Thames Valley Early Music Forum
Concerts
Please check details with concert organisers before turning up for a concert, as this information comes from a variety of sources which may not all be accurate. Concerts are in the evening unless otherwise stated, and known start times other than 7.30 are given.
'*' Venue information available HERE
OCTOBER
Sat 1 Hackney Empire. *English Touring Opera. Handel: Ottone
Fri 7 Hackney Empire. *English Touring Opera. Handel: Agrippina
Sat 8 Hackney Empire. *English Touring Opera. Handel: Tamerlano
Thur 13 *Hatchlands 10-11.30. Alec Cobbe tur of the Cobbe Collection of composer keyboard instruments
Sun 16 London, Lauderdale House, N6 5HG, 2.30-4.30 Tea with Mr Handel, a presentation by Helen Dymond enlivened with musical and video excerpts www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats-on/tea-mr-handel
Sat 22 Renaissance Singers
Mon 24 Christ Church Spitalfields. Andrew Benson-Wilson. Organ music from the Gothic period to the late 17th century
Fri 28 Saffron Hall. *English Touring Opera. Handel: Agrippina
Sat 29 Saffron Hall. *English Touring Opera. Handel: Tamerlano
NOVEMBER
9-12 *London International Festival of Early Music
Wed 9 *LIFEM The Brook Street Band
Thur 10 *LIFEM Solomon’s Knot. JS & Johann Christof Bach
Thur 10 London, Dutch Church, EC2N 2HA, 7:30pm. Orlando Chamber Choir’s “Memento mori” programme surrounds Heinrich Schütz’s magnificent “Musikalische Exequien” with more intimate single and double choir motets. Lucy Goddard directs, with Paul Plummer on keyboard continuo. Details and tickets on www.orlandochoir.org.uk/events.
Fri 11 *LIFEM 12 noon Charlotte Schneider (recorders)
Fri 11 *LIFEM 7.30pm. PIVA. Music fromRenaissance Italy and England
Sat 12 *LIFEM Blackheath, 6pm. Taracea (from Madrid)
Sat 12 Union Chapel - Reflection and Remembrance: Requiems by Fauré and Charpentier - presented by Figure - https://unionchapel.org.uk/venue/
Nov 18 St Paul’s Covent Garden WC2E 9ED, 1.00pm, "Songs from turbulent times" Musicke in the Ayre (Olalla Vargas sop, Din Ghani lute/vihuela/b.gtr), free entry, retiring collection.
DECEMBER
Sat 3 Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire. "The Mirth and Melody of Angels". Ancient music for the festive season with The York Waits. www.theyorkwaits.org.uk
Sat 3 Berkhamsted Music Society. Ensemble Hesperi www.berkhamstedmusic.co.uk
Dec 3 The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN, 3.00pm, “Midst Winter’s Cold – lute songs with a seasonal flavour”, Musicke in the Ayre (Sophia Brumfitt mezzo, Din Ghani lutes) https://bit.ly/mitaMWC
Sat 10 Renaissance Singers
Thu 15 London, St Katharine Cree, EC3A 3BP, 7:30pm. Christmas concert with Orlando Chamber Choir, directed by Lucy Goddard, and organist Gavin Roberts. Details and tickets on www.orlandochoir.org.uk/events?id=20221215.
JANUARY
Jan 21 The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN, 3.00pm, “Emerging from the shadows – songs by women composers of the early Italian Baroque”, Musicke in the Ayre (Marie Lemaire sop, Din Ghani archlute/b.gtr) https://bit.ly/mitaShad
Updated 08-18-2022