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Coming Soon: 8 July till 19 August

The Oxford Early Music by Candlelight Summer Festival 2005
Tickets @£12 (£10) at the door or from the Oxford Playhouse (01865-305305).


Venue: Exeter College Chapel, Turl Street, Oxford

Box Office: 01865-305305 (The Oxford Playhouse)
Enquiries & group bookings (15% discount for 10 or more): 01865-751928

 

'Early Music by Candlelight' Spring 2005

Matinée and Evening Concerts

March – April 2005

   

March

Wednesday

8.00pm

 

 

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The Age of Elegance

JS Bach—Pachelbel—Hesse—Lidl—Schaffrath—Telemann

CHARIVARI AGREABLE
Oliver Webber, baroque violin
Susanne Heinrich, pardessus & bass viola da gamba
Reiko Ichise, viola da gamba
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord & chamber organ


in association with the Leicester Early Music Festival

Wednesday

8.00pm

 

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The Godfather
Music for flute, 2 viols & keyboards by Telemann and his godsons CPE Bach & J Kress.

CHARIVARI AGREABLE
Rachel Moss, baroque flute
Susanne Heinrich, treble & bass viola da gamba
Reiko Ichise, viola da gamba
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord & chamber organ

in association with Signum Records Ltd

Tuesday

8.00pm

 

29

O Solitude
Sublime and contemplative vocal music for Holy Week.

F. Couperin: Leçon de tenébres
T. Merula: Pianto della Madonna
H. Purcell: O Solitude
J.P. Krieger: Einsamkeit

Helen Groves (soprano)—Susanne Heinrich (bass & pardessus viols)—Kah-Ming Ng (harpsichord & chamber organ)

2005 Highlights

   

Wednesday 26 January

St Bride's Church,

Fleet Street, London

1.00pm

 

 

The Phoenix Ascending
Mesmerising and virtuosic music from France & Germany for 3 violas da gamba & b.c.

Corrette (concerto 'Le Phenix' for 3 bass viols & b.c.)—Marais, Pacelbel, Schwartzkopf & Nicolai (suite for 3 bass viols & b.c.)

Susanne Heinrich, Reiko Ichise & Asako Morikawa ( bass viols)—Kah-Ming Ng (harpsichord & chamber organ)

 

Monday 7 March

8.00pm

Holywell Music Room, Oxford

 

 

Hallelujah! Two Harpsichords!
Rebecca Maurer (Berlin) & Kah-Ming Ng perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 (arr. K-M Ng), Janitsch's own arrangement of his Quartett for 2 keyboards, and duets by WF, CPE & JC Bach, and Mozart. Featuring John Marsh's arr. of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.

In association with the Bate Collection of Oxford University & The Fenton House National Trust.

Saturday 19 March

Cadogan Hall

 

Samuel Wesley: Confitebor

George Frideric Handel: Messiah, the Holy Week Excerpts

Charivari Agréable Simfonie (dir. kah-Ming Ng) & the Wimbledon Choral Society (cond. Michael Ashcroft)

Friday 22 April

7.30pm

Purcell Room

The South Bank

A CD-Launch Special

 

 

Harmonia Caelestis: Caprice & Conceit in Seicento Italy
The Musical Glories of Baroque Italy in Virtuosic Masterpieces by Bassano, Cavalli, Cima, Farina, Picchi, Pollarolo, Stradella, Strozzi & Terzi

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

In association with the Royal Northern College of Music, the South Bank (Purcell Room) Series & thr Brighton Early Music Festival

Wednesday 25 May

The Leicester Early Music Festival

 

 

The Age of Elegance

JS Bach—Pachelbel—Hesse—Lidl—Schaffrath—Telemann

 

CHARIVARI AGREABLE
Oliver Webber, baroque violin
Susanne Heinrich, pardessus & bass viola da gamba
Reiko Ichise, viola da gamba
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord & chamber organ

Thursday 16 June

Fenton House, London

 

 

Hallelujah! Two Spinets!

Recital of German music for 2 keyboards

JS Bach (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, arr. K-M Ng)—Duets by Schaffrath, WF Bach & JG Janitsch—Handel (Hallelujah Chorus, arr. John Marsh)


Kah-Ming Ng & Rebecca Maurer, spinets

In association with the Bate Collection, Oxford University

Saturday 25 June

Norwich Cathedral

 

 

JS Bach: Mass in B minor
Charivari Agréable Simfonie (dir. kah-Ming Ng) & Norwich Cathedral Consort (cond. Julian Thomas)

Saturday 1 October

Royal Holloway College, Univ. of London, Englefield Green, Windsor

 

 

C. Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
Charivari Agréable Simfonie (dir. kah-Ming Ng) & Choir of St George's Chapel Windsor Castle (cond. Timothy Byram-Wigfield)

In association with the Windsor Festival

 

Friday 14 October

Brighton Early Music Festival

 

 

Harmonia Caelestis: Caprice & Conceit in Seicento Italy
The Musical Glories of Baroque Italy in Virtuosic Masterpieces by Bassano, Cavalli, Cima, Farina, Picchi, Pollarolo, Stradella, Strozzi & Terzi

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

In association with the Royal Northern College of Music, the South Bank (Purcell Room) Series & the Bunyola Early Music Festival

Saturday 15 October

Bunyola Festival

Mallorca Spain

 

 

Harmonia Caelestis: Caprice & Conceit in Seicento Italy
The Musical Glories of Baroque Italy in Virtuosic Masterpieces by Bassano, Cavalli, Cima, Farina, Picchi, Pollarolo, Stradella, Strozzi & Terzi

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

In association with the Royal Northern College of Music, the South Bank (Purcell Room) Series & thr Brighton Early Music Festival

Saturday 15 November

St Matthew's Church

Kettering Road, Northampton

 

 

G. F. Handel: Dixit Dominus

Henry Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia

Charivari Agréable Simfonie (dir. kah-Ming Ng) & The Northampton Bach Choir (cond. Andrew Reid)

Saturday 17 December

t.b.c.

 

 

J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio


Charivari Agréable Simfonie (dir. kah-Ming Ng) & The Dyfed Choir (cond. Timothy Noon)

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2004 Miscellaneous concerts

Thursday 3 June

7.30pm

St David's Cathedral Pembroke

JS Bach: Missa Brevis in G minor

Purcell: Come ye sons of art

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

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. by Kah-Ming Ng

 

Friday 4 June

7.30pm

The Queen's Gallery

BUCKINGHAM PALACE

JC Bach: Harpsichord Concerto Op. 6/1 'God save the King'

CF Abel: Fantasia

GF Handel & W Boyce

Charivari Agréable, dir. by Kah-Ming Ng

in association with The Royal Collection Trus & the 'Wisdom of George III' Symposiumt

Saturday 3 July

7.30pm

Great Elm, Frome, Somerset

Monarchs & Merchants

The two faces of baroque musical patronage—mercantile & aristocratic—Hamburg & Versailles: Bach, Buxtehude, Mattheson, Telemann
Balbastre, Couperin, Forqueray, Marais


Susanne Heinrich (pardessus & bass viols)—Lynda Sayce (flute & theorbo)—Kah-Ming Ng (harpsichord)

For the Jackdaws Educational Trust

Saturday 31 July

7.45pm

Douai Abbey
Upper Woolhampton
Reading RG7 5TQ

 

Phoenix Phantasticus
Consort Music in Baroque France & Germany
Bach, Corrette, Dornel, Telemann & Pachelbel

Susanne Heinrich—Reiko Ichise—Asako Morikawa—Susanna Pell
(treble & bass viols)
Kah-Ming Ng (chamber organ & harpsichord)

Music from our Diapason d’or winning CD ‘The Sultan & the Phoenix’ and our critically-acclaimed recent release ‘Modus Phantasticus’

Sunday 15 August

1.00pm

Live Broadcast

 

BBC Radio 3: The Early music Show

Charivari Agréable live performance and interview

Saturday 11 September

8.00pm

Exeter College Chapel, Oxford

The Oxford Psalms: Domestic Devotional Anthems & Motets from 17th-century England


Motets & anthems for 3 men + 2 treble viols + b.c.

Lawes: The Oxford Psalms
Blow: The Lord is King
Locke: Domini est terra
Purcell: Since God so Tender a Regard;
Blessed is he that considereth

 

Mark Dobell & Rodrigo del Pozo, tenor
Eamonn Dougan, bass Liz Pallett, theorbo
Susanne Heinrich & Asako Morikawa, treble & bass viols
directed by Kah-Ming Ng, chamber organ

in association with The St Wenceslas Festivities, Prague, the Czech Republic

 

Saturday 30 October

7.30pm

St John's Smith Square London

Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610

with The Exmoor Singers, cond. James Jarvis

Saturday 20 November

7.30pm

St Matthew's Church, Kettering Road, Northampton

J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor

Northampton Bach Choir, cond. Andrew Reid

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

Thursday 25 November

5.00pm

Live Broadcast

BBC Radio 3: In Tune

Charivari Agréable perform excerpts from their latest CD, Harmonia Caelestis.

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

Saturday 27 November

7.30pm

Concert Hall, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

Harmonia Caelestis: Caprice & Conceit in Seicento Italy

a CD-launch concert of virtuosic Italian baroque music for violin, cornett, viols, lute, theorbo, harpsichord & organ.

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

Friday 3 December

1.10pm

Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds

Trios for Two

An intimate programme of trio sonatas for a duo

Johann Pfeiffer (1697-1761) Sonata in D-Dur für viola da gamba und obligates Cembalo
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) Ciaccona in F-moll für Cembalo solo
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Sonata in G-moll für pardessus (orig. Flöte) und obligates Cembalo (JS Bach zugeschrieben)
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787): Allegro-Adagio-Arpeggio für viola da gamba solo
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sonata in G-moll für viola da gamba und obligates Cembalo

Susanne Heinrich (pardessus & bass viols) & Kah-Ming Ng (harpsichord)

Friday 3 December

7.30pm

Bradford Cathedral

Pastorale

Christmas Carols, Cantatas & Consort Songs for Soprano, 3 Viols & B.C.
Byrd (Out of the Orient Crystal Skies)—Monteverdi (Exulta Filia)—Ziani (Alma redemptoris Mater)—Pastorali by Finger & Pasquini—Christmas chorale settings by Bach & Praetorius


Clara Sanabras (soprano), Kah-Ming Ng (harpsichord & chamber organ), Richard Sweeney (theorbo)

Susanne Heinrich, Reiko Ichise & Asako Morikawa (treble & bass viols).

For Bradford Chamber Concerts.

Thursday 9 December

7.30pm

United Free Church, Fore Street, Totnes

The Prince & the Pauper
A survey of the special musical relationship between the viol, instrument of kings & princes, and the violin, the supreme tool of professional musicians.

Oliver Webber (baroque violin); Susanne Heinrich (pardessus & bass viols); Kah-Ming Ng (harpsichord & chamber organ)
Buxtehude–Becker—Duphly–Lawes–Rameau–Schmelzer–Telemann

For the Totnes Early Music Society

Friday 10 December

7.30pm

Truro College.

The Queen’s Goodnight

For the Truro 3 Arts Society, with narrator Wendy Greenhill, reading from Shakespeare’s Sonnets and extracts of Elizabeth I's correspondence..

Saturday 11 December

7.30pm

Truro Cathedral, Cornwall.

JS Bach: Mass in B Minor

Truro Cathedral Choir & the Three Spires Singers, cond. Robert Sharpe

Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng

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