Early Music in Oxford

The Charivari Agréable Spring Season 2007

New College Chapel, Merton College Chapel and the Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Tickets from £10-£20 at the door or
from the Oxford Playhouse: 01865-305305;
Group bookings (15% discount for 10 or more): 01865-751928

'Christmas by Candlelight' Festival 2006

March 2007 Charivari Agréable's Spring Series in Oxford

14 March
Wednesday
7.30pm
Merton College Chapel
£18 (concs. £16/£10)

Abendmusik: A Tercentenary Tribute

The first of two programmes of German chamber music to mark the tercentenary of the death of Dietrich Buxtehude, with music by Bach, Telemann, Mattheson & Buxtehude

CHARIVARI AGREABLE
Oliver Sändig (baroque violin), Kah-Ming Ng (harpsichord), Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba)

 
21 March
Wednesday
7.30pm

Holywell Music Room

£15 (concs. £12/£10)

 
 

Pilgrimage to Lübeck

Bach: Toccata in D BWV 512
Buxtehude: Praeludium in g
Mattheson: Suites
Handel: The Harmonious Blacksmith

A harpsichord recital by Kah-Ming Ng
28 March
Wednesday
7.30pm
New College Chapel

£20 (concs. £18/£10)

 

 
 

 

Pergolesi: Stabat mater
D. Scarlatti: Salve Regina
Chamber music by Corelli & Vivaldi


Rachael Parsons (soprano)
Stephen Taylor (countertenor)

Charivari Agréable Simfonie
dir. Kah-Ming Ng (chamber organ)

2007
24 March
Saturday

University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
 
 

 

Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

with

Jubilate, cond. Stephen Clarke

31 March
Saturday

St Mary's Church, Hitchin
Hertfordshire
 
 

JS Bach: St John Passion

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

with

North Herts Guild of Singers, cond. Jonathan Williams
Nicholas Hurndall Smith, tenor; Matthew Brook, bass; William Purefoy, countertenor; Rachel Wheatley, soprano.
Tickets are £12 full; £10 concessions; £5 under 16.
Ticket Manager telephone 01462 742832, or from Hitchin Town Centre Initiative


29 April
Sunday t.b.c.

New College Chapel
Oxford
 
 

Coronation Anthems by Purcell, Croft, Clarke, Lawes & Handel


Choir of Cothill House, cond. Stephen Taylor
Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

 
30 April
Monday
Royal Northern College of Music
 
 

Esperar, sentir, morir: songs and dances from the Hispanic Baroque

Charivari Agréable

Clara Sanabras, soprano & guitar
Rodrigo del Pozo, tenor & guitar
Susanne Heinrich, viola da gamba
Joy Smith, triple harp
Richard Sweeney, theorbo & lute
Kah-Ming Ng, chamber organ & harpsichord


2 May
Wednesday

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
 
 

Esperar, sentir, morir

Charivari Agréable

Clara Sanabras, soprano & guitar
Rodrigo del Pozo, tenor & guitar
Susanne Heinrich, viola da gamba
Joy Smith, triple harp
Richard Sweeney, theorbo & lute
Kah-Ming Ng, chamber organ & harpsichord


4 May
Friday

Chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
 
 

JS Bach: St John Passion

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

with

Chapel Choir of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, cond. Ryan Wigglesworth


7 May
Monday

St George's Church
Kemptown

Brighton Festival
 
 

Esperar, sentir, morir

Charivari Agréable

Clara Sanabras, soprano & guitar
Rodrigo del Pozo, tenor & guitar
Susanne Heinrich, viola da gamba
Joy Smith, triple harp
David Miller, theorbo & lute
Kah-Ming Ng, chamber organ & harpsichord


31 May
Thursday

St David's Festival,
St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire
 
 

Handel: Dixit Dominus
Pachelbel: Vespers Music for St Sebald

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng
Rachael Parsons (soprano)
Rachel Payne (soprano)
Rupert Griffin (countertenor)
Christopher Watson (tenor)
Nicholas Perfect (bass)

with the Choir of St David's Cathedral, cond. Timothy Noon

14 June
St Luke's Church
Chelsea, London


 
 

Coronation Anthems by Purcell, Croft, Clarke, Lawes & Handel


Choir of Cothill House, cond. Stephen Taylor
Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

23 June
Saturday

Sheldonian Theatre
Oxford
 
 

JS Bach: Mass in B Minor

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

The Oxford Pro Musica Singers, cond. Michael Smedley

29 June
Friday

Rathaus, St. Veit/Glan
Carinthia
Trigonale Festival
Austria
 
 

Harmonia Caelestis: Caprice & Conceit in seicento Italy
Strozzi, Pollarolo, Stradella, Farina, Cima, Cavalli, Mussi, Terzi, Picchi, Bassano

Jamie Savan, cornett & mute cornett
Sarah Moffat, baroque violin & viola
Susanne Heinrich, treble & bass viols
Jorgen Skogmo, baroque guitar & theorbo
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord & chamber organ


15 September
Saturday

Thame, venue t.b.c.
 
 

Handel: Messiah

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

with the Oxford Pro Musica Singers, cond. Michael Smedley


27 October
Saturday

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
Birmingham Early Music Festival
 
 

Ringing Changes in Paris
Changes in French Musical Tastes & the Triumph of the Italian Style
Vivaldi, Leclair, Couperin, Tartini, Marais (Les Cloches & Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve), Forqueray (Carillon le Plissay)

Charivari Agréable
Susanne Heinrich, quinton & bass viol
Asako Morikawa, bass viol
Reiko Ichise, bass viol
Richard Sweeney baroque guitar & theorbo
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord

Opening concert of the Birmingham Early Music Festival


10 November
Saturday

St Michael's Church
Perry Street
Northampton

In Memoriam

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Purcell: Chacony; O Sing unto the Lord; Hear my Prayer
Elgar: Sospiri
Mendelssohn: Hear my Prayer
Fauré: Requiem
also music by Parry & Tippett

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

Northampton Philharmonic Choir, cond. Christopher Mabley


11 November
Sunday

Balliol College
Oxford

The Prince and the Pauper
Buxtehude, Rameau, Mattheson, Becker

Charivari Agréable
Oliver Webber baroque violin
Susanne Heinrich treble & bass viols
 Kah-Ming Ng harpsichord & chamber organ


5 December
Wednesday


King's Hall
Station Road
Ilkley
Yorkshire

Harmonia Caelestis: Caprice & Conceit in seicento Italy
Strozzi, Pollarolo, Stradella, Farina, Cima, Cavalli, Mussi, Terzi, Picchi, Bassano

Jamie Savan, cornett & mute cornett
Oliver Webber , baroque violin & viola
Susanne Heinrich, treble & bass viols
Richard Sweeney, lute & theorbo
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord & chamber organ


 

 

 
   

6 July — 19 August

The Charivari Agréable "Early Music by Candlelight" Summer Festival 2007

27 June
Wednesday


Exeter College Chapel
Oxford
Opening concert
Summer Festival
 
 

Harmonia Caelestis: Caprice & Conceit in seicento Italy
Strozzi, Pollarolo, Stradella, Farina, Cima, Cavalli, Mussi, Terzi, Picchi, Bassano

Jamie Savan, cornett & mute cornett
Sarah Moffat, baroque violin & viola
Susanne Heinrich, treble & bass viols
Jorgen Skogmo , baroque guitar & theorbo
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord & chamber organ


 
 
2007-2008

 

 

 

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