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SIXTEENTH STOKE NEWINGTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010

SAINT MARY'S OLD CHURCH
STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH ST LONDON N16

THURSDAY 1st JULY 8.00 pm
Corbetta Geminiani Handel Matteis Straube
ayres and divisions
Taro Takeuchi baroque guitar Music for Early guitars Taro Takeuchi plays 17th and 18th music on original baroque guitars by Lambert and Marchal,18th century cittern (English guittar) by Preston and Perry. Works by Handel, Merchi, Straube and Geminiani.
More details are on http://www.crane.gr.jp/~tarolute/english.htmhttp://www.stokenewingtonearlymusic.org.uk/index.htm



MONDAY 5th JULY 8.00 pm
Matthew Locke – consorts for viols
Ibrahim Aziz Vanessa Coode
Fiona Huggett and Suzanne Heinrich viols
Taro Takeuchi theorbo


WEDNESDAY 7th JULY 8.00 pm
Gesualdo and Monteverdi – motets
Carys Lane soprano Caroline Trevor alto
Simon Wall and Mark Dobell tenor
Thomas Guthrie bass


SATURDAY 10th JULY 8.00 pm
Buxtehude and Bach
sacred arias and cantatas
Katharine Fuge soprano Mark Radcliffe oboe
Bojan Cicic and Philip Yeeles violin
Vanessa Coode viol Christopher Bucknall organ


THURSDAY 15th JULY 8.00 pm
François Couperin
Les Nations – L'impériale and La piémontoise
Bojan Cicic and Philip Yeeles violin
Vanessa Coode viol
James Johnstone harpsichord



TICKETS £10/£7 SEASON £45/£30
CHILDREN FREE
Reservations 01865 308374
On sale at Bridgewood and Neitzert N16 or on the door
WINE/FRUIT JUICE AFTER EACH CONCERT
www.stokenewingtonearlymusic.org.uk



The French Connection
Lute recital by Willem Mook
King of Hearts, Norwich
7.30pm, Thursday 12 August 2010
http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/concerts2.htm#mook

Lute Music in the Lives of
Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Constantine Huygens

Edward Herbert served for some years as an ambassador in Paris, his famous Lute Book (nowadays in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) is one of the most important anthologies of lute music from the period 1600-1640 and it is a unique document of the influence of French music in English aristocratic circles.
Constantine Huygens, the younger of the two, claimed to have written some 800 compositions, of which a large number were for solo lute. Unfortunately a mere 40 songs with the lute of a very high level remain under the title Pathodia sacra et profana (printed in Paris 1647).
Both Herbert and Huygens seem to have had a clear preference for French lute music. In particular they shared an admiration for the music of Jacques Gautier. This temperamental French lute player entered the English court towards 1620, and Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book happens to be by far the most important source of Jacques Gautier's highly characteristic music, which is given a prominent role in this programmme.
Of a slightly older generation was the French Huguenot Nicolas Vallet, who chose his domicile in Amsterdam around 1612. His Secret des Muses (printed in 1616) is a remarkable fusion of lute music of French, Dutch and English styles. His music shows his high standard as a lute composer and a certain preference for the more popular repertoire, which gives his music a lighter touch than the more aristocratic repertoire of the Cherbury Lute Book.

Tickets £10.00 from King of Hearts Box Office 01603 611412
The King of Hearts, 7 - 15 Fye Bridge Street, Norwich, NR3 1LJ
This concert is in association with the 11th international summer lutemaking course. This year there are people coming from Australia, USA, France and England.
http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/summers.htm

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