Worcestershire Early Music

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Students

Our end of season concert in the Old Bishop’s Palace was a fantastic occasion, attended by a magnificent audience who were well rewarded with some wonderful playing from the conservatoire students……..”the amazing young talent we were privileged to enjoy made for a most heart-warming finale to the season” wrote one of our regular audience members. And another was heard to say: “It seems the future of early music is in safe hands”

Thank you to everyone for a wonderful season of Worcestershire Early Music concerts. Our next season’s dates and artists can be found on the events page and news of the venue will follow shortly.

Our last concert of the season will take place on Sunday 15th June at 3.30pm in

The Bishop’s Palace, Deansway, Worcester

It’s right on the bend before/after the cathedral (depending on which way you’re facing!) Nearest parking is Copenhagen St Car Park (there will only be spaces in the Palace car park for those with a Blue Badge)

We hope you will agree that this is a beautiful venue for our summer concert, offering a complementary ambience to the music we promote.

Students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire studying Historical Performance will perform for us, playing works by Telemann, J.S.Bach, Henry Purcell, Francois Couperin and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

As they come to the end of their final year they will appreciate this opportunity to perform before they begin their professional careers.

Tickets are £20 (free entry to under 18’s) and can be bought at the door or from:earlymusic.sumupstore.com

Our next concert will be bringing the music from mechanical instruments (barrel-organs and organ-clocks) made in the Eighteenth Century to life.

On Sunday April 6th we welcome Emily Baines (recorder/director), Poppy Walshaw (cello) Arngeir Hauksson (theorbo/Baroque guitar) and Steven Devine (harpsichord) who will play works by Purcell, Handel and Geminiani, but maybe not as we’re used to hearing them. Emily’s research into performances found in mechanical instruments give us a unique glimpse into the performance style of this music two hundred years ago.

To find out more visit:

Feature | The Ghost in the Machine | Continuo Connect

https://www.continuoconnect.com/features/the-ghost-in-the-machine

What a great afternoon we had with Sounds Historical and their wonderful collection of instruments!  It was so good to see so many people there to welcome them…it certainly kept those of us on the committee on our toes, finding enough chairs, programmes and cups of tea. But judging by comments received a good time was had by all:

” what a great afternoon of glorious music!”

  “congratulations on organising an amazing concert!”

  “thank you all for your incredible work…you do a wonderful job…Worcester is lucky to have you!” 

“a Time Machine experience led by superb musicians…this is what great concerts are about!” 

And so we look forward now to Sunday April 6th when we hope to see a warm welcome extended to  Amyas who will perform their programme entitled “The Ghost in the Machine.”  Collecting recordings of music built into mechanical organs and clocks from the 18th Century, Emily Baines has found interesting interpretations of works still performed today, comparing for example ornamentation and other performance details not necessarily obvious in the written score.

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