Mid-Herts Playing Day with Miriam Monaghan – Society of Recorder Players

Sat 08Feb2025

Playing conducted by Miriam Monaghan

Park Hall, Leyton Road Harpenden AL5 2LX

10:30am - 4:30pm

£15 and students £5

Contact: / 07791 169190

January 2025

Fri 17Jan2025

St Pauls Church

Bedford Street London

1pm - 2.30pm

Free* good will offering

This concert celebrates the rich diversity and broad musical scope of the recorder, emphasizing its remarkable versatility across genres and styles. These renowned pieces have inspired audiences worldwide, and we are thrilled to bring them to you today.

Programme:

Excerpts from Suite for Recorder and Piano: Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)

I.Prelude

II.English Dance

III.Lament

VII.Tarantella

Suite No. 1 for Flute and Jazz Piano: Claude Bolling (1930-2020)

Baroque and Blue

Sentimentale

Irlandaise

Boffon: Jacob van Eyck (1589- 1657)

Peter Hope Sonata

I. Fantasia

II. Threnody

III. Moto Perpetuo

Suite ancienne for descant recorder and piano - Philip Lane

I. Intrada

II. Courtly Dance

III.Minuet

IV. Revelry

Contact: / 020 7836 5221

https://actorschurch.org/whatson/jeffrey-r-wahl-recorder--john-isenberg-piano/

Sat 18Jan2025

Playing Day with Helen Hooker

Kea Community Hall

Playing Place, near Truro TR3 6ET

10:00 - 16:30

£20

Helen is really looking forward to coming to Cornwall as she last visited 10 years ago!
We are very lucky to be able to have her as she is a very talented and busy performer, teacher and conductor.
Players of all size recorders welcome.
Further details from Helen Whomersley, Secretary, Cornwall Branch

Contact: / 07884972047

n/a

Fri 31Jan2025

Hop into our time machine for a whistle-stop tour of musical history from the medieval through to the 18th century! Recorders, lutes, crumhorns, flutes, viols, violin... fasten your seatbelts as 600 years whizz by in 60 minutes!

St Mary's Church

Church Lane, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire, OX25 5NZ

7:30pm

£15.00 / U18 free

4 performers and 37 instruments, performing music from Hildegard to Haydn including Isaac, Alfonso X of Castile, Machaut, Dalza, Schlick, Attaignant, Susato, Cima, Simpson, de la Barre, and Telemann.

Sounds Historical are Heidi Fardell (recorders/flutes), Mary Tyers (recorders/flutes/voice), Alison Kinder (viols) and Lynda Sayce (theorbo/lutes).

Sounds Historical love to chat to their audiences, introducing the music and instruments as the concert progresses. A fun game of 'instrument' bingo keeps their performances inclusive and interactive! Their programmes are carefully researched and arranged, providing an engaging journey through the changes and developments of music and instruments across 600 years!

See you there!