Promoting the enjoyment and understanding of music composed before 1800
Tickets are now available for the Worcester Early Music 2020 Festival – and we have a great line-up of musical treats for you. Add the dates to your diary now!
Friday 29 May – Elin Manahan Thomas and Elizabeth Kenny
Saturday 30 May – Ensemble Molière
Sunday 31 May – Apollo’s Revels
More details on our website – tickets available from Eventbrite
You may not have heard much from us at Worcestershire Early Music since the summer – but that’s because we have been so busy behind the scenes! There are lots of events in the pipeline, including our Festival which is nearly ready to go. Our first event of 2020 is a collaboration with Ben Sawyer’s Oriel Singers, from Cheltenham, on Saturday 7 March, for which we’re providing instrumentalists including cornetts, sackbuts and other exotica. You might have caught Monteverdi’s Beatus Vir on Radio 3 the other day – that’s likely to be in the programme. It’s an extraordinary and exciting piece of music – don’t miss it!
We’re organising another come-and-sing-early-music day this year on Saturday 31 August, with specialist conductor/director Robert Howarth, and his singer wife Lisa Wilson. Don’t miss it! There’s further information on our Events page – we’ll be looking at some wonderful madrigals by Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Schütz.