Early Music aficionado Jasper Solomon writes: ‘This is the September/October/November listing. The October/November/December listing will appear towards the end of September.
If you know of an early music event in Cornwall, Devon & Somerset that I have not included, please let me have details by email.’
September
Sunday 2 at 3 pm
Sherwell United Church, North Hill, Plymouth PL4 8ER
Devon Telemann Ensemble: Mary Eade, Anna Cockroft, Brenda Willoughby violins, Pam Canter recorder/harpsichord, Andrew Gillett viola, Vicky Evans cello & Michael Allnatt bass
Music by Telemann, Bach, Handel and Sarri
Tickets £13 at the door, u26s free. Enquiries to 01803 863677.
Sunday 2 at 3 pm
Wells Cathedral
Steven Devine
The French Baroque Harpsichord
Rich and exotic music of the French Baroque in the beautiful candlelit surroundings of the Cathedral Quire.
Tickets: £12.00 from Wells Cathedral Shop Box Office (01749 672773) and at the door.
Saturday 15 at 7.30pm
St. Mary’s Church, High Street, Totnes
Emily Askew Band: Emily Askew fiddle, bagpipes, shawm, recorder, vocals, Simon Whittaker percussion, Jamie Roberts guitar, fiddle, vocals, John Dipper viola d’amore, fiddle.
Alchemy: from their debut album, described by The Times as: “One of the albums of the year” and The Guardian as: “Mixing folk and early music with beauty and precision”.
This is a Totnes Early Music Society concert in association with The Arts at Dartington
Details from emily askew band and TEMS
Sunday 16 at 4 pm
Dartington Great Hall
Catherine Hamilton soprano, Barbara Degener cello, eight cellos & Divertimento Ensemble
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras 1 & 5
Bach: Cello Suite no 3
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 3 & 6.
Tickets £12 – £18 from Dartington Arts Box Office: 01803 847070 or boxoffice@dartington.org
Fundraising concert for Rowcroft and Torbay Oncology Patients’ Amenity Fund
Saturday 22 at 7.30pm
The Grange, Buckfast Abbey, Devon TQ11 0EE
Buckfast Bach Hours
Richard Lester (harpsichord)
Programme to include Preludes and Fugues, Inventions, and Partitas
Details from https://www.buckfast.org.uk/concerts
Saturday 22 at 3pm
St. Michael and All Angels Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter EX4 4EB
Musicke in the Ayre: Gillian Wormley soprano & Din Ghani lute
Amor et Virtute – songs associated with Walter Raleigh and others by Dowland, Jones, Hume, Lanier & Gibbons.
Tickets £12 (seniors £10, under 16s £6) at the door. £11,
£9, £5 online at musicke in the ayre
Thursday 27 at 1.05 – 1.45pm
Wells Cathedral
Matthew Owens organ
Bach: Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV551, Prelude & Fugue in C BWV 547, Choral Preludes from Das Orgelbüchlein
Twenty-third of the bi-monthly series of organ recitals surveying Bach’s complete organ works.
Admission free. Retiring collection in aid of Wells Cathedral Music.
Friday 28 at 7.30pm
The James Wyatt Music Room, Powderham Castle
Steve Tyler & Katy Marchant perform an eclectic mix of medieval and traditional music on hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, shawm, gothic harp, cittern and other instruments.
Tickets £16 + booking fee for adults, £8 + booking fee for students.
Details from powderham
October
Saturday 13 at 7.30pm
The James Wyatt Music Room, Powderham Castle
Devon Baroque , directed by Persephone Gibbs
Logic and Beauty
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and solo concertos for flute, violin and harpsichord.
Tickets £15 (students & under 18s £5) from Dartington Box office 01803 947070, online at Dartington, at Dartington Bookshop, High Street, Totnes and on the door.
This concert is in association with The Arts at Dartington.
Details from DB
Monday 15 at 11am
St John The Baptist Church, North Bovey TQ13 8RU
Ashley Solomon – flute
Telemann: Fantasias in A major Nos. 1 & 2
J S Bach: Partita in A minor BWV1013
Telemann: Fantasia in B minor No 3
Tickets £10. Online booking: Two Moors Box office: 01392 665885
Monday 15 at 4pm
St Peter’s Church, Buckland-In-The-Moor TQ13 7HP
Ashley Solomon – flute
Telemann: Fantasia in D major No 7, Fantasia in E minor No 8, Fantasia in E major No 9, Fantasia in F sharp minor No 10, Fantasia in G major No 11, Fantasia in G minor No 12
Tickets £10. Online booking: Two Moors Box office: 01392 665885
Friday 19 at 7.30pm
Courtenay Centre, Kingsteignton Road, Newton Abbot TQ12 2QA
Chamber Philharmonic of Europe, with Kirill Gusarov – trumpet and Michel Gershwin – violin
Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in G minor
Glazotto: Adagio in G minor for String Orchestra (based on theme by Albinoni)
Hummel : Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E, BWV 1042
Fauré: Pavane for Orchestra, Op. 50
Tickets £15.00 on the door; £13 in advance, Students £2, accompanied children free, from Newton Abbot TIC, 01626 215667 or Dawlish TIC, 01626 215665
A Newton and District Society of Arts (NADSA) event
Saturday 20 at 7.30pm
St. Mary’s Church, High Street, Totnes
RCM Baroque Ensemble
Baroque Gems
Music for violin, flute, cello and theorbo including Telemann Fantasias, concerti from Vivaldi and Telemann and a Bach Trio Sonata.
Tickets for non-members in advance £13, under 18s £5, on the door £14/£5, from the Dartington Box Office (01803 847070) and website Dartington or on the door.
This is a Totnes Early Music Society concert in association with The Arts at Dartington.
Details from TEMS
November
Friday 30 at 7.30pm
United Free Church, Fore Street, Totnes
Steven Devine – fortepiano & Kate Semmens – soprano
O Tuneful Voice
Explores the musical scene in Vienna and London in the late 1700s.
Tickets for non-members in advance £13 (under 18s £5), on the door £14/£5, from the Dartington Box Office (01803 847070) and website www.dartington.org, or on the door.
This is a TEMS concert in association with The Arts at Dartington
Details from TEMS
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