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 (recorders)
Persephone Gibbs and Catherine Martin (violins)
Gavin Kibble (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.

Tickets £22 (students & under 18 £10) – 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.