BREMF 2010 listing

Brighton Early Music Festival 2010 RITUAL Our brochure is available to view online now; if there are any discrepancies in times/dates/venues, the brochure is correct..
	8 pm Friday 22nd October St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton The Choral Pilgrimage 2010 Ceremony and Devotion - Music for the Tudors The Sixteen Harry Christophers director Music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and John Sheppard, including his monumental work Media vita "...a tiny soundbite of heaven." The Times website
	1pm Saturday 23rd October The Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton The Early Music Show BBC Radio 3 broadcasts live from BREMF with festival artists, news and interviews website
	7.30pm Saturday 23rd October St George’s Church. Kemp Town Four Weddings and a Funeral Musica Secreta Deborah Roberts and Katharine Hawnt sopranos; Clare Wilkinson mezzo soprano; Mark Dobell tenor Donald Greig baritone; with lute, guitar and chitarrone; Kinga Gaborjani viola da gamba; Nicholas Parle harpsichord The BREMF Consort of Voices Celestial Sirens Deborah Roberts and Laurie Stras directors Music for four weddings (three royal and one ‘celestial’) and madrigals mourning the death of one of renaissance Italy’s youngest great sopranos. Music includes madrigals from the 1589 Florentine Intermedii, and works by Monteverdi and Wert. "Irresistible... Strongly recommended." Classic FM Magazine website
	12 noon Sunday 24th October St Andrew’s Church, Waterloo Street, Hove Rituals of the Seasons I Flautisti Danielle Jalowiecka, Kerstin Picker-Kubitschek, Jitka Smutná, Ilona Veselovská recorders, with Alexander Cadden voice “Native American ritual has always emphasized the restoration of balance: the Four Directions, the Four Seasons and Four Elements that make up the Sacred Hoop must be in right relationship with one another or disharmony will result.” – J.T.Garrett, Cherokee Full Circle. website
	7.30 pm Sunday 24th October St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton The Harvest Queen Horses Brawl Laura Cannell fiddle, recorders, crumhorn; Adrian Lever guitar; With guest artists Driving folk rhythms collide with the high and low musical cultures of ancient Europe and beyond, invoking the images and customs of people moving with the seasons and embracing the harvest. From spring weddings to winter plough processions, Horses Brawl gather traditional folk tunes that intertwine the rites and rituals of lovers, ploughboys and the seasons and weave them into spellbinding new pieces. " It's great Stuff" Verity Sharp, BBC Radio 3 Late Junction website
	9.30 am – 4.30 pm Monday 25th October The Unitarian Church Half term recorder workshop and concert I Flautisti Danielle Jalowiecka, Kerstin Picker-Kubitschek, Jitka Smutná, Ilona Veselovská recorders A workshop day for young players on the theme of ’Ritual’. Group classes and workshops will culminate in a fun-packed Family Concert
	Midweek evening talks and informal concerts with Brighton Early Music Live artists - details to follow
	8 pm Friday 29th October St George’s Church Kemp Town Divine Rites – Songs of the Laudesi Joglaresa Medieval religious songs that that would have been performed outside the formality of the church by brotherhoods of laymen. Able to use instruments (such as medieval fidels, lutes and percussion) and to sing in a language that everyone would have understood, these musicians could enjoy ecstatic celebration! "Thrilling and haunting" The Times website
	1pm Saturday 30th October The Unitarian Church, Brighton Young Artists Showcase Rites of Pleasure Ensemble Amaranthos with Erica Eloff soprano Food and wine, tobacco and coffee, music and courting - our everyday rituals seen from a baroque perspective. Ensemble Amaranthos, together with 2008 Handel Singing Competition winner Erica Eloff, explore music that praised, accompanied or described rituals happening in a social rather than sacred setting. Works by Telemann, Handel, Bach, Hume, Fischer and... Cannabich.
	7.30 pm Saturday 30th October St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton Monteverdi, the 1610 Vespers Faye Newton and Kate Hawnt sopranos Charles Daniels and Julian Podger tenors Greg Skidmore and Stephen Charlesworth baritones His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts The BREMF Singers The BREMF Players (Alison Bury leader) Deborah Roberts director 400th anniversary performance
	From 11 pm Saturday 30th October St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton BREMF at White Night – Ritual and Illumination A night of revels when young performers from Brighton Early Music Live present music until the small hours
	4pm Sunday 31st October St George’s Church Kemp Town Delights from the Pleasure Gardens Passacaglia Annabel Knight recorders, flutes; Oliver Webber violin; Reiko Ichise viola da gamba; Robin Bigwood harpsichord With Julia Gooding soprano St George’s Church will be transformed into the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in a joint celebration of the birth of the public concert and the 300th birthday of Thomas Arne. Join us for tea, cakes, fizz and a lot of fun! 'Clarity, crispness and enthusiasm that perfectly match the spirit of the music' Daily Telegraph website
	7.30 pm Sunday 31st October St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton Music from the Orthodox Church The Boyan Ensemble of Kiev Yuriy Kuratch artistic director and principal conductor Volodymyr Kuratch conductor Valentina Ivanenko soprano Sacred Orthodox and secular folk songs from this glorious male voice choir from The Ukraine "One of the best choirs on the planet" website
	6 pm Wednesday 3rd November The Unitarian Church, Brighton Young Artists Showcase O Camino de Santiago - A Medieval Rite of Passage Emily Askew vielle, recorders, bagpipes Hazel Askew harp, voice Nicolas Mendoza rebec, hurdy gurdy, voice Matthew Robinson oud, voice Sarah Stuart percussion A vibrant programme of songs and dances follows a musical journey to the famous medieval pilgrimage centres of Iberia. The Artisans, bringing together talented young performers from from both the early music and folk worlds, will present a one hour programme playing some of the music that might have been heard on the way.
	8 pm Wednesday 3rd November St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton The Victoria Requiem Brighton Consort Deborah Roberts director Tomas Luis de Victoria’s profoundly beautiful Requiem Mass is placed alongside motets by Cristobal de Morales website
	8 pm Thursday November 4 St George’s Church Kemp Town Music of Remembrance and Mythology Emma Kirkby soprano The International Baroque Players “the hottest young band around” Sean Raffery, In Tune, Radio 3 website
	Friday 5th November Enjoy your fireworks! No BREMF events tonight as unplugged music can't compete with the noise of fireworks
	10 am – 3 pm Saturday 6th November The Unitarian Church and all over Brighton The Sing Brighton! Singing Extravaganza Opening our final weekend and marking the climax of Sing Brighton!, the Unitarian church will host a number of short recitals given by a range of vocal groups. Choral events will also be happening in venues inside and out throughout Brighton and Hove. Choirs interested in taking part should contact Click for information about our workshop day for choral directors interested in learning more about performing medieval, renaissance and baroqe music.
	4 pm Saturday 6th November St George’s Church Kemp Town Revels, Pageants & Fireworks The BREMF Players Alison Bury leader Our own brilliant period orchestra, combining the best young players on the scene with leading principals, made a powerful impression in last year’s festival. This year they return with a highly popular programme of ceremonial music to include Handel’s Fireworks Music, Autumn and Winter from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto and music from Purcell’s King Authur.
	8 pm Saturday 6th November St Andrew’s Church, Waterloo Street, Hove Unsung Heroine - the imagined history of troubadour Countess Beatriz de Dia The Telling Clare Norburn soprano Layil Barr recorders, viol Joy Smith harp Emily Askew fiddle, bagpipes With Patience Tomlinson actress Blurring the boundaries of what a concert is, this intimate piece of “concert-theatre” sets out to take you back to the heady atmosphere of Provence in the 12th century. The evening combines the plaintive music and poetry of the troubadours, foot-stomping medieval dances and a powerful story. The story imagines how Beatriz came to write her impassioned song A Chantar, the only complete surviving troubadour song by a woman. Grounded in the rules of courtly love, Beatriz lives in a world where emotions are sacrificed to the strait-jacket of ritual: her only recourse is to channel her pain, love and desire for revenge into this passionate song
	5 pm and 8 pm Sunday 7th November Hove Town Hall Better Red and Dead! A double bill of concerts on the theme of Life and Death* 5pm: Red priest Piers Adams recorders Julia Bishop violin Angela East cello Howard Beach harpsichord "Mad, bad and deliciously dangerous... wacky ideas, an impish sense of humour and astonishing virtuosity." The Gramophone website 6pm: Dinner break. Some local restaurants will be offering special rates 8pm: Dead Head by Orlando Gough World premiere performance commisioned by Brighton Early Music Festival Orlando Gough and John Agar MCs members of The Shout The Bremf Singers The BREMF Community Choir Celestial Sirens PlainSing A great band that is still to be named! A children’s choir from Brighton and Hove schools Brighton and Hove Youth Brass Ensemble Involving massed forces and a rich diversity of styles, the piece takes a wry look at contemporary attitudes to death, dying and eternity. Life is short – death is chaotic – let’s SING! *The concerts will be sold separately with a discount for a double bill ticket