2011 Christmas newsletter
Read the Davies Music.Christmas newsletter 2011 here! There’s a review of 20111 – concerts and CD releases – and a look ahead to 2012
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- May 2012 (4)
- April 2012 (7)
- 25: London Handel Festival – 2013 and 2014
- 25: Carole Cerasi – Telegraph review “harpsichord music can be as thrillingly virtuoso as anything in Chopin”
- 23: QuintEssential at the Gregynog Festival – 21 June
- 20: Julia Doyle with the London Handel Orchestra at the Wigmore Hall, Saturday 21 April
- 04: Ensemble Meridiana “an outstanding disc” review on Musica Dei Donum
- 04: Steven Devine’s Southbank recital – Independent review
- 04: Julia Doyle and Liz Kenny with the OAE – new review
- March 2012 (11)
- 30: Consortium5 give family concert at St George’s Bristol
- 23: Carole Cerasi new Scarlatti CD released by Metronome
- 23: Carole Cerasi and Steven Devine give recitals at Southbank Bach Weekend
- 21: Una Barry to adjudicate at Limerick Festival in April
- 19: Philippa Hyde joins Davies Music
- 16: “Michael George induced genuine chills in the role of the Cold Genius”
- 12: “…singers with such wonderful voices and assurance…a real triumph”
- 09: New programmes from Julia Doyle with Steven Devine, and the LHO
- 08: juice nominated for another award…
- 08: Emily Van Evera premiere – Friday 9 March
- 06: Julia Doyle and QuintEssential players – Monteverdi Vespers, Winchester College, 11 March
- February 2012 (5)
- 21: Elizabeth Kenny performs Dowland and Le Camus with Paul Agnew at AMUZ in Antwerp
- 17: Revolutionary Drawing Room with Colin Lawson in Cork and London
- 17: juice CD “Songspin” nominated for CARA award
- 16: Una Barry sings for MS on Sunday 19 February
- 02: New York Times reviews London Handel Players’ concert at the Frick
- January 2012 (2)
- December 2011 (1)
- November 2011 (9)
- 25: Voces Intimae “capture the audience totally”
- 25: Michael George joins Davies Music
- 14: Pantagruel and Steven Devine perform live on the BBC’s Early Music Show
- 10: 16 concerts in 14 days – Adrian Butterfield goes for the record
- 10: The Revolutionary Drawing Room play Donizetti at the Tage Alter Musik Herne
- 07: London Handel Players perform for Handel House 10th birthday party
- 04: Norwich Philharmonic kick off the new choral society concert season…
- 01: Emily Van Evera – new recording of Bach Trauer-Musik featured on the Early Music Show
- 01: Steven Devine plays Goldberg Variations for London Bach Festival – 2 November
- October 2011 (9)
- 20: juice commission nominated for British Composer Award
- 18: Julia Doyle sings Bach at Brighton Early Music Festival
- 17: Ensemble Meridiana play for City Music Society and Brecon Baroque
- 13: Consortium5 at Colourscape: “Consortium5 are terrific”
- 12: Clare McCaldin premieres songs by Hugh Wood at the Royal Opera House
- 12: Consortium5 play at the Little Missenden Festival
- 12: Duo Dorado release CD of music by William Croft
- 05: Cambridge Handel Festival “a weekend of the most exciting music-making” with London Handel Players
- 04: juice vocal ensemble – new videos on YouTube
- September 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (3)
- July 2011 (5)
- June 2011 (6)
- 27: London Handel Players – review of Stour Festival concert
- 27: Gregynog Festival – London Baroque, Revolutionary Drawing Room and London Handel Players
- 13: Brian Bannatyne-Scott – This Opera Life podcast with Charles Reid
- 09: Classical Music magazine: features on Ensemble Meridiana and Greg Tassell
- 03: New QuintEssential programme for Gabrieli anniversary 2012
- 02: Ensemble Meridiana and London Handel Players in Goettingen
- May 2011 (9)
- 31: juice CD “Songspin” out now
- 31: Julia Doyle sings Handel in Marseilles and Halle
- 27: Tilford Bach Festival this weekend – Artistic Director now Adrian Butterfield
- 06: Steven Devine on BBC Radio 3 with Soloists of the OAE
- 06: juice release debut CD for nonclassical
- 06: Jeanette Ager and Oliver White on tour…
- 06: Mozart C minor Mass in Coulsdon
- 06: Soloists in Beverley Minster this Saturday, 7 May
- 06: London Handel Players at the Tudeley Festival in Kent
- April 2011 (5)
- March 2011 (9)
- 18: Greg Tassell is Badger in ETO’s Fantastic Mr Fox
- 18: Paul Brough dons his red nose for BBC Comic Relief
- 11: juice make US debut – New York and SXSW Festival in Texas
- 10: “splendid performance from this evening’s soloists” – review of Hull Bach Choir concert last weekend
- 07: Revolutionary Drawing Room play Chopin at the Cobbe Collection, 8 March
- 07: juice sing for International Women’s Day at City Music Society on 8 March
- 04: Revolutionary Drawing Room at Cossington Concerts on 5 March
- 02: Steven Devine plays CPE Bach with OAE at QEH and on BBC!
- 01: Kirsty Hopkins joined Julia Doyle for Monteverdi Vespers last Saturday
- February 2011 (8)
- 21: Le Jardin Secret perform “Auf Wiener Art” at Amuz in Antwerp
- 21: Steven Devine joins Davies Music
- 21: Miriam Allan makes her debut with BBC Philharmonic
- 14: Joseph Cornwell tours with New London Consort
- 14: Julia Doyle sings Purcell at the Wigmore Hall
- 14: Duo Dorado – two London lunchtime concerts
- 10: Una Barry sings in Hong Kong
- 10: Quentin Brown sings Handel’s Israel in Egypt at Leeds Town Hall
- January 2011 (13)
- 31: Carole Cerasi plays Scarlatti in Madrid
- 31: Consortium5 joins Davies Music
- 20: Elizabeth Kenny featured in Classical Music Magazine
- 20: London Handel Orchestra in Canterbury on Saturday 22 January
- 17: juice and Consortium5 premiere new piece by Luke Styles
- 14: Concordia at the Wigmore: “Guileless radiance coupled with special, delicate flavour from several French pieces made for a varied, gently ecstatic two hours.” Rating: * * * * *
- 11: Paul Brough conducts BBC Singers live on BBC Radio 3 – Wednesday 12 January
- 10: Revolutionary Drawing Room play at St George’s Hanover Square on Friday 14 January
- 05: Julia Gooding tours Scotland with Passacaglia
- 04: Julia Doyle sings Messiah in Stratford
- 04: Simon Wall sings Monteverdi at the Spitalfields Winter Festival
- 03: Oliver White is Nanki-Poo in Raymond Gubbay’s Mikado
- 03: Concordia at the Wigmore Hall, now with Emma Kirkby – 4 January
- December 2010 (10)
- 22: Paul Austin Kelly – Don’t Want No Bones for Christmas
- 16: Premiere at ROH for Clare McCaldin
- 14: Emily Van Evera sings “Jauchzet Gott” in Oxford and Cambridge
- 14: QuintEssential – last Vespers of 2010
- 10: Paul Brough appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers
- 04: Grand Desir perform English medieval music in Edinburgh
- 03: Emily Van Evera joins Davies Music
- 03: December choral society soloists
- 03: Messiah in Denmark with Jonathan Sells conducted by Stephen Layton
- 03: Julia Doyle sings Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the OAE
- November 2010 (19)
- 29: UK choral society concerts – 4 December
- 29: Singers in London, Paris and Poland
- 29: Elizabeth Kenny gives a BBC Lunchtime Recital in Leeds
- 29: London Handel Festival’s annual Messiah – 2 December at St George’s Hanover Square
- 24: Jonathan Sells is soloist on a new Giles Swayne CD for Naxos
- 19: Rachel Brown launches new edition of Quantz sonatas
- 11: juice and Pantagruel – Selected Artists 2011/12 for Making Music
- 09: Concerts for Remembrance Day
- 09: Monteverdi Vespers with QuintEssential
- 09: juice take Love Songs to York
- 09: London Handel Players – “is there a finer small baroque band in this city?”
- 09: The Revolutionary Drawing Room celebrate Chopin’s centenary
- 08: London Handel Players in Shrewsbury
- 01: November – a busy month for choral societies
- 01: QuintEssential provide the band for the Monteverdi Vespers in Kings Lynn and Chelmsford
- 01: Rachel Brown at the Greenwich Early Music Festival
- 01: London Handel Players beg, borrow and steal in Shrewsbury
- 01: juice take Love Songs to York
- 01: The Revolutionary Drawing Room celebrate Chopin’s birthday
- October 2010 (11)
- 10: juice press release – Laid Bare: 10 Love Songs
- 01: October’s choral society gigs…and Carmen in France
- 01: New recording of Michael Hurd opera with soprano Pippa Goss
- 01: Greg Tassell recreates concerts at Crystal Palace
- 01: Julie Cooper sings at the Wigmore Hall
- 01: London Baroque and London Handel Players perform at the last season at the King of Hearts in Norwich
- 01: Alamire return to Austria for concerts at the Kultur-Raum-Kirche festival
- 01: London premiere of juice’s new set of commissions, Laid Bare – 10 Love Songs
- 01: QuintEssential celebrate Live Music Now! at the Swansea Festival
- 01: Duo Dorado at the Stratford Music Festival
- 01: Le Jardin Secret take “Orfeo” to Barcelona
- September 2010 (16)
- 23: Cossington Concerts’ programme includes London Baroque on 18 September
- 15: The Lautten Compagney wins ECHO Klassik 2010 award
- 12: Clare McCaldin is Artist in Residence at the Presteigne Festival
- 07: Kirsty Hopkins joins QuintEssential
- 01: Miriam Allan sings Messiah in Germany
- 01: Joseph Cornwell sings Mozart in Gdansk
- 01: Jonathan Sells tours with John Eliot Gardiner
- 01: Kirsty Hopkins sings at opening concert of Maribor Festival
- 01: Clare McCaldin is Artist in Residence at the Presteigne Festival
- 01: London Baroque take “Music for Kings” to Cossington Concerts
- 01: The Binchois Consort sing Dufay in Savoy
- 01: Jill Davies to attend Making Music conference in Bristol
- 01: juice vocal ensemble – world premiere of new set of commissions
- 01: Pantagruel make their Croatian debut
- 01: The Nightingale and the Butterfly – Elizabeth Kenny’s new CD
- 01: Revolutionary Drawing Room feature in Early Music Today
- August 2010 (3)
- July 2010 (8)
- 01: Paul Brough conducts BBC Singers: Rutland Boughton and Cecil Armstrong Gibbs anniversaries
- 01: Singing in July
- 01: The Artist’s Muse in Leamington Hastings with Julia Gooding and Maggie Cole
- 01: Pantagruel at the Winchester Festival and Music in the Church at Aust
- 01: Liz Kenny’s Venus and Adonis at the York Early Music Festival
- 01: London Handel Players in Canada
- 01: Elizabeth Kenny at the Wigmore Hall
- 01: juice at Colourscape and the Harrogate Festival
- June 2010 (6)
- May 2010 (4)
- April 2010 (4)
- March 2010 (4)
- February 2010 (3)
- January 2010 (2)