Festival-goers who remember Dunedin’s glorious performance of Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’ a few years ago will want to plunge into the turbulent waters of his secular music in this programme. Dunedin Consort's singers and instrumentalists unite in a ravishing selection of madrigals about love, loss and war from his 6th, 7th and 8th Books – ardent, vivid […]
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 […]
Dunedin Consort are joined by rising star Alexander Chance to give a taste of the musical talents that flocked to Vienna and its wealth of opportunities in the first half of the 18th Century. Zelenka’s inventive harmony, Tůma’s gallant simplicity and Vivaldi’s compelling combination of directness and beauty demand virtuosity from all on stage in […]
Shortly after Bach’s death in 1750, his Markus Passion was hand-delivered by his son C.P.E. to his Leipzig publisher, Johann Breitkopf. We’re deeply familiar with his John and Matthew Passions but it was not for a century that the editor collating a new complete J.S. Bach edition noticed that the music for the Markus was […]
One of the highlights of the Dunedin Consort year is a short trip into the East Lothian countryside for the annual Lammermuir Festival. Dietrich Buxtehude Mein Herz ist bereit, BuxWV 73 Johann Sebastian Bach Oboe d’amore Concerto in A major, BWV 1055 Cristoph Graupner Ouverture in g minor, GWV 469 Johann Sebastian Bach Ich habe genug, BWV 82 John Butt director Matthew Brook bass […]
