Happy New Year to you all! Our first concert of the new year takes place in a month’s time, on Sunday, 2nd February 2025.

We’re delighted to be welcoming Sounds Historical to Worcester!

600 years! Hildegard to Haydn showcases a wide and exciting variety of instruments, composers and styles, (think rebec, gittern/Medieval lute/recorders /Medieval flutes/percussion/voice/theorbo/crumhorns/ renaissance lute/recorders, Renaissance & Baroque flutes/ viols) all carefully researched and arranged, to provide an accessible journey through the changes and developments of music and instruments across 600 years!

Sounds Historical is a wonderfully engaging group, who speak to the audiences, keeping the performances inclusive and interactive – including a game of ‘instrument’ bingo! Composers will include Hildegard von Bingen, Isaac, Alfonso X of Castile, Machaut, Dalza, Schlick, Attaignant, Susato, Cima, Simpson, de la Barre, Telemann, and Haydn.

Sounds Historical are:

Heidi Fardell recorders
Mary Tyers recorders and flute
Lynda Sayce flute and theorbo
Alison Kinder viols

Author: Barbara Dunn

Barbara trained as a teacher and worked for most of her career in Primary Education, eventually serving as a headteacher in Reading and then in Worcester, before taking early retirement. She has been involved with Worcestershire Early Music from its beginning, delivering workshops and organising concerts and the Pride and Prejudice Ball. Barbara is an enthusiastic amateur musician, playing regularly in many different formal and informal gatherings. She performs with the Lachrimae Consort on flute and recorder View all posts by Barbara Dunn