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A weekend of events featuring 2009 festival artists, to usher in the Christmas Season

Saturday 5th December
St Bartholomew’s Church, 7.30 pm

If you enjoyed the Glories of Venice, we recommend...

The Christmas Vespers
By Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

There can be few music lovers who have not heard the magnificent Vespers setting by Monteverdi. This work has now become a standard fare for music societies and promoters throughout the world, yet fifty years ago it was virtually unknown. Chiara Margarita Cozzolani is a composer whose work is only recently being explored, but its quality will surely lead to her ultimate recognition as one of the finest and most original composers of sacred music in the 17th century.read more

Musica Secreta and Celestial Sirens join forces in one of the most spirited settings of the Vespers Psalms for 8 voice choir, soloists and continuo…. a baroque masterpiece that rivals the setting by Monteverdi!
With atmospheric chants and polyphony for Advent and Christmas by Hildegard, Palestrina, Lassus and Victoria
Tickets: £10 (£8 conc) children free

Sunday 6th December
St Andrew's Waterloo Street, 7.30pm

If you enjoyed Eclipse or Joglaresa, we recommend….

A Medieval Christmas
A candlelit celebration of Christmas traditions past and present with carols, ballads, chants & readings

Patience Tomlinson, actress
Clare Norburn, soprano
Layil Barr, recorders, viol
Joy Smith, harp
Emily Askew, fiddle, bagpipes, recorders

Clare, Joy and Layil all performed in BREMF 09 with Eclipse

Tickets £10 (£8 conc) children free