Saffron Walden Early Music
@swearlymusic.bsky.social
Sharing music and dance, esp early, locally and elsewhere. Performances, recordings, news.
Relocated from 🐦.
(Cover image: St Mary’s Parish Church, SW, Nr Cambridge, UK. ©️Peter Riding)
Relocated from 🐦.
(Cover image: St Mary’s Parish Church, SW, Nr Cambridge, UK. ©️Peter Riding)
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How many lutes do you need to recreate a party in Venice in 1514? Three, it turns out! And viols, recorders, a clavicymbalum, and some lovely self-accompanied singing. Just once concert left for 2025 - tickets via our website! #rotherhithe #earlymusic
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How many lutes do you need to recreate a party in Venice in 1514? Three, it turns out! And viols, recorders, a clavicymbalum, and some lovely self-accompanied singing. Just once concert left for 2025 - tickets via our website! #rotherhithe #earlymusic
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FEATURE | Vivanco Resurrected: The pleasure of finding 'new' old music
Musical Director of The Renaissance Singers David Allinson and Producer Stephen Rice discuss the first recording of Sebastian de Vivanco's ‘lost’ Requiem on Toccata
Read now 🔗 https://go.continuoconnect.com/vivanco-resurrected
Musical Director of The Renaissance Singers David Allinson and Producer Stephen Rice discuss the first recording of Sebastian de Vivanco's ‘lost’ Requiem on Toccata
Read now 🔗 https://go.continuoconnect.com/vivanco-resurrected
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
FEATURE | Vivanco Resurrected: The pleasure of finding 'new' old music
Musical Director of The Renaissance Singers David Allinson and Producer Stephen Rice discuss the first recording of Sebastian de Vivanco's ‘lost’ Requiem on Toccata
Read now 🔗 https://go.continuoconnect.com/vivanco-resurrected
Musical Director of The Renaissance Singers David Allinson and Producer Stephen Rice discuss the first recording of Sebastian de Vivanco's ‘lost’ Requiem on Toccata
Read now 🔗 https://go.continuoconnect.com/vivanco-resurrected
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We're delighted that Georgia Mann chose the Magnificat for her #Radio3 Essential Classics Album of the Week segment yesterday. It's "holy/holey" in all senses (Laurie had to reconstruct a lot of missing notes), and it was lovely to hear so much chant! Can't wait to hear what she will feature today.
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
We're delighted that Georgia Mann chose the Magnificat for her #Radio3 Essential Classics Album of the Week segment yesterday. It's "holy/holey" in all senses (Laurie had to reconstruct a lot of missing notes), and it was lovely to hear so much chant! Can't wait to hear what she will feature today.
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Hear how English composers responded to the doctrinal turmoil of the 16th century in our next concert on 18 October, conducted by @davidallinson.bsky.social and illuminated in a pre-performance talk by Dr Kerry McCarthy.
Tickets from £13, free for under 21s.
🎟️ www.renaissancesingers.com/concerts
Tickets from £13, free for under 21s.
🎟️ www.renaissancesingers.com/concerts
September 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hear how English composers responded to the doctrinal turmoil of the 16th century in our next concert on 18 October, conducted by @davidallinson.bsky.social and illuminated in a pre-performance talk by Dr Kerry McCarthy.
Tickets from £13, free for under 21s.
🎟️ www.renaissancesingers.com/concerts
Tickets from £13, free for under 21s.
🎟️ www.renaissancesingers.com/concerts
What better way to spend an autumnal Saturday? 🤩🙌
September 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
What better way to spend an autumnal Saturday? 🤩🙌
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It's Release Day!
Volume 2 of our Morales series is out today.
<Put amusing Morales-related witticism here>
Buying it from Amazon, Presto Classical, or Hyperion Records will help our UK Chart Position. (Yes, really!) We'd be awfully grateful.
Volume 2 of our Morales series is out today.
<Put amusing Morales-related witticism here>
Buying it from Amazon, Presto Classical, or Hyperion Records will help our UK Chart Position. (Yes, really!) We'd be awfully grateful.
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's Release Day!
Volume 2 of our Morales series is out today.
<Put amusing Morales-related witticism here>
Buying it from Amazon, Presto Classical, or Hyperion Records will help our UK Chart Position. (Yes, really!) We'd be awfully grateful.
Volume 2 of our Morales series is out today.
<Put amusing Morales-related witticism here>
Buying it from Amazon, Presto Classical, or Hyperion Records will help our UK Chart Position. (Yes, really!) We'd be awfully grateful.
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Women of London, and a countrywoman (with chicken), their costumes carefully recorded in 1574 by Lucas de Heere from Gent. His day is today.
August 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Women of London, and a countrywoman (with chicken), their costumes carefully recorded in 1574 by Lucas de Heere from Gent. His day is today.
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When @continuoconnect.bsky.social met Heidi Fardell 🪈
Read more about Heidi and her crusade to raise the profile of this wonderful instrument 👉
go.continuoconnect.com/HeidiFardell...
Read more about Heidi and her crusade to raise the profile of this wonderful instrument 👉
go.continuoconnect.com/HeidiFardell...
June 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
When @continuoconnect.bsky.social met Heidi Fardell 🪈
Read more about Heidi and her crusade to raise the profile of this wonderful instrument 👉
go.continuoconnect.com/HeidiFardell...
Read more about Heidi and her crusade to raise the profile of this wonderful instrument 👉
go.continuoconnect.com/HeidiFardell...
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12 July!! ☀️☀️
Continuo Foundation is taking a big step by co-presenting a full afternoon of early music, with concerts from Linarol Consort, Bellot Ensemble, and a fascinating talk by Sir Nicholas Kenyon CBE. It's going to be a wonderful day.
🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/ofa-early-mu...
Continuo Foundation is taking a big step by co-presenting a full afternoon of early music, with concerts from Linarol Consort, Bellot Ensemble, and a fascinating talk by Sir Nicholas Kenyon CBE. It's going to be a wonderful day.
🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/ofa-early-mu...
June 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
12 July!! ☀️☀️
Continuo Foundation is taking a big step by co-presenting a full afternoon of early music, with concerts from Linarol Consort, Bellot Ensemble, and a fascinating talk by Sir Nicholas Kenyon CBE. It's going to be a wonderful day.
🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/ofa-early-mu...
Continuo Foundation is taking a big step by co-presenting a full afternoon of early music, with concerts from Linarol Consort, Bellot Ensemble, and a fascinating talk by Sir Nicholas Kenyon CBE. It's going to be a wonderful day.
🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/ofa-early-mu...
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Calling all emerging early music ensembles! Brighton Early Music Festival is accepting applications to their latest opportunity until 23 May 👀
May 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Calling all emerging early music ensembles! Brighton Early Music Festival is accepting applications to their latest opportunity until 23 May 👀
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My book reconstructing music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques was published recently. OUP has made the Introduction to Part 1 available, where you can read about the process. Free to read till June 13. Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...
academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...
May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My book reconstructing music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques was published recently. OUP has made the Introduction to Part 1 available, where you can read about the process. Free to read till June 13. Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...
academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...
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We are excited to be part of BBC Proms 2025, performing A Mass for Life by Delius, conducted by Mark Elder on Monday 18th August.
With 86 concerts featuring more than 3,000 musicians, join us for eight weeks of world-class music-making with some of the world’s finest musicians.
www.bbc.co.uk/proms
With 86 concerts featuring more than 3,000 musicians, join us for eight weeks of world-class music-making with some of the world’s finest musicians.
www.bbc.co.uk/proms
April 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
We are excited to be part of BBC Proms 2025, performing A Mass for Life by Delius, conducted by Mark Elder on Monday 18th August.
With 86 concerts featuring more than 3,000 musicians, join us for eight weeks of world-class music-making with some of the world’s finest musicians.
www.bbc.co.uk/proms
With 86 concerts featuring more than 3,000 musicians, join us for eight weeks of world-class music-making with some of the world’s finest musicians.
www.bbc.co.uk/proms
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Finding the Lost Murals of the Bardfield Artists, a talk by Alan Powers and part of our annual Fry Lecture Series, is on Friday 25 April at 7.30pm in the Quaker Meeting House, Saffron Walden CB10 1AA. Tickets £6 on the door or on line. See you there!
April 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Finding the Lost Murals of the Bardfield Artists, a talk by Alan Powers and part of our annual Fry Lecture Series, is on Friday 25 April at 7.30pm in the Quaker Meeting House, Saffron Walden CB10 1AA. Tickets £6 on the door or on line. See you there!
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Be sure to join us for Tenebrae — a service of music, silence, drama & darkness as we reflect on the mystery of the cross.
Spy Wednesday, 16 April, at 8pm. At @stbenetscam.bsky.social
Spy Wednesday, 16 April, at 8pm. At @stbenetscam.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Be sure to join us for Tenebrae — a service of music, silence, drama & darkness as we reflect on the mystery of the cross.
Spy Wednesday, 16 April, at 8pm. At @stbenetscam.bsky.social
Spy Wednesday, 16 April, at 8pm. At @stbenetscam.bsky.social
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Date for your diary, and booking is open already for a super singing day exploring Handel’s glorious oratorio.
🎶It seemed the right thing to revisit this masterpiece in our City of Culture year!
@visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @thomasleech.com @bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social
🎶It seemed the right thing to revisit this masterpiece in our City of Culture year!
@visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @thomasleech.com @bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Date for your diary, and booking is open already for a super singing day exploring Handel’s glorious oratorio.
🎶It seemed the right thing to revisit this masterpiece in our City of Culture year!
@visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @thomasleech.com @bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social
🎶It seemed the right thing to revisit this masterpiece in our City of Culture year!
@visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @thomasleech.com @bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social
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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
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Booking is now open for our final concert of the season at St Mary’s Church BSE on 7 June, when we will perform one of the most well-known and best-loved choral works of the repertory: Mozart’s Requiem.
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April 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Booking is now open for our final concert of the season at St Mary’s Church BSE on 7 June, when we will perform one of the most well-known and best-loved choral works of the repertory: Mozart’s Requiem.
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Timeless Musica -
Handel : Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte - Philippe Jaroussky (Mexic... youtu.be/h9UA_LUEpgk?... via @YouTube
#earlymusicnewsorg
Handel : Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte - Philippe Jaroussky (Mexic... youtu.be/h9UA_LUEpgk?... via @YouTube
#earlymusicnewsorg
Handel : Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte - Philippe Jaroussky (Mexico Concert)
YouTube video by Timeless Musica
youtu.be
March 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Timeless Musica -
Handel : Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte - Philippe Jaroussky (Mexic... youtu.be/h9UA_LUEpgk?... via @YouTube
#earlymusicnewsorg
Handel : Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte - Philippe Jaroussky (Mexic... youtu.be/h9UA_LUEpgk?... via @YouTube
#earlymusicnewsorg
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I'm so much looking forward to this! It's selling very well, but there are still a few stalls seats available, and some space in the gallery. 10% off the face value if with the code KINGSTON10!
Book here: cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kin...
Book here: cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kin...
March 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I'm so much looking forward to this! It's selling very well, but there are still a few stalls seats available, and some space in the gallery. 10% off the face value if with the code KINGSTON10!
Book here: cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kin...
Book here: cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kin...
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Excited to welcome tenor Sandeep Gurrapadi to Carmina Burana and This Love Between Us! An internationally acclaimed artist with a passion for contemporary and classical music. Live at St George’s Hall, Bradford on 29 March! 🎶🌏🎼
🎟️ Bradford Theatres @visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk
🎟️ Bradford Theatres @visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Excited to welcome tenor Sandeep Gurrapadi to Carmina Burana and This Love Between Us! An internationally acclaimed artist with a passion for contemporary and classical music. Live at St George’s Hall, Bradford on 29 March! 🎶🌏🎼
🎟️ Bradford Theatres @visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk
🎟️ Bradford Theatres @visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk
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Don't miss Dvořák's vibrant Slavonic Dance No 8; Wagner's masterful Die Meistersinger Prelude, Borodin's popular Polovtsian Dances, and Dvořák's outstanding Symphony No 7
🎶🎻🎺📯🥁
🗓 Sat 22 March 2025
📍 The Apex, #burystedmunds
🎟 bit.ly/SuffolkSinfo...
☎️ Box Office 01284 758000
🔗 suffolksinfonia.co.uk
🎶🎻🎺📯🥁
🗓 Sat 22 March 2025
📍 The Apex, #burystedmunds
🎟 bit.ly/SuffolkSinfo...
☎️ Box Office 01284 758000
🔗 suffolksinfonia.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Don't miss Dvořák's vibrant Slavonic Dance No 8; Wagner's masterful Die Meistersinger Prelude, Borodin's popular Polovtsian Dances, and Dvořák's outstanding Symphony No 7
🎶🎻🎺📯🥁
🗓 Sat 22 March 2025
📍 The Apex, #burystedmunds
🎟 bit.ly/SuffolkSinfo...
☎️ Box Office 01284 758000
🔗 suffolksinfonia.co.uk
🎶🎻🎺📯🥁
🗓 Sat 22 March 2025
📍 The Apex, #burystedmunds
🎟 bit.ly/SuffolkSinfo...
☎️ Box Office 01284 758000
🔗 suffolksinfonia.co.uk
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Experience the powerful voice of mezzo-soprano Shivani Rattan in This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity at St George's Hall on 29 March. From Papagena to Ellie Goulding, she's a musical force to be reckoned with. Don’t miss out! 🎟️ Search ‘Carmina’ on Bradford Theatres website. @bradford2025.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Experience the powerful voice of mezzo-soprano Shivani Rattan in This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity at St George's Hall on 29 March. From Papagena to Ellie Goulding, she's a musical force to be reckoned with. Don’t miss out! 🎟️ Search ‘Carmina’ on Bradford Theatres website. @bradford2025.co.uk
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Hey, pause that doomscroll, breathe, and then gift yourself these 170 seconds of vibrant, effervescent Corelli.
This transcription for viola da gamba by Teodoro Baù keeps that violin line sparkle and adds velvety warmth that you didn’t know ya needed. One of my favs. #ClassicalMusic
This transcription for viola da gamba by Teodoro Baù keeps that violin line sparkle and adds velvety warmth that you didn’t know ya needed. One of my favs. #ClassicalMusic
CORELLI // Sonata XI Op. 5: II. Allegro by Teodoro Baù & Andrea Buccarella
YouTube video by Outhere Music
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March 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Hey, pause that doomscroll, breathe, and then gift yourself these 170 seconds of vibrant, effervescent Corelli.
This transcription for viola da gamba by Teodoro Baù keeps that violin line sparkle and adds velvety warmth that you didn’t know ya needed. One of my favs. #ClassicalMusic
This transcription for viola da gamba by Teodoro Baù keeps that violin line sparkle and adds velvety warmth that you didn’t know ya needed. One of my favs. #ClassicalMusic
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Don't miss sitarist Kirtan Virdee at St George's Hall on 29 March! Trained by Dharambir Singh, blending tradition with innovation. Experience the mesmerising sound of the sitar in Reena Esmail's 'This Love Between Us'. Tickets available at Bradford Theatres, search ‘Carmina’ for this double-header!
March 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Don't miss sitarist Kirtan Virdee at St George's Hall on 29 March! Trained by Dharambir Singh, blending tradition with innovation. Experience the mesmerising sound of the sitar in Reena Esmail's 'This Love Between Us'. Tickets available at Bradford Theatres, search ‘Carmina’ for this double-header!
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🎶 Meet the Maestro @thomasleech.com
Leading the first half on 29 March, he's an exceptional choral director, inspiring singers as our MD since 2008 & Director of the @dolmusic.bsky.social Schools Singing Programme.
Join us @ St George’s Hall for Esmail & Orff!
🎟 Bradford Theatre website.
Join us @ St George’s Hall for Esmail & Orff!
🎟 Bradford Theatre website.
March 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🎶 Meet the Maestro @thomasleech.com
Leading the first half on 29 March, he's an exceptional choral director, inspiring singers as our MD since 2008 & Director of the @dolmusic.bsky.social Schools Singing Programme.
Join us @ St George’s Hall for Esmail & Orff!
🎟 Bradford Theatre website.
Join us @ St George’s Hall for Esmail & Orff!
🎟 Bradford Theatre website.