UPCOMING EVENTS
Voices of Passion 2027: This Hour is Yours
Around 1600, Italian madrigals were widely circulated throughout Northern Europe via influential anthologies, printed in the workshop of Petrus Phalesius or Phalèse. This family of printers from Leuven settled in Antwerp in 1581 and helped put the port city on the map as a centre of excellence for music typography.
This way, the Italian madrigal reached a wide range of musicians in a variety of contexts. Music by composers such as Luca Marenzio and Marc’Antonio Ingegneri crossed borders with ease. What originated in Italy soon became part of a shared European repertoire, performed both by professional ensembles and by cultured amateur circles.
Drawing on early 17th-century collections of madrigals published in Antwerp, the Fieri Consort explores the various ways in which these works could be interpreted in practice. The programme demonstrates the flexibility of the madrigal genre and reveals a repertoire that was shaped as much by performers as by composers.
As part of the Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile series, the Alamire Foundation will shortly publish a new facsimile and accompanying study on Phalèse’s madrigal prints that have been preserved in Central Europe.
Featuring music by Luca Marenzio, Marc’Antonio Ingegneri and others
Stour: Freeing the Muse
Freeing the Muse explores Renaissance ideals of beauty from a female perspective. In solo music and five-part madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, Raphaella Aleotti and Francesca Caccini, Fieri show that 17th-century women were more than just the muses of male artists. The composers chosen were influential artists who made their creative voices heard in spite of social disadvantages. Female musicians of the period are also brought into the spotlight. How did Tarquinia Molza and the Concerto delle Donne use their virtuosity to send the musical style of the time in a new direction?
PAW: Freeing the Muse
Freeing the Muse explores Renaissance ideals of beauty from a female perspective. In solo music and five-part madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, Raphaella Aleotti and Francesca Caccini, Fieri show that 17th-century women were more than just the muses of male artists. The composers chosen were influential artists who made their creative voices heard in spite of social disadvantages. Female musicians of the period are also brought into the spotlight. How did Tarquinia Molza and the Concerto delle Donne use their virtuosity to send the musical style of the time in a new direction?
BOZAR: Freeing the Muse
Freeing the Muse explores Renaissance ideals of beauty from a female perspective. In solo music and five-part madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, Raphaella Aleotti and Francesca Caccini, Fieri show that 17th-century women were more than just the muses of male artists. The composers chosen were influential artists who made their creative voices heard in spite of social disadvantages. Female musicians of the period are also brought into the spotlight. How did Tarquinia Molza and the Concerto delle Donne use their virtuosity to send the musical style of the time in a new direction? Fieri Consort reveals the answers.
Barnes: Freeing the Muse
Freeing the Muse explores Renaissance ideals of beauty from a female perspective. In solo music and five-part madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, Raphaella Aleotti and Francesca Caccini, Fieri show that 17th-century women were more than just the muses of male artists. The composers chosen were influential artists who made their creative voices heard in spite of social disadvantages. Female musicians of the period are also brought into the spotlight. How did Tarquinia Molza and the Concerto delle Donne use their virtuosity to send the musical style of the time in a new direction?
From Church to Tavern: Cantatas by Christoph Graupner & English tavern songs
Fieri Consort & Camerata Øresund
Save the date, more info coming soon
Espergaerde, Denmark
From Church to Tavern: Cantatas by Christoph Graupner & English tavern songs
Fieri Consort & Camerata Øresund
Save the date, more info coming soon
http://svendborgkammermusik.dk/koncerter.php
Svendborg, Denmark
Advent Concert at Confidencen
Camerata Øresund and Fieri Consort
Graupner’s Christmas Cantatas plus instrumental music by Campra, Locatelli, Roman, Bayreuth and Purcell
Two events at 3pm & 5pm
More info and booking: https://www.nortic.se/ticket/event/73447
Advent Concert at Confidencen
Camerata Øresund and Fieri Consort
Graupner’s Christmas Cantatas plus instrumental music by Campra, Locatelli, Roman, Bayreuth and Purcell
Two events at 3pm & 5pm
More info and booking: https://www.nortic.se/ticket/event/73447
From Church to Tavern: Christmas Cantatas by Christoph Graupner & English tavern songs
Fieri Consort Singers:
Hannah Ely, Steph Dillon, Kieran White, Ben Rowarth
Camerata Øresund:
Peter Spissky (Dir.), Tinne Albrechtsen, Ida Lorenzen, Alison Luthmers, Rastko Roknic, Hanna Loftsdottir, Joakim Peterson, Marcus Mohlin, Doyho Sol
From Church to Tavern: Christmas Cantatas by Christoph Graupner & English tavern songs
Graupner initially pipped Bach to the post of Kantor in Leipzig. Although well preserved, his works fell into obscurity when his heirs were stopped from publishing them. Overall he composed a staggering 1442 cantatas, most of which remain to be discovered.
Fieri Consort and Camerata Øresund will present three cantatas together as well as Graupner’s double violin concerto which easily stands up to its famous counterpart by J.S. Bach along with some festive jollity likely to have been heard in English taverns during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Fieri Consort: “Their glowing sound enhances performances of sheer delight” – Choir & Organ
“Groove comes as a natural state for Camerata Øresund. Each player reflected pure joy of playing, of good music, in good company” Teater Muusika Magazine (Estonia)
The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi
After 400 years, the Fieri Consort reveal newly-discovered madrigals of Maddalena Casulana alongside works by another of Italy’s greatest composers, Barbara Strozzi.
In one of the most important discoveries of recent years, the lost Alto partbook of Maddalena Casulana’s 1583 First Book of five-voice madrigals has been found by Professor Laurie Stras.
Living at a time in which women’s creativity was often stifled, Casulana (c.1532 – c.1590) and her compatriot Barbara Strozzi (1619-77) were only too aware their music would be judged inferior to men’s. This concert presents Casulana’s madrigals as a fresh perspective on Strozzi’s works, celebrating both composers’ skill with words and music.
Purbeck Art Weeks - Dawn Chorus
We return to the Purbecks to perform a programme of music inspired by birdsong. From the revolutionary songs of Monteverdi, Marenzio and Giaches de Wert, to 20th-century masterpieces by Vaughan Williams and Stanford.
St James' Church, Dorset
Album launch! The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi
Join us in celebrating the launch of our latest album:
The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi
8pm Concert followed by drinks reception - join us at The London Sketch Club for an enchanting evening celebrating the musical legacies of two trailblazing women, Maddalena Casulana and Barbara Strozzi.
Secure your place at this exclusive event via Ticket Source and "Pay What You Want" in support of our future endeavours.
The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi
After 400 years, the Fieri Consort reveal newly-discovered madrigals of Maddalena Casulana alongside works by another of Italy’s greatest composers, Barbara Strozzi.
Dawn Chorus
Based on Gibbons’ The Silver Swan, this programme celebrates bird song from English and Italian composers from William Byrd to Luca Marenzio.
Dawn Chorus
Based on Gibbons’ The Silver Swan, this programme celebrates bird song from English and Italian composers from William Byrd to Luca Marenzio.
Fieri & Camerata Øresund: Graupner's Christmas Cantatas
Fieri will travel to Copenhagen to collaborate again with the Danish ensemble Camerata Øresund for a performance of a selection of Graupner’s Christmas Cantatas
Fieri & Camerata Øresund: Graupner's Christmas Cantatas
Fieri will travel to Copenhagen to collaborate again with the Danish ensemble Camerata Øresund for a performance of a selection of Graupner’s Christmas Cantatas
Handel’s Messiah
Fieri will perform as soloists with their partner ‘Choir of the Earth’ in Handel’s Messiah.
Information here: https://choiroftheearth.com/messiah-tour
Tudor Night
A truly luxuriant gathering of an improbably large ensemble of players: a show specially designed for Stour Music by William Lyons to blow away all the annoyance of the last two years. Singers, dancers, shawms, sackbuts, viols, lutes, flutes, bandora, cittern, virginals, bagpipes, hurdy gurdy: who would miss such an extraordinary event?
Hear English music for court, theatre, masque, great hall and private music room by the famous and feted musicians of the Golden Age including William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Morley, John Wilbye, Alfonso Ferrabosco and Anthony Holborne.
The City Musick
Fieri Consort
William Lyons
Steven Player & Mary Collins - dancers
Tickets:£30, £23 (numbered & reserved)£16 (unreserved)
To book tickets visit TicketSource. For telephone booking, call the Box Office on 0333 666 3366. For all general enquiries please call 07971 642154.
Sponsored by The John Swire (1989) Charitable Trust
Tudor Night
A truly luxuriant gathering of an improbably large ensemble of players: a show specially designed for Stour Music by William Lyons to blow away all the annoyance of the last two years. Singers, dancers, shawms, sackbuts, viols, lutes, flutes, bandora, cittern, virginals, bagpipes, hurdy gurdy: who would miss such an extraordinary event?
Hear English music for court, theatre, masque, great hall and private music room by the famous and feted musicians of the Golden Age including William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Morley, John Wilbye, Alfonso Ferrabosco and Anthony Holborne.
The City Musick
Fieri Consort
William Lyons
Steven Player & Mary Collins - dancers
Box Office:
boxoffice@york.ac.uk
https://www.facebook.com/yorkconcerts
Sponsored by The John Swire (1989) Charitable Trust
AMAVI
Fieri explore the music of Michael East with the Chelys Consort of Viols.
Supported by the Continuo Foundation.
AMAVI
Fieri explore the music of Michael East with the Chelys Consort of Viols.
Supported by the Continuo Foundation.
The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi
After 400 years, the Fieri Consort reveal the newly-discovered madrigals of Maddalena Casulana alongside works by another of Italy’s greatest composers, Barbara Strozzi.
AMAVI
Fieri explore the music of Michael East with the Chelys Consort of Viols.
Supported by the Continuo Foundation.
AMAVI
Fieri explore the music of Michael East with the Chelys Consort of Viols.
St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, Wales
Early Music in the Marches
Supported by the Continuo Foundation.
Buy tickets:
Tickets: info@earlymusicinthemarches.com | 07989 091949
