DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Supper Concert
SUNDAY 11 JULY 2010
Assembly Rooms, Dedham, 6.00 for 6.30 p.m.

Philippa Hyde & Alison Hill (soprano)
members of Essex Baroque Orchestra, directed by Peter Holman

A three-course meal with wine and musical interludes by Purcell, Handel, J.S. Bach & others

Booking opens in January 2010

Suffolk Villages Festival 2010
FRIDAY 27 TO MONDAY 30 AUGUST 2010

The theme for the Festival will be German music and its centrepiece the first British performance of C.P.E. Bach's St Matthew Passion (1769), a work thought lost until it was rediscovered in Kiev in 1999. Like most Baroque passions it incorporates music from other settings, in this case form his father's St Matthew Passion. The other evening concerts will be devoted to J.S. Bach's cantatas nos 12, 18, 54 and 199, all written in Weimar in 1714; music written for the Dresden court orchestra, including virtuoso violin concertos played by Huw Daniel (who made his SVF debut in the 2009 supper concert); and an entertainment in words and music about Frederick the Great's artistic interests, including extracts from Bach's Musical Offering. The lunchtime concerts will feature songs from the early sixteenth century, sung by John Potter with a consort of viols, and by Schubert and his contemporaries, sung by Stephen Varcoe with David Miller (early nineteenth-century guitar).

Booking opens in June 2010