Concerts

Next Concerts

Friday 12th June, St John’s Church, Totnes, 7.30pm
Devon Baroque Chamber Ensemble
A Grand Tour:  a musical journey from London to Paris, Venice and Rome
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Friday 12th June, St John’s Church, Totnes, 7.30pm
Devon Baroque Chamber Ensemble
A Grand Tour:  a musical journey from London to Paris, Venice and Rome
with Sarah Humphrys (oboe & recorders)
Persephone Gibbs and Catherine Martin (violins)
Gavin Kibble (viola da gamba and cello), Andrew Wilson-Dickson (harpsichord)

Devon Baroque presents A Grand Tour, a musical evocation of a typical European tour in the 18th century, starting and ending in London, visiting Amsterdam, Paris, Venice, Rome and other European cities. A slide show will accompany music from the most famous composers of each stopping-off place, with descriptions from diaries and letters of the delights and agonies of travel before cars and trains. Programme will include Handel’s ‘Water Music’ and works by Lully, Biber, Telemann, Vivaldi and others.

Programme

London – Handel: from the Water Music Suite no 3 in G, HWV 350
Amsterdam – Johannes Schenck (Sonata for viola da gamba)
Paris – Lully: ‘Les Noces de Village’ (music for a ‘Mascarade Ridicule’)
Rome – Corelli: Violin Sonata from op 5
Venice – Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and Cello ‘all’inglese’ RV 546

Salzburg – Biber: Sonata Representativa
Hamburg – Telemann: Concerto di Camera, TWV 43:g3
Leipzig – JS Bach: Adagio BWV 968 for harpsichord
London – Handel: from Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

Tickets £22 (students & under 18 £5) – inclusive of fees,
from: Devon Baroque online ticket sales powered by TicketSource

Saturday 11th July, Exeter Cathedral EX1 1HS, 7.30pm
Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610 
Exeter Festival Chorus, cond. Andrea Brown
with Contrepoint Vocal Octet, Devon Baroque and English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
Monteverdi’s setting of the Vespers is one of the landmark compositions of early baroque style, designed to exploit the acoustics of St Mark’s, Venice. It features choir with solos, duets and trios, a string band and a wind ensemble of cornetts and sackbuts.

Tickets £30, from: Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610 at Exeter Cathedral event tickets from TicketSource

The programme will include music by Telemann, Zelenka, J.S. Bach and three or four members of Bach family.