First & Last
Linda Nicholson is one of the foremost keyboard players specialising in the performance of baroque, classical and early romantic music on instruments of the period, since winning the first two international competitions held for the fortepiano in Paris and Bruges. She has since gained a global reputation giving recitals in major festivals and concert series throughout Europe and the Far East. Performing on an original Schantz fortepiano, contemporary to the music to be played, her programme features landmark works by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Hear the music on an authentic 18th century fortepiano as the composer intended!
Saturday 23rd September 7.30pm
Tickets £17.50 / £15.00 / £13.00
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Sound the Trumpet!
Artists-in-Residence, The Bach Players, make a welcome return this year with their 20th Anniversary All-Bach Celebration programme featuring two triumphant cantatas sung by the wonderful soprano Rachel Elliott. The joyous Wedding Cantata spars with the famous Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen which features solo trumpet, also appearing in the second Brandenburg Concerto. These masterworks are complimented by a selection of Fugues from Bach's last known work, Die Kunst der Fuge. Be uplifted before the end of British Summer Time!
Sunday 22nd October 5pm
Tickets £20.00 / £17.50 / £15.00
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Candlelit Medieval Carols: The Road to Advent
Reader to be announced
Opus Anglicanum will bring their most popular Christmas concert to Saxon Shore Early MusicKenardington after many sell-out years at Wells Cathedral. Thoughtful texts will interweave with mediaeval carols and plainchant in the magical candlelit setting of the Church of St. Mary, Kenardington. Five male singers and reader transport us back to that spell-binding era to set the mood for Christmas 2017. Make this your start to the festive season!
Saturday 25th November 7pm
Tickets £17.50 / £15.00 / £13.00
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Nathaniel Mander & Sam Brown harpsichord, renaissance lute & classical guitar
Winner of the 10th Broadwood Harpsichord and the 2010 Fenton House Early Keyboard Ensemble Competitions, harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander has since become one of the UK's foremost young keyboard performers and is joined by Sam Brown, a member of Dowland Works, and is much in demand as a recitalist, soloist and accompanist on lute and guitar. Contemporary arrangements were common place in the 17th and 18th centuries and their fascinating programme explores some well-known composers including J.S. & J.C. Bach, Mozart, Rameau and Fernando Sor, including solos items for each instrument. Come and delight in the unusual sounds of two plucked instruments!
Saturday 28th April 7pm
Tickets £15.00 / £13.00 / £10.00
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Classical clarinet. Mozart, Crusell & Mendelssohn
Winners of the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Strings & Keyboard Ensemble Prize, London-based Consone Quartet is dedicated to exploring and recreating the sound-worlds of the classical and early romantic string quartet repertoire through period instrument performance. They are joined by a leading light in the historically informed musical practice world, classical clarinettist Jane Booth, Head of Historical Performance at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Their programme includes arguably the greatest clarinet quintet written, (by Mozart), and another by lesser-known champion of the instrument, Bernhard Henrik Crusell. Consone's contribution to the evening will be one of Mendelssohn's finest string quartets. Come and revel in some of the finest music written for this extraordinary combination!
Saturday 2nd June 7.30pm
Tickets £20.00 / £17.50 / £15.00
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