Sunday 18 May, 3.00pm (NB: no interval)
Manoukian Music Centre, Westminster School
Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini
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Discovering Music
Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini investigate the world of Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Join Robert Hollingworth and members of the award-winning vocal ensemble I Fagiolini for a special Festival edition of BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music programme, as they offer an insight into Monteverdi’s emotionally charged operatic scena Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. The event will focus on the musical and dramaturgical background to the piece, explore some of the composer’s pioneering musical ideas as revealed in madrigals such as the atmospheric Hor che’l ciel e la terra, and conclude with a complete performance of Combattimento featuring Nicholas Mulroy as the Narrator, Eamonn Dougan as Tancredi and Clare Wilkinson as Clorinda.
‘The programme worked beautifully because of the deadly
serious musicianship that is I Fagiolini’s gold standard.’
The Guardian
FREE ADMISSION BY TICKET (limited capacity)
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I Fagiolini (Sunday 18 May) is being recorded by BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast in Discovering Music |
Sunday 18 May, 7.00pm (NB: no interval)
St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey
| Iestyn Davies |
counter-tenor |
| The Wallfisch Band |
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| Elizabeth Wallfisch |
violin & director
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Iestyn Davies
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Elizabeth Wallfisch
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A la Battaglia!
| Biber |
Die Pauernkirchfahrt |
| Johann Christoph Bach |
Mein Freund ist mein |
| Schmelzer |
Die Fechtschule |
| Vivaldi |
Violin Concerto in D major, RV208 ‘Grosso Mogul’ |
| Biber |
Battalia |
| Schmelzer |
Lamento sopra la morte Ferdinandi III |
| Johann Christoph Bach |
Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hätte |
| Biber |
Passagalia |
The Wallfisch Band is an exciting new international Baroque string ensemble founded by violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch, in which handpicked, gifted young players perform alongside distinguished older colleagues. Here they present a tapestry of music reflecting warlike and peaceful concerns, ranging from Biber’s picturesque representations of a battleground, a rustic wedding feast and a visit from a guardian angel, to Schmelzer’s musical fencing school and lament for the passing of the Holy Roman Emperor. There is also Vivaldi’s dazzling ‘Grosso Mogul’ violin concerto, and two beautifully written vocal pieces by JS Bach’s most revered musical ancestor, Johann Christoph.
‘Sizzling performances by a wonderful soloist who spins semiquavers with an untiring elbow, weeps with the harpsichord and ornaments with a fiddler’s playful sneer.’
Classic FM Magazine
Tickets £15
Special Offer
• A free pre-concert Westminster guided walk with each ticket
purchased before 1 April
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