Little things in odd shape is a series of concerts of unusual chamber music. It takes place at the beginning of every year featuring baroque, classical and folk music, on period instruments
** ACT ONE **
#1
Sunday 25th January – 6pm
BARBARA STROZZI
and music by Wilhelmine
Von Bayreuth, Claudia Sessa & Jacquet de la Guerre
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Programme
-B. Strozzi: “Amor è bandito”, op. 6 n. 7
-B. Strozzi: “Lagrime mie”, op. 7 n. 4
-Jacquet de la Guerre: Sonata n. 2 in d major (presto || adagio || presto || allegro)
-Claudia Sessa: “Sopra gli occhi”
-B. Strozzi: “Che si può fare?”, op. 8 n. 6
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-A. M. Bartolotti: Gigue & Menuette
-F. Corbetta: Autre Chaconne
-B. Strozzi: “La riamata da chi amava”, op. 2 n. 18
-C. F. Abel: A piece for the Viol – WKO186
-Wilhelmine von Bayreuth: Sonata in A minor for recorder and continuo (amoroso || presto || allegro)
-B. Strozzi: “Amor dormiglione”, op. 2 n. 22
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Mariana Rodrigues – soprano
Johan Löfving – theorbo & baroque guitar
Kate Conway – cello & Gamba
Nicola Barbagli – recorders & oboe
#2
Sunday 15th February – 6pm
A BAROQUE PANCAKES MASQUERADE
Try our homemade (Italian) pancakes
with music by Telemann , Mancini, Valentini and many more
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Programme
-A. Campra: ‘Le Carnival de Venise’ (Le marche du Carnival || rondò)
-attr. to G. Valentini: Concerto for oboe, 2 violins and basso in G minor (andante || allegro || adagio || presto)
-Anonymus (attr. to G. Ph. Telemann): Quartetto for violin, oboe, cello and continuo in G minor D-DI Mus. 2-Q-21,1 (grave || fuge – allegro || arioso – andante || allegro)
-A. Vivaldi: Trio sonata op.1 no.12 in D minor RV63 “La follia” for 2 violins and continuo
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-B. Marcello: Ciaccona from sonata op.2 no.12 in F
-F. Mancini: Concerto XVIII for recorder, 2 violins and basso in F (Napoli 1725) (largo || fuga || a tempo giusto || allegro)
-G. Ph. Telemann: Concerto for oboe, 2 violins and basso TWV 51:D5 (grazioso || vivace || adagio || scherzando)
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
oboe/recorder – Nicola Barbagli || violins – Beatrice Scaldini & Rebecca Harris || cello – Kate Conway || double bass / bass de violin – John-Henry Baker || theorbo – Johan Löfving || harpsichord – Dominika Maszczynska
#3
Sunday 15th March – 6pm
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
music by Wranitzky, Fiala, Druschetzky & Kočvara
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Programme
-J. Fiala: Quartet in C Major / B flat (allegro moderato || andante poco adagio || menuetto || rondò – poco andante/allegro)
BOHEMIAN SET #1
-František Kočvara: Allegro from viola sonata op.1 n.3 in C major
-J. Fiala: Adagio from duo in F major – oboe & cello
-A. Wranitzky: Allegro from Duo for 2 violins
-A. Wranitzky: Quartet op.4 n.2 in G major (allegro || adagio con sordino || alla polacca – trio || rondò – allegro)
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-W. A. Mozart: Presto from sonata K331 for oboe, viola, cello
BOHEMIAN SET #2
-P. Wranitzky: allegro from Trio in b flat fro oboe, viola and cello
J. Stamitz: Fugue for solom violin
-P. Wranitzky: rondò from Trio op.17 n.3 in C major for violin, viola and cello
-G. Druschetzky: Quartet in E flat for oboe, violin, viola and cello (adagio – allegro || andante || rondò)
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
oboe – Nicola Barbagli || violins – Abel Balazs & Alma Balazs || viola – Hannah Gardiner || cello – Martyna Jankowska
** ACT TWO **
#4
Sunday 12th April 2026- 6pm
A LATE EASTER EGG Concert
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
#5
Sunday 26th April 2026- 6pm
INTESA
Viols & Voice
NATHAN GIORGETTI
LUCINE MUSAELIAN
#6
Wednesday 29th April 2026 – 7pm
Brandeburg 6 – A Feast of Violas
and music by J. S. Bach & Telemann
ENSEMBLE ARAUNE & ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
PAST EDITIONS
2025
#1
Sunday 26th January 6 pm
THREE OBOES IN VIENNA
Music by Beethoven, Went & Wranitzky
for 2 oboes & cor anglais
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The peculiar sound of 2 oboes and a cor anglais – a fairly in-extraordinary sight and one of many small wind ensembles in Vienna at the end of the 1700s, is the protagonist of this concert.
Even Beethoven was inspired by this sound combination and wrote for it his Trio op.87. He probably attended a performance of Johan, Philip & Franz Teimer: The 3 (biological) brothers and oboe players working in Vienna around the end of the century. This concert’s performers aren’t biological, but it’s the best we could do…
Programme
-L. V. Beethoven: Trio in C major op87 (Allegro || adagio || scherzo/menuetto || finale presto)
-W. A. Mozart: ‘al desio di chi t’adora’ KV577 [arranged for oboe trio]
-Johan Went: divertimento in B flat
(Adagio/allegro || minuetto & trio || adagio || rondo’ allegretto)
-G. Vogt – Adagio religioso
-A. Wranitzky – Trio in C major
(Adagio || allegro)
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Nicola Barbagli – oboe & cor anglais || Antonello Cola – oboe || James Eastway – oboe & cor anglais
#2
Wednesday 12th February 7:30 pm
WINDS OF VIRTUOSITY
From the eccentric to the bizarre
Sonatas by Zelenka, Fasch, Platti & Schickhardt
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In this concert we will pay homage to one of the most eccentric composers of the baroque era: Jan Dismas Zelenka. In 2019 we undertook the adventurous idea of a Zelenka-Music-Marathon based on his 6 sonatas for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo. Those are really extravagant compositions that push the boundaries of harmony, structure and stamina. Incredibly visionary , they raise the question of how technical instrumental virtuosity needs to be part of the expression/effect of the performance rather than an egocentric demonstration of the performer’s ability. Really ahead of their time! They were clearly written for very skilful musicians of the Dresden’s Court Orchestra, where Zelenka was violone player, and they are still demanding pieces by modern standards. We have included in the program a similar kind of sonata by Fasch and a a ‘quadro sonata’ by Schickhardt where the 2 recorders are added to the band creating an unusual mellow sound. Somehow these are brought together by Purcell’s classic Two in one upon a ground. We have a very good friend joining us from Paris especially for this concert: oboist Yanina Yacubshon a regular player of les Arts Florissant.
Programme
-J. D. Zelenka: Sonata II in G minor for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo ZWV181 (andante || allegro || andante || allegro)
-H.Purcell: Two upon a ground – from “Diocletian”
-J. F. Fasch: Trio Sonata in B flat for 2 oboes and continuo FaWVN:B2
(andante || allegro || largo || allegro)
-J. Schickhardt: Sonata n.5 in D op.22, for 2 recorders, oboe and continuo (adagio || rigaudon || vivace || gigue)
-J. D. Zelenka – Allegro from Sonata V in F major for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo ZWV181
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Nicola Barbagli – oboe & recorder || Yanina Yacubshon – oboe || Inga Maria Klaucke – bassoon & recorder || Johan Lofving – theorbo || John-Henry Baker – double bass & bass violin || Dominika Maszczynska – harpsichord
#3
Sunday 23rd February 6 pm
LOUD HORNS & SOFT PIPES
Graun and Fasch trios & Purcell’s consort dances
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Loud horns and soft pipes are quite simple ideas. Some instruments are definitely loud and others are definitely soft. The landscape changes when we consider a consorts of viols, or recorders. Even more so when you mix loud and soft instruments. Historically, concepts of loud and soft are more related to the musical affect and the theatrical effect we want to produce in front of the audience rather than simply the volume of sound those instruments produce. We have selected works from different corners of the so-called baroque period, from the very soft and intimate to the loud and folky.
Graun and Fasch horn pieces are very rarely performed: the Graun horn trios are a handwritten collection kept in the Akademiska kapellet at the Lund University Library in Sweden, while Fasch’s trio sonata was probably written for the small orchestra of Zerbst where Fasch reluctantly accepted the post of Kapellmeister. Fasch was invited to apply for the position of Thomaskantor in Lipsia, which Bach won as a second choice over Telemann. We know from letters that both Bach and Telemann held Fasch’s music in high esteem. Bach wrote the ‘soft’ sonata that opens cantata BWV192 for Palm Sunday: 22 bars of intimate dialogue between a violin and a recorder over a carpet of string pizzicato.
One piece that definitely deserves some attention is Molter’s small quartet, which is a combination of an oboe concert, a quadro sonata and a pre-classical quartet.
Finally, Purcell remains, for us, the master of balancing ‘soft’ and loud, folky and academic, intimate and extravagant…his Fantasias, Hornpipes and Chaconnes will be guiding you through the concert.
Programme
-H. Purcell: Hornpipe from ‘King Arthur’ Z.628 || March & Rondeau from ‘The Old Bachelor’ Z.607 || Fantasia in 4 parts in C minor Z.738
-J. G. Graun: Trio in D for oboe d’amore, horn and continuo IKG83 (andante || allegro || largo || minuetto)
-J .Jenkins: Corant, Air & Rant
-G. Della Casa: Divisions on “Qual è più grand’amore” by Cipriano de Rore
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-J. S. Bach: Sonata from cantata BWV 182
-M. J. Molter: Quadro in E minor for oboe, violin, viola and continuo MWV 9.19 (ellegro || siciliano || allegro)
-J. F. Fasch: trio sonata in F for violin, oboe, horn and continuo FaWV N:F3 (andante || allegro || lagro || allegro)
-H. Purcell: Hornpipe from ‘The Old Bachelor’ Z.607 || Third Act Tune from ‘The Indian Queen’ Z.630 || Hornpipe from ‘The double dealer’ Z.592 || La Grand Danse from ‘King Arthur’ Z.628.
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Peter Moutoussis – horn || Nicola Barbagli – oboe & recorder || Rebecca Harris – violin || Hannah Gardiner – viola || Giuseppe Ciraso Calì – viola da gamba || John-Henry Baker – bass violin || Dominika Maszczynska – harpsichord
#4
Friday 7th March 7.30 pm
TUNED STORIES
What were composers whistling under the shower? music by Telemann, Mozart, Haydn, Bartok, Bach… and more!
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Have you ever asked yourself the question, how did a composer come up with that tune?
Do they have a way of creating this melody?
Does the composer use a special technique or formula to create the main melody which they know is going to work?
Why are some tunes stuck in our heads and more memorable than others?
Is it a special recipe the composer has?
Or have they been secretly stealing from other pieces of theirs, or other artists?
What about the famous copyright court cases we hear about?
One common inspiration we have found in our repertoire has been the local area – for example melodies sung during hard labour, on the farm or at sea, or at church. Each composer has a different approach to how they hear, process and develop this musical input. In this programme we conjure a different scene for each piece; some have a clear link, such as Haydn’s Hungarian Rondò, and Bartok’s transylvanian folk melodies; others have a more general connection, like Bach’s French dances and Chopin’s waltzes. Personal hygiene and frequency of washing aside, we wonder: what were our composers whistling in the shower?
Programme
-N. Matteis: Prelude
-Anonymous: Il lamento di Tristano || la rotta || saltarello
-J. S. Bach: Burres from Eglish Suites n.1 and n.2 BWV 806-807
-G. Ph. Telemann: Canonic sonata n.3 in D major TWV 40:120 (spiritoso || largo || allegro)
-Vikers: Hornpipes
-H. Purcell: hornpipes from “The old Bachelor” Z.607
-F. J. Haydn: Rondò all’ungherese from trio HOB XV:25
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-J. Ph. Rameau: an ‘Istante Suite’ arranged from Pièce de Clavecin: Menuet an rondeau || la villageoise || Riguadon
-F. Chopin: Waltz op.69 n.2
-J. S. Bach: Gavottes from Eglish Suites n.3 and n.6 BWV 808-811.
-Bela Bartok: an ‘Istante Suites’ arranged from Sonatina SZ55, 10 easy pieces SZ39, Transylvania dances SZ96: Bagpipers || Bear Dance || an evening in Transylvania || n.30 Andante || n.42 Allegro Vivace
-G. Bizet: Minuet from “l’Arlesienne”
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Ellen Bundy – violins || Nicola Barbagli – accordion, oboes and flutes || John-Henry Baker – double bass, bass violin, percussion
2024
#1
Sunday 4th February 2024, 6 pm
A STARLIT GROVE
INCANTATI
music by Bach, Handel and Telemann contrasted with arrangements of Ukrainian and other Eastern European traditional melodies
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A STARLIT GROVE
baroque and contemporary music of enchantment
Programme
-Trad Ukrainian love song arr. Rachel Stott (2022): Misyats’ na Nebi (The Crescent in the Sky)
-Henry Purcell/John Dryden: Music for a While
-Brooke Green (2021): The Spirit of Daphne for solo viola da gamba
-G. Ph. Telemann: Fantasia in Eb major for solo violin
(Dolce || Allegro || Largo || Presto)
-J. S. Bach: Organ Trio Sonata in D minor BWV 527
(Andante || Adagio e Dolce || Vivace)
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-Rachel Stott (2024): Games Without End
-J. S. Bach: Duetti in A minor and F major (arr. for viola d’amore and viola da gamba)
-C. F. Abel (from Drexel Man.): Unaccompanied movement for solo viola da gamba
-J. S. Bach: Aria from the Goldberg Variations BWV 988
(Andante)
-Ukrainian folk song arr. Rachel Stott (2022): Oy uhayu pry dunayu (In the Grove by the Danube)
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INCANTATI
baroque violin – Persephone Gibbs || viola d’amore – Rachel Stott || viola da gamba – Ibrahim Aziz
with: Swithun Cooper – reader
Song’s Texts
Misyats’ na Nebi
The Crescent in the Sky
The moon’s in the heavens, the stars all are
sparkling,
On the sea there floats a boat.
In that boat, a maiden sings sweetly,
A young Kozak hears it – his heart is breaking.
The song is so lovely, the song is endearing,
It’s all about loving, it’s all about love
How we had loved, and how we had parted,
And now come together forever again.
O those eyes, those eyes, the eyes of a maiden,
Dark, like the night, and bright, like the day!
Your dear eyes have taught me to weep,
Where have you learned to mislead people so?
Music for a While
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Wond’ring how your pains were eas’d
And disdaining to be pleas’d
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
Oj u haju, pry Dunaju
In the Grove by the Danube
Oh in the grove, by the Danube,
A nightingale chatters,
To all the birds of his flock
To his nest, he’s calling.
Oh, chirp – chirp and chirp – chirp – chirp
A nightingale chatters,
To all the birds of his flock
To his nest, he’s calling.
Oh in the grove, by the Danube,
There is music playing
The bass drones, the fiddle’s crying,
There my beloved is merry.
Oh in the grove, by the Danube,
I know my fate, here I stand all alone
Crying, mourning, and yet wailing
My beloved for you.
Oh, chirp – chirp and chirp – chirp – chirp
A nightingale chatters,
To all the birds of his flock
To his nest, he’s calling
#2
Monday 12th February 2024, 7 pm
HAYDN GOES TICK-TOCK
OAE EXPERIENCE ENSEMBLE led by Maggie Faultless
with special guest storyteller: Wilf Merttens
Haydn Symphonies 101 & 63
Join us for one of Haydn’s biggest, where we stretch time itself with the help of a really full orchestra and storyteller Wilf Merttens.
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We break up the Clock symphony and explore it as an expression of the Enlightenment within the changing landscape of the industrial revolution.
Is there a tick-tock in everything? Or is it simply a construct of our own making?
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Programme
-F.J.Haydn – Symphony No.63 in C major ‘La Roxelane’
Allegro || Allegretto || Prestissimo
An Introduction to Haydn & Time
then-
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
-F. J. Haydn: Symphony No.101 in D major ‘The Clock’
Adagio || Presto
-Clocking in-
Wilf Merttens
Anadante
But nothing gives of itself more naturally than Time:
whether they wish to or not, all things possess it.
Since therefore the usurer sells that which is the natural property of all creatures,
he wrongs them all, even the stones, so that even if men were to remain silent in front of usurers,
the stones would cry out if they could
Guillaume d’Auxerre (1160-1229)
Minuetto + Allegretto
-Clocking out-
Wilf Merttens
Vivace
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OAE EXPERIENCE ENSEMBLE led by Maggie Faultless
Violins – Margaret Faultless (OAE), Laura Alexander, Theodora Alexiadou, Verena Eggensberger, Saya Ikenoya Okusa, Joseph Lowe, Eriko Nagayama, Weronika Zimmoch & Malgorzata Zwierzschowska || Violas – Dorota Kolinek, Ciara Sudlow & Elizabeth van’t Voort || Cellos – Osian Jones, Daniele Lorefice & Azzurra Raneri || Doublebass – Rosemary Salvucci || Flutes – Bàrbara Ferraz Balboa & Aysha Wills || Oboes – Leo Duarte (OAE) & Karolina Szymanik || Clarinets – Charlotte Bartley & Sandra Pérez Romero || Bassoons – Fergus Butt & Mariana Paras || Horns – Barry Chak-Hin Lo & Federico Cuevas Ruiz || Trumpets – Libby Foxley & Lucas Houldcroft || Timpani – Charlie Hodge
+ special guest: storyteller Wilf Merttens
#3
Sunday 18th February 2024, 6 pm
AIR, BELLOWS & SYMPATHETIC STRINGS
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Join us for a Scandinavian cruise, led by the charming sound of the native Nyckelharpa, and onto a trip through the British Isles. Navigating and blending the baroque and folk repertoire along the way. Who knows where we will finally disembark?
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AIR, BELLOWS & SYMPATHETIC STRINGS
Programme
-Hennessay’s jigs and reels
-Trad/P. Hutchinson: Wakefield hunt || Tipping point
-A solo from Gabi 🙂
-Trad. Polska from Sexdrega/ Ockelbogubbornas favouritpolska
F. Barsanti: a waltz
-P. Hutchinson: Naragonia
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-Trad.: Jacky Daly’s reels
-O’Carolan: Farewell to music
-Trad: Give me your hand
-Trad: Speranze perdute, waltz
-Trad. Swedish set: Magdalena polska || 1814 || Polsk fran Ostra-ryd || Slangpolska Markaryd
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ISTNATE COLLECTIVE
fiddle and nyckelharpa – Gabi Mass || recorders and accordion – Nicola Barbagli || viola da gamba – Nathan Giorgietti || doublebass – John-Henry Baker
#4
Friday 23rd February 2024 7.30pm
NICO’s FAVOURITES
One Year Later
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Sonatas, fantasias and arrangements by Telemann, Philidor, Schmelzer, Praetorius and more.
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Celebrating the first ‘birthday’ of Nicola’s new oboe (the old one sadly got pinched ) join us for a confluence of lesser-known, but quirky and cool music for oboe, violin, gamba and continuo. Expect to discover something fascinating, and to go home humming a little odd-shaped tune.
Programme
-G. Ph. Telemann: Sonata TWV 41:F3 for oboe & continuo
(andante || vivace || grave || allegro)
-G. A. Pandolfi-Mealli: Sonata Op.4 no.4 ‘la Biancuccia’
-Anne Danican-Philidor: Sonate pour la flûte à bec
(lentement || fugue || courante || les notes égales et détachez || fugue)
-M. Praetorius – Suite of dances from ‘Terpsichore’ (Ballet • La Spagnoletta • Pilov • Volte in G • Volte in d minor • Volte in D major • Canarios)
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-J. S. Bach: ‘Adagio e dolce’ from BWV527
-J. S. Bach: Fugue No.5 from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier
-J. H. Schmelzer: Ciaccona in A
-G. Ph. Telemann: Quartet in G minor for oboe, violin, gamba & continuo TWV:43g2 (lento || vivace || adagio || allegro)
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Beatrice Scaldini – violin ||
Nicola Barbagli – oboe, flutes || Johan Lofving – theorbo || Kate Conway – cello/gamba || John-Henry Baker – basse de violon
Up Close & FORTEPIANO a classical weekend of…
#5
Friday 1st March 2024, 7.30 pm
KEY-CROSSED LOVERS
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
music by Mr & Mrs Lebrun/Danzi and their friends Mozart & Druschetzky
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Join us as we look through the keyhole of music into the life and times of Mr and Mrs Danzi-Lebrun. Through their partnership of life and composition, they brought a sense of divine melody and song all across Europe. Signora Lebrun was best known as a soprano with extraordinary coloratura abilities, however perhaps equally if not more unusual was the fact that (as a woman composer) she had published in 1780, two sets of violin sonatas. We complete the programme with music by a ‘friends’ of the Lebruns, Mozart and Druschetzky.
Programme
-L. A. Lebrun: Trio op.2 n.3 in B flat for oboe, violin and cello, (largo || allegro)
-Franziska Danzi: Sonata op.1 n.2 E flat major for violin and fortepiano (allegro || tempo di minuetto)
-L. A. Lebrun: concerto n.1 in D minor in a new arrangement for oboe, violin , viola , cello, fortepiano by Robert Percival (allegro moderato || grazioso || rondò)
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-G. Druschetzky: quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello n.6 in E flat major (adagi0 || allegro || largo || rondò)
-Franziska Danzi: Sonata op.1 n.4 in G major for violin and fortepiano (allegro || minuetto grazioso)
-W. A. Mozart: Minuetto from ‘Gran Partita K 361’, original arrangement by Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke (1767-1822) for oboe, string trio and fortepiano
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Nicola Barbagli – oboe || Beatrice Scaldini – violin || Joanne Miller – viola || Cristina Vidoni – cello || Jacopo Raffaele – fortepiano
#6
Saturday 2nd March 2024, 7.30 pm
A FORTEPIANO AFFAIR
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE & HILARY CRONIN
music by Mozart, Danzi, Rossetti, Haydn
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Programme
-W. A. Mozart: Allegro moderato from
quintet K421 in D minor for oboe, violin , 2 violas, cello in an original arrangement by F. J. Rosinack (1763-1823)
-F. Danzi: Sextet op.10 in E Flat for oboe, 2 viola, 2 horns and cello (allegro || andantino || minuetto || allegretto)
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-A. Rossetti: Sextet ‘notturno’ for oboe, violin, viola, cello and 2 horns (Allegro || adagio || allegretto)
‘a forte-piano affair’
-F. J. Haydn: Adagio in G Hob XV:22
-W. A. Mozart: ‘andante’ from fortepiano concerto K414
-W. A. Mozart: ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’ concert aria K505 for soprano, fortepiano and orchestra
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Hilary Cronin – soprano || Nicola Barbagli – oboe || Beatrice Scaldini & Christiane Eidsten Dahl – violins || Nichola Blakey & Rachel Stott – violas || David Horwich & Peter Moutoussis – horns || Dominika Maszczynska- fortepiano
#7
Sunday 3rd March 2024, 6 pm
RAUTIO PIANO TRIO – CD launch
‘Exploring theme & variations’ music by Beethoven & Haydn
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Join the Rautio Piano Trio for a special concert launching their second album of Beethoven Trios on Resonus Classics, part of their wider project to record the complete cycle on fortepiano. The Trio will perform music from their new album alongside Haydn’s well-loved Gipsy Rondo trio.
This special concert will also feature an ‘artists in conversation’ event where the musicians talk about their approach to playing on historical instruments and invite questions from the audience. The programme will explore the wit, charm and inventiveness of ’theme and variations’ shown in each work and the development of Beethoven’s writing for the genre.
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Programme
-L. V. Beethoven: Trio in C minor Op.1 No.3, 1st movement – Andante
-L. V. Beethoven: Trio in B-flat major ‘Gassenhauer’ Op.11, 2nd movement – Adagio
-L. V. Beethoven: Allegretto in E-flat major Hess 48
-L. V. Beethoven: Allegretto in B-flat major WoO 39
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‘The Art of Variation’
-F. J. Haydn: Trio in G major ‘Gipsy’ Hob XV:25, 1st movement – Andante
-L. V. Beethoven: 14 Variations in E-flat major Op.44 (The trio will introduce and explore selected variations)
-L. V. Beethoven: Trio in B-flat major ‘Gassenhauer’ Op.11, 3rd movement – Allegretto
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-L. V. Beethoven: Trio in D major ‘Ghost’ Op.70 No.1, 2nd movement – Largo Assai ed espressivo
-F. J. Haydn: Trio in G major ‘Gipsy’ Hob XV:25, 3rd movement – Finale: Presto
Followed by ‘Artists in Conversation’ Q & A event
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Rautio Piano Trio
Jane Gordon – violin
Victoria Simonsen – cello
Jan Rautio – fortepiano
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The Rautio Trio has released three critically acclaimed albums with Resonus Classics and are frequently heard on BBC Radio 3. They have performed at the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, South Bank, Bridgewater Hall, throughout the UK and in France, Austria and Germany. In 2022 the Rautio Trio launched the first volume of the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Trios, recorded on fortepiano, receiving 5 stars in the BBC Music Magazine and glowing reviews in the Gramophone and Early Music Review. The Trio’s eagerly awaited second volume is released in March 2024.
2023
1#
Sunday 12th February 2023 – 6 pm
Eine Kleine Tortemusik
TRIO NOTTURNO
music by Molino, Beethoven, Hoffmeister, Stott, Giuliani
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Trio Notturno presents a recital of music for the delectable combination: flute, viola and guitar. Popular in the Viennese salons of the early 19th century, this genre inspired works by Diabelli and
Molino, as well as arrangements of Beethoven and Schubert by Matiegka Virtuosic passages for all three instruments contrast with lyrical melodies and lively instrumental dialogue. Trio Notturno combines intimate chamber music with spoken poetry of the period, following a practice which was in vogue at that time. Their programme includes a new work composed for them in the autumn of 2022, based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin.
Programme
-F. Molino: Theme and Variations, from Grand Trio Concertant
-L. V. Beethoven (arr. W. T. Matiegka): Serenade (Marcia || Adagio-Allegro Scherzoso || Polonaise)
-F. A. Hoffmeister: Grand duo concertante in G Major for flute and viola (Allegro || Poco Adagio || Rondò)
-W. T. Matiegka: Lento e patetico
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-E. Giuliani: Prelude 2
-I. Klinger: Fantasia on Four Themes
-A. Diabelli: Trio for flute, viola and guitar
(Andante cantabile || Minuet || Trio)
-R. Stott: Omens (Based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Louise Glück)
-L. Berger: Sonata in C (Moderato || Theme and Variations || Allegro molto)
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TRIO NOTTURNO
Eva Caballero – flute
Rachel Stott – viola
James Akes – guitar
Swithun Cooper – speaker
2#
Wednesday 15th February 2023 – 3 pm
Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico & Guitar
ARTURO CASTRO NOGUERAS
music by Ponce, Chavez, Sierra, Clerch & Ortiz
3#
Saturday 25th February 2023 – 7.30 pm
Nico’s Oboe’s Favourites
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
music by Telemann, Mancini, Matteis and Bach’s Cantata “Ich Habe Genug” BWV 82
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Programme
-G. Ph. Telemann: Triosonata TWV42:Es3 for oboe, obbligato harpsichord and continuo (largo || vivace || mesto || vivace)
-G. Frescobaldi: toccata
-J. S. Bach: Sonata for oboe and harpsichord in G minor BWV 1030b (andante || siciliana || presto-allegro)
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-F. Mancini: recorder sonata in D minor (amoroso || allegro assai || larghetto || allegro)
-J. S. Bach: ‘Ich Habe Genug’ Cantata BWV 82
Aria (bass): Ich habe genug
Recitativo (bass): Ich habe genug
Aria (bass): Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen
Recitativo (bass): Mein Gott! wenn kömmt das schöne: Nun!
Aria (bass): Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod
-N. Mateis: Ground after the Scotch Humor
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
baritone – Phil Wilcox || oboe/recorder – Nicola Barbagli || harpsichord – Sean Heath || theorbo – Ettore Marchi || violins – Oliver Cave & Henrietta Wayne || viola – Francesca Gilbert || cello – Miriam Nohl || double bass – John-Henry Baker
4#
Saturday 4th March 2023 – 7.30 pm
Virtuosi with the good odds
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE & HILARY CRONIN
music by Boccherini, Mozart, Martin y Soler
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Programme
-L. Boccherini: Quintet in G major G 431 for oboe , 2 violins, viola and cello (andante || rondo’)
-A. Prossinger: Trio for oboe viola and cello in F (allegro || andante || minuet theme and variations)
-W. A. Mozart: ‘Per pietà bell’idol mio’
Fiordiligi’s aria from ‘Così fan Tutte’ K588
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-M. Haydn: Romace MH806 for horn and strings
-J. Haydn: oboe concerto HobVIIg:C1 (allegro spiritoso || andante || rondo’)
-V. Martin y Soler: Polacca ‘La donna ha bello il core”, Ciprigna’s aria from ‘La Capricciosa Corretta’
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
soprano – Hilary Cronin || oboe – Nicola Barbagli || horn – Dave Horwich || violins – Gabriella Jones, Christiane Einstein Dahl || viola – Nichola Blakey || cello – Pablo Tejedor || doublebass – Kate Brooke
5#
Saturday 11th March 2023 – 7.30 pm
The Folk-ish (BIG) Session
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
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Programme
-R. Bell: Argos Inn
-Trad: ‘Star of the county down’ Jigs & Roduluum
-Trad: ‘Alt Under Himmelens Faste’
-Trad: Slangposka 1814 – Polska Fran Markaryd
-Trad: Tama Daleko
-Sammy Fain: ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’
-Trad: Lars Persson
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-Trad: Doi Doi – Ardelleana de la munte
-J. Kern: ’The Way You Look Tonight’
-F. Waller: ’Honeysuckle Rose’
-Trad: Magdalena Polska, Ploska från halleforsnas
-P. Hutchinson: The Cuckoo Lamb
-Trad: The Lounge Bar
-Trad (arr. Andrea Di Biase): Bella Ciao
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Clara Green – voice || Nicola Barbagli – accordion & recorder || Patricia Ramirez Reinoso – viola || John-Herny Baker – charango, percussion, doublebass || Andrea di Biase – doublebass
6#
Sunday 12th March 2023 – 6 pm
‘Twas but a dream’
NOBODY’S JIG
17th Century songs from the London theaters
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Programme
-Antoine Boesset: ‘Je voudrais bien’
-Anon: King of the blind
-H. Purcell: ‘She loves and she confesses too’
-T. Viscardi: Beara Tunes
-N. Matteis: Sinfonia
-H. Purcell: ‘Music for a while’
-Trad: Celia Connelan
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-John Banister/ Aphra Behn: ‘that true hearted swain’
-Trad: Sir Uillioc
-N. Lanier: ‘No more shall meads’
-M. Locke: Consort for several friends
-H. Purcell: Seek not to know
-H. Purcell: Scotch tune
-H.Purcell: A lad of the town
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NOBODY’S JIG
Victoria Hodgkinson – soprano
Yaoré Talibart – violin
Nathan Giorgetti – gamba
Tara Viscardi – harp
Sergio Bucheli – baroque guitar
2022
This project has been supported by Continuo Foundation
1#
Saturday 5th February 2022 – 7.30 pm
‘Travelling Virtuosi’
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE & HILARY CRONIN
music by Boccherini, Lebrun, Mozart
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Programme
-J. Haydn / F. Rosinack: extract from “The Creation” for oboe, 2 violins, viola & cello (representation of the chaos || in the beginning of God)
-L. Boccherini: cello concerto in D G470 (allegro || adagio || rondò allegro)
-W. A. Mozart: “Non mi dir bell’idol mio”, aria from ‘Don Giovanni’.
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-L. A. Lebrun: oboe concerto n.2 in G minor (transcribed and arranged by Robert Percival) (allegro || adagio || rondò allegro)
-V. Martin y Soler: from ‘Una Cosa Rara’ – finale Act 1
-L. Boccherini: minuet/fandango from quintet G436
-V. Martin y Soler: “Guardami un poco” aria from ‘La Capricciosa Corretta’.
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
soprano – Hilary Cronin || oboe – Nicola Barbagli || violins – Gabriella Jones & Christiane Eidsten Dahl || viola – Elitsa Bogdanova || cello – Alex Rolton || double bass – John-Henry Baker
2#
Thursday 3rd March 2022 – 7.30 pm
‘Reimagining a String Quartet’
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE & CONSONE QUARTET
music by Wranitzky, Hoffmeister, Michael & Joseph Haydn
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Programme
-J. Haydn: String Quartet N.2 in D Op.71 (Adagio-Allegro || Andante Cantabile || Menuetto-Allegretto || Finale, allegretto-Vivace)
-F. A. Hoffmeister: Cassation in F for flute, oboe, viola, 2 horns and bassoon (allegro || menuetto-trio || adagio || rondò)
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-M. Haydn: Sextet in G HM518 for viola, oboe, bassoon, 2 horns and double bass (Allegro Spiritoso || Adagio || Menuetto, Allegretto-Trio || Finale, Vivace)
-Paul Wranitzky: Divertimento in Eb (after Haydn’s quartet op.71 n.3) (Vivace || Andante con Moto || Menuetto-Trio || Finale)
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CONSONE QUARTET
1st violin – Agata Darashkaite
2nd violin – Magda Loth-Hill
Viola – Elitsa Bogdanova
Cello – George Ross
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
flute – Eva Caballero || oboe – Nicola Barbagli || horns – Anneke Scott & Dave Horwich || bassoon – Inga Maria Klaucke || double bass – Josie Jobbins
3#
Friday 11th March 2022 – 7.30 pm
‘Forgotten Instruments’
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
music by Gatti, Mozart, Michael & Joseph Haydn
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Programme
-M. Haydn: Quartet for violin, cor anglais. cello & violone HM600 (allegro con spirito || adagio || rondò-presto)
-J. Haydn: Baryton Trio in F HobXI:83, arranged for oboe, viola & cello (andante || allegro moderato || minuetto)
-W. A. Mozart: Fantasy in F minor K608 for Mechanical Organ, arranged for flute, oboe, violin, viola & cello by M. Bronnimann (allegro || andante || tempo primo)
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-L. Gatti: Sextet in E flat for violin, viola, cello, cor anglais, bassoon & double bass (adagio-allegro || minuetto con brio-trio || adagio cantabile || larghetto || rondò-allegro)
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
violin – Gabriella Jones || viola – Elitsa Bogdanova || cello – Alex Rolton || double bass – John-Henry Baker || traverso – Eva Caballero || oboe/cor anglais – Nicola Barbagli || bassoon – Robert Percival