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Friday 12th March at 7.30 p.m. in St. Mary's Church Le Jardin Secret Veiled – baroque music for Holy Week |
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In association with The Arts at Dartington |
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The ensemble Le Jardin Secret presents the wonderful treasure of Baroque solo vocal literature accompanied by the full colour and beauty of original continuo and obligato instruments. With soprano Elizabeth Dobbin, the ensemble performs a wide range of 17th and 18th century repertoire with dedicated attention to historical context and to the possibilities of creative continuo playing and improvisation. The music is intimate and highly expressive, exploiting the powerful and contrasting affects of the poetry to which it is set, welcoming the listener into the most secret places of the heart. Le Jardin Secret (in French a metaphor for the heart) is a place of sensual beauty and delight, of mystery and contemplation, of lament, grief and suffering, of amusement and assignation. It is the aim of the ensemble to bring to life the emotive energy of the music, opening the door to the aesthetic world of the Baroque in all its beguiling beauty. In 2007, the ensemble won both the first prize and the audience prize in the Early Music Network International Young Artists’ Competition in York, England. It's first CD for the English label CORO (entitled "Musique pour Mazarin! - qui a le coeur a tout") was greeted with enthusiastic reviews in the press and was awarded the prestigious 5 star rating by Goldberg magazine. "Auf Wiener Art", the ensemble's second CD is due for release in September 2009.
Elizabeth Dobbin soprano Sofie Vanden Eynde theorbo and baroque guitar David Blunden harpsichord Romina Lischka viola da gamba www.the-sixteen.org.uk/recordings for their latest CD. |
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Tickets £10 The Arts at Dartington members £9 Juniors & students £5 from the Dartington Box Office 01803 847070 or at the door. |
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Saturday 10th April at 7.30 p.m. in St. Mary's Church London Baroque Ingrid Seifert violin, Charles Medlam cello, Steven Devine harpsichord Music for Kings A tour through the courts of London, Madrid, Brussels, Berlin and Paris with music written for Charles I, Philipp IV, the Archduke Ferdinand, Queen Christina, Frederick the Great and Louis XIV and XV This concert is sponsored in loving memory of Dierdre Crapper |
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Formed thirty years ago in 1978, London Baroque enjoys the position of being one of the most experienced and long-lived baroque chamber groups around. London Baroque, regarded worldwide as one of the foremost exponents of baroque chamber music, remains loved and appreciated by audiences as much today as twenty years ago. "We are used to the high standard of these players. The tireless variation of phrasing and dynamics of the individual parts, the perfectly coordinated agogic detail together with the highly imaginative approach lead to wonderfully lively music-making." (Aug 2001); "... the performances were immaculately controlled, at all times a delight to the ear -- supple, flexible playing which touched the heights of virtuosity and the depths of emotion" Financial Times, 1980. London Baroque continues to give vital and enriching performances with all the technical perfection and musical maturity their public has come to expect. They have performed in most of the major European festivals, appeared frequently on TV and radio the world over, and tour regularly in Japan and the USA. Their repertoire spans a period from the end of the sixteenth century up to Mozart and Haydn with works of virtually unknown composers next to familiar masterpieces of the baroque and early classical eras. The 08/09 season contains programmes ranging from early English music to Mozart and contemporaries. With the four core players there will be appearances in England, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Abu Dhabi and Canada. In addition there will be concerts with Emma Kirkby in England, France, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Korea, China, Turkey and Singapore. London Baroque has performed at the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Bath, Beaune, Innsbruck, Utrecht, York Festivals, and the Stuttgart, Ansbach and Lausanne Bach festivals. Recording now for BIS (after a long and fruitful collaboration with Harmonia Mundi, France) London Baroque's recent releases have received great critical acclaim; "Sympathetic and alert..with some finely poetic playing. These performances seem to me model." (Gramophone, Sept 2001) and "They have never made a better disc and neither have I heard a superior performance of any Handel trio sonata." (Goldberg, July 2001) -- both of their disc with Emma Kirkby of Handel sacred cantatas. And of their release of Vivaldi Op. 1 trio sonatas; "London Baroque bring their customary virtues to these performances, including excellent internal rapport and blend, a richly mined string tone, passion and intensity." (Gramophone, March 2001) London Baroque has appeared on television in England, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Holland, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Brazil, Estonia, Hungary and Japan. |
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Ingrid Seifert was born in Austria and studied the violin in Salzburg and Vienna. Her interest in early music started while finishing her studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum. After playing occasionally with Concentus Musicus, Wien and a period of study in Holland she co-founded London Baroque with Charles Medlam. She now works exclusively with the group and plays on a Jacobus Stainer made in 1661. Charles Medlam studied the cello in London, Paris, Vienna and Salzburg before becoming interested in the bass viol and early performing styles. After a year lecturing and playing in the resident string quartet at the Chinese University of Hong Kong he returned to Europe and studied with Maurice Gendron at the Paris Conservatoire, Wolfang Herzer in Vienna and subsequently cello with Heidi Litschauer and performance practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg. After grauduating with distinction from the Mozarteum he pursued his interest in the viol on frequent courses with Wieland Kuijken. He founded London Baroque with Ingrid Seifert in 1978. His bass viol is an English instrument from around 1680, possibly by Barak Norman, which has had a seventh string added for the French repertoire. Steven Devine studied music at Oxford University and harpsichod with the late John Toll. As conductor he works regularly with the Mozart Festival Orchestra, New Chamber Opera in Oxford and was recently appointed Associate Music Director of Opera Restor’d. Steven is the Co-Principal keyboard player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, which he directs from time to time. Ever since his schooldays, Steven has been associated with the Finchcocks Collection of historic keyboard instruments in Kent and was recently promoted to the post of Director of Education. He has been Professor of Fortepiano at Trinity College of Music since 2003 and joined London Baroque in 2007. |
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Non-members tickets £10 Juniors & students £5 available at the door. |
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