"[The performance] was a life enhancing jewel in the sea of mediocrity which surrounds us!"
Christine Stanton (2014)
Honorary Patron - Sir Alan Langlands: Musical Director - Peter Holman MBE: Chorus Master - Clive McClelland
Leeds Baroque 2018 directed by Peter Holman
Concert Diary 2018
Sunday 10 June at 3:00pm Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds LS2 9JT. (Note change of venue - due to road closures for the International Triathlon) For travel information: https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/best-in-leeds/whats-on-news/world-triathlon-leeds-2018-route-14709780 Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen William Shakespeare and Henry Purcell: the perfect companions for a summer’s afternoon. The Fairy Queen is an extravagant operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, first put on with Purcell’s music in 1692. There are lots of additional elements to Shakespeare’s dreaming, including a scene of drunken poets tormented by the fairies (satirizing Purcell’s stuttering friend Thomas D’Urfey), an evocative nocturnal masque in which Night, Mystery, Secrecy and Sleep appear to entertain Titania, a grand Masque of the Four Seasons, and a final wedding masque set, for no particular reason, in China. Leeds Baroque’s performance of Purcell’s wonderful score is linked by a specially devised narration by Richard Andrews conveying the essence of play as adapted for Restoration taste. Fun for all the family. 
Sunday 28 October at 3:00pm The Venue, Leeds College of Music George Frederick Handel L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato A rare opportunity to hear one of Handel’s greatest works. He wrote his oratorio L’allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato, based on texts by John Milton, at the height of his powers in 1740, just before Messiah, and it is its secular equivalent: a glorious evocation of Nature in all her varied moods, vividly portrayed by the choir and large orchestra. Celebrating 250 Years of Leeds Library 
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We spent a weekend recording audio samples for the website with recording engineer Colin Bradburne. Thanks to generous grants from the Friends of Leeds Baroque and Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society we now have examples of our repertoire on line. 
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Early Music CD Sale: 2:00pm & interval
Sunday 10th June As part of the 40th Anniversary celbrations for St Gemma's Hospice Leeds Baroque will be hosting a sale of donated Early Music CD's at their performance of The Fairy Queen. Adrian Bending's article on historical timpani available on the EMS web site HERE (page 13)
Tickets for The Fairy Queen now available via TicketSource HERE
COMING SOON... THE BAROQUE TIMPS PROJECT
Much of our core repertoire requires period instruments timpani - instruments that are hard to find in our region. To remedy this problem, and with the help and advice of Adrian Bending (principle timpanist for OAE and Professor of Timpani at the Royal College of Music) Leeds Baroque is planning a crowd funding campaign to commission a set of Baroque timps, which in addition to our own use will be made available to other period instrument groups. We hope to launch the project in February 2019. Watch this space for further exciting developments! Autumn Programme announced
Sunday 28th October 2018 George Frederick Handel L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (The joyful, the thoughtful and the moderate man) |
