Our instrumental and vocal clinics are open to all non-professional musicians of any age, whether enthusiastic amateurs or budding students. Participants will have the opportunity to work on a piece of music with one of our internationally renowned musicians, all in a friendly and supportive environment. To apply, please complete the application form on the Clinics page.
Join us on Thursday 23 January in London, for our open rehearsal of Handel's Susanna - one of his lesser-known oratorios. Despite this, it is one for our time, with depressingly familiar themes of sexual assault by those in power, corruption, and the fickleness of public opinion. Susanna rejects the unwelcome attention of two lascivious […]
Susanna is one of Handel’s lesser-known oratorios. But it’s one for our time, with depressingly familiar themes of sexual assault by those in power, corruption, and the fickleness of public opinion. Susanna rejects the unwelcome attention of two lascivious elders who spy on her while she bathes alone. In retaliation, they concoct false charges of adultery […]
UK PREMIERE Pulled from an Irish bog in 2006, the Faddan More Psalter serves as the inspiration for a new cantata from David Fennessy that uses similar orchestration to the unusual forces of this evening’s other three cantatas. Pairs of recorders, cellos, and violas da gamba take centre stage, sharing the limelight with four outstanding […]
Bach’s Matthew Passion is an annual fixture in the Dunedin Consort calendar and it’s a privilege to bring it once again to Wigmore Hall at the start of their 125th anniversary celebrations. This monumental work delivers the drama of Holy Week, all the while reflecting on the cosmic and theological consequences of Jesus’ life and crucifixion. […]
Restoration London leaps to life in a programme of music about music. It begins and ends with two of Henry Purcell’s odes to St Cecilia, music’s patron saint, and includes a richly chromatic trio sonata by the Anglo-Italian composer Giovanni Battista Draghi. Henry Hall’s ode and John Blow’s memorial setting of verse by John Dryden […]
Mary Magdalene is one of the most enigmatic figures of the Passion narrative, close at hand and yet never quite in focus across the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Tansy Davies Passion of Mary Magdalene John Butt director Anna Dennis Mary Magdalene Marcus Farnsworth Jesus Mary Magdalene is one of the most enigmatic […]
Imagine sitting in the Thomaskirche on Sunday morning in Leipzig, four years into Bach’s tenure as musical director. By now you’re used to some extraordinary music from the great man, but BWV 169 is something else. Not only does it begin with what can only be described as an organ concerto but then it uses […]
A brand-new show featuring three-hundred-year-old music, ‘In the Belly of the Beast’ combines the beauty and intimacy of the baroque cantata, with bold theatrical storytelling. A co-production from Hera, Mahogany Opera and Dunedin Consort In the Belly of the Beast Three cantatas by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) With a new English libretto by Toria Banks Directed by Jennifer Fletcher Élisabeth […]
A brand-new show featuring three-hundred-year-old music, ‘In the Belly of the Beast’ combines the beauty and intimacy of the baroque cantata, with bold theatrical storytelling. A co-production from Hera, Mahogany Opera and Dunedin Consort In the Belly of the Beast Three cantatas by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) With a new English libretto by Toria Banks Directed by Jennifer Fletcher Élisabeth […]
