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List of Past Concerts

2019

The Advent of the Baroque

7.30pm Saturday 1 June 2019, St Peter's Church, Charney Bassett
The concert features soprano/recorder player Emma Murphy and lutenist Lynda Sayce playing music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries. Interval refreshments available

To Lands beyond Time

6.00pm Saturday 3rd August 2019, All Saints' Church, Goosey
Music by Debussy, Bax and John Buckley (special commission)
Triocca: Ríona Ó Duinnín - flute, Nancy Johnson - viola, Geraldine O'Doherty - harp
Interval refreshments available

Music and the Landscape

7.30pm Saturday 5th October 2019, St. Denys' Church, Stanford
Music, poetry and art reflecting the beauty of our landscape from Dvorak to Vaughan Williams
Coral Lancaster - cello, Wendy Hiscocks – piano
with Stanford in the Vale Art Group

Handel in the Vale

3.00pm Saturday 24th November 2019, St. Denys' Church, Stanford
Pre-concert talk 2.30pm
Chamber music by our favourite baroque composers - including Bach and Handel.
The Brook Street Band:
Rachel Harris - baroque violin
Tatty Theo - baroque cello
Carolyn Gibley - harpsichord

2018

"A Secret Weiss" - 18th century German lute music

Saturday 14th July 2018, All Saints Church, Goosey 6pm
by Sylvius Leopold Weiss & his contemporaries"
Lynda Sayce – baroque lute

"Autumn Poems and Sonatas"

Saturday 1st September 2018, St. James Church, West Hanney 7.30 pm
Seasonal poems and music by Bach & Beyond ...
Vale Baroque

"Autumn Diversions"

Sunday 4th November 2018, St. Denys’ Church, Stanford 3.00 pm
Music for woodwind from Arnold to Patterson ...
The Loxley Wind Quintet

2017

Dolly Mixtures

Sunday 22nd January 2017, St. Denys’ Church, Stanford 3.00 pm
The Loxley Wind Quintet
Woodwind music from Faure to The Beatles

Early Spring Sonatas

Saturday 4th March 2017, St. Denys’ Church, Stanford 7.30 pm
Alison Bury – violin, Maggie Cole – harpsichord
Solos, Duos & Sonatas by Handel, CPE Bach, Scarlatti, Leclair, JS Bach

Crossing Oceans

Saturday 8th April 2017, St. Denys’ Church, Stanford 7.30 pm
Sophie Webber – cello, Myriam Telleria – piano
Duos for cello & piano from the USA & Spain

The Golden Age – Music of Passion & Pleasure

Saturday 10th June 2017, All Saints Church, Goosey 6pm
Caroline Butler, Edward Fitzgibbon & Ian Giles
Music for voices, violin, lute/theorbo & hurdy-gurdy

From La Belle France

Saturday 22nd July 2017, St. Denys’ Church, Stanford 7.30 pm
Jacqueline Johnson – baroque cello, Arne Richards – harpsichord
A colourful programme from the French Baroque of works by Marais, Boismortier & Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

Taking the Grand Tour

Sunday 15th October 2017, St. Denys Church, Stanford 3.00 pm
Valerie Hartzell – classical guitar & Lorraine Womack-Banning – piano
– Duos & Solos by Boccherini, Carulli, Dyens