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| Date | Time | Venue | Event |
| Sunday 14 December 2008 | 6.00 pm |
St Mary's Church, Boxford |
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| Sunday 29 March 2009 | 6.00 pm | St Mary's Church, Nayland | Trio Goya |
| Monday 25 May 2009 | 6.00 pm |
St Mary's Church, Hadleigh | Haydn: The Creation |
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St Mary’s Church, Boxford Monteverdi: Venetian Christmas Vespers Psalmody members of Essex Baroque Orchestra directed by Peter Holman Monteverdi was maestro
di cappella of St Mark's Basilica in Venice for more
than thirty years, and during that time he wrote a good
deal of church music, much of which was published in two
collections, the Selva morale (1641) and the
posthumous Messa e psalmi (1651). From these we
have assembled a sumptuous sequence of vespers music as
it might have been heard in St Mark's at Christmas around
1640. Psalms by Monteverdi and his great eight-part
setting of the Magnificat are contrasted with Christmas
motets and sonatas by his colleagues and contemporaries,
including Tarquinio Merula, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti,
Francesco Cavalli and his German follower Heinrich
Schütz. This passionate and operatic music will come as
a revelation to those who only know Monteverdi's early
Vespers of 1610. SUNDAY 29 MARCH 2009, 6.00 p.m. St Mary’s Church, Boxford Haydn - Mozart - Beethoven - Storace TRIO GOYA The piano trio was one of the most popular types of domestic music in the late eighteenth century, catering for the vogue for the new fortepiano and the virtuosity of many of its female players. In this programme Trio Goya contrast Haydn's late Trio no. 27 in C major and the Trio in D major by the English composer Stephen Storace (friend and pupil of Mozart) with Mozart's Sonata in B flat major for violin and piano, K454, and Beethoven's Variations in F major for violoncello and piano, based on an aria from Mozart's Magic Flute. Trio Goya takes its name from the Spanish artist Francesco Goya (1746-1828), a contemporary of these composers and a figure in the history of painting equivalent to Beethoven. Its members are leaders in the field of historically informed performance of music of the Classical period; Sebastian Comberti will be remembered for his appearances in the 2003 and 2004 Festivals. Maggie Cole plays a fortepiano copied from a 1795 original by Mozart's friend, the Viennese maker Anton Walter.
MONDAY 25 MAY 2009, 6.00 p. m. St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh Haydn: The Creation Philippa Hyde (soprano), Joseph Cornwell (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass) Psalmody & Friends Essex Baroque Orchestra directed by Peter Holman Haydn's Oratorio The Creation was first performed in public in Vienna on 19 March 1799. The work was inspired by the English oratorio tradition deriving from Handel, and the libretto, deriving mostly from the Authorized Version of Genesis and Milton's Paradise Lost, was given to the composer before he left London for the last time in 1795. This performance marks the 200th anniversary of Haydn's death on 31 May 1809, and is a rare opportunity to hear a historically informed account of his masterpiece with an orchestra of Classical instruments and a choir similar in size to that used for the composer's last public appearance, in Vienna on 27 March 1808. It uses the English text that appeared in the original full score, published in 1800. Haydn regarded it as equally important as the German version, prepared by Baron van Swieten, and it has been used, with some modifications, from the first London performances in 1800 to the present day. |