The past always contains the seeds of future musical pathways.
Every new idea may manifest not only as a revolutionary opposition to the past
but also as a form of continuity.
Lost & Found stores are often full of forgotten luggage because it takes weeks, if not months (or even centuries!) for them to be returned.
Let’s imagine we are secretly walking into a deposit full of unclaimed luggage, and while we look through nightgowns and mittens we will try to guess the name of the owners
‘Luggage in Transit’ is a 3-part concert series hosted by Heath Street Baptist Church in the 10th anniversary year of the Baroquestock festival.
The series explores the evolution from the ‘classical’ to the ‘romantic’ style with a selection of repertoire that sheds light on new ideas, surviving forms, and their synthesis. We have chosen two substantial works as cornerstones for the project: Boccherini’s Stabat Mater and Schubert’s Octet. Both composers tend to reveal themselves in a slow unfolding of the musical material.
Similarly, we have been inspired to highlight aspects of the evolutionary process between the two composers’ styles.The project will also include new commissions of chamber arrangements of Schubert’s piano and orchestral music as well as a selection of lesser known pieces which define the overall cultural context: Mozart transcriptions of Bach fugues, Reicha intellectual explorations, Arriaga’s Beethovenian quartets and Bohemian divertimenti by Druschetzky & Wranitzky.
This project has been supported by Continuo Foundation
#1 – ‘in church’
Monday 24nd March 2025, 7.30pm
Boccherini in Church
Boccherini’s Stabat Mater and music by Arriaga & Druschetzky
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Programme
-L. Boccherini: Quintet in D minor G436 for oboe 2 violins, viola & cello (Allegro moderato || Minuetto-Trio)
-L. Boccherini: Stabat Mater G532a op.61
for soprano, 2 violins, viola & 2cellos – PART 1
(Stabat Mater || Cujus Animam || Quae Moerebat
Quis est Homo || Pro Peccatis || Eja Mater || Tui Nati Vulnerati)
– interval –
J. C. Arriaga: Allegro from String quartet n.3 in E flat major
-L. Boccherini: Stabat Mater G532a op.61
for soprano, 2 violins, viola & 2cellos – PART 2
(Virgo Virginum || Fac ut Portem || Fac me Plagis || Quando Corpus)
-G. Druschetzky: Variation on ‘B.A.C.H’ name for oboe, violin, viola & cello
• • •
ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
soprano – Lucy Cox
oboe – Nicola Barbagli
violins – Beatrice Scaldini & Claudia Norz
viola – Nichola Blakey
cellos – Poppy Walshaw & Martyna Jankowska
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#2 – ‘at the Conservatoire’
Sunday 30th March 2025, 6pm
Reicha at the Conservatoire
Quartets, quintets, fugues and oddities by Cherubini, Reicha, Wranitzky, Gatti, Kreutzer, Mozart & Haydn
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Programme
-L. Cherubini : Adagio quasi andante from String quartet n.5 in F major
-A. Reicha: Scene: Recitative & Rondo for cor anglais and strings
-A. Wranitzky: quintet in G minor for violin, oboe, viola, cello & double-bass (Adagio || rondeau allegretto || andante con moto || Finale: allegro con fuoco ma non presto)
– interval –
-A. Reicha: from Quatuor Scientifique: Fugue XI ‘Thème de J. Haydn’ & Fugue XII ‘mesure composé’
-R. Kreutzer: allegro from Trio for oboe viola & basson
-L. Gatti: andante from quartet in C major for oboe, violin, viola & cello
-W. A. Mozart: rondò K292 for bassoon and cello
-M. Haydn: divertimento in B Flat for violin, viola, oboe, bassoon, double bass HM199 (allegro ma non troppo || adagio || menuetto || finale allegro molto)
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
oboe & cor anglais – Nicola Barbagli || bassoon – Inga Maria Klaucke || violins – Beatrice Scaldini & Christiane Eidsten Dahl || viola – Hannah Gardiner || cello – Martyna Jakowska || doublebass – John-Henry Baker
#3 – ‘at home’
Friday 23rd May 2025, 7.30pm
Schubert on the sofa
THE famous Octet and new arrangments of Schubert’s favourites
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Programme
-F. Schubert – Moment Musicauxop. 94 D780
(n.3 in F major arranged for octect || n.1 in A major arranged for oboe and string trio)
-F. Schubert – Octect in F major for 2 violins, viola, cello, double-bass, clarinet, horn & bassoon D 803 (Part 1) (1-Adagio – Allegro || 2-Adagio || 3-Scherzo: Allegro vivace – Trio)
– interval –
-F. Schubert – Military March op.51 n.1 D 733 arranged for oboe and string trio
-F. Schubert – Andante from Symphony n.9 D944 arranged for oboe and string trio
-F. Schubert – Octect in F major for 2 violins, viola, cello, double-bass, clarinet, horn & bassoon D 803 (Part 2) (4-Andante with 7 variations || 5-Menuetto. Allegretto – Trio – Coda || 6-Andante molto – Allegro)
-F. Schubert – Rosamunde D 797: Entre-act
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ISTANTE COLLECTIVE
Octect: violins – Christiane Eidsten Dahl & Abel Balasz || viola – Nichola Blakey || cello – Martyna Jakowska || doublebass – Jan Zahurek || clarinet – Fiona Orford || bassoon – Inga Maria Klaucke || horn – Dave Horwich
violin – Beatrice Scaldini || oboe – Nicola Barbagli
Part of
All concerts will be perfomed by ISTANTE COLLECTIVE at Heath Street Baptist Church NW31DN
Homemade focaccia, biscuits and drinks available