A recital of canzonettas and arias with theorbo player Johan Löfvig and cellist Iain Hall.

A recital Handel Arias with Matthew Jorysz

PERFORMERS:

ANA BEARD FERNANDEZ
HOLLY TEAGUE
CHRISTOPHER LEMMINGS
BEN THAPA

CONDUCTOR: STEPHEN ANTHONY BROWN | SUSSEX CHORUS

Performers

Royal Choral Society
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Richard Cooke conductor

James Burke clarinet

Ana Beard Fernández soprano
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones mezzo-soprano
Robin Bailey tenor
William Gaunt bass

I Fagiolini & Brecon Baroque

Angels, confused shepherds - the devil “shooting up in the air like a rocket!” - I Fagiolini brings an animated cast of Christmas characters to life in foot-tapping music from Italy, Germany, England and Spain.

Cristoforo Caresana - La Tarantella  (1673)

A Neapolitan cantata (practically a pantomime) with the Devil symbolizing the Spanish occupation.  Virtuosic angels sing to confused shepherds with echo jokes worthy of Monteverdi's 'Audi coelum'.  A hypnotic Tarantella dance wards off the devil who appears with slightly butch demons before his dramatic departure.  Truly a musical and comic gem that needed to be uncovered (and performed more often than Messiah...)

Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad  (c.1750)

A ‘Xácara’ is “a gathering of ruffians and rogues, picaresque women - but more noisy and high-spirited than criminal”. Justice is done to that description with castanets, percussion and guitars while ‘Bato's little song’ brings “the Devil down in flames!”  Foot-tapping joie-de-vivre from start to finish.

J.S.Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1713)

One of Bach's earliest but most popular cantatas, highlighting Luther's great Advent melody. Rocking solo for tenor, intimate aria for soprano while the strings' pizzicato symbolically paints Advent itself knocking on the door of Christ's arrival.

Claudio Monteverdi - Beatus vir (1640)

Surely one of his best-loved pieces with catchy violin interludes over repeating bassline, sensual triple time middle section and resounding Amen. I Fagiolini's performance is spritely, following recent research on time relationships.

William Byrd - Lullaby (1588)

As a serene interlude, Byrd's intricate consort song, sung by the Virgin Mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fpeWbIebz4

I Fagiolini & Brecon Baroque

Angels, confused shepherds - the devil “shooting up in the air like a rocket!” - I Fagiolini brings an animated cast of Christmas characters to life in foot-tapping music from Italy, Germany, England and Spain.

Cristoforo Caresana - La Tarantella  (1673)

A Neapolitan cantata (practically a pantomime) with the Devil symbolizing the Spanish occupation.  Virtuosic angels sing to confused shepherds with echo jokes worthy of Monteverdi's 'Audi coelum'.  A hypnotic Tarantella dance wards off the devil who appears with slightly butch demons before his dramatic departure.  Truly a musical and comic gem that needed to be uncovered (and performed more often than Messiah...)

Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad  (c.1750)

A ‘Xácara’ is “a gathering of ruffians and rogues, picaresque women - but more noisy and high-spirited than criminal”. Justice is done to that description with castanets, percussion and guitars while ‘Bato's little song’ brings “the Devil down in flames!”  Foot-tapping joie-de-vivre from start to finish.

J.S.Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1713)

One of Bach's earliest but most popular cantatas, highlighting Luther's great Advent melody. Rocking solo for tenor, intimate aria for soprano while the strings' pizzicato symbolically paints Advent itself knocking on the door of Christ's arrival.

Claudio Monteverdi - Beatus vir (1640)

Surely one of his best-loved pieces with catchy violin interludes over repeating bassline, sensual triple time middle section and resounding Amen. I Fagiolini's performance is spritely, following recent research on time relationships.

William Byrd - Lullaby (1588)

As a serene interlude, Byrd's intricate consort song, sung by the Virgin Mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fpeWbIebz4

I Fagiolini & Brecon Baroque

Angels, confused shepherds - the devil “shooting up in the air like a rocket!” - I Fagiolini brings an animated cast of Christmas characters to life in foot-tapping music from Italy, Germany, England and Spain.

Cristoforo Caresana - La Tarantella  (1673)

A Neapolitan cantata (practically a pantomime) with the Devil symbolizing the Spanish occupation.  Virtuosic angels sing to confused shepherds with echo jokes worthy of Monteverdi's 'Audi coelum'.  A hypnotic Tarantella dance wards off the devil who appears with slightly butch demons before his dramatic departure.  Truly a musical and comic gem that needed to be uncovered (and performed more often than Messiah...)

Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad  (c.1750)

A ‘Xácara’ is “a gathering of ruffians and rogues, picaresque women - but more noisy and high-spirited than criminal”. Justice is done to that description with castanets, percussion and guitars while ‘Bato's little song’ brings “the Devil down in flames!”  Foot-tapping joie-de-vivre from start to finish.

J.S.Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1713)

One of Bach's earliest but most popular cantatas, highlighting Luther's great Advent melody. Rocking solo for tenor, intimate aria for soprano while the strings' pizzicato symbolically paints Advent itself knocking on the door of Christ's arrival.

Claudio Monteverdi - Beatus vir (1640)

Surely one of his best-loved pieces with catchy violin interludes over repeating bassline, sensual triple time middle section and resounding Amen. I Fagiolini's performance is spritely, following recent research on time relationships.

William Byrd - Lullaby (1588)

As a serene interlude, Byrd's intricate consort song, sung by the Virgin Mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fpeWbIebz4

Salisbury Musical Society sing J.S. Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor. This work was completed in 1749, the year before his death, when the composer was at the height of his musical powers.

Florilegium, the outstanding period instrument ensemble, will accompany SMS. Also singing will be the Salisbury Cathedral Choir.

The soloists include:

Ana Fernandez — soprano
Jessica Cale — soprano
Hugh Cutting — countertenor
Ben Johnson — tenor

The conductor will be the Cathedral’s Director of Music, David Halls.

This concert is the final concert of SMS’s centenary year.

https://www.musicinsalisbury.org.uk/?event=salisbury-musical-society-handels-coronation-anthems

The Camden Choir: Judas Maccabaeus

Judas: Ben Durrant
Simon: Michael Hickman
Israelitish Woman: Ana Beard Fernández
Israelitish Man: Diana Moore

Primrose Hill Chamber Orchestra / The Camden Choir

Conductor: Iestyn Evans

4TH 7.30PM AT HUDDERSFIELD TOWN HALL

HIS MAJESTY’S SAGBUTTS AND CORNETTS

Conductor: GREGORY BATSLEER
HCS, HCS YOUTH CHOIRS, HCS VOICES

Soloists:

ANA BEARD FERNANDEZ
THOMAS KELLY
CHRIS FITZGERALD-LOMBARD
BEN MCKEE
OSKAR MCCARTHY

7.30pm Saturday 7th October 2023
St Albans Cathedral AL1 1BY

Ana Beard Fernández soprano
Zoë Brookshaw soprano*
Ashley Riches Baritone
Hertfordshire Chorus
David Temple conductor

*Soloist in Highland Home

Ein Deutsches Requiem
Johannes Brahms

Vier letzte Lieder (Four last songs)
Richard Strauss

Highland Home
Kurt Rosenberg

£30, £20, £10, £5 (schoolchildren and students)

Tickets will be available from the end of June.

Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem is one of the cornerstones of the classical choral repertoire. This large-scale setting of the Requiem Mass in German begins with prayers to the dead with words translated and shaped by Brahms himself. His approach reflects his sympathies with humanism as well as the comforts that can be found in the religious texts. The piece may have been inspired by his grief at the loss of his own mother and the death of Robert
Schumann.

The Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) are Strauss’s final completed works, composed in 1948 when he was 84. Inspired by poems by Joseph von Eichendorff and Hermann Hesse, they reflect the composer’s state of mind as he contemplated the end of his life. The solo soprano voice soars above the orchestra inviting the audience to share in feelings of sorrow and, finally, acceptance.

American composer Kurt Rosenberg composed Highland Home after a visit to Brodick castle on the Isle of Arran. He was captivated by the beauty of the rugged landscape and this magical piece is a homage to the country he fell in love with.

Soprano (d’Astorga) and Soprano I (Dixit): Ana Beard Fernández 
Soprano II (Dixit): Jessica Wise
Countertenor: Tom Lilburn
Tenor: Nicholas Madden
Bass: Richard Bannan

Orpheus Sinfonia / Quire Voices

Conductor: Sean Bui

Handel’s Dixit Dominus is amongst the composers most famous and vivacious pieces. Written in 1707 when Handel was just twenty-two years old, the piece is both virtuosic and full of energy. A lively and elaborate setting of Psalm 110, its popularity has endured throughout the centuries.

Though considered a relatively obscure composer today, d’Astorga—an Italian Baron—wrote hundreds of compositions during his lifetime, and his music was highly prized and respected by his contemporaries, including Handel. Unfortunately, his music disappeared from public consciousness by the beginning of the twentieth century, and many of his compositions have been lost—his only surviving sacred work being his contemplative and melancholy Stabat Mater, also written c.1707.

This concert will contrast the reflective and expressive Stabat Mater with the dramatic Dixit Dominus—two compositions, crafted in the same year, by two of the period’s foremost composers.

Montsalvaje: Cinco Canciones Negras

Arranged for eight cellos by Roderick Williams (premiere)

Soprano: Ana Beard Fernandez
St Endellion Festival Cellos

A Lieder recital exploring the relationship between Brahms, and Clara and Robert Schumann.

Soprano: Ana Beard Fernandez
Mezzo: Frances Bourne
Tenor: Mark Padmore
Baritone: Roderick Williams
Piano: Susie Allen and Freddie Brown

Held as part of the St Endellion Festival in Cornwall.

London Early Opera with BBC's Lars Tharp

Performing:

Thomas Arne Colin and Phoebe 

Handel Alla caccia (Diana cacciatrice) HWV 79

Aria für Trompete, Sopran, Streicher und Basso Continuo

Music reflecting William's Hogarth's vision for Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, the Foundling Hospital and musical connections with Handel's artworld.

Concert with narrations celebrating William Hogarth, his art, vision and inspiration for Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, the Foundling Hospital and musical connections with George Frideric Handel and his art collection. Music performed by our new LEO choir, with  Charles MacDougall directed by Bridget Cunningham and narrations from BBC's Lars Tharp, Hogarth enthusiast and ceramics historian. The Corney Road Cemetry at St Nicholas Church by the River Thames is the resting place of the artist William Hogarth. His grave stone reads: "Farewell great Painter of Mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of Art Whose pictur'd Morals charm the Mind , And through the Eye correct the Heart. If Genius fire thee, Reader, stay, If Nature touch thee, drop a Tear: If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here". London Early Opera UK Charity No. 1143989 www.londonearlyopera.org

I Fagioini & Brecon Baroque

Re-establishing the festival after lockdown, we made the decision to commission even more extravagant programmes – giving you something really exceptional to tempt you out of your homes.

We open with ‘Angels & Demons’, I Fagiolini’s foot-tapping extravaganza with Brecon Baroque. Perhaps you’ll come because of the Bach and Monteverdi but then go away amazed by the Neapolitan pantomime and the castanets in the Xácara!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fpeWbIebz4

Ashtead Choral Society with the Kent Sinfonia

Andrew Storey (conductor)

Basingstoke Choral Society & Croydon Philharmonic Choir

Hanover Band / David Gibson

The Anvil, Basingstoke

Soprano soloists: Ana Beard Fernandez & Daisy Bevan

The final days of Christ's life, retold by solo voices, orchestra and chorus.

Evangelist: Gopal Kambo
Christus: Tom Herring
Soprano: Ana Beard Fernandez
Alto: Sam Mitchell
Tenor: Jacob Clark
Bass: Krishnan Ram-Prasad

Orchestra: Eboracum Baroque
Director: Manvinder Rattan

Soprano: Ana Beard Fernández | Pianist: Matthew Jorysz

Soprano: Ana Beard Fernández
Tenor: Tom Chapman
Bass: Daniel Tate

Conductor: Richard Stafford

Musicians from Shrewsbury School will perform Haydn's much loved Oratorio “The Creation” in the beautiful setting of St Chad's Church.

Barokksolistene/Bjarte Eike
January 29, 2023 - 19:00
Glogerfestspillene – Kongsberg kirke

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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567–1643)
Laudate pueri

ANTONIO LUCIO VIVALDI (1678–1741)
La Folia variations

P.D.Q.BACH
Iphigenia In Brooklyn, S. 53162. P.D.Q.Bach.

CRISTOFORO CARESANA (1640–1709)
La Tarantella (The tarantula)

JUAN FRANCÉS DE IRIBARREN (1699–1767)
Xacara de Navidad

Soloist: Ana Beard Fernandez

Conductor: Adrian Boynton

Cornerstone Chamber Choir, Orchestra and Soloists offer a double bill of Bach Magnificat and Tippett 'A Child of our Time.' The sheer ebullience and joy - not to mention wit and humour - of Bach's great setting of the Magnificat text contrasts with the emotion and power of Tippett's masterpiece which speaks so movingly of the need for reconciliation and forgiveness in a divided world. The heartfelt Spirituals which underpin "A Child of our Time' add poignancy to this amazing work.