Concert Details
| Title: | Brighton Early Music Festival Celebrity Fundraiser Concert |
| Promoted by: | Brighton Early Music Festival |
| Time: | Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 7:30pm |
| Place: | St George’s Church, Brighton |
| Description: | The centrepiece of the programme will be a period instrument performance of the Mozart Requiem (reflecting the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth) with the now firmly established BREMF Singers and Players lead by Julia Bishop (of Red Priest) and conducted by John Hancorn. Soloists will include Elizabeth Cragg and Rachel Lindopp, both highly promising young singers, as well as bass Robert Macdonald, who may be familiar to many BREMF supporters, as bass with the Tallis Scholars and the Cardinall’s Musick. The first half of the programme offers some sneak previews of the main festival and features not only celebrity groups such as the hugely popular Red Priest, but also offers a chance to hear two newly emerging and innovative ensembles who will give their festival debuts in October this year. Eclipse is one of the ensembles that will be exploring our main festival theme Iberia/New world fusion. Much of the music from their Spanish Spice programme comes from a book of contemporary Spanish dances called Luz y Norte, published in Madrid in 1677. Their interpretation is a baroque/world music fusion which brings together the world of rhythmic baroque music with flamenco dance. Clara Sanabras is a young Catalan singer and player of plucked instruments who is making quite a stir, not only with her highly charged performances of old music, but also by exploring the roots of popular Latin American forms. She is joined by the singer and player Harvey Brough (of 80s group Harvey and the Wallbangers fame) in the group they have founded, RETRoPECT. Like Red Priest they are doing much to demystify early music by putting it into a broader historical context that links with the present, while by no means dumbing down the music. |
| Tickets: | Premium: £25 (£20 concs); A: £20 (£15 concs); B: £12 (£10 concs); C: £6 (restricted view) Box office: 01273 709709 (£1.85 charge) or online: www.bremf.org.uk (no fee) |
| Contact: | Clare Norburn |
