{"id":3697,"date":"2017-07-28T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T08:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2017-07-28T09:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T08:13:51","slug":"brighton-early-music-festival-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Early Music Festival 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL: ROOTS \u2013 27TH<\/sup>\u00a0OCTOBER – 12TH<\/sup>\u00a0NOVEMBER 2017<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf it’s Early Music you’re looking for, then get yourself down to Brighton\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Classic FM<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Brighton Early Music Festival launched its programme for 2017 on\u00a0Tuesday 25th<\/sup>\u00a0July\u00a0at Angel House \u2013 a beautiful Regency venue on Brighton\u2019s seafront.\u00a0\u00a02017 explores the origins of some of classical music\u2019s best-loved forms, and is the Festival\u2019s biggest ever offering with over 30 events taking place this autumn.\u00a0\u00a0Festival Co-Artistic Director Deborah Roberts says\u00a0\u201cthis year\u2019s programme is a fascinating journey through the early development of the musical forms we know and love today.\u00a0\u00a0The oratorio, sonata, string quartet and opera didn\u2019t spring into being fully formed, but grew organically out of earlier models, and of course there\u2019s also the chance to explore the rich tapestry of folk music which humans have enjoyed for centuries.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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The 2017 festival has the title\u00a0ROOTS\u00a0<\/b>with flagship events including two new opera productions \u2013 Monteverdi\u2019s\u00a0Orfeo\u00a0<\/i><\/b>and Rameau\u2019s\u00a0Pygmalion<\/i>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>which \u2018bookend\u2019 the early period of operatic development.\u00a0\u00a0Orfeo\u00a0<\/i>will be staged at The Old Market in Hove, in a new production by Thomas Guthrie featuring a cast of specially auditioned young singers headed by tenor Rory Carver as Orfeo, while\u00a0Pygmalion<\/i>\u00a0is a new staging by Karolina Sofulak in collaboration with baroque group Ensemble Moli\u00e8re.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe Festival is well known for its championing of young artists through its scheme for emerging ensembles,\u00a0Early Music Live!<\/i>\u00a0This year, many of the groups performing at the Festival have previously taken part in the Early Music Live! scheme, including the\u00a0Consone String Quartet<\/b>\u00a0(28th<\/sup>\u00a0Oct);\u00a0Ensemble Moli\u00e8re<\/b>\u00a0(28th<\/sup>\u00a0& 29th<\/sup>\u00a0Oct);\u00a0The Askew Sisters<\/b>\u00a0(2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Nov);\u00a0Ensemble Hesperi<\/b>(4th<\/sup>\u00a0Nov);\u00a0Musica Poetica<\/b>\u00a0(pictured, 4th<\/sup>\u00a0Nov);\u00a0Ensemble Tempus Fugit<\/b>\u00a0(5th<\/sup>\u00a0Nov);\u00a0Chelys Consort<\/b>\u00a0of Viols<\/b>\u00a0(10th<\/sup>\u00a0Nov) and theLittle Baroque Company<\/b>\u00a0(11th<\/sup>\u00a0Nov).\u00a0\u00a0BBC Radio 3 will record the performances by the Consone Quartet and Ensemble Hesperi this year for broadcast on The Early Music Show.\u00a0\u00a0This year\u2019s\u00a0Early Music Live!<\/i>\u00a0participants, including York Early Music International Young Artists Competition prizewinners Rumorum, will present their programmes in a special showcase on 4th<\/sup>November.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Folk enthusiast<\/span>s can enjoy performances by Old Blind Dogs with singer Siobhan Miller (collaborating with L\u2019Avventura London, 27th<\/sup>\u00a0Oct), and The Askew Sisters (2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Nov), and families are also catered for with OAE TOTS concerts for pre-schoolers (pre-festival, 7th<\/sup>\u00a0Oct) and Tales in Music: The Pigeon & The Albatross with the Little Baroque Company (11th<\/sup>\u00a0Nov).<\/span><\/div>\n
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Tickets for all festival events (\u00a35-\u00a328)\u00a0go on sale to Friends of the Festival on Monday 21st<\/sup>\u00a0August, and on general sale on Monday 4th<\/sup>\u00a0September at\u00a0<\/span>bremf.org.uk<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0or\u00a001273 709709<\/b>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL: ROOTS \u2013 27TH\u00a0OCTOBER – 12TH\u00a0NOVEMBER 2017 \u201cIf it’s Early Music you’re looking for, then get yourself down to Brighton\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Classic FM \u00a0 Brighton Early Music Festival launched its programme for 2017 on\u00a0Tuesday 25th\u00a0July\u00a0at Angel House \u2013 a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}