Cheltenham and Gloucester Playing Day with Sarah Whomersley

Sat 11May2024

For further details please email

Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, Gloucester GL4 6LA

10 am - 4 pm

£15

Contact: / 07751298840

May 2024

Sun 19May2024

A varied programme of compositions and arrangements for recorder orchestra.

St Giles Community Hall

Main St, Balderton, Notts NG24 3LN

4pm - 5pm

Retiring collection for Beaumond House Hospice, Newark.

A concert of music composed or arranged for recorder orchestra - including works by Lyndon Hilling, Elizabeth King and David Moses. Entry is free but there will be a retiring collection for Beaumond House Community Hospice in Newark. You are very welcome to join us for refreshments after the concert.

Contact: / 01636678500

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Sun 19May2024

Fiori’s favourite woodwind players perform Vivaldi in this picturesque setting

St Botolph’s Church, Slapton, Northants NN12 8PF

6pm - 8pm

£6 - £25

Whitsunday 2024 'And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting...' Acts 2:2

To mark Whitsunday Fiori bring some of their favourite woodwind players to perform in the tiny, picturesque village church at Slapton.

Famous for its late medieval wall paintings, this delightful venue with Jacobean wood panelling resounds with virtuoso music by VIVALDI and his contemporaries.

Come and enjoy an evening of spectacular baroque woodwind music performed by some of this country’s finest specialist musicians in this beautiful setting.

Vivaldi 'Lund' Trio in G minor
Couperin Concerts Royaux no.1 in G
Telemann Trio Sonata for flute & oboe in E minor from Tafelmusick II
Vivaldi Recorder sonata in G RV806
Heinichen Sonata for oboe & bassoon in C minor
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor RV103

Sarah Humphrys oboe/recorder, Annabel Knight recorder/flute, Sally Holman bassoon,
Penelope Rapson director

Tickets are available from ticketsoursource.co.uk/fiori (or on the door). (Concessions for children, students and blue badge holders. )

Contact: / 07786 257 775

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Wed 22May2024

Spain 1492: songs & stories of women & Spanish medieval music

Corn Exchange, Market Place, Newbury RG14 5BD

7.30pm - 9.20pm

£25 . Under 30s Free

“Last night’s performance was so utterly moving - a human story brought to life… a collaborative wondrous experience that touched every part of my being.”
Audience member (2022)

A concertplay (where music and theatre collide) written by Clare Norburn and directed by BAFTA-nominated Nicholas Renton, featuring Emily Baines on recorders & douçaine.

Spain, 1492. At twilight on her final night in Seville, a Jewish woman, played by Suzanne Ahmet (subject to availability - @sohoplace, The King’s Head Theatre, Chester Storyhouse), lights the lamps. She is being forced to leave Spain and set sail for an uncertain future. Her story echoes down the ages to the personal stories of people affected by politics and war today. She tunes into the voices of a community of Jewish, Christian and Muslim women from across the Spanish peninsula.

Down the centuries, women’s stories of integration, love, the rich cultural heritage of the Spanish peninsula and racial intolerance are played out to a soundtrack of plaintive Sephardic songs and lively medieval music performed live by The Telling, with full staging and stunning lighting. Be transported back to 15th-century Seville!

Each half will last 40-45mins.

Supported by The Shoresh Charitable Trust, Unity Theatre Trust and Arts Council England.

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