 for 3 violins
Domenico Zipoli, Laudate Dominum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Magnificat primi toni
Biagio Marini, Sonata in eco for 3 violins
Domenico Zipoli, Tantum Ergo
Alessandro Scarlatti, 'Gloria Patri' from Dixit Dominus
Roque Jacinto de Chavarria, Naranjitay Hisiño
Singing in Secret | Nishinomiya

Thursday 23rd February 2023 at 2.00pm

Hyogo Performing Arts Centre, Nishinomiya, Japan

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

William Byrd:
Aspice Domine
Gaudeamus Omnes
Mass for Four Voices: 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
Lord, in thy wrath
Philippe de Monte, Illumina oculos meos
William Byrd:
Timete Dominum
O Lux beata Trinitas
Thomas Morley, Laboravi in gemitu meo
William Byrd:
Justorum Animae
The Nightingale
Mass for Four Voices: 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
Beati Mundo Corde
Robert White, Ad te levavi oculos meos
William Byrd:
Domine praestolamur
Mass for Four Voices: 'Agnus Dei'
Turn our captivity, O Lord
Singing in Secret | Tokyo

Tuesday 21st February 2023 at 7.00pm

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

Further details and tickets at the Bunka Kaikan website.

William Byrd:
Aspice Domine
Gaudeamus Omnes
Mass for Four Voices: 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
Lord, in thy wrath
Philippe de Monte, Illumina oculos meos
William Byrd:
Timete Dominum
O Lux beata Trinitas
Thomas Morley, Laboravi in gemitu meo
William Byrd:
Justorum Animae
The Nightingale
Mass for Four Voices: 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
Beati Mundo Corde
Robert White, Ad te levavi oculos meos
William Byrd:
Domine praestolamur
Mass for Four Voices: 'Agnus Dei'
Turn our captivity, O Lord
Singing in Secret | Tokyo

Monday 20th February 2023 at 2.00pm

Toyosu Bunka Center Hall, Tokyo, Japan

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

William Byrd:
Aspice Domine
Gaudeamus Omnes
Mass for Four Voices: 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
Lord, in thy wrath
Philippe de Monte, Illumina oculos meos
William Byrd:
Timete Dominum
O Lux beata Trinitas
Thomas Morley, Laboravi in gemitu meo
William Byrd:
Justorum Animae
The Nightingale
Mass for Four Voices: 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
Beati Mundo Corde
Robert White, Ad te levavi oculos meos
William Byrd:
Domine praestolamur
Mass for Four Voices: 'Agnus Dei'
Turn our captivity, O Lord
Singing in Secret | Canterbury

Friday 10th February 2023 at 7.30pm

Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporary, Robert White.

Tickets and further details at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre website.

William Byrd:
Aspice Domine
Gaudeamus Omnes
Mass for Four Voices: 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
Lord, in thy wrath
O Lux beata Trinitas
Timete Dominum
Robert White, Ad te levavi oculos meos
William Byrd:
Justorum Animae
The Nightingale
Mass for Four Voices: 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
Beati Mundo Corde
Mass for Four Voices: 'Agnus Dei'
Turn our captivity, O Lord
Singing in Secret | Norwich

Thursday 9th February 2023 at 7.00pm

St George's Colegate, Norwich

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

Further details at the Marian Consort website; tickets available here.

William Byrd:
Aspice Domine
Gaudeamus Omnes
Mass for Four Voices: 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
Lord, in thy wrath
Philippe de Monte, Illumina oculos meos
William Byrd, Timete Dominum
Thomas Morley, Laboravi in gemitu meo
William Byrd:
Justorum Animae
The Nightingale
Mass for Four Voices: 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
Beati Mundo Corde
Mass for Four Voices: 'Agnus Dei'
Turn our captivity, O Lord
London Voices in Lucerne: Spotlight on John Powell

Saturday 4th February 2023 at 7.30pm

KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

London Voices
City Light Vocal Ensemble
Holly Sedillos, soprano
City Light Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Griffiths, conductor

Film music by John Powell
London Voices in Lucerne

Friday 3rd February 2023 at 7.30pm

KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

London Voices
City Light Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Griffiths, conductor

Music by John Powell

A "concert screening" of How to Train your Dragon, with live performance of the film soundtrack.
Bach Vespers

Sunday 29th January 2023 at 6.30pm

Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit BWV 14
(Consort and step-out soloist)

and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

George Philipp Telemann, 'Spirituoso' and 'Grave' from Quartet in B flat major TWV 43: B2
Melchior Vulpius, 'Da Traten die Jünger zu Jesu'
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Chorale Preludes 'Jesu, meine Freude' LV 49 (Variatio 3) and 'Vater unser im Himmelreich' LV 22
Balthasar Resinarius, 'Wir gläuben all an einen Gott'
J.S. Bach, 'Herr Jesu Christ! dich zu uns wend' BWV 332
J.S. Bach, 'Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit' BWV 14
J.S. Bach, 'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr,' BWV 715

Emily Atkinson, soprano
Tristram Cooke, counter-tenor
Tom Castle, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

The City Bach Collective
Hazel Brooks, leader
London Voices in Lucerne

Friday 13th January 2023 at 7.30pm

KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

London Voices
City Light Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Griffiths, conductor

Music by John Powell

A "concert screening" of How to Train your Dragon, with live performance of the film soundtrack.
Christmas Cantatas at Wigmore Hall

Saturday 31st December 2022 at 7.00pm

Wigmore Hall, London

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

Antonio Caldara, Sinfonia in C
J.S. Bach:
Christen, ätzet diesen Tag BWV 63
Unser Mund sei voll Lachens BWV 110

Full details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

Rachel Redmond, soprano
James Hall, counter-tenor
Hugo Hymas, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah

Friday 23rd December 2022 at 7.30pm

St John's Smith Square

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Further information at the SJSS website.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
Gwilym Bowen, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
Schütz Christmas Story at Wigmore Hall

Tuesday 20th December 2022 at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, London

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

Heinrich Schütz, Weihnachtshistorie
and other Christmas works by Schütz, Monteverdi, Gabrieli and Grandi

Full details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

Heinrich Schütz, 'Das Wort ward Fleisch' and 'Der Engel sprach zu den Hirten' from Geistliche Chormusic Op. 11
Alessandro Grandi Plorabo die ac nocte
Giovanni Gabrieli, O Jesu mi dulcissime C56
Heinrich Schütz, Hodie Christus natus est SWV 315
David Pohle, Sonata a5 in C
Claudio Monteverdi, Laudate pueri Dominum (Secondo) SV 271
Giovanni Gabrieli Quem vidistis, pastores
Heinrich Schütz Die Weihnachtshistorie (The Christmas Story) SWV 435
Messiah in Edinburgh

Friday 16th December 2022 at 7.00pm

Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Full details and tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting, tenor
Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah in Edinburgh

Friday 16th December 2022 at 4.00pm

Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Full details and tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting, tenor
Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
Messiah in Lanark

Thursday 15th December 2022 at 7.00pm

St Mary's RC Church, Lanark

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Full details and tickets at the Dunedin Consort website.

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting, tenor
Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah in Lanark

Thursday 15th December 2022 at 4.00pm

St Mary's RC Church, Lanark

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Full details and tickets at the Dunedin Consort website.

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting, tenor
Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
Messiah in Glasgow

Wednesday 14th December 2022 at 7.00pm

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Full details and tickets at the Dunedin Consort website.

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting, tenor
Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah in Glasgow

Wednesday 14th December 2022 at 4.00pm

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)
Inspiring Bach at York Early Music Christmas Festival

Sunday 11th December 2022 at 5.00pm

National Centre for Early Music, York

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Spiritato!
Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

Tickets and further details at the NCEM website.
Marian Music from Renaissance Ávila

Thursday 8th December 2022 at 7.30pm

Church of San Juan Bautista, Ávila

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of music by composers associated with Ávila Cathedral.

Cristóbal de Morales
   Ave regina caelorum
'Kyrie' from Missa de Beata Virgine a5
   Salva nos, stella maris
Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Gloria' from Missa 'Trahe me post te'
Cristóbal de Morales
Veni redemptor gentium
   Puer natus est nobis
Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Santus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Trahe me post te'
Cristóbal de Morales
O sacrum convivium
   'Agnus Dei' from Missa de Beata Virgine a4
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum
Cristóbal de Morales, Ave Maria
Messiah in Epsom

Saturday 3rd December 2022 at 7.30pm

Epsom Playhouse

Epsom Choral Society
English Sinfonietta
Julian Collings, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah
(Baritone soloist)

Tickets available from the Epsom Playhouse website.

Elizabeth Findon, soprano
Henry Capper-Allen, counter-tenor
John Findon, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Messiah on the Isle of Wight

Saturday 26th November 2022 at 7.00pm

Medina Theatre, Newport, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight Cantata Choir
Rachel Tweddle, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah
(Baritone Soloist)

Tickets available here.

Siân Roberts, soprano
Samantha Lewis, mezzo-soprano
Jack Parry, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
An die ferne Geliebte

Wednesday 23rd November 2022 at 7.30pm

St Michael and All Angels, Walthamstow

Steven Devine, fortepiano
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Ludwig van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98
and keyboard works by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Dussek

Part of the Music in the Village concert series.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Variations on "Rule, Britannia!" WoO.79
Joseph Haydn, Sonata in E minor Hob.XVI:34
Ludwig van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte Op.98
Jan Ladislav Dussek, Variations on "God Save the King"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata in A minor K.310
Mozart C Minor Mass at Saffron Hall

Saturday 19th November 2022 at 7.30pm

Saffron Hall
Saffron Walden, Essex

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 80 in D minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Great" Mass in C Minor K.427

Full details and tickets at the Saffron Hall website.

Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis, sopranos
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Robert Davies, bass
Music for a Polish Pope

Tuesday 8th November 2022 at 7.30pm

The Polish Sacred Music Festival in London
St Martin-in-the-Fields

Polyphony
Stephen Layton, conductor
Rupert Jeffcoat, organ

Music by Polish composers written in tribute to Pope John Paul II

Tickets and further details at the St Martin-in-the-Fields website.

Wojciech Kilar, Agnus Dei
Michał Ziółkowski, Ave maris stella
Marcin Łukaszewski, Pie Jesu
Stanisław Moryto, Veni creator (organ solo)
Miłosz Bembinow, Veni Creator Spiritus
Marian Borkowski, Regina caeli
Dariusz Przybylski, Kölner Fanfare (organ solo)
Paweł Łukaszewski, Missa Sancti Papae Ioannis Pauli Secundi Magni
Marian Borkowski, Libera me
Inspiring Bach at Wiltshire Music Centre

Saturday 29th October 2022 at 7.30pm

Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Spiritato!
Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

Further details and tickets at the WMC website.
Inspiring Bach at Brighton Early Music Festival

Saturday 22nd October 2022 at 7.30pm

St Martin's Church, Brighton

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Spiritato!
Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

Further details and tickets at the Brighton Early Music Festival website.
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Thursday 20th October 2022 at 7.00pm

Upper Chapel, University of Sheffield

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
Philip van Wilder, Aspice Domine
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
William Byrd Domine praestolamur
Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
William Byrd, Circumdederunt me
Vale of Tears

Monday 17th October 2022 at 7.30pm

Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Heinrich Schütz, Musicalische Exequien
David Fennessy, Two Pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Sunday 9th October 2022 at 3.00pm

Little Missenden Festival
Little Missenden Church (St John the Baptist), Buckinghamshire

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

Further details and tickets at the Little Missenden Festival website.

Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
William Byrd, Aspice Domine
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
William Byrd Domine praestolamur
Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
William Byrd, Circumdederunt me
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Saturday 8th October 2022 at 7.30pm

The Georgian Concert Society
St Andrew's and St George's West Church, Edinburgh

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

Tickets and further details at the Georgian Concert Society website.

Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
William Byrd, Aspice Domine
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
William Byrd Domine praestolamur
Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
William Byrd, Circumdederunt me
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Tuesday 4th October 2022 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Church, Warwick

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

Further details and tickets at the Leamington Music website.

Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
William Byrd, Aspice Domine
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
William Byrd Domine praestolamur
Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
William Byrd, Circumdederunt me
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Saturday 1st October 2022 at 7.30pm

Lichfield Festival Chamber Music Weekend
The Hub at St Mary's, Lichfield

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

Details and tickets at the Lichfield Festival website.

Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
William Byrd, Aspice Domine
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
William Byrd Domine praestolamur
Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
William Byrd, Circumdederunt me
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Thursday 29th September 2022 at 8.00pm

Roman River Festival
Coggeshall Church, nr. Colchester

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

Further details and tickets at the Roman River Festival website.

Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
William Byrd, Aspice Domine
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
William Byrd Domine praestolamur
Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
William Byrd, Circumdederunt me
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Wednesday 28th September 2022 at 7.00pm

St George's Colegate, Norwich

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

Further details at the Marian Consort website.

Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
William Byrd, Aspice Domine
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
William Byrd Domine praestolamur
Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
William Byrd, Circumdederunt me
Nelson Mass at Hexham Abbey Music Festival

Saturday 24th September 2022 at 7.30pm

Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

Hexham Abbey Festival Orchestra and Chorus
David Murray, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto Op. 61

Joseph Haydn, Missa in Angustiis ("Nelson Mass") Hob.XXII:11
(Baritone soloist)

Details and tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

Laurie Ashworth, soprano
Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
Richard Pinkstone, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Bradley Creswick, violin
Mozart C Minor Mass in Perth

Tuesday 20th September 2022 at 7.30pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 80 in D minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Great" Mass in C Minor K.427

Full details and tickets at the Perth Concert Hall/Horsecross Arts website.

This performance was originally due to take place on Monday 19th September, but was postponed out of respect for the funeral of Her Majesty Queen.

Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis, sopranos
Joshua Ellicott, tenor (replacing Benjamin Hulett)
Robert Davies, bass
Mozart C Minor Mass at Lammermuir Festival

Sunday 18th September 2022 at 8.00pm

St Mary's Church, Haddington

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 80 in D minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Great" Mass in C Minor K.427

Full details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.

Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis, sopranos
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Robert Davies, bass
Inspiring Bach at Lammermuir Festial

Tuesday 13th September 2022 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Church, Haddington

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Spiritato!
Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

Further details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.
Palestrina and John Browne at the Oslo Church Music Festival

Thursday 8th September 2022 at 7.00pm

Oslo Cathedral

Polyphony
Stephen Layton, conductor

John Browne, Stabat Mater
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli
Ēriks Ešenvalds, Salutation and Sun Dogs (ii)
Paweł Łukaszewski, Nunc dimittis

Details and tickets at the Oslo Church Music Festival website.
Saints and Stones at the Fishguard Festival

Wednesday 31st August 2022 at 10.00am

St Cwrda’s Church, Jordanston; St Rhian’s Church, Llanrhian; Capel Bach, Trefin; St Nicholas Church
(Tour sets off from Fishguard Town Hall)

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Local historian Richard Davies leads a guided tour of four of North Pembrokeshire’s many fascinating churches and chapels, where music will be provided by members of the Marian Consort.
Music to include works by William Byrd, Clemens non Papa and Nathaniel Giles.

Details and tickets at the Fishguard Festival website.
Music from the Sistine Chapel at the Fishguard Festival

Tuesday 30th August 2022 at 7.30pm

St David's Cathedral

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater and other works from the Sistine Chapel, alongside a new commission by Geraint Lewis

Further details and tickets at the Fishguard Festival website.

Felice Anerio, Ave Regina Caelorum à 8
Gregorio Allegri, Lamentations
Geraint Lewis, Ave Regina Caelorum (world première)
Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Sicut cervus
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis
Domenico Mazzocchi, Vide, Domine, afflictionem nostram from Sacrae Concertationes
Felice Anerio, Ad te levavi
Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater
Music for the Queen of Heaven at the North Norfolk Festival

Thursday 18th August 2022 at 7.00pm

St Mary's Church, South Creake, Norfolk

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of Marian motets by twentieth-century and contemporary composers, juxtaposed with works by two neglected composers of the Renaissance.

Further details and tickets at the North Norfolk Music Festival website.

Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis*
Raffaella Aleotti, Congratulamini mihi omnes
Howard Skempton, Ave Virgo sanctissima
Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
Rebecca Clarke, Ave Maria
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Mater
Dani Howard, Unbound*
Chloe Knibbs, Esse indubitatamente son donne*
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge, propera amica mea
Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
Raffaella Aleotti, Vidi speciosam
Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God*
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
James Macmillan, Laudi alla Vergine

* denotes Marian Consort commission
Fidelio at the Edinburgh International Festival

Wednesday 10th August 2022 at 7.30pm

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Philharmonia Orchestra and soloists
Philharmonia Voices
Aidan Oliver, chorus master
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven, Fidelio (concert performance with narration)

Further details and tickets at the Edinburgh International Festival website.

Florestan: Clay Hilley
Leonore: Emma Bell (replacing Jennifer Davis)
Don Pizzarro: Markus Brück
Rocco: Günther Groissböck
Don Fernando/Narrator: Sir Willard White
Jacquino: Gideon Poppe
Marzelline: Kim-Lillian Strebel

Narration text by Sir David Poutney
Music for the Queen of Heaven at Lake District Summer Music

Thursday 4th August 2022 at 7.30pm

Ambleside Parish Church

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of Marian motets by twentieth-century and contemporary composers, juxtaposed with works by two neglected composers of the Renaissance.

Further details and tickets at the Lake District Summer Music Festival website.

Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis*
Raffaella Aleotti, Congratulamini mihi omnes
Howard Skempton, Ave Virgo sanctissima
Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
Rebecca Clarke, Ave Maria
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Mater
Dani Howard, Unbound*
Chloe Knibbs, Esse indubitatamente son donne* (English première)
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge, propera amica mea
Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
Raffaella Aleotti, Vidi speciosam
Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God*
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
James Macmillan, Laudi alla Vergine

* denotes Marian Consort commission
Bach Vespers

Sunday 31st July 2022 at 6.30pm

Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Es wartet alles auf dich BWV 187
(Consort and step-out soloist)

and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

J.S. Bach, Es wartet alles auf dich BWV 187
Melchior Franck, Herr Gott nun sey gepreiset
Johann Walther, Wir gläuben all an einen Gott
Heinrich Schütz, Lobet den Herrn SWV 350

Emily Atkinson, soprano
Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
Greg Tassell, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

The City Bach Collective
Hazel Brooks, leader
Geoff Coates, oboe
Il Tabarro at the BBC Proms

Saturday 30th July 2022 at 7.30pm

Royal Albert Hall

Hallé Orchestra and soloists
Philharmonia Voices
Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Giacomo Puccini, Il Tabarro

Further details at the BBC Proms website. The performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and on BBC Four on Sunday 31st July.

Paul Dukas, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Ottorino Respighi, Fountains of Rome
Giacomo Puccini, Il Tabarro (concert performance)

Cast for Il Tabarro:
Michele: Lucio Gallo
Giorgetta: Natalya Romaniw
Luigi: Adam Smith (replacing Ivan Gyngazov)
La Frugola: Annunziata Vestri (replacing Daniela Barcellona)
Tinca: Alasdair Elliott
Talpa: Simon Shibambu
Ballad-Seller: Shengzhi Ren (replacing Jung Soo Yun)
Lovers: Laura Lolita Perešivana and Ryan Vaughan Davies

Philharmonia Voices, offstage chorus
Aidan Oliver, chorus master
Richard Hetherington, offstage conductor
Music for the Queen of Heaven at Conwy Classical Music Festival

Friday 29th July 2022 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Church, Conwy, Wales

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of Marian motets by twentieth-century and contemporary composers, juxtaposed with works by two neglected composers of the Renaissance.

Details and tickets at the Conwy Classical Music Festival website.

Anna Semple, Quae est ipsa?*
Raffaella Aleotti, Congratulamini mihi omnes
Howard Skempton, Ave Virgo sanctissima
Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
Rebecca Clarke, Ave Maria
Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Mater
Dani Howard, Unbound*
Chloe Knibbs, Esse indubitatamente son donne* (première performance)
Raffaella Aleotti, Surge, propera amica mea
Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
Raffaella Aleotti, Vidi speciosam
Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God*
Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
James Macmillan, Laudi alla Vergine

* denotes Marian Consort commission
Clemens non Papa - Man of Bruges

Sunday 17th July 2022 at 7.00pm

St Mary's Church, Sastamala, Finland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
(Rory McCleery was indisposed for this performance; I led the Marian Consort in his absence)

A programme centred on the association of the composer Jacobus Clemens non Papa with the church of St Donatien in Bruges, where he was choirmaster in the early 1540s, and for which he wrote the Missa 'Gaude Lux Donatione.' The Marian Consort perform movements from the mass, interspersed with motets by Clemens and his predecessor in Bruges, Jacob Obrecht, and other music associated with the church.

Part of Sastamala Gregoriana Festival 2022: Enchanting Bruges

Clemens non Papa
Missa 'Gaude Lux Donatione'
O Maria, vernans Rosa
Ego flos campi à3
Job tonso capite
Ave maris stella
Ave Maria
Videte miraculum
Jacob Obrecht
Ave Regina Caelorum
Ave maris stella
Walter Frye, Ave Regina Caelorum
From Darkness to Light: Bachs and Buxtehude

Tuesday 5th July 2022

Church of St Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk

Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger, director and violin

Music by Dieterich Buxtehude and members of the Bach family

Part of Music in Suffolk Churches: the Martin Randall Festival of Sacred Music. Admission to the concert is exclusive to patrons of this tour.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Dieterich Buxtehude, Ciaccona in E minor BuxWV 160 (transcribed for string quartet by Brian Clark)
Dieterich Buxtehude, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BuxWV 76 and Klaglied BuxWV 76b
Johann Michael Bach, Es ist ein großer Gewinn
Johann Sebastian Bach, Lobet den Herrn BWV 230
Johann Michael Bach, Ach wie sehnlich
Johann Christoph Bach, Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein / Ciaconne from Meine Freundin ist schön
Johann Sebastian Bach, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150

Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Herford, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger, director and violin
Inspiring Bach at Stour Music Festival

Sunday 19th June 2022 at 3.00pm

All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph, Kent

The Marian Consort
Spiritato!

Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

Details and tickets at the Stour Music Festival website.
Britten and Schubert with the Barnes Choir

Saturday 18th June 2022 at 7.30pm

All Saints Church, East Sheen

The Barnes Choir
Julian Collings, director

Franz Schubert, Mass in G
Benjamin Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb

Full details and tickets at the Barnes Choir's website.

Felix Mendelssohn, Hear My Prayer
Franz Schubert, Mass in G
Benjamin Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
Russell Hepplewhite, While There is Still Time
Hubert Parry, Blest Pair of Sirens

Eleanor Pennell-Briggs, soprano
Henry Capper-Allen, counter-tenor
Joseph Doody, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Peter Jaekel, organ
Mit Psalter und Harfen at Leipzig Bachfest

Saturday 11th June 2022 at 12.00pm

Paulinum Aula and Universitätskirche, Leipzig

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Nicolaus Bruhns:
Great Praeludium in E minor
De profundis clamavi
Matthias Weckmann, Weine nicht, es hat überwunden
Dieterich Buxtehude, Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab BuxWV 38
J.S. Bach:
Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131

Eugénie Warnier, soprano
Mélodie Ruvio, mezzo-soprano
Johannes Weiss, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Daniel Beilschmidt, organ
2001: A Space Odyssey Live

Friday 3rd June 2022 at 7.00pm

Royal Festival Hall

London Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Ziegler, conductor

A live screening of Stanley Kubrick's classic film, accompanied by a live performance of the film soundtrack, including excerpts from György Ligeti's Requiem and Lux Aeterna

Details and tickets at the Southbank Centre website.
Bach and Schütz at the Dunster Festival

Saturday 28th May 2022 at 7.30pm

Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
and a selection of motets by members of the Bach family

Details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

Johann Christoph Bach, Mit Weinen hebt sich's an
Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281
Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen Tod
Johann Bach, Sei nun wieder zufrieden
Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229
Haydn's Creation in Putney

Saturday 21st May 2022 at 7.00pm

St Paul's Church Wimbledon Parkside

Putney Choral Society
Christopher Braime, conductor

Joseph Haydn, The Creation (baritone soloist)

Tickets available here.

Hilary Cronin, soprano
James Robinson, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Schütz and Fennessy at the Brighton Festival

Friday 13th May 2022 at 8.30pm

All Saints Church, Hove

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

J.C. Bach, Mit Weinen hebt sichs an
Heinrich Schütz, Musicalische Exequien
David Fennessy, Two Pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

Further details and tickets at the Brighton Festival website.
BBC Radio 3 In Tune

Thursday 12th May 2022 at 5.00pm

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort perform live on BBC Radio 3, ahead of our performances at the Brighton and Dunster Festivals
Dona Nobis Pacem: A Concert for Ukraine

Tuesday 10th May 2022 at 7.00pm

St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey

St Margaret's Consort
Thomas Trotter, organ
Philippa Mo, violin
Greg Morris, director

A special concert to raise funds in support of the DEC's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. The programme draws on music from across Europe to express solidarity with the Ukrainian people and to pray for peace, and includes works by Byrd, Tavener, Pärt and Bach, and musical responses to the conflict by John Rutter and Gareth Treseder.

Tickets and further information at the Westminster Abbey website.

William Byrd, Civitas sancti tui
Arvo Pärt, De profundis
W.A. Mozart, Ave verum corpus
Valentin Silvestrov, Prayer for Ukraine
John Rutter, A Ukrainian Prayer
Gareth Treseder, Otche Nash
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Sicut cervus
John Tavener, Song for Athene
J.S. Bach, Gloria, Agnus Dei and Dona nobis pacem from Mass in B minor
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Friday 29th April 2022 at 7.00pm

Stoller Hall, Manchester

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort explores powerful, heartfelt music from Renaissance England alongside songs of plea and protest from the folk tradition in new arrangements by Stef Connor.
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

Thursday 28th April 2022 at 8.00pm

Holy Trinity Boar Lane, Leeds

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort explores powerful, heartfelt music from Renaissance England alongside songs of plea and protest from the folk tradition in new arrangements by Stef Connor.
St John Passion

Friday 15th April 2022 at 2.30pm

St John's, Smith Square, London

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion

Nick Pritchard, Evangelist
Will Thomas, Christus

Rowan Pierce, soprano
Hugh Cutting, counter-tenor
Ruari Bowen, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass
St John Passion in Burford

Saturday 9th April 2022 at 7.00pm

Church of St. John the Baptist, Cirencester

The Burford Singers
Baroque Ensemble Canzona
Brian Kay, director

J.S. Bach, St John Passion BWV 245 (in English)

Further information at the Burford Singers' website.

David Webb, Evangelist
Jon Stainsby, Christus
Jessica Cale, soprano
James Neville, counter-tenor
Frederick Long, bass/Pilatus
Bach and Schütz in Southampton

Tuesday 5th April 2022 at 7.30pm

Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
and a selection of motets by members of the Bach family

Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281
Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen Tod
Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229
Bach and Schütz in London

Friday 1st April 2022 at 7.00pm

St Giles Cripplegate, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
and a selection of motets by members of the Bach family

Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281
Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen Tod
Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229
Bach and Schütz in Norwich

Thursday 31st March 2022 at 7.00pm

Church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
and a selection of motets by members of the Bach family

Tickets and full details are available here.

Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281
Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen Tod
Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229
Stainer's Crucifixion

Saturday 26th March 2022 at 6.00pm

Hampstead Parish Church

John Stainer, The Crucifixion (bass soloist)

A Come-and-sing event at the Parish Church of St-John-at-Hampstead

Prayer for Ukraine (trad. Ukrainian folksong, elaborated by Geoffrey Webber)
John Stainer, The Crucifixion

Aidan Coburn, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Timothy Wakerell, organ
Geoffrey Webber, conductor
Consort Singing and Original Sources: The Iberian Golden Age (course)

4th-6th March 2022

Benslow Music, Hitchin

Led by Rory McCleery and members of The Marian Consort

A course for advanced amateur singers, with a focus on Iberian music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Course details (including booking) are available at the Benslow Music website.
Ode to Purcell

Sunday 20th February 2022 at 6.00pm

Cologne Philharmonie

Freiburger Barockorchester
Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

Henry Purcell:
Birthday Ode for Queen Mary 'Love's Goddess sure was blind' Z.331
Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

Henry Purcell:
Overture from Abdelazer Z.570
Hornpipe from The Fairy Queen Z.629
Slow Air from The Old Bachelor Z.607
First Act Tune from The Virtuous Wife Z.611
'How blest are shepherds' (instrumental version) from King Arthur Z.628
Curtain Tune from Timon of Athens Z.632
Birthday Ode for Queen Mary 'Love's Goddess sure was blind' Z.331
Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328
Ode to Purcell

Monday 14th February 2022 at 5.30pm and 8.30pm

Konzerthaus Freiburg

Freiburger Barockorchester
Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

Henry Purcell, Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

These performances will be recorded for future broadcast on Südwestrundfunk 2.

Henry Purcell:
Overture from Abdelazer Z.570
Hornpipe from The Fairy Queen Z.629
Slow Air from The Old Bachelor Z.607
First Act Tune from The Virtuous Wife Z.611
'How blest are shepherds' (instrumental version) from King Arthur Z.628
Curtain Tune from Timon of Athens Z.632
Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328
Ode to Purcell

Saturday 12th February 2022 at 8.00pm

Kammermusiksaal, Berliner Philharmonie

Freiburger Barockorchester
Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

Henry Purcell:
Birthday Ode for Queen Mary 'Love's Goddess sure was blind' Z.331
Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

Henry Purcell:
Overture from Abdelazer Z.570
Hornpipe from The Fairy Queen Z.629
Slow Air from The Old Bachelor Z.607
First Act Tune from The Virtuous Wife Z.611
'How blest are shepherds' (instrumental version) from King Arthur Z.628
Curtain Tune from Timon of Athens Z.632
Birthday Ode for Queen Mary 'Love's Goddess sure was blind' Z.331
Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328
Heinrich Schütz Triptych in Metz

Saturday 8th January 2022 at 8.00pm

Grand Salle, L'Arsenal de Metz, France

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Heinrich Schütz:
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (Jesus)
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi (Jesus)

Tickets and further information at the Cité Musicale Metz website.

*Unfortunately, I had to withdraw from this concert due to the pandemic-related restrictions on travel between the UK and France*
Messiah

Thursday 23rd December 2021 at 7.30pm

St John's Smith Square

Polyphony
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Further information at the SJSS website. Tickets for this event have now sold out.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah at Wigmore Hall

Saturday 18th December 2021 at 7.00pm

Wigmore Hall, London

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets and further information at the Wigmore Hall website.

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
James Hall, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah at Wigmore Hall

Saturday 18th December 2021 at 4.00pm

Wigmore Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Further information and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
James Hall, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah in Edinburgh

Friday 17th December 2021 at 7.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
James Hall, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah in Edinburgh

Friday 17th December 2021 at 4.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
James Hall, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah in Perth

Thursday 16th December 2021 at 7.00pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

Tickets and further information at the Perth Concert Hall website.

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
James Hall, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah in Perth

Thursday 16th December 2021 at 4.00pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
James Hall, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Bach Vespers for Advent Sunday

Sunday 28th November 2021 at 6.30pm

Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Schwingt freudig euch empor BWV 36

For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

Emily Atkinson, soprano
Vanessa Heine, mezzo-soprano
Chris Tortise, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

The City Bach Collective
Hazel Brooks, leader
Composers' workshop at the University of Aberdeen

Friday 12th November 2021 at 10.00am

King's Pavilion, University of Aberdeen

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort will workshop new choral and consort works by postgraduate composition students from the University of Aberdeen's Faculty of Music.

Further details at the University of Aberdeen website.
The Marian Consort in Aberdeen

Thursday 11th November 2021 at 7.30pm

King's College Chapel, Aberdeen

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by Vicente Lusitano, Rafaella Aleotti, James MacMillan, and Howard Skempton, and the première of a new work by Philip Cooke.

Further details and tickets at the website of the Music Faculty at the University of Aberdeen.
Baroque Splendour with Epsom Choral Society

Saturday 6th November 2021 at 7.30pm

St Martin's Parish Church, Epsom

Epsom Choral Society
Julian Collings, conductor

G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus

Full details at the Epsom Choral Society website.

J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus

Miranda Heldt and Eleanor Pennell-Briggs, sopranos
Beth Moxon, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Doody, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
The Constant Heart at the Cambridge Festival of the Voice

Wednesday 3rd November 2021 at 7.30pm

Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis and Osbert Parsley, motets by Robert Parsons and Clemens non Papa, and new works by Ben Rowarth and Donna McKevitt.

Further information at the Cambridge Early Music website.
Bach Vespers for Reformation Sunday

Sunday 31st October 2021 at 6.30pm

Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80
and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

J.S. Bach, 'Sinfonia' from Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats BWV 42
Martin Luther, Non moriar, sed vivam
Johann Gottfried Walther, Chorale prelude: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Dieterich Buxtehude, Chorale prelude: Vater unser im Himmelreich BuxWV 219
Johann Gottfried Walther, Wir gläuben all an einen Gott
J.S. Bach, Chorale: Herr Jesu Christ! dich zu uns wend BWV 332
J.S. Bach, Cantata: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80
J.S. Bach, 'Siciliano' from Oboe Concert in F major BWV 1053Rr
Johann Pachelbel, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott P.106

Emily Atkinson, soprano
Vanessa Heine, mezzo-soprano
Graham Neal, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

The City Bach Collective
Hazel Brooks, leader
Geoff Coates, oboe
Inspiring Bach

Thursday 28th October 2021 at 6.30pm

St Giles Cripplegate, London

The Marian Consort
Spiritato!

Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit
Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören

The first public performance of the Inspiring Bach project, prior to a major tour in 2022.
Inspiring Bach: Open rehearsal

Tuesday 26th October 2021 at 2.30pm

St Giles Cripplegate, London

The Marian Consort
Spiritato!

Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit
Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören

The first stage in an exciting collaboration between The Marian Consort and period instrument ensemble Spiritato!
Further details about this project can be found at the Spiritato! website.
Boulez in Paris

Thursday 21st October 2021 at 6.00pm

Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris

EXAUDI
Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, director

Pierre Boulez, Cummings ist der Dichter

Private event.
Yince a Paradise

Sunday 17th October 2021 at 3.00pm

Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews

Dunedin Consort
Grete Pedersen, director

Coinciding with the COP-26 Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, a programme exploring music's relationship with nature, and the ways in which the arts can reflect and inspire concern for the natural environment.

Full details at the Dunedin Consort website.
*Regrettably, I had to withdraw from this project due to self-isolation requirements.*

Programme to include:
J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
James MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver
Bo Holten, Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk
Drew Hammond, Yince a Paradise (world première)
Sven-David Sandström/Henry Purcell, Hear My Prayer
Norwegian folk songs, arr. Grete Pedersen
Yince a Paradise

Saturday 16th October 2021 at 7.30pm

Memorial Chapel, Glasgow University

Dunedin Consort
Grete Pedersen, director

Coinciding with the COP-26 Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, a programme exploring music's relationship with nature, and the ways in which the arts can reflect and inspire concern for the natural environment.

This performance is part of The Dear Green Bothy, a collaborative cultural programme presented by the University of Glasgow's College of Arts showcasing creative and critical responses to the climate emergency.

Full details at the Dunedin Consort website.
*Regrettably, I had to withdraw from this project due to self-isolation requirements.*

Programme to include:
J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
James MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver
Bo Holten, Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk
Drew Hammond, Yince a Paradise
Sven-David Sandström/Henry Purcell, Hear My Prayer
Norwegian folk songs, arr. Grete Pedersen
Yince a Paradise

Friday 15th October 2021 at 7.30pm

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Grete Pedersen, director

Coinciding with the COP-26 Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, a programme exploring music's relationship with nature, and the ways in which the arts can reflect and inspire concern for the natural environment.

Full details at the Dunedin Consort website.
*Regrettably, I had to withdraw from this project due to self-isolation requirements.*

Programme to include:
J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
James MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver
Bo Holten, Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk
Drew Hammond, Yince a Paradise
Sven-David Sandström/Henry Purcell, Hear My Prayer
Norwegian folk songs, arr. Grete Pedersen
Yince a Paradise

Thursday 14th October 2021 at 7.30pm

St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

Dunedin Consort
Grete Pedersen

Coinciding with the COP-26 Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, a programme exploring music's relationship with nature, and the ways in which the arts can reflect and inspire concern for the natural environment.

Full details at the Dunedin Consort website.
*Regrettably, I had to withdraw from this project due to self-isolation requirements.*

Programme to include:
J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
James MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver
Bo Holten, Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk
Drew Hammond, Yince a Paradise (world première)
Sven-David Sandström/Henry Purcell, Hear My Prayer
Norwegian folk songs, arr. Grete Pedersen
Haydn's Creation at the Barbican

Tuesday 28th September 2021 at 7.30pm

Barbican Hall, London

The Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings, director

Joseph Haydn, The Creation

Further information and tickets (including access to online streaming) at the Barbican website.

Gabriel: Mary Bevan
Uriel: Stuart Jackson
Raphael: Matthew Brook
Eve: Rachel Redmond
Adam: Ashley Riches

Video and Production Designer: Nina Dunn
Music for the Queen of Heaven at Barnard Castle

Friday 17th September 2021

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

*Postponed in response to precautions relating to the Covid-19 pandemic*
Music for the Queen of Heaven at Hexham Abbey Festival

Thursday 16th September 2021 at 7.30pm

Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Marian settings by Josquin des Pres, Vicente Lusitano, Raffaella Aleotti, Jean Mouton, Rebecca Clarke, James MacMillan, Dani Howard, Anna Semple and Ben Rowarth

Further details and tickets at the Hexham Abbey Festival website.
Mass in C Minor at Musikfest Bremen

Wednesday 1st September 2021 at 8.00pm

Verden Cathedral

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C Minor K.427 (reconstruction/completion by Clemens Kemme, 2018)

Further information at the M usikfest Bremen website.

Mhairi Lawson and Nardus Williams, sopranos
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Robert Davies, baritone
Davide Penitente at Musikfest Bremen

Tuesday 31st August 2021 at 8.00pm

St Vitus Church, Löningen

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Cantata "Davide Penitente" K.469
Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 80 in D Minor

Further information at the M usikfest Bremen website.

Mhairi Lawson and Nardus Williams, sopranos
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Handel and Purcell Royal Odes at Musikfest Bremen

Saturday 28th August 2021 at 10.00pm

St Peter's Cathedral, Bremen

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

George Friedrich Handel:
Coronation Anthem No. 1: Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
Chandos Anthem No. 9: O praise the Lord with one consent, HWV 254
Henry Purcell, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons of Art

Part of Eine Grosse Nachtmusik, the opening night of Musikfest Bremen.

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
James Laing and Rory McCleery, counter-tenors
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Robert Davies, baritone
Handel and Purcell Royal Odes at Musikfest Bremen

Saturday 28th August 2021 at 7.30pm

St Peter's Cathedral, Bremen

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

George Friedrich Handel:
Coronation Anthem No. 1: Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
Chandos Anthem No. 9: O praise the Lord with one consent, HWV 254
Henry Purcell, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons of Art

Part of Eine Grosse Nachtmusik, the opening night of Musikfest Bremen.

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
James Laing and Rory McCleery, counter-tenors
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Robert Davies, baritone
Heinrich Schütz Triptych at Festival de La Chaise Dieu

Thursday 26th August 2021 at 9.00pm

Abbaye de La Chaise Dieu, France

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Heinrich Schütz:
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (Jesus)
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi (Jesus)

Further details and tickets at the festival website.
Dido's Ghost at the Edinburgh International Festival

20th, 21st and 22nd August 2021 at 7.30pm

International Festival Stage, Edinburgh Academy Junior School

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Frederic Wake-Walker, director

Errollyn Wallen, Dido's Ghost
incorporating Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

Tickets and further details at the Edinburgh International Festival website.

Dido: Golda Schultz
Aeneas: Matthew Brook
Belinda: Nardus Williams
Lavinia/Spirit: Allison Cook
Elymas/Sorcerer: Henry Waddington
Ascanius/Sailor: David Lee
Second Woman: Jessica Leary
Witches: Catherine Backhouse, Judy Brown

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Frederic Wake-Walker, director
Josquin at the BBC Proms

Monday 9th August 2021 at 6.00pm

Cadogan Hall, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Motets by Josquin des Prez and his Renaissance imitators.

Full details and tickets at the BBC Proms website.

Josquin des Prez, 'Praeter rerum seriem'
Sethus Calvisius, 'Praeter rerum seriem'
Josquin des Prez, 'Benedicta es, caelorum regina'
Adrian Willaert, 'Benedicta es, caelorum regina'
Josquin des Prez, 'Inviolata, integra et casta es'
Vicente Lusitano, 'Inviolata, integra et casta es'
Josquin at the BBC Proms

Monday 9th August 2021 at 1.00pm

Cadogan Hall, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Motets by Josquin des Prez and his Renaissance imitators.

Full details and tickets at the BBC Proms website.
This concert was The Marian Consort's BBC Proms debut, and was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; it can be heard on BBC Sounds for 30 days after broadcast.

Josquin des Prez, 'Praeter rerum seriem'
Sethus Calvisius, 'Praeter rerum seriem'
Josquin des Prez, 'Benedicta es, caelorum regina'
Adrian Willaert, 'Benedicta es, caelorum regina'
Josquin des Prez, 'Inviolata, integra et casta es'
Vicente Lusitano, 'Inviolata, integra et casta es'
Stabat Mater at the Three Choirs Festival

Monday 26th July 2021 at 3.00pm

College Hall, Worcester

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Gabriel Jackson, Stabat Mater
Thomas Tomkins, Then David Mourned
Dani Howard, New Work
Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater

Further details and tickets at the Three Choirs Festival website.
Man of Bruges at Sastamala Gregoriana

Sunday 18th July 2021 at 7.00pm

St Mary's Church, Sastamala, Finland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Works by Jacobus Clemens non Papa

*Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Dido's Ghost at the Buxton International Festival

11th, 14th and 17th July 2021 at 7.15pm

Buxton Opera House

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Frederic Wake-Walker, director

Errollyn Wallen, Dido's Ghost (world première)
incorporating Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

Details and tickets at the Buxton International Festival website.

Dido: Isabelle Peters (replacing Idunnu Münch)
Aeneas: Matthew Brook
Belinda: Nardus Williams
Lavinia/Spirit: Jessica Gillingwater
Elymas/Sorcerer: Tim Dickinson
Ascanius: David Lee
Second Woman: Jessica Leary
Witches: Lucy Goddard/Philippa Boyle, Judy Brown

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Frederic Wake-Walker, director
Dido's Ghost at the Barbican

Sunday 6th June 2021 at 8.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Frederic Wake-Walker, director

Errollyn Wallen, Dido's Ghost (world première)
incorporating Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

Details of tickets and online streaming at the Barbican website.

Dido: Isabelle Peters (replacing Golda Schultz)
Aeneas: Matthew Brook
Belinda: Nardus Williams
Lavinia/Spirit: Allison Cook
Elymas/Sorcerer: Henry Waddington
Ascanius/Sailor: David Lee
Second Woman: Jessica Leary
Witches: Jessica Gillingwater, Judy Brown

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Frederic Wake-Walker, director
The Marian Consort at the Dunster Festival

Saturday 29th May 2021 at 7.00pm

Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Tudor motets and Lamentations, and new works by Ben Rowarth and Donna McKevitt

Tickets and further details at the Dunster Festival website.

In a programme created especially for Dunster, The Marian Consort will explore music from the time of Sir John Luttrell, feudal baron of Dunster in the 16th Century and a notable soldier, diplomat and courtier to Henry VIII and Edward VI. Beautiful sacred music by Thomas Tallis, Robert Parsons and other English Tudor composers sits alongside a new piece by award-winning young composer Ben Rowarth which sets Sir John's personal motto, found on his portrait which hangs both in the Courtauld Institute of Art and in Dunster Castle.

Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah (I)
Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
Donna McKevitt, Lament 16 (world première)
Philip van Wilder, Aspice Domine
Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
Ben Rowarth, Ave Maris Stella (world première)
Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
BBC Radio 3 In Tune

Monday 24th May 2021 at 5.00pm

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort appear on In Tune to talk to Sean Rafferty about our forthcoming concert at the Dunster Festival
LUMOS Festival

24th-30th April 2021

Reims, Épernay and surrounding area

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

A festival of baroque music in unusual settings

*Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Passio

Saturday 10th April 2021 at 8.00pm

St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Hebrides Ensemble
Will Conway, director

Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Passio

Friday 9th April 2021 at 8.00pm

King's College Chapel, Aberdeen

Dunedin Consort
Hebrides Ensemble
Will Conway, director

Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Passio

Thursday 8th April 2021 at 8.00pm

Glasgow University Chapel

Dunedin Consort
Hebrides Ensemble
Will Conway, director

Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

*Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this live performance was replaced by a radio broadcast from Edinburgh (see below)*
Passio on BBC Radio 3

Thursday 8th April 2021 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Hebrides Ensemble
Will Conway, director

Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

This performance was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and is available online for 30 days after broadcast.
An online video broadcast of the performance will be made available at the Dunedin Consort website from Saturday 17th April, also for 30 days.

Matthew Brook, Jesus
Hugo Hymas, Pilate

Rachel Ambrose-Evans, soprano
Jessica Gillingwater, mezzo-soprano
David Lee, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Dunedin Consort
Hebrides Ensemble
Will Conway, director
dans un train / wagon zac

Thursday 18th, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th March 2021

Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

A new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

*Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Schütz Triptych in Reims

Friday 26th February 2021

Opéra de Reims

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Heinrich Schütz
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (Weihnachtshistorie) SWV 435
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 (Jesus)
Historie der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50 (Jesus)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
dans un train / wagon zac

Wednesday 20th January 2021

Grand Angle, Voiron, France

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby / Romain Bockler, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

A new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

*Due to the restrictions imposed on France in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, these première performances were replaced by an artistic residency; but amid the continuing uncertainty surrounding travel quarantine arrangements and the outcome of the negotiations over the UK's exit from the European Union, I had to suspend my participation. I am grateful to Romain Bockler for stepping in to replace me at short notice.*
Messiah in Glasgow

Wednesday 23rd December 2020 at 7.00pm

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Anthony Gregory, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah Streamed Performance from Perth

Wednesday 23rd December 2020 at 7.00pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

*Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this planned live performance was to have been replaced by a live online stream; but the imposition on travel restrictions between England and Scotland forced the cancellation of the whole project*

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Anthony Gregory, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah in Edinburgh

Monday 21st December 2020 at 7.00pm

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Anthony Gregory, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Children's Messiah Streamed from Perth

Monday 21st December 2020 at 1.00pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

*Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this planned live performance was to have been replaced by a live online stream; but the imposition on travel restrictions between England and Scotland forced the cancellation of the whole project*

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Anthony Gregory, tenor
Robert Davies, bass-baritone
Messiah at the Barbican

Saturday 19th December 2020 at 7.30pm

Barbican Hall, London

The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

*Following the announcement that London is to enter Tier 3 restrictions in response to the rise in rate of Covid-19 infections, this event will no longer go ahead as a live concert. It will, however, be live-streamed at the Barbican website.

Rowan Pierce, soprano
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
Ben Johnson, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass-baritone
All Creation Waits

Tuesday 15th December 2020 at 6.30pm

Kings Place

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

An hour-long sequence for voices, on the theme of the mystery of Advent

Tickets and full details at the Kings Place website.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Magnificat Primi Toni
Francis Poulenc, O Magnum Mysterium
Jean L'Héritier, Ave Maria
Gareth Treseder, O Virgo splendens
Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata, integra, et casta es, Maria
Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, O Magnum Mysterium
James MacMillan, O Radiant Dawn
Josquin des Prez, Ave Maria
Pierre Villette, O Magnum Mysterium
dans un train / wagon zac

Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th December 2020

Scène Nationale d'Orléans

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby / Romain Bockler, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

A new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

*Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, these public performances were replaced by a residency and a private performance for promoters. Unfortunately the UK government's quarantine policy for arrivals from overseas made it impractical for me to travel to France for this period. I am grateful to Romain Bockler for stepping in to replace me at short notice.*
The Great Mystery

Saturday 5th December 2020

National Centre for Early Music, York

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

An hour-long sequence for voices, on the theme of the mystery of Advent

4.30pm and 7.00pm
Schütz Triptych in Reims

27th and 28th November at 6.30pm

Opéra de Reims

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Heinrich Schütz
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (Weihnachtshistorie) SWV 435
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 (Jesus)
Historie der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50 (Jesus)

*Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*
How Lonely Sits the City

Thursday 19th November 2020 at 7.30pm

Online Broadcast

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

An exploration of themes of isolation, centred on the Lamentations of Orlande de Lassus

*Unfortunately the UK government's quarantine policy for arrivals from overseas made it necessary for me to withdraw from this project*

Orlande de Lassus, Hieremiae prophetae lamentationes
William Byrd, Ne irascaris Domine / Civitas sancti tui
James MacMillan, Miserere
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Vigil I (new commission)
Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth
How Lonely Sits the City

Saturday 7th November 2020 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

An exploration of themes of isolation, centred on the Lamentations of Orlande de Lassus

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Orlande de Lassus, Hieremiae prophetae lamentationes
William Byrd, Ne irascaris Domine / Civitas sancti tui
James MacMillan, Miserere
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Vigil I (new commission)
Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth
How Lonely Sits the City

Thursday 5th November 2020 at 7.30pm

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

An exploration of themes of isolation, centred on the Lamentations of Orlande de Lassus

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Orlande de Lassus, Hieremiae prophetae lamentationes
William Byrd, Ne irascaris Domine / Civitas sancti tui
James MacMillan, Miserere
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Vigil I (new commission)
Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth
How Lonely Sits the City

Wednesday 4th November 2020 at 7.30pm

Inverness Cathedral

Dunedin Consort
Nicholas Mulroy, director

An exploration of themes of isolation, centred on the Lamentations of Orlande de Lassus

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Orlande de Lassus, Hieremiae prophetae lamentationes
William Byrd, Ne irascaris Domine / Civitas sancti tui
James MacMillan, Miserere
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Vigil I (new commission)
Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth
"O Magnum Mysterium" at Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Engelberg

Sunday 25th October 2020 at 4.00pm

Klosterkirche, Engelberg, Switzerland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A capella vocal works on the theme of the mystery of the incarnation

The culmination of The Marian Consort's residency at the Zwischentöne festival.

Peter Maxwell Davies, O Magnum Mysterium
Thomas Tallis, Videte Miraculum
William Byrd, O Magnum Mysterium
Congaudeat turba from Engelberg Codex 314
Francis Poulenc, O Magnum Mysterium
Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder, Mirabile Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall, Alma Redemptoris Mater
Surge radix jesse from Engelberg Codex 314
Tomás Luis de Victoria, O Magnum Mysterium
James MacMillan, Ave Maris Stella
Procedentem sponsum de thalamo from Engelberg Codex 314
Pierre Villette, O Magnum Mysterium
Nicholas Ludford, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Videte Miraculum

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
"Hay que caminar" at Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Engelberg

Saturday 24th October 2020 at 5.00pm

Kursaal, Engelberg, Switzerland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort contribute to a mixed chamber music programme

Part of The Marian Consort's residency at the Zwischentöne festival.

Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Sinfonia' and 'Allemande' from Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV 826
György Kurtág, Aus der Ferne III
Hodie progreditur from Engelberg Codex 314
Carlo Gesualdo, Vinea mea electa
Luigi Nono, "Hay que caminar" soñando
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Passacaglia from Mystery Sonatas (Rosary Sonatas)
György Kurtág, Ligatura op. 31b
Françoise Couperin, Les Ombres Errantes

Marianna Shirinyan, piano
The Merel Quartet
The Marian Consort
Tobias Feldmann, violin
Mary Ellen Woodside, violin
Eduoard Mätzener, violin
Nevena Tochev, violin
Rafael Catalá, cello
Rafael Rosenfeld, cello
"Confession" at Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Engelberg

Friday 23rd October 2020 at 8.00pm

Kursaal, Engelberg, Switzerland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort contribute to a mixed chamber music programme

Part of The Marian Consort's residency at the Zwischentöne festival.
Recorded for broadcast by SRF2.

Arvo Pärt, Morning Star
Ludwig van Beethoven, Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 102 No. 1
Arvo Pärt, Fratres
Gustav Mahler, Piano Quartet in A minor
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95

The Marian Consort
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Rafael Rosenfeld, cello
Tobias Feldmann, violin
Nevena Tochev, violin
Alessandro D'Amico, viola
The Merel Quartet
"Mirabile Mysterium" at Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Engelberg

Friday 23rd October 2020 at 6.00pm

Kursaal, Engelberg, Switzerland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Works by Handl, Gesualdo, Maillard and Clements non Papa, and excerpts from the Engelberg Codex 314, as part of a mixed chamber music programme

Part of The Marian Consort's residency at the Zwischentöne festival.
Recorded for broadcast by SRF2.

Jacob Handl, Mirabile Misterium
Salve Regina / O flos virginitatis from Engelberg Codex 314
Carlo Gesualdo, Ave dulcissima Maria
Morton Feldman, Vertical Thoughts 2
Ernest Bloch, Méditation Hébraïque
Jean Maillard, Gaudent in caelis
Haec est turris from Engelberg Codex 314
Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Tōru Takemitsu, Rain Tree Sketch I
Claude Debussy, Violin Sonata in G minor

The Marian Consort
Nevena Tochev, violin
Marian Rosenfeld, piano
Rafael Catalá, cello
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Tobias Feldmann, violin
Abschlusskonzert - Edelsteine at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

Sunday 11th October 2020 at 5.00pm

St. Marienkirche, Weißenfels

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Le Reniement de Saint Pierre H 424
Johann Schop, Lacrimae Pavan
Heinrich Schütz, Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478
Claudio Monteverdi: Pianto della Madonna
Heinrich Schütz: Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt SWV 393

Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020
Recorded for broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Festkonzert - Abendmusiken at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

Saturday 10th October 2020 at 7.00pm

Dom St. Peter und Paul, Zeitz

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Sacred works by Schütz, Buxtehude, Bruhns, Pfleger, Schop, Tunder and Meder

Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020

Dietrich Buxtehude: Jesu, meines Lebens Leben BuxWV 62
Heinrich Schütz:
Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott SWV 447
O süsser, o freundlicher, o gütiger Herr Jesu Christe SWV 285
Augustin Pfleger: Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte (Jesus)
Johann Schop: Nasce la pena mia
Nicolaus Bruhns: De profundis clamavi (soloist)
Franz Tunder: Ach Herr, laß deine lieben Engelein
Johann Valentin Meder: Unser keiner lebt ihm selber
Festkonzert Triptychon II & III at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

Sunday 4th October 2020 at 5.00pm

St. Salvatorkirche, Gera

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Heinrich Schütz:
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 (Jesus)
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50 (Jesus)

Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020
Festkonzert Triptychon I: Die Geburt eines Menschen at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

Saturday 3rd October 2020 at 8.00pm

St. Marienkirche, Weißenfels

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon à 10
Heinrich Schütz:
Tröstet mein Volk SWV 382
O lieber Herre Gott SWV 381
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (Weihnachtshistorie) SWV 435

Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020
Eröffnungskonzert - Triptychon II & III at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

Friday 2nd October 2020 at 9.15pm

Kreuzkirche, Dresden

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Heinrich Schütz:
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 (Jesus)
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50 (Jesus)

Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020
This concert was broadcast live on MDR Kultur
Eröffnungskonzert - Triptychon I at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

Friday 2nd October 2020 at 7.30pm

Kreuzkirche, Dresden

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Heinrich Schütz: Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (Weihnachtshistorie) SWV 435

Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020
This concert was broadcast live on MDR Kultur
Candlelight Concert at the Hexham Abbey Festival

Thursday 17th September 2020 at 7.45pm

Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music for the Queen of Heaven: contemporary Marian motets

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Carmen

Saturday 12th September 2020

Fingest Great Barn, near Henley-on-Thames

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Carmen: Catherine Lafont
Don José: Adam Gilbert
Escamillo: Kyu Choi
Micaëla: Lucy Hall
Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
Remendado: Ashley Catling
Morales: Jon Stainsby
Zuniga: David Stephenson
Carmen

Wednesday 9th September 2020

The Great Conservatory, Syon Park, London

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Carmen: Catherine Lafont
Don José: Adam Gilbert
Escamillo: Kyu Choi
Micaëla: Lucy Hall
Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
Remendado: Ashley Catling
Morales: Jon Stainsby
Zuniga: David Stephenson
dans un train / wagon zac

7th-11th September 2020

Théâtre Garonne (Scène Européenne), Toulouse

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

Research and development residency for a new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs. We will be joined by the distinguished French director Jean-François Sivadier.
Heinrich Schütz Triptych at Festival de La Chaise Dieu

Thursday 27th August 2020 at 9.00pm

Abbaye de La Chaise Dieu, France

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Heinrich Schütz:
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Carmen

Monday 17th August 2020

Domaine des Vaux, Jersey, Channel Islands

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Geoges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Carmen: Catherine Lafont
Don José: Adam Gilbert
Escamillo: Kyu Choi
Micaëla: Lucy Hall
Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
Remendado: Ashley Catling
Morales: Jon Stainsby
Zuniga: David Stephenson
Carmen

Thursday 13th August 2020

Les Musicales de Cormeilles, France

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Carmen: Catherine Lafont
Don José: Adam Gilbert
Escamillo: Kyu Choi
Micaëla: Lucy Hall
Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
Remendado: Ashley Catling
Morales: Jon Stainsby
Zuniga: David Stephenson
Carmen

Friday 7th and Sunday 9th August 2020

Festival de la Vézère, near Brive la Gaillarde, France

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Carmen: Catherine Lafont
Don José: Adam Gilbert
Escamillo: Kyu Choi
Micaëla: Lucy Hall
Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
Remendado: Ashley Catling
Morales: Jon Stainsby
Zuniga: David Stephenson
Carmen

Wednesday 5th August 2020

Nuits Musicales en Vendée Romane, France

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Carmen: Catherine Lafont
Don José: Adam Gilbert
Escamillo: Kyu Choi
Micaëla: Lucy Hall
Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
Remendado: Ashley Catling
Morales: Jon Stainsby
Zuniga: David Stephenson
Carmen

Friday 24th July 2020

Holkham Hall, Norfolk

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Carmen: Catherine Lafont
Don José: Adam Gilbert
Escamillo: Kyu Choi
Micaëla: Lucy Hall
Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
Remendado: Ashley Catling
Morales: Jon Stainsby
Zuniga: David Stephenson
Man of Bruges at Sastamala Gregoriana

Tuesday 21st July 2020 at 7.00pm

St Mary's Church, Sastamala, Finland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Works by Jacobus Clemens non Papa

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Carmen

Saturday 27th June 2020

Flâneries Musicales de Reims, France

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Carmen: Catherine Lafont
Don José: Adam Gilbert
Escamillo: Kyu Choi
Micaëla: Lucy Hall
Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
Remendado: Ashley Catling
Morales: Jon Stainsby
Zuniga: David Stephenson
Mit Psalmen und Harfen at Bachfest Leipzig

Sunday 14th June 2020 at 5.00pm

Thomaskirche, Leipzig

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

Sacred works by Bruhns, Buxtehude, Weckmann and J.S. Bach
(bass soloist and consort)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Nicolaus Bruhns, Praeludium in E minor
Matthias Weckmann, Weine nicht, es hat überwunden
Dieterich Buxtehude, Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab BuxWV 38
J.S. Bach, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150
Nicolaus Bruhns, De profundis clamavi
J.S. Bach, Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131

Eugénie Warnier, soprano
Mélodie Ruvio, mezzo-soprano
Johannes Weiss, tenor
Jon Stainsby, bass
Daniel Beilschmidt, organ
Akadêmia
Françoise Lassère, director
St Matthew Passion

Sunday 12th April 2020 at 3.00pm

Snape Maltings

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
Roderick Williams, Christus
Anna Dennis, soprano
Tim Mead, counter-tenor
Eamonn Dougan, Britten Sinfonia Voices director
Jacqueline Shave, leader/director
St Matthew Passion

Friday 10th April 2020 at 6.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
Roderick Williams, Christus
Anna Dennis, soprano
Tim Mead, counter-tenor
Eamonn Dougan, Britten Sinfonia Voices director
Jacqueline Shave, leader/director
St Matthew Passion

Thursday 9th April 2020 at 7.00pm

St Andrew's Hall, Norwich

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
Roderick Williams, Christus
Anna Dennis, soprano
Tim Mead, counter-tenor
Eamonn Dougan, Britten Sinfonia Voices director
Jacqueline Shave, leader/director
St John Passion

Saturday 4th April 2020 at 7.30pm

Church of St John the Baptist, Burford, Oxfordshire

Burford Singers
Brian Kay, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion (Christus)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Benedict Hymas, Evangelist
Jon Stainsby, Christus
Frederick Long, Pilatus and Bass arias
Alison Rose, soprano
James Neville, counter-tenor
Laurence Kilsby, tenor
Seven Last Words from the Cross

Tuesday 31st March 2020 at 7.30pm

Milton Court, London

Dunedin Consort
The Scottish Ensemble
John Butt, director

Jacobus Gallus, Ecce quomodo moritur
Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
James MacMillan, For Sonny
Jacobus Gallus, Filiae Jerusalem
Arvo Pärt, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Seven Last Words from the Cross

Sunday 29th March 2020 at 8.00pm

The V&A Museum, Dundee

Dunedin Consort
The Scottish Ensemble
John Butt, director

Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Seven Last Words from the Cross

Saturday 28th March 2020 at 7.30pm

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
The Scottish Ensemble
John Butt, director

Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Seven Last Words from the Cross

Friday 27th March 2020 at 8.00pm

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
The Scottish Ensemble
John Butt, director

Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Seven Last Words from the Cross

Thursday 26th March 2020 at 8.00pm

Inverness Cathedral, Inverness

Dunedin Consort
The Scottish Ensemble
John Butt, director

Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*
Musical Seascapes with Nottingham Harmonic Choir

Monday 16th March 2020 at 7.30pm

Albert Hall, Nottingham

Nottingham Harmonic Choir
Orchestra da Camera
Richard Laing, conductor

Herbert Howells, Sir Patrick Spens
Charles Villiers Stanford, Songs of the Fleet (baritone soloist)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Felix Mendelssohn, Overture 'The Hebrides' ('Fingal's Cave)
Hamish MacCunn, The Wreck of the Hesperus
Benjamin Britten, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Herbert Howells, Sir Patrick Spens
Charles Villiers Stanford, Songs of the Fleet
Beethoven: 1808 Reconstructed

Sunday 15th March 2020 at 2.00pm

Royal Festival Hall, London

Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Voices
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Stephen Fry, speaker
Gerard McBurney, creative director

Ludwig van Beethoven, Mass in C Op. 86 and Fantasia in C Minor for piano, chorus and orchestra ("Choral Fantasy"), Op. 80 (chorus)

Full details at the Southbank Centre website.

Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral"), Op. 68
Ah! Perfido, Op. 65
'Gloria' from Mass in C, Op. 86
Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58
Symphony No. 5, Op. 67
'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Mass in C
Fantasia in G minor for piano, Op. 77
Fantasia in C Minor for piano, chorus and orchestra ("Choral Fantasy"), Op. 80

A reconstruction of Beethoven's famous Vienna concert of December 1808.

Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Golda Schultz, soprano
Aoife Miskelly, soprano
Clare Presland, mezzo-soprano
Stuart Jackson, tenor
David Shaw, tenor
Ashley Riches, baritone
Stephen Fry, speaker
Philharmonia Voices
Rodolfus Choir
Gerard McBurney, creative director
Dixit Dominus in Epsom

Saturday 14th March 2020

St Martin's Church, Epsom, Surrey

Epsom Choral Society
Julian Collings, conductor

G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus (baritone soloist)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Claudio Monteverdi, Beatus Vir
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus

Miranda Heldt and Eleanor Ross, sopranos
Carolyn Holt, mezzo-soprano
Rory Carver, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Epsom Choral Society
English Sinfonietta
Julian Collings, conductor
Dona Nobis Pacem

Saturday 7th March 2020

Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey

Haslemere Musical Society Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Janice Watson, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
James Ross, conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem (baritone soloist)

Benjamin Britten, Soirées Musicales
Edward Elgar, Sea Pictures
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem
dans un train / wagon zac

2nd-5th March 2020

Grand Angle, Voiron, France

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

Research and development residency for a new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.
Messiah in Arundel

Saturday 21st December 2019 at 7.30pm

St Nicholas’s Church, Arundel, West Sussex

The Hanover Band
Andrew Arthur, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

Tickets at the Hanover Band website.

Erica Eloff, soprano
William Towers, counter-tenor
Bradley Smith, tenor
Edward Grint, bass-baritone
Messiah in Piccadilly

Friday 20th December 2019 at 7.30pm

St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London

Six Centuries Chamber Choir
Linden Baroque
Peter Fender, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah (baritone soloist)

Helen Semple, soprano
Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
John Upperton, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
In Tune Christmas Special

Friday 20th December 2019 at 5.00pm

St George's, Hanover Square, London

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

The Marian Consort, the English Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, Ermonela Jaho, the Consone Quartet and Alexandra Dariescu join Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham for the annual In Tune Christmas Special, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Messiah in Glasgow

Tuesday 17th December 2019 at 7.00pm

St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Roland Wood, baritone
Children’s Messiah in Glasgow

Tuesday 17th December 2019 at 4.00pm

St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, excerpts from Messiah (consort)

An accessible performance for younger listeners.
Messiah in Edinburgh

Monday 16th December 2019 at 7.00pm

Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Roland Wood, baritone
Children’s Messiah in Edinburgh

Monday 16th December 2019 at 4.00pm

Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, excerpts from Messiah (consort)

An accessible performance for younger listeners.
Messiah in Kendal

Saturday 14th December 2019 at 6.30pm

Westmorland Hall, Kendal Leisure Centre, Kendal

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Roland Wood, baritone
Messiah in Brighton

Friday 13th December 2019 at 7.30pm

St George’s Church, Kemp Town, Brighton

The Hanover Band
Andrew Arthur, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

Tickets at the Hanover Band website.

Erica Eloff, soprano
Timothy Morgan, counter-tenor
Bradley Smith, tenor
Edward Grint, bass-baritone
In Sorrow’s Footsteps

Saturday 7th December 2019 at 8.30pm

Sacra Capilla de El Salvador, Úbeda, Spain

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Sacred music by Palestrina, Victoria, Allegri, Gabriel Jackson and James MacMillan (consort)

Further details from the Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza.
This concert was recorded for broadcast on 21st November 2020 by Radio Clásica.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Stabat Mater
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria
Gabriel Jackson, Stabat Mater
Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus
Rodrigo de Ceballos, O virgo benedicta
Duarte Lobo, Pater peccavi
James MacMillan, Miserere mei, Deus
B Minor Mass in Moscow

Tuesday 26th November 2019 at 7.00pm

Zaryadye Concert Hall

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

Tickets and further details at the Zaryadye Concert Hall website.
dans un train / wagon zac

25th-29th November 2019

Centre National de la Danse, Paris

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

Research and development residency for a new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs. The week culminates in a private performance for producers and promoters of forthcoming performances.
Mass in B Minor in Lyon

Saturday 23rd November 2019 at 8.00pm

Chapelle de la Trinité, Lyon

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

Tickets and further details via Les Grands Concerts Lyon.
Mass in B Minor in Paris

Friday 22nd November 2019 at 8.30pm

Eglise Saint-Roch, Paris

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

Tickets and further details through Philippe Maillard Productions.
Mass in B Minor in Brussels

Thursday 21st November 2019 at 8.00pm

Henri Leboeuf Hall, Bozar, Brussels

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

Tickets and further details at the Bozar website.
Welcome to All the Pleasures

Sunday 17th November 2019 at 6.00pm

Philharmonie
Cologne

Freiburger Barockorchester
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and director

English works by Handel and Purcell (consort)
Welcome to All the Pleasures

Friday 15th November 2019 at 8.00pm

Konzerthaus
Freiburg

Freiburger Barockorchester
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and director

English works by Handel and Purcell (consort)
Welcome to All the Pleasures

Thursday 14th November 2019 at 8.00pm

Philharmonie
Berlin

Freiburger Barockorchester
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and director

English works by Handel and Purcell (consort)
Welcome to All the Pleasures

Wednesday 13th November 2019 at 8.00pm

Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle
Stuttgart

Freiburger Barockorchester
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and director

English works by Handel and Purcell (consort)
Der Vampyr

Sunday 3rd November 2019 at 5.00pm

Asylum Chapel, Peckham, London

Gothic Opera
Kelly Lovelady, conductor
Julia Mintzer, director

Heinrich Marschner, Der Vampyr (Lord Davenaut)

Lord Ruthven: Ian Beadle
Malwina: Alice Usher
Sir Edgar Aubrey: Jack Roberts
The Vampire Master: Gráinne Gillis
Emmy: Charlotte Osborn
Sir Humphrey Davenaut: Jon Stainsby
Sir John Berkeley: Richard Moore
Janthe: Béatrice de Larragoïti
George Dibdin: Matthew Clark
Suse: Rosemary Clifford
Tom Blunt: Richard Moore
Der Vampyr

31st October and 1st November at 7.30pm

The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London

Gothic Opera
Kelly Lovelady, conductor
Julia Mintzer, director

Heinrich Marschner, Der Vampyr (Lord Davenaut)

Lord Ruthven: Ian Beadle
Malwina: Alice Usher
Sir Edgar Aubrey: Sam Smith
The Vampire Master: Gráinne Gillis
Emmy: Charlotte Osborn
Sir Humphrey Davenaut: Jon Stainsby
Sir John Berkeley: Richard Moore
Janthe: Béatrice de Larragoïti
George Dibdin: Matthew Clark
Suse: Rosemary Clifford
Tom Blunt: Richard Moore
Der Vampyr - concert performance

Sunday 27th October 2019 at 7.30pm

Brompton Cemetery Chapel

Gothic Opera

Heinrich Marschner, Der Vampyr (Lord Davenaut)

Lord Ruthven: Ian Beadle
Malwina: Milena Knauß
Sir Edgar Aubrey: Jack Roberts
The Vampire Master: Gráinne Gillis
Emmy: Susanna MacRae
Sir Humphrey Davenaut: Jon Stainsby
Janthe: Laura Curry
George Dibdin: Matthew Clark
Mass in B Minor at Festival de Lanvellac

Sunday 6th October 2019 at 3.00pm

Carré Magique, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque en Bretagne, Lannion, France

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

Further details and tickets at the festival website.
Dussek at the Barbican

Wednesday 2nd October 2019 at 7.30pm

Barbican Hall, London

The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor

Jan Ladislav Dussek, Mass in C (choir)

Further details at the Barbican website.
David et Salomon at Ambronay

Friday 20th September 2019 at 8.30pm

Abbatiale, Ambronay, France

Les Cris de Paris
Geoffroy Jourdain, conductor

Heinrich Schütz, selections from Psalmen Davids and Cantiones Sacrae (consort and baritone soloist)
Mozart Requiem in Cirencester

Saturday 14th September 2019 at 7.30pm

Church of St John the Baptist, Cirencester

Swindon Choral Society
Robin Nelson, conductor

W.A. Mozart, Requiem (bass soloist)

Elinor Rolfe Johnson, soprano
Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
Peter Kirk, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Benvenuto Cellini at Versailles

Sunday 8th September 2019 at 3.00pm

Opéra Royal, Versailles

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini (chorus)
Benvenuto Cellini at the BBC Proms

Monday 2nd September 2019 at 7.00pm

Royal Albert Hall

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini (chorus)

Further details at the BBC Proms website.
Benvenuto Cellini at Musikfest Berlin

Saturday 31st August 2019 at 7.00pm

Philharmonie, Berlin

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini (chorus)

Further details at the Berliner Festspiel website.
Benvenuto Cellini at Festival Berlioz 2019

Thursday 29th August 2019 at 8.00pm

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André, France

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini (chorus)

Further details at the Festival Berlioz website.
L'Enfance du Christ at the BBC Proms

Wednesday 14th August 2019 at 7.00pm

Royal Albert Hall

Britten Sinfonia Voices
Genesis Sixteen
The Halle Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Hector Berlioz, L'Enfance du Christ (chorus)

Further information and tickets at the BBC Proms website.

Julie Boulianne, mezzo-soprano
Allan Clayton, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
The Marian Consort in Ávila

Friday 26th July 2019 at 7.00pm

Colegio Mayor Magistral Honcala, Ávila, Spain

Zenobia Música Semana Internacional de Canto 2019
The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Singing in Secret: Music from Recusant Renaissance England

Sunday 21st July 2019 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Church, Conwy

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Further information at the Conwy Classical Music Festival website.
Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart

Friday 5th July 2019 at 7.00pm

Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

Ensemble Perpetuo
Julian Perkins, conductor

Stephen Dodgson, Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart (Guard)

Further information at the Snape Maltings website.

Cast includes Kate Howden, Matthew Brook, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Anna Dennis, William Wallace, Nicholas Morris, Alistair Ollerenshaw, Peter Willcock, Diana Moore, Robyn Allegra Parton, Jon Stainsby, Michael Bundy, Leonora Dawson-Bowling, Mark Saberton, Jonathan Hanley
The Dream of Gerontius

Saturday 22nd June 2019 at 7.00pm

Southwark Cathedral

The Barnes Choir, Epsom Choral Society and The Arcubus Ensemble
Regent Sinfonia
Elgan Llŷr Thomas, tenor
Judy Brown, mezzo-soprano
Julian Collings, conductor

Edward Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius (Priest/Angel of the Agony)

Tickets available here.
Coronation Anthems in Katowice

Friday 21st June 2019 at 7.30pm

Sala Kameralna, NOSPR Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, director

G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthems

Tickets at the NOSPR website.

Georg Friedrich Handel, Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem I), HWV 258
Water Music: Suite No. 2, HWV 349
My Heart is Inditing (Coronation Anthem IV), HWV 261
Let thy Hand be Strengthened (Coronation Anthem II), HWV 259
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
The King shall Rejoice (Coronation Anthem III), HWV 260
Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah; Amen
Schubert 1828

Monday 17th June 2019 at 7.30pm

Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Mark Padmore, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Roger Vignoles, piano
Richard Watkins, horn
Trio Isimsiz
Quatuor Diotima
Chamber Choir of London

Franz Schubert, String Quartet in G major (1st movement)
Der Kreuzzug
Die Sterne
Fischerweise
Fragment from Aeschylus
Ständchen
Piano Trio in E-flat
Auf dem Strom
Die Allmacht
Schlachtgesang

Schubert only once took the financial risk of mounting a concert of his own music, and it was in the last year of his life. Though the press was more interested in Paganini at the time, it sold well, and included two of his greatest masterpieces – the E-flat Piano Trio, ripe with emotional subtleties, and part of the enigmatically nuanced String Quartet in G – plus a fascinating mixture of typically jewel-like songs and unusual but delightful pieces for chorus and piano. This remarkable programme from 1828 is recreated in full.
Mozart and Michael Haydn at the Pinner Festival

Saturday 15th June 2019 at 7.45pm

Pinner Parish Church

Pinner Festival Choir and Orchestra
David Gould, conductor

Michael Haydn, Requiem
W.A. Mozart, Requiem (bass soloist)

Tickets at the Pinner Festival website.

Fiona Canfield, soprano
Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano
Anton Rich, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Beethoven 9 at the Barbican

Sunday 26th May 2019 at 7.30pm

Barbican Hall, London

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices and the Choir of Royal Holloway
Thomas Adès, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (chorus)

The conclusion to the Britten Sinfonia's Beethoven Symphony Cycle.

Jennifer France, soprano
Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano
Ed Lyon, tenor
Matthew Rose, bass
Eamonn Dougan, chorus master

This concert also features a performance of The Eternal Recurrence by Gerald Barry
Beethoven 9 in Norwich

Saturday 25th May 2019 at 7.30pm

St Andrew's Hall, Norwich

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices and the Choir of Royal Holloway
Thomas Adès, conductor

Ludwig van Beeethoven, Symphony No. 9 (chorus)

The conclusion of the Britten Sinfonia's Beethoven symphony cycle

Jennifer France, soprano
Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano
Ed Lyon, tenor
Matthew Rose, bass
Eamonn Dougan, chorus master

This concert also features a performance of The Eternal Recurrence by Gerald Barry
dans un train / wagon zac

Sunday 19th May 2019

Saint Aupre, France

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer

Performance of this new music/theatre piece, inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.
B Minor Mass in Leipzig

Saturday 18th May 2019 at 8.00pm

Nikolaikirche, Leipzig

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Tomáš Král, bass
Bach Cantatas

Thursday 16th May 2019 at 7.00pm

Herderkirche, Weimar

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.G. Walther - Organ Chorale Prelude: Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod
J.S. Bach, Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen BWV 182
J.S. Bach, Organ Chorale Prelude BWV 639: Ich ruf zu dir
J.S. Bach, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis BWV 21

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Tomáš Král, bass
Bach: The Last Resort

Monday 13th May 2019 at 1.10pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Kuhnau, Gott sei mir Gnädig
J.S. Bach, Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
Graupner, Magnificat
Telemann, Siehe, es hat überwunden die Löwe
J.S. Bach, Du wahre Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Tomáš Král, bass

Bach’s rich musical legacy as we know it today is partly the result of a historical accident. When he applied for the position of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1722, Bach was only third choice for the post. Telemann turned the offer down after some deliberation, and Graupner was not released from his post of Kapellmeister in Hesse. ‘Since we cannot get the best, then we will have to settle for average’, the Council concluded, as it handed the title to Bach. Join us as we step back in time and explore the programme that Bach put together for this fateful application, a move that would shape the history of western music for centuries to come.
Bach: The Last Resort

Sunday 12th May 2019 at 4.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Kuhnau, Gott sei mir Gnädig
J.S. Bach, Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
Graupner, Magnificat
Telemann, Siehe, es hat überwunden die Löwe
J.S. Bach, Du wahre Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Tomáš Král, bass

Bach’s rich musical legacy as we know it today is partly the result of a historical accident. When he applied for the position of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1722, Bach was only third choice for the post. Telemann turned the offer down after some deliberation, and Graupner was not released from his post of Kapellmeister in Hesse. ‘Since we cannot get the best, then we will have to settle for average’, the Council concluded, as it handed the title to Bach. Join us as we step back in time and explore the programme that Bach put together for this fateful application, a move that would shape the history of western music for centuries to come.
Bach: The Last Resort

Saturday 11th May 2019 at 7.00pm

St John's Cathedral, Oban

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Kuhnau, Gott sei mir Gnädig
J.S. Bach, Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
Graupner, Magnificat
Telemann, Siehe, es hat überwunden die Löwe
J.S. Bach, Du wahre Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Tomáš Král, bass

Bach’s rich musical legacy as we know it today is partly the result of a historical accident. When he applied for the position of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1722, Bach was only third choice for the post. Telemann turned the offer down after some deliberation, and Graupner was not released from his post of Kapellmeister in Hesse. ‘Since we cannot get the best, then we will have to settle for average’, the Council concluded, as it handed the title to Bach. Join us as we step back in time and explore the programme that Bach put together for this fateful application, a move that would shape the history of western music for centuries to come.
dans un train / wagon zac

Friday 26th April 2019 at 7.30pm

Le Regard du Cygne, Paris

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer

Work-in-progress private performance for sponsors of this new music/theatre piece, inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

More details of the project, and an opportunity to support this project, at our crowdfunding page.
Brockes Passion

Friday 19th April 2019 at 3.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, director

G.F. Handel, Brockes-Passion (consort)
St John Passion

Saturday 13th April 2019 at 7.45pm

St Mark's Church, Bromley

The Allegri Singers
Stephen Anthony Brown, Evangelist and conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion (Christus)
A Sheen of Dew on Flowers

Thursday 11th April 2019 at 7.30pm

Barbican Hall, London

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices

Natalie Murray Beale, conductor

Joby Talbot, A Sheen of Dew on Flowers (première)

A new work commissioned by Independent Opera. For further information, see the Independent Opera website.

Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano
Tobias Greenhaulgh, baritone

Joby Talbot's new cantata will be preceded by a performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")
Rossini Petite Messe in Teddington

Saturday 6th April 2019 at 7.30pm

All Saints Parish Church, Kingston upon Thames

Teddington Choral Society
Julian Collings, conductor

Gioachino Rossini, Petite Messe Solenelle (baritone soloist)

Joanna Marie Skillet, soprano
Judy Brown, mezzo-soprano
John Findon, tenor

Phil Culling, piano
Benedict Lewis-Smith, harmonium
Schütz in Monte-Carlo

Friday 5th April 2019 at 8.30pm

Église Saint-Charles, Monte-Carlo

Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo
Les Cris de Paris
Geoffroy Jourdain, director

Heinrich Schütz, David and Solomon (created from the Psalmen Davids)

For further information and tickets, see the festival website.
B Minor Mass in Oslo

Sunday 31st March 2019 at 7.30pm

Oslo Cathedral, Norway

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort)
Brahms and Dvořák in Marlborough

Saturday 16th March 2019 at 7.30pm

Marlborough College Chapel, Wiltshire

Swindon Choral Society
Leigh Michelow, soprano
Robin Nelson, conductor

Antonín Dvořák, Te Deum Op. 103
Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45 (baritone soloist)
Creation in Haslemere

Saturday 2nd March 2019 at 7.30pm

Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey

Haslemere Musical Society
Dr James Ross, conductor

Joseph Haydn, The Creation (Raphael/Adam)

Susan Young, soprano
Philip O'Brien, tenor
Così fan tutte (jump in!)

Saturday 16th February 2019 at 7.30pm

Performing Arts Centre, Pipers Corner School

Chiltern Arts Festival/Ryedale Festival Opera
Nina Brazier, director
Eamonn Dougan, conductor

W.A. Mozart, Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso), in a new English translation by John Warrack

Clare Tunney, Fiordiligi
Felicity Turner, Dorabella
Kieran Carrel, Ferrando
Michael Vickers, Guglielmo
Jessica Cale, Despina
Jon Stainsby, Don Alfonso
Messiah in Glasgow

Thursday 20th December 2018

City Halls, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah (consort)
Messiah in Edinburgh

Wednesday 19th December 2018

Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah (consort)
Messiah in Perth

Tuesday 18th December 2018

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah (consort)
Concert with Tring Choral Society

Saturday 15th December 2018 at 7.30pm

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Tring, Herts

Tring Choral Society
Chiltern Orchestral Society
Colin Stevens, conductor

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Te Deum
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C minor
(baritone soloist)

Augusta Hebbert, soprano
Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano
Ruari Bowen, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

The programme also features a performance by Colin Stevens of Denis Bédard's work for solo organ, Variations on "In dulci jubilo"
Christmas Oratorio

Friday 14th December 2018

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

The Marian Consort
Ludus Baroque
Richard Neville-Towle, conductor

J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (baritone soloist and consort)
Handel in Italy

Saturday 8th December 2018 at 8.00pm

Royal Chapel, Palace of Versailles

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

G.F. Handel, Nisi Dominus, Dixit Dominus, Ode for St Caecilia's Day
(consort and baritone soloist)

Ticketing details at the Palace of Versailles website.
A Very English Christmas

Thursday 6th December 2018

Church of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music for the Christmas season by Lassus, Tallis, Ferrabosco, Tye, Sheppard, Byrd and Ludford (consort)

Tickets available through the Oxford Playhouse box office.
A Very English Christmas

Tuesday 4th December 2018 at 7.30pm

Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music for the Christmas season by Lassus, Tallis, Ferrabosco, Tye, Sheppard, Byrd and Ludford (consort)

Booking details
Christmas Oratorio

Sunday 2nd December 2018 at 7.00pm

Christ's Chapel, Dulwich

Dulwich Chamber Choir
English Heritage Chamber Orchestra
Richard Mayo, conductor

J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio Parts I, II and III (Baritone soloist)

Nicola Corbishley, soprano
Rachel Porter and Karen O'Keeffe, mezzo-sopranos
Edward Saklatvala, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
The Golden Age

Saturday 1st December 2018 at 7.30pm

Dunkeld Cathedral

Dunedin Consort
Ben Parry, director

Choral works by Victoria, Guerrero, Peebles, Johnson, Macmillan and Lauridsen (consort)

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

Tomás Luis de Victoria, Missa O Magnum Misterium
David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
Robert Johnson, Ave Dei patris filia
James Macmillan, selections from Strathclyde Motets
Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium
The Golden Age

Friday 30th November 2018 at 7.30pm

Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Ben Parry, director

Choral works by Victoria, Guerrero, Peebles, Johnson, Macmillan and Lauridsen (consort)

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

Tomás Luis de Victoria, Missa O Magnum Misterium
David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
Robert Johnson, Ave Dei patris filia
James Macmillan, selections from Strathclyde Motets
Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium
The Golden Age

Thursday 29th November 2018 at 7.30pm

Inverness Cathedral

Dunedin Consort
Ben Parry, director

Choral works by Victoria, Guerrero, Peebles, Johnson, Macmillan and Lauridsen (consort)

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

Tomás Luis de Victoria, Missa O Magnum Misterium
David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
Robert Johnson, Ave Dei patris filia
James Macmillan, selections from Strathclyde Motets
Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium
Brahms Requiem

Saturday 17th November 2018 at 7.30pm

St Martin's Parish Church, Epsom

Epsom Choral Society
The Regent Chamber Ensemble
Julian Collings, conductor
Nina Kanter, soprano

Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem (baritone soloist)

The version of the Brahms Requiem performed will be the chamber arrangement by Iain Farrington.
The concert will also include a performance of Johann Hummel's Mass in B flat.
Art Sung: Alma Mahler at the London Song Festival

Wednesday 14th November 2018 at 7.00pm

Hinde Street Methodist Church, London

Lorena Paz Nieto, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Sandy Walsh, actress
Elizabeth Mucha, piano

A dramatised recital telling the story of Alma Mahler through her songs and those of Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Wagner, Schumann and Beethoven

Booking details at the London Song Festival website.
Remembrance Sunday Concert

Sunday 11th November 2018 at 3.00pm

Milton Court, London

BBC Singers
Psappha
Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Bob Chilcott, Move him into the sun
Roderick Williams, World Without End (Von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit)

Further details and tickets at the Barbican website.
This concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and can be heard on iPlayer until 11th December.
dans un train / wagon zac

Wednesday 31st October 2018 at 8.00pm

Salle du Tilleul, Saint Aupre, France

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer

Work-in-progress performance of this new music/theatre piece, developed over the preceding week, inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.
dans un train / wagon zac

27th-31st October 2018

Saint Aupre, France

Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Fabien Brandel, lute
Vincent Leterme, piano
Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer

Research and development residency for a new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.
Coffee Cantata

Sunday 21st October 2018 at 11.15am

Holywell Music Room, Oxford

The Adderbury Ensemble
Charmian Bedford, Liesgen
Jon Stainsby, Schendrian
Christopher Bucknall, director/harpsichord

J.S. Bach, "Coffee Cantata" BWV 211

Programme also includes Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050
Haydn and Goodall in Malmesbury

Saturday 13th October 2018 at 7.30pm

Malmesbury Abbey

Swindon Choral Society
Robin Nelson, director

Joseph Haydn, Missa in tempore bello
Howard Goodall, Eternal Light: a Requiem
(baritone soloist)

Augusta Hebbert, soprano
Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
Nathan Vale, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Mass in B Minor

Wednesday 10th October 2018 at 8.00pm

Église St Jacques, Reims

Ensemble Akadêmia
Françoise Lassere, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)
Mass in B Minor

Tuesday 9th October 2018 at 8.30pm

Eglise Saint-Roch, Paris

Ensemble Akadêmia
Françoise Lassere, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)
Dido: A Funeral for the Queen of Carthage

Tuesday 2nd October 2018 at 7.30pm

Barbican Hall, London

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, musical director
Thomas Guthrie, director

Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas and other works (consort)

Dido: Caitlin Hulcup
Aeneas: Ashley Riches
Belinda: Rowan Pierce
Sorceress: Neal Davies
Mass in B Minor in Tournai

Saturday 15th September 2018 at 8.00pm

Cathédrale de Tournai

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)

Further details and tickets at musiCA Tournai website.
Mass in B Minor at Musikfest Bremen

Friday 14th September 2018 at 7.00pm

Kirche St. Vitus, Löningen

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)

Full details and tickets at Musikfest Bremen website.
Mass in B Minor at the Chaise Dieu Festival du Musique

22nd August at 9.00pm; 23rd August at 2.30pm

Abbatiale Saint Robert, Chaise Dieu

Ensemble Akadêmia
Françoise Lassere, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)
Samson at the Edinburgh International Festival

Monday 13th August 2018 at 6.00pm

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Samson (consort)

Full details and tickets at the EIF website.

Samson: Paul Appleby
Dalila: Sophie Bevan
Micah: Alice Coote
Manoah: Matthew Brook
Harapha: David Soar
An Israelite/Philistine Woman: Louise Alder
An English Coronation

Monday 23rd July 2018 at 7.30pm

Ely Cathedral

Gabrieli Consort/Gabrieli ROAR
Paul McCreesh, director

Further details at the Gabrieli website.
Bach Cantatas with Linden Baroque

Sunday 22nd July 2018

Hampstead

Linden Baroque
Ashley Solomon, director

J.S. Bach, Cantatas BWV 151 and 123 (baritone soloist and consort)
Bach Masses at the Festival de Saintes

Saturday 21st July 2018 at 1.30pm

Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Missa brevis in A major, BWV 234,
and Missa brevis in G major, BWV 235
(baritone soloist and consort)

Details and tickets at the Abbaye aux Dames website.
Bach Magnificat, Nuits Musicales Uzès

Thursday 19th July 2018 at 9.30pm

Cathédrale Saint-Théodorit, Uzès

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

J.S. Bach, Magnificat and Mass in G major (baritone soloist and consort)

Details and tickets at the Nuits Musicales Uzès website.
Handel in Rome, Nuits Musicales Uzès

Wednesday 18th July 2018 at 9.30pm

Cathédrale Saint-Théodorit, Uzès

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

G.F. Handel: Dixit Dominus and Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
Songs of the Fleet

Saturday 30th June 2018 at 7.30pm

St John's Church, Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
James Ross, conductor

Charles Villiers Stanford, Songs of the Fleet (baritone soloist)

Shostakovich, Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Themes
Armstrong Gibbs, Slow Waltz: Dusk
Stanford, Songs of the Fleet
Quilter, Non nobis Domine
Wagner, Excerpts from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Gurrelieder

Thursday 28th June 2018 at 9.00pm

Royal Festival Hall

Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Voices
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Arnold Schoenberg, Gurrelieder (chorus)
Gurrelieder

Tuesday 26th June 2018 at 8.30pm

St Denis Basilica, Paris

Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Voices
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Arnold Schoenberg, Gurrelieder (chorus)
Art Sung: Alma Mahler

Saturday 23rd June 2018 at 7.30pm

Church of St John the Baptist, Catford

Alexandra Weaver, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Sandy Walsh, actress
Elizabeth Mucha, piano

A dramatised recital telling the story of Alma Mahler through her songs and those of Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Wagner, Schumann and Beethoven

Production details at the Art Sung website.
Mass in B Minor

Thursday 21st June 2018 at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort)

Details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Matthias Helm, baritone
Mass in B Minor

Wednesday 20th June 2018 at 7.30pm

Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort)

Tickets and further details at the Queen's Hall website.

Anna Dennis, soprano
Jessica Dandy, contralto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Matthias Helm, baritone
Gallipoli to the Somme

Wednesday 13th June 2018 at 7.30pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Anna Leese, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
City Choir Dunedin
The Parliament Choir
Southbank Sinfonia
Simon Over, conductor

Anthony Ritchie, Gallipoli to the Somme

Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending
Jessie Montgomery, Banner
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Anthony Ritchie, Gallipoli to the Somme

Allegri Quartet
Annabel Drummond, violin
Belshazzar

Saturday 9th June 2018 at 7.45pm

Pinner Parish Church

Pinner Festival Choir and Orchestra
David Gould, conductor

G.F. Handel, Belshazzar (Gobrias)

Details and tickets at the Pinner Festival website.

Philippa Boyle, soprano
Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano
Daniel Collins, counter-tenor
Julian Stocker, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Gallipoli to the Somme

Saturday 2nd June 2018 at 7.30pm

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Anna Leese, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
City Choir Dunedin
The Parliament Choir
Southbank Sinfonia
Simon Over, conductor

Anthony Ritchie, Gallipoli to the Somme (UK première)

Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending
Augusta Holmès, La nuit et l'amour
Maurice Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin
Anthony Ritchie, Gallipoli to the Somme

Annabel Drummond, violin
Voices of Revolution

Sunday 20th May 2018 at 7.30pm

Royal Festival Hall

Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Voices
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
David Butt Philip, tenor
Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

Sergei Prokofiev, Seven, they are Seven and Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution

Programme also includes Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 (Pekka Kuusisto, violin)
Art Sung: Alma Mahler

17th and 18th May 2018 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Church, Putney

Alexandra Weaver, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Sandy Walsh, actress
Elizabeth Mucha, piano

A dramatised recital telling the story of Alma Mahler through her songs and those of Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Wagner, Schumann and Beethoven

Production details at the Art Sung website.
Unsuk Chin European Première: The Song of the Children of the Stars

Sunday 15th April 2018 at 7.30pm

Royal Festival Hall, London

Philharmonia Voices
Trinity Boys Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Unsuk Chin, Le chant des enfants des étoiles (choir)

Details at the Southbank Centre website.

Biber, Battalia à 10 in D
Beethoven, Symphony No. 2
Unsuk Chin, Le chant des enfants des étoiles
St John Passion with the AAM

Friday 30th March 2018 at 3.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Riccardo Minasi, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion (consort)
Easter Voices: Mozart and Stravinsky Choral Works

Wednesday 28th March 2018 at 7.30pm

Milton Court, London

Britten Sinfonia Voices
Britten Sinfonia
Eamonn Dougan, conductor

W.A. Mozart, Missa brevis K.192
Igor Stravinsky, Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Mass
and works by Gesualdo and Gabrieli (consort)

Further details at the Britten Sinfonia website.

Andrea Gabrieli, Maria stabat ad monumentum
Stravinsky, Fanfare for a New Theatre
Mozart, Missa Brevis in F K.192
Stravinsky, Pater Noster, Ave Maria
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Concert etude for solo horn
Bruckner, Aequale No. 1 for three trombones
Gesualdo, two movements from Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday
Stravinsky, Mass
St John Passion

Sunday 18th March 2018 at 7.30pm

St Paul's Church, Covent Garden

Six Centuries Chamber Choir
South London Sinfonietta
Peter Fender, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion (baritone soloist)

Benjamin Vonberg-Clark, Evangelist
Philip Wilcox, Christus
Helen Semple, soprano
Carris Jones, alto
John Upperton, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
The Flying Dutchman

10th March at 6pm; 12th, 14th and 16th March at 7pm

Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

Bergen Nasjonale Opera
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Kor
John Ramster, director
Eun Sun Kim, conductor

Richard Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (chorus)

Full details at the BNO website.

The Dutchman: Iain Paterson
Senta: Elisabeth Teige
Daland: Eric F. Halfvarson
Erik: Sergey Skorokhodov
Mary: Tuija Knihtilä
Steersman: Bror Magnus Tødenes
Venus and Adonis in Krakow

Tuesday 13th February 2018 at 7.00pm

Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, Krakow, Poland

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, musical director
Thomas Guthrie, stage director

John Blow, Venus and Adonis
Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen (excerpts) (Shepherd and consort)

Venus: Mhairi Lawson
Adonis: Edward Grint
Cupid: Emilie Renard
King Arthur

Saturday 10th February 2018 at 8.15pm

TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, musical director
Simon Robson, narrator

Henry Purcell, King Arthur (consort and baritone soloist: Grimbald, Aeolus, He)
King Arthur

Friday 9th February 2018 at 9.00pm

AMUZ Augustinus Muziekcentrum, Antwerp

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, musical director
Simon Robson, narrator

Henry Purcell, King Arthur (consort and baritone soloist: Grimbald, Aeolus, He)
King Arthur recording with Vox Luminis

22nd-27th January 2018

AMUZ Augustinus Muziekcentrum, Antwerp

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director

Henry Purcell, King Arthur (consort and language coach)
Goyescas

Friday 19th January 2018 at 7.30pm

Barbican Concert Hall, London

BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons, conductor

Enrique Granados, Goyescas (chorus)

Further information and tickets at the Barbican website.

María Toledo, Flamenco Singer
Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Rosario
Gustavo Peña, Fernando
Lidia Vinyes Curtis, Pepa
José Antonio López, Paquiro

Programme also includes Manuel de Falla, El Amor Brujo (original 1915 version)
Messiah

Wednesday 20th December 2017 at 7.00pm

Barbican Concert Hall, London

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

Tickets available here.

Mary Bevan, soprano
Reginald Mobley, counter-tenor
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Christopher Purves, bass-baritone
Christmas Oratorio

Saturday 16th December 2017 at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, London

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium Cantatas 1, 4, 5 & 6 (consort)

Tickets available here.
Christmas Oratorio

Friday 15th December 2017 at 7.00pm

Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium Cantatas 1, 4, 5 & 6 (consort)

Tickets available here.
A Very English Christmas

Sunday 10th December 2017 at 3.00pm

Music on the Quantocks

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director
Messiah

Saturday 9th December 2017

Ripon Cathedral

Ripon Choral Society
John Dunford, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah (soloist)

Elinor Rolfe Johnson, soprano
Gaynor Keeble, mezzo-soprano
Robert Johnston, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Orchestra D'Amici
Christmas Oratorio

Saturday 2nd December 2017 at 7.00pm

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

The Marian Consort
Ludus Baroque
Richard Neville-Towle, conductor

J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (soloist and consort)

Tickets available here.
Bach Masses

Wednesday 1st November 2017 at 8.00pm

Laieszhalle, Hamburg

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in G Major (BWV 234) and Mass in A Major (BWV 235) (Consort)

Maria Keohane, soprano
Robin Blaze, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
Programme also includes J.S. Bach, Concerto for two oboes and bassoon (reconstruction after BWV 249 & 42)
Bach Masses

Monday 30th October 2017 at 7.30pm

St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in G Major (BWV 234) and Mass in A Major (BWV 235) (Consort)

Maria Keohane, soprano
Robin Blaze, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
Programme also includes J.S. Bach, Concerto for two oboes and bassoon (reconstruction after BWV 249 & 42)
Bach Masses

Sunday 29th October 2017 at 7.30pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, Mass in G Major (BWV 234) and Mass in A Major (BWV 235) (Consort)

Maria Keohane, soprano
Robin Blaze, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
Programme also includes J.S. Bach, Concerto for two oboes and bassoon (reconstruction after BWV 249 & 42)
Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Award

Thursday 26th October 2017 at 7.30pm

St John's Church, Waterloo

Southbank Sinfonia
Simon Over, conductor

Orchestral songs by Grieg, Mahler, Turnage and Debussy

Tickets available at the Southbank Sinfonia website.

Edvard Grieg, 'En Svane' (Op. 25 no. 2)
Gustav Mahler, 'Scheiden und Meiden' and 'Ablösung im Sommer' (Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, orch. Detlev Glanert)
Mark-Anthony Turnage, 'Aftermath' (The Torn Fields)
Claude Debussy, 'Ballade que Villon feit à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre-Dame' and 'Ballade des femmes de Paris' (Trois Ballades de François Villon)

This biennial competition for early-career singers is devoted to the orchestral song repertoire. The following singers have been selected from the preliminary round to perform in the final:
Madeleine Bradbury Rance, soprano
Emma Kerr, mezzo-soprano
Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Patrick Terry, counter-tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
King Arthur

Tuesday 3rd October 2017 at 7.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor
Daisy Evans, director

Henry Purcell, King Arthur (consort)

A semi-staged production of Purcell's semi-opera

Louise Alder, soprano
Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Reginald Mobley, counter-tenor
Charles Daniels, tenor
Ivan Ludlow, baritone
Ashley Riches, bass-baritone
Ray Fearon, narrator
Irma

16th and 17th September 2017 at 7.30pm

South London Gallery, Peckham

Apartment House
Anton Lukoszevieze, musical director
Netia Jones, director/designer
Video and projection by Lightmap

Tom Phillips, Irma

Produced by Sound UK
More details here and on the production blog.

Grenville: Benjamin O'Mahony (actor)
Irma: Josephine Stephenson (soprano)
Nurse: Elaine Mitchener (vocalist)
Art Officers in Uniform: Alastair Putt (tenor), Francis Brett (baritone), Jon Stainsby (baritone)
The Bohemian Reformation at the BBC Proms

Saturday 26th August 2017 at 7.30pm

Royal Albert Hall

BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Svatopluk Sem, baritone
Jakub Hrůša, conductor

Hussite Chorale, 'Ktož jsú Boži bojovníci'
Bohuslav Martinů, Field Mass
Leos Janáček, 'Song of the Hussites' from The Excursions of Mr Brouček

Programme also includes:
Bedrich Smetana, Má vlast: Tábor and Blaník
Josef Suk, Prague
St John Passion at the BBC Proms

Sunday 20th August 2017 at 7.45pm

Royal Albert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

J.S. Bach, St John Passion (consort)

Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
Matthew Brook, Christus
Robert Davies, Pilatus

Sophie Bevan, soprano
Tim Mead, counter-tenor
Andrew Tortise, tenor
Konstantin Wolff, bass
Philharmonia at the BBC Proms

Wednesday 2nd August 2017 at 7.00pm

Royal Albert Hall

Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

J.S. Bach, arr. Igor Stravinsky, Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm, ich her' (chorus)

J.S. Bach, arr. Igor Stravinsky, Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm, ich her'
Maurice Ravel, Shéhérazade
John Adams, Naive and Sentimental Music

Marianne Crebasa, mezzo-soprano
Israel in Egypt at the BBC Proms

Tuesday 1st August 2017 at 7.30pm

Royal Albert Hall

Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
William Christie, director

G.F. Handel, Israel in Egypt (original 1739 version) (chorus)

Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
Rowan Pierce, soprano
Christopher Lowrey, counter-tenor
Jeremy Budd, tenor
Dingle Yandell, bass-baritone
Callum Thorpe, bass
Le nozze di Figaro

21st and 22nd July 2017 at 9.00pm

The Kopanous Theatre, Gastouri, Corfu

Garsington Opera Alvarez Young Artists
Susanna Stranders, musical director
Deborah Cohen, director

W.A. Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro)

Corfu Music Days

Figaro: Jon Stainsby
Susanna: Hazel McBain
Count Almaviva: James Corrigan
Countess Almaviva: Kirsty Taylor-Stokes
Bartolo/Antonio: Andrew Tipple
Marcellina: Ailsa Mainwaring
Cherubino: Elizabeth Lynch
Don Basilio/Don Curzio: Cliff Zammit Stevens
Figaro in Paris

Tuesday 27th June 2017 at 7.30pm

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Garsington Festival Opera
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Douglas Boyd, conductor

W.A. Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (chorus and cover Figaro)

A semi-staged performance by the cast of the Garsington Festival Opera production
Monteverdi at 450

Friday 23rd June 2017 at 7.30pm

Barbican Hall, London

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, director/harpsichord

Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers (consort)

Ticket information at the Barbican website.

Louise Alder, soprano
Rowan Pierce, soprano
Charles Daniels, tenor
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Richard Latham, baritone
Philip Tebb, baritone
Garsington Green Theatre Recital

Saturday 3rd June 2017 at 4.30pm

The Walled Garden, Wormsley Estate

Presented by Garsington Festival Opera

Arias by Handel and Mozart

Charlotte Beament, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Susanne Stranders, piano

The inaugural event in Garsington's new Green Theatre Recital series, in which members of the Alvarez Young Artists Programme present short selections of arias prior to the evening's opera performance.
Figaro at Garsington

2nd, 4th, 8th, 10th and 17th June; 3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th, 14th and 16th July

Garsington Opera at Wormsley Estate

Douglas Boyd, conductor
John Cox, director
Bruno Ravella, associate director

W.A. Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (chorus/cover Figaro)

Figaro: Joshua Bloom
Susanna: Jennifer France
Count Almaviva: Duncan Rock
Countess Almaviva: Kirsten MacKinnon
Cherubino: Marta Fontanals-Simmons
Bartolo: Stephen Richardson
Marcellina: Janis Kelly
Basilio: Timothy Robinson
Curzio: Alun Rhys-Jenkins
Antonio: Andrew Tipple
Barbarina: Alison Rose
Semele at Garsington

1st, 3rd, 9th, 15th, 24th and 30th June, and 4th July

Garsington Opera at Wormsley Estate

Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Annilese Miskimmon, director

G.F. Handel, Semele (chorus)

Semele: Heidi Stober
Jove: Robert Murray
Juno: Christine Rice
Cadmus/Somnus: David Soar
Athamas: Christopher Ainslie
Iris: Llio Evans
Ino: Jurgita Adamonytė
Apollo: Mikael Onelius
High Priest: Christian Valle
Messiah in the Cotswolds

Sunday 9th April 2017 at 7.30pm

Church of St John the Baptist, Burford, Oxfordshire

The Burford Singers
The Cotswold Chamber Orchestra
Brian Kay, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah (baritone soloist)

Robyn Allegra Parton, soprano
Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
James Oxley, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
St John Passion in Leicester

Saturday 8th April 2017 at 7.00pm

St James the Greater, Leicester

Leicester Bach Choir
Richard Laing, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion (Pilate and arias)

Nathan Vale, Evangelist
James Oldfield, Christus

Katie Trethewy, soprano
Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
Edward Goater, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone/Pilatus
St Matthew Passion

Saturday 1st April 2017 at 6.30pm

St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London

Six Centuries Chamber Choir
Linden Baroque
Peter Fender, conductor

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion (Christus)

John Upperton, Evangelist
Jon Stainsby, Christus

Helen Semple, soprano
Carris Jones, mezzo-soprano
Ben Vonberg-Clark, tenor
Oskar McCarthy, baritone/Pilatus
Mozart in Oslo

Sunday 26th March 2017 at 7.30pm

Oslo Cathedral, Norway

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

W.A. Mozart, Requiem and Solemn Vespers (consort)

Joanne Lunn, soprano
Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker, tenor
Benjamin Appl, baritone
Eugene Onegin

12th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th March 2017

Whitgift School, Croydon

The Whitgift Foundation

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin (title role)

Tatyana: Rannveig Káradóttir
Eugene Onegin: Jon Stainsby
Lensky: Peter Aisher
Olga: Polly Leech
Gremin: David Durham

12th March at 2:30pm / 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th March at 7:30pm
Haydn's Creation

Sunday 26th February 2017 at 7.00pm

St Silas Church, Angel, Islington

The Angel Orchestra
Peter Fender, conductor

Joseph Haydn, The Creation (baritone soloist)

A concert in aid of Music Fund.

Melanie Mehta, soprano
John Upperton, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Rothko Chapel in Paris

Friday 24th February 2017 at 8.30pm

Salle des Concerts, Cité de la Musique, Paris

Les Cris de Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel (ensemble)

For full details and tickets, see the Philharmonie Paris website.

Jay Schwartz, M
Matthias Pintscher, beyond (a system of passing)
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Große Huldigung an das technischer Zeitalter
Benjamin Attahir, Et nous tournions autour de ces fontaines hallucinées
Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel

Evan Hughes, bass-baritone
Sophie Cherrier, flute
Les Cris de Paris (Geoffroy Jourdain, director)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor
Missa solemnis at the Elbphilharmonie Opening Festival

Tuesday 17th January 2017 at 8.00pm

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Grosser Saal

Philharmonia Chorus
Members of the Philharmonia Chorus Professional Singers' Scheme
Symphoniker Hamburg
Sir Jeffrey Tate, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven, Missa solemnis

Camilla Nylund, soprano
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Klaus-Florian Vogt, tenor
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone
Rothko Chapel in Cologne

Tuesday 10th January 2017 at 8.00pm

Kölner Philharmonie

Les Cris de Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel (ensemble)

For full details and tickets, see the Kölner Philharmonie website.

Jay Schwartz, M
Matthias Pintscher, beyond (a system of passing)
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Große Huldigung an das technischer Zeitalter
Benjamin Attahir, Et nous tournions autour de ces fontaines hallucinées
Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel

Evan Hughes, bass-baritone
Sophie Cherrier, flute
Les Cris de Paris (Geoffroy Jourdain, director)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor
Messiah with Linden Baroque

Thursday 22nd December 2016 at 7.30pm

St James Church, Piccadilly

Linden Baroque
Peter Fender, conductor

Handel, Messiah (baritone soloist)

Helen Semple, soprano
Carris Jones, mezzo-soprano
John Upperton, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Six Centuries Chamber Choir
Christmas Oratorio

Tuesday 20th December 2016 at 7.00pm

Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

The Marian Consort (Rory McCleery, director)
Ludus Baroque
Richard Neville-Towle, conductor

J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (Soloist and consort)

Anna Dennis and Charlotte Ashley, soprano
Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
Rory McCleery, counter-tenor
Guy Cutting and Peter Davoren, tenor
Alex Ashworth, James Geidt and Jon Stainsby, bass
Messiah with the AAM

Sunday 18th December 2016 at 2.15pm

Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor

Handel, Messiah (consort)

Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Barbara Kozelj, alto
Andrew Tortise, tenor
Lukas Jakobski, bass
Messiah with the AAM

Saturday 17th December 2016 at 8.15pm

De Oosterpoort, Groningen

The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor

Handel, Messiah (consort)

Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Barbara Kozelj, alto
Andrew Tortise, tenor
Lukas Jakobski, bass
Messiah with the AAM

Friday 16th December 2016

Braunschweig, Germany

The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor

Handel, Messiah (consort)

Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Barbara Kozelj, alto
Andrew Tortise, tenor
Lukas Jakobski, bass
Jóhann Jóhannsson

Friday 9th December 2016 at 8.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

Britten Sinfonia Voices
Eamonn Dougan, director

New works for voices and ensemble by Jóhann Jóhannsson and his band
Gounod Messe solenelle

Saturday 3rd December 2016 at 11.00pm

Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey

Haslemere Musical Society
James Ross, conductor

Gounod, Messe solenelle de Sainte-Cécile (baritone soloist)

Alexander Glazunov, Winter (from The Seasons)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, selections from Swan Lake
Charles Gounod, Messe solenelle de Sainte-Cécile

Rebecca Moon, soprano
Alex Aldren, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Finzi in Milton Keynes

Sunday 27th November 2016 at 11.00pm

Milton Keynes City Church

The Cornerstone Chamber Choir and Orchestra
Adrian Boynton, conductor

Finzi, In terra pax (baritone soloist)

Henry Purcell, Trumpet Sonata
G.F. Handel, Ode on St Cecilia's Day
Gerald Finzi, In terra pax
Benjamin Britten, St Nicholas

Charmian Bedford, soprano
Stephen Anthony Brown, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
St Cecilia's Day at Wigmore Hall

Tuesday 22nd November 2016 at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt (director)

Henry Purcell, Welcome to all the pleasures and Hail, Bright Cecilia (consort and soloist)

Henry Purcell, Welcome to all the pleasures
Henry Purcell/Matthew Locke, selections from The Tempest
Henry Purcell, Hail, Bright Cecilia

Joanne Lunn and Claire Evans, sopranos
Tim Mead, counter-tenor
Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Mulroy and Malcolm Bennett, tenors
Matthew Brooke and Jon Stainsby, baritones
FAMA at HCMF

Sunday 20th November 2016 at 11.00pm

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Huddersfield Town Hall

Isabelle Menke, actress
Eva Furrer, contrabass flute
EXAUDI
London Sinfonietta
Beat Furrer, conductor

Beat Furrer, FAMA for speaker, 8 voices and instrumental ensemble

Further details at the London Sinfonietta website.
FAMA UK première

Friday 11th November 2016 at 7.30pm

St John's Smith Square

Isabelle Menke, actress
Eva Furrer, contrabass flute
EXAUDI
London Sinfonietta
Beat Furrer, conductor

Beat Furrer, FAMA for speaker, 8 voices and instrumental ensemble

Further details at the London Sinfonietta website.
Elias at the Leipzig Gewandhaus

22nd and 23rd September 2016 at 8.00pm

Grosser Saal, Gewandhaus, Leipzig

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Gewandhaus Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor

Felix Mendelssohn, Elias (chorus)

Details and tickets at the Gewandhaus website.

Camilla Tilling, soprano
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, mezzo-soprano
Steve Davislim, tenor
Michael Nagy, baritone
Coronation Anthems at the Antepenultimate (Late) Night of the Proms

Thursday 8th September 2016 at 10.15pm

Royal Albert Hall, London

The Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor

G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthems (choir)

More information at the BBC Proms website.

G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthems 'Zadok the Priest' and 'My heart is inditing'
Georg Muffatt, Armonico tributo - Sonata No. 5 in G major
G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthem 'Let thy hand be strengthened'
J.S. Bach, Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 – Air (arr. L. Stokowski)
Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas – 'When I am laid in earth' (Dido's Lament) (arr. L. Stokowski)
G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthem 'The king shall rejoice'
Semiramide at the BBC Proms

Sunday 4th September 2016 at 7.00pm

Royal Albert Hall

Opera Rara Chorus
Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Rossini, Semiramide (chorus)

Details and tickets at the BBC Proms website.

Semiramide: Albina Shagimuratova
Arsace: Daniela Barcellona
Assur: Ildebrando d'Arcangelo
Idreno: Javier Camarena
Oroe: Gianluca Buratto
Azema: Susana Gaspar
Mitrane: David Butt Philip
Nino's Ghost: James Platt
'Lo Sposalizio' at Rheingau Musik Festival

Friday 26th August 2016 at 8.00pm

Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau, Germany

The King's Consort
Robert King, conductor

Music for a Grand Venetian Wedding:
Works by Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi etc.

Ticketing information at the Rheingau Musik Festival website.
A Fairy Queen at Iford

23rd, 27th, 29th and 30th July, 2nd and 3rd August

Iford Manor, nr. Bath

Tim Nelson, director and conductor

Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen, in a new performing version by Tim Nelson.

Further details and tickets at the Iford Arts website.

Titania: Lucy Page
Oberon: Jake Arditti
Puck/Starveling: Frederick Long
Fairy/Peter Quince: Stuart Jackson
Hermia/Flute: Ciara Hendrick
Helena/Snout: Rose Setten
Lysander/Snug: Simon Gfeller
Demetrius/Bottom: Jon Stainsby

Ensemble: Iford Arts New Generation Artists:
Cally Youdell, Keith Pun, Ben Smith, Daniel D'Souza
Lennox Berkeley Stabat Mater at the Cheltenham Music Festival

Sunday 17th July 2016 at 4.00pm

Pitville Pump Room, Cheltenham

The Marian Consort
The Berkeley Ensemble
David Wordsworth, conductor

Lennox Berkeley, Stabat Mater
Francis Poulenc, Un soir de neige

This concert also includes chamber music by Berkeley's early champion Maurice Ravel, and by two British composers of the succeeding generation, including Lennox's son Michael Berkeley.
Full details and tickets at the Cheltenham Festival website.

Ravel Introduction and Allegro
Poulenc Un soir de neige
Michael Berkeley Touch Light
Colin Matthews Five Concertinos (to Henri Dutilleux)
Michael Berkeley Clarinet Quintet
Lennox Berkeley Stabat Mater
Let us garlands bring

Saturday 25th June 2016 at 7.30pm

Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon

Bath Choral Society
Will Dawes, conductor
William Vann, piano

Gerald Finzi, Let us garlands bring

A programme of twentieth-century song cycles to close Bath Choral Society's 2015-16 season

Jonathan Dove, The Passing of the Year
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, The Turning Year
Gerald Finzi, Let us garlands bring
John Rutter, The Sprig of Thyme

Ticket booking details at the BCS website.
Polyphonies spatialisés at Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims

Thursday 23rd June 2016 at 8.00pm

Basilique Saint-Remi, Reims, France

Les Cris de Paris
Geoffroy Jourdain

Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium
and works by Janequin, Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez, Caldara, Gabrieli, Mendelssohn, Hillborg and Dumont
Hippolyte et Aricie

18th and 19th June 2016

St John's Church, Waterloo, London

Linden Baroque
Peter Fender, director

Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie (Thésée)

A semi-staged performance with dance.

Hippolyte: Andrew Evans
Aricie: Aurélia Jonvaux
Phèdre: Carola Emrich-Fisher
Thésée: Jon Stainsby
Pluton: Franco Kong
Diane: Henrietta Brewley
Œnone/Matelote/Bergere: Jenni Harper
Tisiphone: Jeremy Vinogradov
La Grande-Prêtresse: Eleanor Dann
Chasseresse: Camilla Jeppeson

18th June at 7.00pm / 19th June at 5.00pm
War Requiem in Paris

17th and 20th June 2016 at 8.30pm

Église St Marcel, Paris

Chorus 14
Dominique Sourisse, conductor

Benjamin Britten, War Requiem (baritone soloist)

Sophie Albert, soprano
Thomas Lefrançois, tenor,
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Judas Maccabeus

Saturday 11th June 2016 at 7.45pm

Pinner Parish Church

Pinner Music Festival Chorus and Orchestra
David Gould, conductor

G.F. Handel, Judas Maccabeus (Simon)

Tickets and further information at the Pinner Music Festival website.

Rachel Ambrose Evans, soprano
Edward Edgcumbe, counter-tenor
Thomas Dupernex, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Berkeley Stabat Mater at the Spitalfields Summer Festival

Tuesday 7th June 2016 at 8.00pm

St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London

The Marian Consort
Berkeley Ensemble
David Wordsworth, conductor

Lennox Berkeley, Stabat Mater
and works by contemporary British composers

Details and tickets at the Spitalfields Music website.

Judith Weir Ave Regina Caelorum
Matthew Martin Ave virgo sanctissima
Michael Berkeley Catch me if you can
Hilary Campbell Ave Maria
Michael Berkeley Touch Light
Lennox Berkeley Stabat Mater
God Save the Queen

Sunday 5th June 2016 at 4.00pm

Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie

Les Cris de Paris
Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, director

Henry Purcell, Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
Henry Purcell, Welcome to all the pleasures
Jeremiah Clarke, Come, come along for a dance and a song

Further details at the Opéra de Rouen and Le Poème Harmonique websites.

Hana Blazikova, soprano
Nicholas Tamagna, counter-tenor
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Geoffroy Buffière, bass

Les Cris de Paris, dir. Geoffroy Jourdain
Orchestra du Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, conductor
Dido and Aeneas at Rheingau Musik Festival / Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden

27th and 28th May 2016 at 7.30pm

Grosses Haus, Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor and director

Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (Chorus)

More information at the BNC website; tickets from the Rheingau Musik Festival or the Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

Dido: Kate Lindsay
Aeneas: Benedict Nelson
Belinda: Katja Stuber
Sorceress: Johanna Wokalek
Selva Morale at Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk

Monday 16th May 2016 at 7.30pm

Melk Abbey, Austria

Internationale
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Solisten
Concentus Musicus Wien
Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

Claudio Monteverdi, Selva morale e spirituale

Ticket information at the IBT Stift Melk website.
Dido and Aeneas at Internationale Musikfest Hamburg

13th and 14th May 2016 at 8.00pm

Kampnagel, Hamburg

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor and director

Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (Chorus)

More information on the BNC and festival websites.

Dido: Kate Lindsay
Aeneas: Benedict Nelson
Belinda: Katja Stuber
Sorceress: Johanna Wokalek
Songs and Scenes from Shakespeare

Wednesday 4th May 2016 at 5.30pm

The Temple Church

The Temple Singers
Roger Sayer, conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Serenade to Music and Three Shakespeare Songs

A concert to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, with dramatised readings. Further information at the Temple Music website.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Serenade to Music
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Three Shakespeare Songs: 'Over hill, over dale,' 'Full fathom five' and 'The cloud-capped towers'
Gerald Finzi, Let us Garlands Bring
William Walton, Music for Henry V

Tom Guthrie, tenor
The Temple Singers
Roger Sayer, piano and conductor
Cousser at Wigmore Hall

Sunday 24th April 2016 at 4.00pm

Wigmore Hall, London

Ensemble Marsyas
Peter Whelan, director

John Sigismond Cousser, The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus
G.F. Handel, 'Eternal Source of Light Divine' from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

For more details and tickets, visit the Wigmore Hall website.

Mhairi Lawson, Chloë Morgan, Sarah Brady, sopranos
Emilie Renard, Niamh O'Sullivan, mezzo-sopranos
Samuel Boden, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Marta

Tuesday 19th April 2016 at 8.00pm

Opéra de Reims

Les Cris de Paris
Ensemble Ictus
Clement Power, musical director
Ludovic Lagarde, director

Wolfgang Mitterer, Marta (Ensemble)

Full details at the Opéra de Reims website

Marta: Elsa Benoit
Grot, père de Marta: Georg Nigl
Ginevra, Reine, mère de Marta: Ursula Hesse von den Steinen
Arthur, Roi: Martin Mairinger
Captain: Tom Randle
Leith Hill Musical Festival

Friday 15th April 2016 at 7.30pm

Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey

Leith Hill Festival Choirs
Brian Kay, conductor

Purcell, Come, Ye Sons of Art
Schubert, Mass in G
(Baritone soloist)

Sarah Power, soprano
James Neville, counter-tenor
James Bowman, counter-tenor
William Blake, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Part of Brian Kay's final season as conductor of the Leith Hill Festival.
Berkeley and Britten at the Aldeburgh Easter Weekend

Friday 25th March 2016 at 6.00pm

Blythburgh Church, Suffolk

The Marian Consort
Berkeley Ensemble
David Wordsworth, conductor

Lennox Berkeley, Stabat Mater
Benjamin Britten, Sacred and Profane

Details and tickets at the Aldeburgh Music website.

Benjamin Britten: Sinfonietta, Sacred and Profane
Michael Berkeley: Touch Light
Lennox Berkeley: Mass in Five Parts, Stabat Mater

Britten's late settings of English medieval lyrics will be performed alongside the Stabat Mater by his contemporary Lennox Berkeley, a rarely-performed work, scored for six solo voices and chamber ensemble, which the composer dedicated to Britten. The Marian Consort and the Berkeley Ensemble will be recording Berkeley's Stabat Mater and the Mass following this performance in Blythburgh, as part of a short residency at Aldeburgh. Further performances will follow in summer 2016 at the Cheltenham and Spitalfields festivals.
Marta

13th, 15th, 17th, 19th and 21st March 2016

Opéra de Lille

Les Cris de Paris
Ensemble Ictus
Clement Power, musical director
Ludovic Lagarde, director

Wolfgang Mitterer, Marta (Ensemble): world première

Full details at the Opéra de Lille website.

Marta: Elsa Benoit
Grot, père de Marta: Georg Nigl
Ginevra, Reine, mère de Marta: Ursula Hesse von den Steinen
Arthur, Roi: Martin Mairinger
Captain: Tom Randle

13th March at 16:00 / 15th, 17th, 19th and 21st March at 20:00
Elias with the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor

29th and 30th January 2016

Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock, director

Felix Mendelssohn, Elias (Chorus)

Genia Kühmeier, soprano
Ann Hallenberg, alto
Lothar Odinius, tenor
Michael Nagy, baritone
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock, director

29th January at 6pm / 30th January at 5pm
Messiah

Monday 21st December 2015 at 7.00pm

Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah (Consort)

Soloists:
Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Long, tenor
Matthew Brook, baritone
Messiah

Sunday 20th December 2015 at 7.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah (Consort)

Soloists:
Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Long, tenor
Matthew Brook, baritone
Children's Messiah

Sunday 20th December 2015 at 4.00pm

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah (excerpts) (Consort)
Messiah: Concierto Participativo de Navidad

Friday 18th December 2015 at 8.30pm

Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah (Consort)

Soloists:
Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Long, tenor
Jacques Imbrailo, baritone
Messiah: Concierto Participativo de Navidad

Thursday 17th December 2015 at 8.30pm

Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah (Consort)

Soloists:
Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Long, tenor
Jacques Imbrailo, baritone
Christmas with the Shepherds

Monday 14th December 2015 at 7.00pm

St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch

Spitalfields Winter Festival
The Marian Consort

Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

Read more at the Marian Consort website.
Full details and tickets at the Spitalfields Music website.
Christmas with the Shepherds

Sunday 13th December 2015 at 3.30pm

St Mary the Virgin, Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset

Music on the Quantocks
The Marian Consort

Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

Read more at the Marian Consort website.
Request tickets via Music on the Quantocks.
Christmas Oratorio

Saturday 12th December 2015 at 7.00pm

Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

Ludus Baroque
Richard Neville-Towle, director

J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (Soloist and consort)
Christmas with the Shepherds

Thursday 10th December 2015 at 7.45pm

St Paul's Church, Canterbury

Canterbury Music Club
The Marian Consort

Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

Read more at the Marian Consort website.
Tickets and further information at the Canterbury Music Club website.
Christmas with the Shepherds

Tuesday 8th December 2015 at 7.30pm

Keble College, Oxford

The Marian Consort

Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

Read more at the Marian Consort website.
Christmas with the Shepherds

Monday 7th December 2015 at 7.00pm

National Centre for Early Music, York

York Early Music Christmas Festival
The Marian Consort

Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

Read more at the Marian Consort website.
Ticket information at the NCEM website.
Christmas with the Shepherds

Saturday 5th December 2015 at 7.30pm

Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

Georgian Concert Society
The Marian Consort

Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

Read more at the Marian Consort website.
Ticket information at the GCS website.
Christmas with the Shepherds

Friday 4th December 2015 at 7.30pm

Glenalmond College, Perth

The Marian Consort

Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile

Read more at the Marian Consort website.
Bach and Handel with Dunedin Consort

Sunday 22nd November 2015 at 4.00pm

City of Edinburgh Methodist Church

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Dixit Dominus HWV 232
J.S. Bach, Magnificat (ensemble) BWV 243a

Julia Doyle, soprano 1
Miriam Allen, soprano 2
Meg Bragle, alto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass

This concert marks the launch of Dunedin Consort's new recording of Bach's Magnificat, in the original E flat version of 1723 with choral interludes appropriate to the Christmas season. The programme also includes J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 1.
Bach and Handel with Dunedin Consort

Friday 20th November 2015 at 7.30pm

Sage Gateshead

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Dixit Dominus HWV 232
J.S. Bach, Magnificat (ensemble) BWV 243a

Julia Doyle, soprano 1
Miriam Allen, soprano 2
Meg Bragle, alto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass

This concert marks the launch of Dunedin Consort's new recording of Bach's Magnificat, in the original E flat version of 1723 with choral interludes appropriate to the Christmas season. The programme also includes J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 1.
Le Pré aux Clercs

23rd, 27th, 29th October and 1st November

National Opera House, Wexford

Wexford Festival Opera
Jean-Luc Tingaud, conductor
Éric Ruf, director
Laurent Delvert, revival director

Ferdinand Hérold, Le Pré aux Clercs (Chorus)

Co-production with Ópera-Comique, Paris
More information on the Wexford Opera website.

Marguerite de Valois: Marie Lenormand
Isabelle: Marie-Ève Munger
Nicette: Magali Simard-Galdès
Baron de Mergy: Nico Darmanin
Comte de Comminge: Dominique Coté
Cantarelli: Eric Huchet
Girot: Tomislav Lavoie

23rd, 27th and 29th October at 8pm / 1st November at 5pm
Guglielmo Ratcliff

22nd, 25th, 28th and 31st October

National Opera House, Wexford

Wexford Festival Opera
Francesco Cilluffo, conductor
Fabio Ceresa, director

Pietro Mascagni, Guglielmo Ratcliff (Chorus)

More information on the Wexford Festival Opera website.

Guglielmo Ratcliff: Angelo Villari
Maria: Mariangela Sicilia
Count Douglas: David Stout
Margherita: Annunziata Vestri
MacGregor: Gianluca Burrato
Lesley: Alexandros Tsilogiannis
Tom: Quentin Hayes
Willie: Sarah Richmond

22nd, 28th and 31st October at 8pm / 25th October at 5pm
Koanga

21st, 24th, 27th and 30th October at 8pm

National Opera House, Wexford

Wexford Festival Opera
Stephen Barlow, conductor
Michael Gieleta, director

Frederick Delius, Koanga (Chorus)

More information on the Wexford Festival Opera website.

Koanga: Norman Garrett
Palmyra: Nozuko Teto
Simon Perez: Jeff Gwaltney
Clotilda: Kate Allen
Don José Martinez: Christopher Robertson
Uncle Joe / Rangwan: Aubrey Allicock
Saul at the George Enescu Festival

Sunday 13th September 2015 at 10.30am

The Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest

Choir and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
Laurence Cummings, conductor

Handel, Saul (Chorus)

More information on the George Enescu Festival website.

Saul: Christopher Purves
Merab: Sarah Tynan
Michal: Sophie Bevan
Jonathan: Paul Appleby
David: Christopher Lowrey
Brahms at the BBC Proms

Tuesday 1st September 2015 at 7.30pm

Royal Albert Hall, London

Choir and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
Marin Alsop, conductor

Johannes Brahms, Alto Rhapsody and Triumphlied (Chorus)

More information on the BBC website.

Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Brahms Alto Rhapsody
Brahms Triumphlied
Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor

Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Appl, baritone
Choir of the Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
Praetorius: Canticum Canticorum

Sunday 23rd August 2015 at 8.30pm

Cathédrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
Pablo Heras-Casado

Works by Hieronymus, Jacob and Michael Praetorius

More information on the BNC website.
Praetorius: Canticum Canticorum

Saturday 22nd August 2015 at 7.00pm

St Konrad und Elisabeth, Freiburg

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
Pablo Heras-Casado

Works by Hieronymus, Jacob and Michael Praetorius

More information on the BNC website.
Praetorius: Canticum Canticorum

Friday 21st August 2015 at 8.00pm

Stiftskirche Stift Wilten, Innsbruck

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
Pablo Heras-Casado

Works by Hieronymus, Jacob and Michael Praetorius

More information on the BNC website and at www.altemusik.at.
Dido and Aeneas at the Salzburg Festival

Tuesday 18th August 2015 at 5.30pm

Felsenreitschule, Salzburg

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor and director

Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (Chorus)

More information on the BNC website and the Salzburg Festival website.

Dido: Kate Lindsay
Aeneas: Benedict Nelson
Belinda: Katja Stuber
Sorceress: Johanna Wokalek
Xerxes on tour

30th July and 2nd August

Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London (30th July)
St Mary in the Castle, Hastings (2nd August)

Longborough Festival Opera Young Artists Production
Jeremy Silver, musical director
Jenny Miller, director

Handel, Xerxes (Ariodate)

Xerxes: Jake Arditti
Arsamenes: Tai Oney
Amastris: Lucinda Stuart Grant
Ariodate: Jon Stainsby
Romilda: Alice Privett
Atalanta: Abbi Temple
Elviro: Matthew Durkan

30th July at 7:30pm / 2nd August at 7pm
Xerxes at Longborough Festival Opera

25th and 26th July

Longborough, Gloucestershire

Longborough Festival Opera Young Artists Production
Jeremy Silver, musical director
Jenny Miller, director

Handel, Xerxes (Ariodate)

Xerxes: Jake Arditti
Arsamenes: Tai Oney
Amastris: Lucinda Stuart Grant
Ariodate: Jon Stainsby
Romilda: Alice Privett
Atalanta: Abbi Temple
Elviro: Matthew Durkan

25th July at 6:30pm / 26th July at 3pm
La scala di seta

Saturday 18th July 2015 at 7.00pm

Henley-on-Thames

Opera Holloway
Lewis Gaston, conductor
Fiona Williams, director

Rossini, La scala di seta (Blansac)

Giulia: Callie Swarbrick
Lucilla: Siân Cameron
Dorvil: Michael Solomon Williams
Dormont: Hugh Benson
Blansac: Jon Stainsby
Germano: Sean Aquilina
European Song in the 1870s

Sunday 12th July 2015 at 7.45pm

Orpington Parish Church

Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Nicola Rose, piano

Songs and duets by Brahms, Wolf, Grieg and Duparc

Hugo Wolf, Abendbilder
Edvard Grieg, Sex digte af Henrik Ibsen Op. 25
Johannes Brahms, Duette Op. 28 and Fünf Gesänge Op. 71 (selection)
and songs by Henri Duparc
The Bear

Saturday 11th July 2015 at 9.55pm

The Proud Archivist, London N1

Operaview
Dale Wills, musical director
Natalie Katsou, director

William Walton, The Bear (Smirnov)

Popova: Charlotte King
Smirnov: Jon Stainsby
Luka: Louis Hurst
Messiah at Rheingau Musik Festival

Thursday 9th July 2015 at 8.00pm

Kloster Eberbach, nr. Eltville, Rheingau, Germany

Choir and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
Conductor: Laurence Cummings

Handel, Messiah (Chorus)

Soprano: Katherine Watson
Countertenor: Tim Mead
Tenor: Thomas Walker
Bass: George Humphreys
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Choir of the Enlightenment
Laurence Cummings
The Bear

Wednesday 8th July 2015 at 7.15pm

The Proud Archivist, London N1

Operaview
Dale Wills, musical director
Natalie Katsou, director

William Walton, The Bear (Smirnov)

Popova: Gráinne Gillis
Smirnov: Jon Stainsby
Luka: Louis Hurst
La scala di seta

Saturday 27th June 2015 at 7.30pm

St Martin of Tours, Epsom

Opera Holloway
Lewis Gaston, musical director
Fiona Williams, director

Rossini, La scala di seta (Blansac)

Giulia: Callie Swarbrick
Lucilla: Siân Cameron
Dorvil: Michael Solomon Williams
Dormont: Hugh Benson
Blansac: Jon Stainsby
Germano: Sean Aquilina
La scala di seta

Sunday 21st June 2015 at 7.00pm

Shipley Festival, Storrington

Opera Holloway
Lewis Gaston, musical director
Fiona Williams, director

Rossini, La scala di seta (Blansac)

Giulia: Callie Swarbrick
Lucilla: Siân Cameron
Dorvil: Michael Solomon Williams
Dormont: Hugh Benson
Blansac: Jon Stainsby
Germano: Sean Aquilina
La scala di seta

Friday 19th June 2015 at 7.00pm

Brownsword Hall, Poundbury, Dorset

Opera Holloway
Lewis Gaston, musical director
Fiona Williams, director

Rossini, La scala di seta (Blansac)

Giulia: Callie Swarbrick
Lucilla: Siân Cameron
Dorvil: Michael Solomon Williams
Dormont: Hugh Benson
Blansac: Jon Stainsby
Germano: Sean Aquilina
Armel Opera Competition Final

Friday 5th June 2015

Budapest Music Centre, Budapest

Armel Opera Festival

Public workshop on Péter Eötvös, Senza Sangue, with Péter Eötvös (conductor) and Róbert Alföldi (director).
International Workshop on the Songs of Edvard Grieg

28th-31st May 2015

Grieg Academy, Bergen

Organised by the International Grieg Society, in parallel with the conference 'Grieg and the Human Voice'

Masterclasses with with Njål Sparbo, Solveig Kringlebotn and Einar Røttingen, et al.
Re-opening of Troldhaugen Concert Hall

Tuesday 26th May 2015 at 8.00pm

Troldhaugen, nr. Bergen

Edvard Grieg Kor
Leif Ove Andsnes

Works by Edvard Grieg and Ole Bull

(Private event)
NCEM Young Composers Award Final

Thursday 14th May 2015 at 7.30pm

National Centre for Early Music, York

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

New works for early music ensemble, selected by the NCEM 2015 Competition panel.

More details of the competition at the NCEM website.
Hansel and Gretel

7th-9th May

Belgrade Theatre (B2 auditorium), Coventry

HighTime

Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel (Father)

in a new English translation commissioned by HighTime.

Hansel: Siân Cameron (Charlotte Ireland at 9th May matinee)
Gretel: Alexa Mason
Mother: Wendy Dawn Thompson
Father: Jon Stainsby
Ringmaster: Oliver Marshall
Sandman: Charlotte Ireland (Siân Cameron at 9th May matinee)
Dew Fairy: Caroline Kennedy

Piano: Richard Black
Conductor: Benjamin Hamilton
Director: Felicity Green

7:15pm on 7th and 8th May / 2:15pm and 7:15pm on 9th May
Boris Godunov with Philharmonia Voices

Thursday 30th April 2015 at 10.00pm

Royal Festival Hall

Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Voices
Jakub Hrůša, conductor

Modest Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov (concert performance of excerpts) (Chorus)

Borodin, Overture to Prince Igor
Cui, Overture to Le filibustier
Rimsky-Korsakov, Overture on Three Russian Themes
Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov (excerpts)

Boris Godunov: Dimitry Ivashchenko
Shuysky: Hubert Francis
Shchelkalov: Eddie Wade
Holy Fool: James Way
Nikitich: Johnny Herford

Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor: Jakub Hrůša
Semi-staging: David Edwards
St Paul

Sunday 19th April 2015 at 7.15pm

Todmorden Town Hall, Todmorden, West Yorkshire

Todmorden Choral Society and Orchestra
Antony Brannick, conductor

Felix Mendelssohn, St Paul (baritone soloist)

Caroline Challis, soprano
Bridget Budge, contralto
Adam Magee, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone (St Paul)
Leith Hill Musical Festival

Saturday 11th April 2015 at 7.30pm

Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey

Leith Hill Festival Choirs
Brian Kay, conductor

Franz Schubert, Magnificat D. 486
Joseph Haydn, 'Spring' from The Seasons
(Baritone soloist)

Sarah Power, soprano
Nicholas Scott, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
St Matthew Passion at the Barbican

Friday 3rd April 2015 at 3.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, director

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion, 1727 version (Pilate and Ensemble)

James Gilchrist, Evangelist
Matthew Rose, Christ

Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Mark le Brocq, tenor
Christopher Purves, bass

Richard Latham, Peter
David Stuart, Judas
Jon Stainsby, Pilate
Philippa Hyde, Pilate's wife

Choir of the AAM
The Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor
Haydn's 'Spring' in Burford

Saturday 28th March 2015 at 7.30pm

Church of St John the Baptist, Burford, Oxfordshire

The Burford Singers
Bob Chilcott, conductor

Joseph Haydn, 'Spring' from The Seasons (baritone soloist)

Bob Chilcott, Requiem
Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending
Joseph Haydn, 'Spring' from The Seasons

Laurie Ashworth, soprano
Thomas Elwin, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Michael Bochmann, violin

The Burford Singers
The Cotswold Chamber Orchestra
Bob Chilcott, Conductor
St Matthew Passion in Valencia

Friday 27th March 2015 at 7.30pm

Palau de la Música, Valencia

The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Edward Higginbottom, conductor

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion (Pilate and Ensemble)

Toby Spence, Evangelist
David Soar, Christ

Maria Keohane, soprano
Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass

Richard Latham, Peter
Samuel Queen, Judas
Jon Stainsby, Pilate
Charmian Bedford, Pilate's wife

Choir of the AAM
The Academy of Ancient Music
Edward Higginbottom, conductor
St Matthew Passion in San Sebastián

Thursday 26th March 2015 at 8.00pm

Kurssal, San Sebastián, Spain

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Edward Higginbottom, conductor

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion (Pilate and Ensemble)

Toby Spence, Evangelist
David Soar, Christ

Maria Keohane, soprano
Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass

Richard Latham, Peter
Samuel Queen, Judas
Jon Stainsby, Pilate
Charmian Bedford, Pilate's wife

Choir of the AAM
The Academy of Ancient Music
Edward Higginbottom, conductor
Don Giovanni in Bergen

14th, 16th, 18th, 20th March

Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

Bergen Nasjonale Opera
Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor
Oliver Mears, director

W.A. Mozart, Don Giovanni (Chorus)

Henk Neven, Don Giovanni
Jean Teitgen, Leporello
Clive Bayley, Commendatore
Elizabeth Llewellyn, Donna Elvira
Hye-Youn Lee, Donna Anna
Kenneth Tarver, Don Ottavio
Hanna Husáhr, Zerlina
Igor Bakan, Masetto

Edvard Grieg Kor
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

14 March at 18:00 / 16, 18, 20 March at 19:00
Macmillan conducts Macmillan

Thursday 12th February 2015 at 7.30pm

Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London

BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta
James Macmillan, conductor

Choral works by James Macmillan and Henryk Górecki

Choral works by James Macmillan:
After Virtue
Sun Dogs
Cum vidisset Jesus
They saw the stone had been rolled away
Alleluia (UK première)
Catherine's Lullabies
and selections from Henryk Górecki, Church Songs (UK première)
Messiah at La Folle Journée de Nantes

27th, 28th, 29th January 2015

La Cité, Nantes, France

La Folle Journée de Nantes
Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah, Dublin version (Bass II soloist and Ensemble)

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Meg Bragle, alto I
Catherine Backhouse, alto II
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass I
Jon Stainsby, bass II

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, conductor

27 Jan at 19:30 (private event for sponsors) / 28 Jan at 17:30 / 29 Jan at 20:30
Messiah at La Folle Journée en Région

Sunday 25th January 2015 at 12.00pm

Église de Notre-Dame-d'Espérance, St Nazaire, France

La Folle Journée de Nantes en Région Pays de la Loire
Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah, Dublin version (Bass II soloist and Ensemble)

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Meg Bragle, alto I
Catherine Backhouse, alto II
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass I
Jon Stainsby, bass II

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, conductor
Messiah at La Folle Journée en Région

Saturday 24th January 2015 at 8.30pm

Théâtre St Louis, St Cholet, France

La Folle Journée de Nantes en Région Pays de la Loire
Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah, Dublin version (Bass II soloist and Ensemble)

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Meg Bragle, alto I
Catherine Backhouse, alto II
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass I
Jon Stainsby, bass II

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, conductor
Messiah at La Folle Journée en Région

Friday 23rd January 2015 at 8.30pm

Haut Dortoir, L'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France

La Folle Journée de Nantes en Région Pays de la Loire
Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

Handel, Messiah, Dublin version (Bass II soloist and Ensemble)

Mhairi Lawson, soprano
Meg Bragle, alto I
Catherine Backhouse, alto II
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass I
Jon Stainsby, bass II

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, conductor
Messiah with the AAM

Friday 19th December 2014 at 8.00pm

De Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, director

Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

Ailish Tynan, soprano
Tim Mead, counter-tenor
Robert Murray, tenor
Stephan Loges, bass-baritone

Choir of the AAM
Academy of Ancient Music

Richard Egarr, conductor
Messiah with the AAM

Tuesday 16th December 2014 at 7.30pm

Auditorio Nacional, Madrid

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, director

Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

Ailish Tynan, soprano
Tim Mead, counter-tenor
Robert Murray, tenor
Stephan Loges, bass-baritone

Choir of the AAM
Academy of Ancient Music

Richard Egarr, conductor
Choir of London 10th Anniversary Concert

Thursday 11th December 2014 at 9.30pm

Christ Church, Spitalfields

Spitalfields Winter Festival
Choir of London
Jeremy Summerly, conductor

John Tavener, Lament for Jerusalem (Choir and semi-chorus)

Mary Bevan, soprano
Andrew Watts, counter-tenor
Concert with the Edinburgh Bach Choir

Saturday 6th December 2014 at 7.30pm

St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Bach Choir
Edinburgh Bach Society Orchestra
Neil Mantle, conductor

J.S. Bach, Magnificat
Henry Purcell, Rejoice in the Lord Alway
(baritone soloist)

J.S. Bach, Magnificat
Henry Purcell, Rejoice in the Lord Alway
Handel, Coronation Anthems

Catriona Hewitson, soprano
Sue Marrs, alto
Matthew Todd, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Edinburgh Bach Choir
Edinburgh Bach Society Orchestra

Neil Mantle, conductor
Ice Cream: the Opera

2nd-3rd December 2014

Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, nr. Barnsley, Yorkshire

Young Opera Venture in collaboration with Freedom Studios

Development workshop for Ice Cream – The Opera, a new pop-up opera by Russell Sarre with a libretto by Ian Macmillan

Read more about the project at the Freedom Studios website. Sadly this project has nothing to do with these purveyors of actual ice cream.
Beethoven 9 at the Sheldonian

Sunday 16th November 2014 at 8.00pm

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Sheldonian Anniversary Chorus and Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' (Baritone soloist)

Concert to mark the 350th anniversary of the foundation of the Sheldonian Theatre

Sara Wallander-Ross, soprano
Lise Christensen, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Stoughton, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Sheldonian Anniversary Orchestra and Chorus
James Ross, conductor (replacing the indisposed Dr. Paul Coones)
Albert Herring

15th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd November 2014

Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate, London

Hampstead Garden Opera
Oliver-John Ruthven, conductor
Joe Austin, director

Britten, Albert Herring (Sid)

Lady Billows: Simone Sauphanor
Florence Pike: Annette Dumville
Miss Wordsworth: Caroline Kennedy
Mr Gedge: Shaun Aquilina
Mayor Upfold: William Bouvel
Michael Pandazis: Supt. Budd
William Johnston Davies: Albert Herring
Jon Stainsby: Sid
Beth Moxon: Nancy
Heather Glansford Rowson: Mrs Herring
Harriet Burns: Emmie
Camilla Jeppeson: Cis
Fabian Tindale: Harry

15, 18, 20 November at 19:30 / 22 at 14:30 / 23 at 16:00
Concert with Newbury Chamber Choir

Saturday 8th November 2014 at 2.00pm

St John's Church, Newbury, Berkshire

Newbury Chamber Choir
The Music Troupe Band
Edward Lambert, conductor

W.A. Mozart, Requiem
Joseph Haydn, Theresienmesse
(baritone soloist)

W.A. Mozart, Requiem
W.A. Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 3
Joseph Haydn, Theresienmesse

Caroline Kennedy, soprano
Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
Sheridan Edward, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Simon de Souza, horn

Newbury Chamber Choir
The Music Troupe Band

Edward Lambert, conductor
John Kerr Award Final

Sunday 26th October 2014

Finchcocks Museum, Goudhurst, Kent

Final of the John Kerr Award for English Song

Jon Stainsby, baritone
Jamie Akers, lute
Katie de la Matter, harpsicord, fortepiano, piano (historic instruments from the collection at Finchcocks)

Songs by Dowland, Humfrey, Purcell, Haydn, Greene, Dibdin and Stanford
Music for 40 voices

Tuesday 21st October 2014 at 7.30pm

Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London

BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium
Alessandro Striggio, Ecce beatem lucem
Gabriel Jackson, Sanctum est verum lumen
Robin Walker, I have thee by the hand
Nelson Mass

Monday 13th October 2014 at 7.30pm

Great Hall, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London

Barts Academic Festival Chorus and Orchestra

Joseph Haydn, Nelson Mass (baritone soloist)
The Hand that Takes

16th, 17th, 18th September 2014

Cambridge Junction, Cambridge

Georgie Grace, text
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, music
Lotte Rose Kjaer Skau, sound design
CJ Mahoney, installation and director

Performers:
Sheridan Edward, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Aris Nadirian, bass

The Hand that Takes is a new, multi-disciplinary collaboration between artists Georgie Grace and CJ Mahoney, composer Cheryl-Frances Hoad and sound designer Lotte Rose Kjaer Skau. It features live vocal performance in the context of an immersive installation, and explores themes of debt, sacrifice and economic uncertainty.
The Magic Flute on tour

13th, 19th, September / 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 20th, 22nd, 24th October 2014 at 7:30pm

Civic Theatre, Barnsley (13th Sept)
Empire Theatre, Consett (19th Sept)
Oldham Coliseum, Oldham (2nd Oct)
Theatre Royal, Wakefield (3rd Oct)
Corn Exchange, Stamford (4th Oct)
Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough (8th Oct)
Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield (20th Oct)
Lawrence Batley Theatre, Hudderfield (22nd Oct)
Queen's Hall, Hexham (24th Oct)

Young Opera Venture
John Longstaff, conductor
Jane Anthony and Nina Brazier, directors

W.A. Mozart, The Magic Flute (Speaker)

Pamina: Aoife O'Connell
Tamino: Jonathan Cooke
Papageno: Philip Wilcox,
Sarastro: James Fisher / Andrew Slater (13th Sept)
First Lady: Jenny Stafford
Second Lady: Lucinda Stuart-Grant
Third Lady: Heather Ireson
Queen of the Night: Katy Kelly
Speaker: Jon Stainsby
First Boy: Katherine Williamson
Second Boy: Alison Robertson
Third Boy: Katie Hainbach
Papagena: Eleanor Garside
First Armed Man: Richard Belshaw
Second Armed Man: Miles Horner
First Priest: Tom Morss / Richard Hansen (13th Sept)

Performed in the English translation by Jeremy Sams
Madame X

21st, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th, 27th August and 25th September 2014 at 7:30pm

Todmorden Hippodrome, Todmorden, West Yorkshire (21st August)
Square Chapel, Halifax (22nd and 23rd August)
Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London (25th, 26th and 27th August)
(Grimeborn Festival)
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (25th September)

Radius Ensemble
Antony Brannick, conductor
Tim Benjamin, director

Tim Benjamin, Madame X (Botney)

A new chamber opera by composer Tim Benjamin

Masetto: Tom Morss
Zerlina: Laura Sheerin
Botney: Jon Stainsby
Lady Brannoch: Taylor Wilson
Mr Wilmore: Marc Callahan
Ensemble: Rebecca Moon, Sophie Dicks, Edwin Pitt-Mansfield and Owain Browne
Chandos Anthems

8th July, 1st and 17th August 2014 at 8:00pm

Exeter College Chapel, Oxford

Charivari Agréable
Kah-Ming Ng, director

Handel, Chandos Anthems Nos. 7, 9 and 11a (baritone soloist and quartet)

Handel, Chandos Anthems:
No. 7: My song shall be always
No. 9: O praise the Lord with one consent
No. 11a: Let God Arise

Olwen Turchetta, soprano
Elizabeth Deacon, mezzo-soprano
Simon Beston, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone

Charivari Agréable
Kah-Ming Ng, director
Beethoven 9 with the AAM

Saturday 21st June 2014 at 5.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor

Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (Chorus)

Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Daniela Lehner, mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone

Choir of the AAM
Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr, conductor
Così fan tutte

3rd June-13th July 2014

The Space, Sevenoaks School, Kent (15th June)
Hotham Hall, East Yorkshire (19th June)
Court Lodge, Stansted, Kent (22nd June)
Sandringham, Norfolk (11th July)
Thorpe Tilney, Lincolnshire (13th July)
and at 19 primary schools in outer London

Pavilion Opera
Peter Bailey, piano and musical director
Freddie Stockdale, director

W.A. Mozart, Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso and Ensemble)

Laura Pooley / Adele Mason, Fiordiligi
Una MacMahon / Francesca Saracino, Dorabella
Robert Lomax / Patrick Ashcroft, Ferrando
Victor Sgarbi / Ricardo Panela, Guglielmo
Louise Lloyd / Belinda Evans, Despina
Jon Stainsby / Bruno Loxton, Don Alfonso
Romeo and Juliet

14th, 15th, 16th and 17th May 2014 at 7:30pm

The Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames

Riverside Opera
Samuel Evans, musical director
Sophie Gilpin, director

Gounod, Romeo and Juliet (Duke of Verona)

in a new English translation by Russell Plows

Eleanor Ross (14th and 16th) / Anna Goodhew (15th and 17th), Juliet
John-Colyn Gyeantey (14th and 16th) / Adam Smith (15th and 17th), Romeo
Christopher Foster, Friar Lawrence
Marc Callahan, Mercutio
Maud Millar, Stephano
Thomas Colwell, Capulet
Andrew Friedhoff, Tybalt
Sandra Porter, Gertrude
Jon Stainsby, Duke of Verona
Jamie Rock, Paris
Dominic Kraemer, Gregorio
Six Characters in Search of a Stage

2nd, 4th, 8th and 11th May 2014

St Mary's Church, Kintbury, Berkshire (2nd May)
Brighton Festival Fringe, St Andrew's Church, Brighton (4th May)
St Michael and All Angels Church, Chiswick, London (8th May)
The Forge, Camden, London (11th May)

The Music Troupe
Edward Lambert, musical director
Ian Caddy, director

Edward Lambert, Six Characters in Search of a Stage (The Director)

A new chamber opera by Edward Lambert, based on Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author

Olivia Clarke, The Daughter
Lindsay Bramley, The Mother
Mark Beesley, The Father
Sheridan Edward, The Son / Madame Pace
Jon Stainsby, The Director

Joseph Shiner, clarinet
Edward Lambert, piano / music director
Ian Caddy, director

See reviews, photos and a full recording of the Chiswick performance at the Music Troupe website.

2nd and 8th May at 7:30pm / 4th May at 4:30pm / 11th May at 3:30pm
Kopernikus

14th, 15th, 18th and 19th April 2014 at 8pm

Boekmanzaal, De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam

De Nationale Opera / VOCAALLAB
Romain Bischoff, musical director
Marcel Sijm, director

Claude Vivier, Kopernikus (Baritone)

Read more at DNO's website, or watch a complete video recording.

Katharine Dain, coloratura soprano
Éléonore Lemaire, soprano
Aurélie Franck, mezzo-soprano
Marine Fribourg, contralto
Jussi Lehtipuu, baryton martin
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Maciej Straburzynski, bass

Players from the Nationaal Jeugd Orkest Dutch Orchestra and Ensemble Academy

Romain Bischoff, conductor
Miguel Angel Gaspar, movement director
Marcel Sijm, director
St John Passion

Saturday 5th April 2014 at 7.30pm

Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

Godalming Choral Society

J.S. Bach, St John Passion (Christus and baritone arias)

Philip Sheffield, Evangelist and tenor arias
Jon Stainsby, Christ and baritone arias
Nicholas Morton, Pilate
Soraya Mafi, soprano
Angela Simkin, mezzo-soprano

Michael Veazey, conductor
Messiah with the AAM

Friday 20th December 2013 at 8.00pm

Salle Pleyel, Paris

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Bernard Labadie, director

Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

Lydia Teuscher, soprano
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass
Messiah with the AAM

Wednesday 18th December 2013 at 7.00pm

King's College, Cambridge

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music

Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

Lydia Teuscher, soprano
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass
Messiah with the AAM

Wednesday 18th December 2013 at 7.00pm

Barbican Hall, London

Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Bernard Labadie, director

Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

Lydia Teuscher, soprano
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass
Christmas Oratorio

Tuesday 3rd December 2013 at 7.00pm

Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

Ludus Baroque
Richard Neville-Towle, director

J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (Ensemble)

Sophie Bevan, soprano
Daniela Lehner, mezzo-soprano
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Benjamin Bevan, bass
The House Warming Party at Tate Britain

Saturday 23rd November 2013

Grand Saloon, Tate Britain, Millbank, London

EXAUDI

Claudia Molitor, Sounding the View

An immersive performance installation piece commissioned for the opening of the refurbished public spaces at Tate Britain.

Natalie Raybould, soprano
Alastair Putt, tenor
Jonathan Saunders, baritone
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Claudia Molitor, director and composer
The Marriage of Figaro

9th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th November

Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate, London

Hampstead Garden Opera
Oliver-John Ruthven, music director
Bruno Ravella, director

Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro (Count Almaviva)

Sung in the English translation by Amanda Holden

Susanna: Julie Moote (Elinor Rolfe Johnson on 13/11)
Figaro: Milo Harries (Tristan Hambleton on 13/11)
Countess: Jessica Gillingwater (Elisabeth Poirel on 13/11)
Count: Jon Stainsby
Cherubino: Felicity Turner
Marcellina: Alison Thorman (Michelle Jueno on 13/11)
Bartolo: Andrew Sparling (Tobias Odenwald on 13/11)
Basilio: William Johnston Davies (Ed Bonner on 13/11)
Antonio: Nicholas George
Curzio: Hugh Benson

9, 12, 13, 14 November at 19:30 / 16 November at 14:00
Lecture-recital with Ensemble Combassal

Saturday 26th October 2013 at 11.00am

King's College Chapel, University of Aberdeen

Ensemble Combassal
Ralph Stelzenmüller, director and lecturer

Carlo Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday, 1611, and works by Rossi, Schein and Mazzocchi

Lecture recital as part of the conference on Chromaticism and Microtonality at the University of Aberdeen

Ensemble Combassal:
Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano
Frauke Jurgensen, soprano
Javier Robledano Cabrera, counter-tenor
Dan Dunkelblum, tenor
Adrian Horsewood, baritone
Jon Stainsby, bass/baritone

Caroline Ritchie, viola da gamba
Ralph Stelzenmüller, chamber organ and musical director
Gesualdo Tenebrae Responses

Friday 25th October 2013 at 6.00pm

King's College Chapel, Aberdeen

Ensemble Combassal
Ralph Stelzenmüller, director

Carlo Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday, 1611

performed in a reconstructed liturgical setting, as part of the conference on Chromaticism and Microtonality at the University of Aberdeen

Ensemble Combassal:
Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano
Frauke Jurgensen, soprano
Javier Robledano Cabrera, counter-tenor
Dan Dunkelblum, tenor
Adrian Horsewood, baritone
Jon Stainsby, bass/baritone

Caroline Ritchie, viola da gamba
Ralph Stelzenmüller, chamber organ and musical director
Victoria and Britten with the BBC Singers

Saturday 5th October 2013 at 7.30pm

Uppingham School Chapel, Rutland

BBC Singers
David Hill, conductor
Iain Farrington, organ

Choral music by Victoria and Britten

Victoria, Requiem (1605)
Britten, Hymn to St Cecilia, Rejoice in the Lamb, Hymn to St Peter, Te Deum in C, Te Deum in E, Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Victoria
Mozart Requiem with Dunedin Consort at the Lammermuir Festival

Sunday 22nd September 2013 at 7.30pm

St Mary's Church, Haddington

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

W.A. Mozart, Requiem K. 626, and Vesperae solennes de confessore K. 339 (ensemble)

Programme also includes C.P.E. Bach Cello Concerto in A major Wq. 172

Joanne Lunn, soprano
Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Giles Underwood, bass
Mozart Requiem with Dunedin Consort

Tuesday 17th September 2013 at 10.00pm

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

W.A. Mozart, Requiem K. 626, and Vesperae solennes de confessore K. 339 (ensemble)

Programme also includes C.P.E. Bach Cello Concerto in A major Wq. 172

Joanne Lunn, soprano
Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass
Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition

30th August-3rd September

Wigmore Hall, London

Jon Stainsby, baritone
Chris Baxter, piano

Jon Stainsby performing in Kopernikus — Kopernikus, 2014

Jon Stainsby performing in A Fairy Queen — A Fairy Queen, 2016 (photo: Mitzi di Margary)

"Most impressive of all was the young-sounding, vigorous baritone of Jon Stainsby. His is a voice of real class and distinction, with a real sit-up-and-take-notice quality, and flexible technical proficiency too."
Seen and Heard International
J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio, Ludus Baroque, December 2015
"Jon Stainsby's calm, monitoring Speaker, beautifully spoken as well as sung."
Seen and Heard International
The Magic Flute, Young Opera Venture, Autumn 2014
"effortlessly sonorous"
Opera Now
Davenaut, Der Vampyr, Gothic Opera, October 2019

Diary

Children's Messiah

Wednesday 17th December 2025 at 4.00pm

Messiah in Edinburgh

Wednesday 17th December 2025 at 7.00pm

Messiah in Perth

Thursday 18th December 2025 at 6.30pm

Children's Messiah

Friday 19th December 2025 at 4.00pm

Messiah in Glasgow

Friday 19th December 2025 at 7.00pm

Christmas Oratorio

Monday 22nd December 2025 at 7.30pm

Messiah

Tuesday 23rd December 2025 at 7.30pm

Messiah

Monday 15th December 2025 at 7.00pm

Christmas Oratorio

Saturday 13th December 2025 at 7.30pm

Christmas Oratorio

Friday 12th December 2025 at 7.00pm

Bach x Palestrina

Monday 8th December 2025 at 6.30pm

The Language of Flowers

Sunday 7th December 2025 at 7.30pm

Wintering

Friday 5th December 2025 at 7.00pm

Wintering

Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 7.30pm

Bach Vespers

Sunday 30th November 2025 at 6.30pm

Wintering

Saturday 29th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Wintering

Friday 28th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Wintering

Thursday 27th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Wintering

Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 1.00pm

The Prince of Music: Palestrina at 500

Saturday 15th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Charpentier Cantatas | London International Festival of Early Music

Friday 14th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Charpentier Cantatas

Thursday 13th November 2025 at 6.00pm

Vale of Tears | City of Derry International Choir Festival

Thursday 23rd October 2025 at 7.30pm

Music for Queen Mary

Saturday 18th October 2025 at 2.15pm

Pater Peccavi: Music from Renaissance Portugal

Saturday 11th October 2025 at 7.30pm

Pater Peccavi: Music from Renaissance Portugal

Friday 10th October 2025 at 7.45pm

Lingua Ignota | Music@Malling

Friday 26th September 2025 at 1.00pm

A Celebration of Orlando Gibbons

Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 1.00pm

The Prophetic Bird: an Aviary in Song

Sunday 21st September 2025 at 3.00pm

An Auld Alliance | Melrose Music Festival

Friday 12th September 2025 at 7.00pm

The English Concert at Anima Mundi

Tuesday 9th September 2025 at 9.00pm

The Atonement | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor MiniFestival

Friday 15th August 2025 at 7.30pm

Hail, Queen of Heaven | Festival Internacional de Música Las Navas del Marqués

Friday 18th July 2025 at 8.00pm

The Language of Flowers | Harrogate International Festival

Sunday 6th July 2025 at 8.00pm

Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo

Saturday 5th July 2025 at 7.30pm

Bach Vespers

Sunday 29th June 2025 at 6.30pm

Gloria!

Saturday 28th June 2025 at 7.00pm

Songs of the Soul | Louth Contemporary Music Society

Saturday 14th June 2025 at 8.00pm

Choral Sketches

Thursday 12th June 2025 at 5.00pm

Feis Ceoil Choral Conducting Competition Final