'Early Music by Candlelight' Summer Festival
5 July—17 August 2013, 8.00pm
Exeter College Chapel, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DP
Charivari Agréable's annual summer festival — of over twenty intimate candlelit concerts — is the highlight of Oxford's cultural cornucopia.
Tickets at the door or from the Oxford Playhouse Tel: 01865-305305
For group concessions (15% discount for 10 or more) please email us directly.
Sunday 7 July, Friday 19
July & Sunday 4 August
Pergolesi Stabat Mater & Scarlatti Salve Regina
With Vivaldi & Ruggieri Sonate da chiesa
Charivari Agréable
Olwen Turchetta, soprano
Roderick Morris, countertenor
Ben Sansom & Sarah Ibbett, baroque violin
Kah-Ming Ng, chamber organ
£17, £16 (senior), £10 (full-time students with NUS/ISIC)
Sunday 14 July, Tuesday 23 July & Wednesday 14 August
French Suites
A candlelit harpsichord recital by Kah-Ming Ng
J.S. Bach’s ever-popular French Suite No 5 in G in the
context of his French counterparts, incl. music by the Couperin Dynasty and
Jean-Philippe Rameau
£13, £12 (senior), £10 (full-time students with NUS/ISIC)
Wednesday 10 July, Sunday 21 July, Wednesday 31 July & Friday 9 August
Eliza in Love
The Lovers & Suitors of Elizabeth I, revealed
through her letters, featuring the iconic Tilbury Speech, interpolated with the sonnets of William Shakespeare, with
songs and instrumental dances from the Golden Age of England & Spain: Byrd,
Dowland, Cabezon, Ortiz, etc.
Charivari Agréable
Isobel Collyer, reader & soprano
Layil Barr, recorder & viols
Kah-Ming Ng, virginals
£16, £15 (senior), £10 (full-time students with NUS/ISIC)
Tuesday 16 July, Friday 26 July & Sunday 11 August
Music for a Mad King
The contrasting musical tastes of King George III and his
consort Queen Charlotte
G.F. Handel: Overture to Athalia & Passacaille
J.C. Bach: variations on ‘God Save the King’
J. Haydn: Medley of Scottish folk tunes
Chamber music by A. Corelli & W. Boyce
Charivari Agréable
Persephone Gibbs, baroque violin
Eleanor Harrison, baroque violin
Judith Dallosso/Gavin Kibble, baroque cello
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord
£16, £15 (senior), £10 (full-time students with NUS/ISIC)
Friday 5 July, Wednesday 17 July & Friday 2 August
Sweet Zephyr
Concertinos & Serenatas for an unusual wind combination:
Telemann, Molter, Mattheson & Zelenka
Charivari Agréable
Simon Desbruslais, baroque natural trumpet
Jane Downer, baroque oboe
Geoffrey Coates, baroque oboe
Michael Brain, baroque bassoon
Kah-Ming Ng, harpsichord
£16, £15 (senior), £10 (full-time students with NUS/ISIC)
Tuesday 9 July, Tuesday 6 August & Friday 16 August
O Dulcis Jesu
Sublime 17th-century Italian & German motets & sacred concertos
Buxtehude: Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab; O dulcis Jesu; Schaffe in mir, Gott;
Monteverdi: Confitebor tibi, Domine; Jesu redemptor omnium
Sonatas & Canzonas by Cavalli, Rosenmüller, etc.
Charivari Agréable
Karen Richmond, soprano
Davina Clarke, baroque violin
Stephen Pedder, baroque violin
Kah-Ming Ng, chamber organ
£16, £15 (senior), £10 (full-time students with NUS/ISIC)
Friday 12 July, Tuesday 30 July & Tuesday 13 August
Singing in Secret
Sacred Choral Music by Recusants
Featuring William Byrd’s Mass for 3 Voices; also Marian
Hymns, Antiphons, and Keyboard Music by Bull, Dering, Philips & Tallis
Charivari Agréable
Rory McCleery, countertenor
Simon Beston, tenor
Peter Collins, bass
Kah-Ming Ng, chamber organ
£16, £15 (senior), £10 (full-time students with NUS/ISIC)
Saturday 13 July (additional concert, not by candlelight)
H. Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures Z339
A. Vivaldi: Gloria
JS Bach: concerto for oboe d'amore BWV 1055
Oxford Pro Musica Singers, cond. Michael Smedley
Charivari Agréable Simfonie, dir. Kah-Ming Ng
with soloists
Simon Desbruslais, natural trumpet
Leo Duarte, oboe d'amore