Bach Connections - Baroque Music from Advent to Lent

Sacred music by Buxtehude and Kuhnau performed by Portsmouth Baroque Choir and the Consort of Twelve Chamber Ensemble conducted by Malcolm Keeler

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Julia Bishop will be directing this concert

Programme to include the bassoon concerto RV 484 in E minor by Vivaldi, the concerto "Alla Rustica" RV 151 in G by Vivaldi, the concerto for two oboes Op 9 No3 in F by Albinoni, the violin concerto P.A.2.3.10 in D minor by Torelli and the concerto grosso Op 6 No1 in D by Corelli.

Alison Bury will be directing this concert

Soloists  Charles Harrison (organ)   Rebecca Leggett (mezzo-soprano)

A programme inspired by the music played at London's Vauxhall gardens, to include the concerto grosso Op 6 No 5 in D and the organ concerto Op 7 No 3 in B flat by Handel, other orchestral and vocal and pieces  and cultural historian David E Cooke in conversation with musicologist Professor Roger Parker.

Before the concert local architectural historian Alan Green will be leading a walk entitled "Elegant Entertainment in Georgian Chichester".

Ashley Solomon will be directing this concert

Programme to include a flute concerto by Galuppi and string concertos by Corelli, Vivaldi and Geminiani

Alessandro Scarlatti  St Cecilia Mass

Handel                          Dixit Dominus HWV 232

Performed by Portsmouth Baroque Choir and the Consort of Twelve Chamber Ensemble conducted by Malcolm Keeler

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1. Handel              Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 5 in D
2. JS Bach            Sinfomia to Cantata BWV 42
3. Pergolesi          Flute Concerto in G
4. Telemann         Suite La Bizarre in G  TWV 55:G2
5. Lully                   Pasacaille from Armide
6. Rebel                 Les Caracteres de la Danse (arranged Pisendel)

Tickets for this concert are £15 (adult) and £5 (student). 

Handel: Saul

Soloists

Charlotte Bowden soprano

Joseph Bolger       countertenor

Kieran White          tenor

Jamie Woollard    bass

Tickets for this concert are £20 (adult) and £5 (student).

Soloist   Timothy Ravalde  organ

Handel                 Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 2 in B flat

Boyce                   Symphony No 3 in C

Handel                 Organ Concerto No 15 in D minor HWV 304

Avison                  Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 8 in E minor

Arne                      Overture No 6 in B flat

Mudge                  Organ Concerto in F

Pepusch               Concerto Grosso in E minor

Tickets for this concert are £15 (adult) amd £5 (student).

The opening recital by international recitalist Margaret Phillips of the newly restored pipe organ in St John's Chapel. Part of the design of the original building, and built in 1816 by the renowned Georgian organ builder George Pike England, the organ has been dismantled and unplayable for the past forty years.  The programme will include works by Handel, Samuel Wesley, the Chichester composer John Marsh and other English composers contemporary with the building of the organ.

Tickets for this recital are £10 and are obtainable by sending a cheque payable to The Pallant Charitable Trust together with a stamped addressed envelope to Jonathan Randall, 22 Orkney Road, Portsmouth, PO6 3UE  or from the Chichester Box Office, The Novium,Tower Street, Chichester, PO19 1QH (01243 775888).