Experience 'Double, Double, Toil & Trouble' with Palisander at Fairest Isle Festival, Early Music @ Isle of Wight - a magical night of music from Bach to Bingen, with storytelling & choreography. Supported by Continuo Foundation.

📅Fri 10 May, 7:30pm
📍St. Catherine's Church, Ventnor
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Announcing the appointment of 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐨 as our first-ever Principal Ensemble in Residence.

From 2025, Arcangelo will take up residence at LHF & its Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen will separately join as Artistic Adviser

Full announcement ⬇️

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Join Solomon's Knot, one of the UK’s most innovative & imaginative ensembles, for 'Class of 1685' showcasing the works of three seminal Baroque composers: Bach, Handel & Scarlatti, all born in 1685.

🎉Brighton Festival
📅Thu 9 May, 8pm
📍Brighton Dome
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🎟️ Experience fusion at its finest with 'A Handel on Jazz Trio' as they reinterpret Handel's Sonata in F Major. The first recital in a new early music series New College, Oxford.

🎉New College Early Music Series
📅Thu 9 May, 2pm
📍The New Space, Oxford
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Don’t miss the final few concerts!

See Rachel Podger, 'the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin,' in 'Flying Solo in Mayfield': a showcase of her album 'Tutta Sola' with its baroque gems and work by composer Chad Kelly.

🎉Mayfield Festival
📅Tue 7 May, 7:30pm
📍Mayfield School, Chapel
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📖 Discover the 19th-c music icons 'The Celebrated Distins'. This legendary family transformed brass music with their innovative saxhorns & started the brass band competition scene. Experience their trailblazing sound with prince regent's band & Anneke Scott. go.continuoconnect.com/the-celebrated…

🎟️ Endelienta Baroque presents 'Bach and Friends' at Handel Hendrix House House, exploring the connections between J.S. Bach & his contemporaries through solo works, trios, & reworkings, played on historical instruments.

📅Mon 6 May, 6:30pm
📍Handel Hendrix House
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Hearing our patron Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque play the Four Seasons is like hearing it for the first time - don’t miss it! 🤩

🎟️Embark on 'A Baroque Voyage' with Beth Stone & Aiden Phillips. From Quantz to Handel, explore the diversity of European compositions in the historic Handel Hendrix House, performed on flute & harpsichord.

📅Mon 6 May, 1pm
📍Handel Hendrix House
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🎟️ Celebrate the launch of 'The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi' with Fieri Consort. Reviving works by early music composers Casulana & Strozzi, featuring restored madrigals & a newly discovered partbook.

📅Fri 3 May, 8pm
📍The London Sketch Club
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Couldn’t agree more! 🤩

Here's a clip of the third movement of Beethoven's Piano Trio Op. 11- Gassenhauer - from the recent release by Rautio Piano Trio.

Listen to the full album on Apple Music #appleclassicalapp 👉orcd.co/dv2qzjn

Buy the CD here 👉bit.ly/3W7JBgR

Thank you Robert Hugill for the review of our just released album 'SCHÜTZ – A German in Venice'

David de Winter
TheBrookStreetBand
Sonus Audio
Ben Parry
Continuo Foundation

#schutz #earlymusic #venice #violin #recorder #harpsichord #lute #cello #baroquemusic #bsb

❓If you had to choose one piece to introduce Baroque music to the uninitiated what would it be? 🎶

Is there a performance that amazed you, a standout recording, or a particular work that always resonates with you? We'd love to know. Share your Baroque passion in the comments!

🎟️Join The Mozartists for 'Mozart in 1774', part of MOZART 250, featuring the modern-day première of a Paisiello 'scena' later adapted by Mozart. Conducted by Ian Page with soloists Samantha Clarke & Jane Gower.

📅Thu 2 May, 7:30pm
📍Wigmore Hall, London
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Join conductor Gonzalez-Harding & outstanding period soloists for all of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos across two evenings Mayfield Festival. 29 April features Brandenburg 2, 4, 5 and 30 April features 1, 3, 6.

🎉Mayfield Festival
📍 St. Dunstan's Church
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📖 Missed our St George themed Substack? Explore 'The Dragon of Wantley', a satirical opera featuring the bumbling knight Moore & his nemesis, the greedy dragon. See it live with Bellot Ensemble or enjoy the recording by TheBrookStreetBand.
Read more here 👉 continuoconnect.substack.com/p/here-be-drag…

Following on from the release of our Schütz disc on Friday with TheBrookStreetBand, we're excited to announce that we're giving a live performance of the album on Thursday May 30th in Hampstead. Grab your tickets here:

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📖 'Catgut' strings 🙀🎻🎶—a term that intrigues! Join us as we explore the history behind the strings that play such a central roll in the soundscape of historically informed performance.
Explore more in our latest article 👇
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