In a two-concert special, we join forces with rising star and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Hugh Cutting, for our Festival debut. Together we celebrate J S Bach’s glorious music, including contemplative solo cantatas and the iconic Brandenburg Concertos. Come along for an hour of sumptuous music or make a full evening and join us […]
In a two-concert special, we join forces with rising star and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Hugh Cutting, for our Festival debut. Together we celebrate J S Bach’s glorious music, including contemplative solo cantatas and the iconic Brandenburg Concertos. Come along for an hour of sumptuous music or make a full evening and join us for […]
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s biblical cantatas are extraordinary historical jewels. Written by a woman, about women and for women, they tell bold, unflinching tales about love, marriage, tragedy and adultery. These breath-taking miniatures – telling the stories of Susanne, Rachel & Judith – have never before been staged in the UK; now, produced in […]
Begun to celebrate his marriage to Constanze, but left unfinished at the composer’s death, Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor can clearly be traced back to the choral writing of J.S. Bach and his son, Carl Phillip Emmanuel. In this televised appearance at the BBC Proms, we unpack the Mass’s musical genealogy, tracing its roots […]
Hot on the heels of last year’s celebrated recording on Linn Records, Dunedin Consort presents all four of Bach’s magnificent Orchestral Suites in live performance at Edinburgh International Festival. Each suite is composed for a different line-up, each richer and more colourful than the last. With intricate counterpoint, extraordinary technical demands and a joyously varied set […]
In the first of two appearances at this year's Festival la Chaise Dieu, Dunedin Consort perform's Bach’s John Passion — or his ‘little Passion’, as Schumann famously called it. It was Bach’s first Passion, and although more slender than the Matthew that would follow three years later, it remains his first piece of grand storytelling. […]
In the second of two appearances at this year's Festival La Chaise Dieu, Dunedin Consort performs Bach's glorious Magnificat and his double-chorus motet, Singet dem Herrn.
Join us for our Edinburgh open rehearsal where Dunedin Consort favourite Nardus Williams rehearses for her most intimate programme yet, drawing together the works of seventeenth-century women that blur the sacred and secular.
Join us for our St Andrews open rehearsal where Dunedin Consort favourite Nardus Williams rehearses for her most intimate programme yet, drawing together the works of seventeenth-century women that blur the sacred and secular.
Dunedin Consort favourite Nardus Williams returns for her most intimate programme yet, drawing together the works of seventeenth-century women that blur the sacred and secular. These songs burn in equal measure for Jesus and more earthly lovers, seeking by turns forgiveness, release, and vengeance: Barbara Strozzi delights in the prospect of revenge on unfaithful partners while Rosa Giacinta Badalla […]
