Diary

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

St Stephen's, Dulwich

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

Stephen Dodgson, Last of the Leaves 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Évora Cathedral, Évora, Portugal

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by Vicente Lusitano and his Portuguese contemporaries.

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.

St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London

Sonoro
Neil Ferris, conductor
Libby Burgess, piano

Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem 

A come-and-sing choral workshop, led by BBC Symphony Chorus and Sonoro conductor Neil Ferris.
Tickets and further details at the Sonoro website.

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.

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.

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

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort BWV 168

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.

Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Further details and tickets at the Ryedale Festival website.

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.

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.

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.

St Andrew's Church, Surbiton

Teddington Choral Society
Julian Collings, conductor

Maurice Duruflé, Requiem 

Further details at the Teddington Choral Society website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Wahrlich, wahrlich ich sage euch BWV 86

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.

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.

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.

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.

Melrose Parish Church

The Borders Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra
Robert Marshall, conductor

J.S. Bach, St John Passion

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

St James's, Piccadilly

Sonoro
The Dionysius Ensemble
Neil Ferris, conductor

Gabriel Fauré, Requiem Op. 48

and a selection of French music

*Unfortunately this concert has been postponed until the autumn*

KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

London Voices
City Light Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Griffiths, conductor

Music by John Powell

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.

St Aloysius' Church, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland website.

St Aloysius' Church, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Tickets available from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland website.

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets available at the Perth Concert Hall website.

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Tickets available at the Perth Concert Hall website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Hexham Abbey

Hexham Abbey Festival Chorus
David Murray, conductor

G.F. Handel, Four Coronation Anthems
J.S. Bach, Magnificat 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Medina Theatre
Newport, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight Cantata Choir
Rachel Tweddle, conductor

Carl Orff, Carmina Burana 

*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."

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

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.

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 

St Martin's Church, Dorking

Brockham Choral Society
Cole Bendall, conductor

Ethel Smyth, Mass in D

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

Further information at the Brockham Choral Society website.

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*

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.

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

Hyogo Performing Arts Centre, Nishinomiya, Japan

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

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.

Toyosu Bunka Center Hall, Tokyo, Japan

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

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.

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.

KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

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

Film music by John Powell

KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

London Voices
City Light Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Griffiths, conductor

Music by John Powell

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

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit BWV 14

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.

KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

London Voices
City Light Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Griffiths, conductor

Music by John Powell

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.

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.

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.

Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

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

Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

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

St Mary's RC Church, Lanark

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Full details and tickets at the Dunedin Consort website.

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.

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Full details and tickets at the Dunedin Consort website.

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

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.

Church of San Juan Bautista, Ávila

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

A programme of music by composers associated with Ávila Cathedral.

Epsom Playhouse

Epsom Choral Society
English Sinfonietta
Julian Collings, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah 

Tickets available from the Epsom Playhouse website.

Medina Theatre, Newport, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight Cantata Choir
Rachel Tweddle, conductor

G.F. Handel, Messiah 

Tickets available here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Heinrich Schütz, Musicalische Exequien
David Fennessy, Two Pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Details and tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

City Bach Collective

J.S. Bach, Es wartet alles auf dich BWV 187

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

St Paul's Church Wimbledon Parkside

Putney Choral Society
Christopher Braime, conductor

Joseph Haydn, The Creation (baritone soloist)

Tickets available here.

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.

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

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.

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.

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's, Smith Square, London

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

J.S. Bach, St John Passion

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.

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

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

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.

Hampstead Parish Church

John Stainer, The Crucifixion (bass soloist)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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*

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.

Wigmore Hall, London

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Tickets and further information at the Wigmore Hall website.

Wigmore Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Further information and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

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.

Perth Concert Hall

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris

EXAUDI
Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, director

Pierre Boulez, Cummings ist der Dichter

Private event.

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.*

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.*

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.*

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.*

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.

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

*Postponed in response to precautions relating to the Covid-19 pandemic*

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.

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 Musikfest Bremen website.

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 Musikfest Bremen website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

St Mary's Church, Sastamala, Finland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Works by Jacobus Clemens non Papa

*Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*

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.

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.

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.

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

Reims, Épernay and surrounding area

Akadêmia
Françoise Lassèrre, director

A festival of baroque music in unusual settings

*Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*

St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort
Hebrides Ensemble
Will Conway, director

Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

King's College Chapel, Aberdeen

Dunedin Consort
Hebrides Ensemble
Will Conway, director

Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

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)*

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.

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*

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*

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.*

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

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*

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh

Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, director

G.F. Handel, Messiah

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

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*

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.

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.

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.*

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

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*

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*

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*

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*

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*

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Music for the Queen of Heaven: contemporary Marian motets

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

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*

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*

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.

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*

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*

Les Musicales de Cormeilles, France

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

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*

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*

Holkham Hall, Norfolk

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

St Mary's Church, Sastamala, Finland

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, director

Works by Jacobus Clemens non Papa

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Flâneries Musicales de Reims, France

Diva Opera
Cameron Menzies, director
Bryan Evans, musical director

Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

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*

Snape Maltings

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Barbican Hall, London

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

St Andrew's Hall, Norwich

Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices

J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

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*

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*

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*

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*

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*

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