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OUR 2021 SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OPEN
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It was such a thrill for our cast and creative team to get back to performing live. We opened our doors to two wonderful audiences last Saturday for Coffee Baroque - thanks to everyone who came.
Our team is working hard behind the scenes to prepare for our Summer events (tickets are selling fast!) and our workshop for local children, which is set to be held on Friday 6 August.
Scroll down for your monthly fix of Baroque Birthdays & news from our friends! We also you hope you enjoy these photos taken by Michael Wheatley last weekend.
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VBF Baroque Birthdays
Corrente from 'Six little pieces'
by ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI,
born 2 April May 1660
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Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), born in Palermo, was first and foremost a composer of vocal works, writing over fifty operas (with some wonderful titles like The Enemy of Himself, Happy Deceptions, and Fickle Love and The Cheer) and more than 500 solo cantatas. Prolific is the word. This work-hard mentality was clearly in the genes - his son, Domenico, famously composed 555 keyboard sonatas (the harpsichordist Scott Ross has recorded them all...).
This piece here - a 'Corrente', or 'Courante' in French - is, I think, intended to mean 'in the running style' and not the dance form, which is always in triple time. Indeed, the music theorist Johann Matheson wrote in 1739 that a corrente is 'clearly music on which hopes are built.' This definitely ticks that box, with smiley gusto and an optimistic gung-ho attitude. Just what the doctor ordered.
Jonathan Darbourne
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If you can’t wait until August for more Baroque delights, then check out Eboracum Baroque’s brilliant offering this June. Their ‘Baroque in the Orchard’ season based at The Orchard Tea Garden in Grantchester runs from 24-26 June and includes performances of Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen and other Baroque classics.
https://eboracumbaroque.co.uk/
Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera, Ivan the Terrible, brings a Muscovite passion to the genteel and pastoral surroundings of the Surrey Hills at Grange Park Opera throughout June & July. Book tickets here:
https://grangeparkopera.co.uk/whats-on/ivan-the-terrible/
And finally, from award-winning vocal ensemble SANSARA... Tune into their livestream on Saturday 19 June at 7.30pm for an evening of choral music specially curated for the Wiltshire Music Centre, featuring a varied programme of Renaissance through to modern music. Book tickets here:
https://www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk/whats-on/livestream-sansara
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