Performances in 2021
20th January 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #1 - Mary-Jannet and Thomas (Live)
Join Mary-Jannet and Tom on YouTube for the first live-stream of our new "Bite-size Baroque" series! This week, music by Bocchi and Babell, alongside Scottish Baroque favourites!
27th January 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #2 - Thomas Allery (Live)
Join harpsichordist Tom Allery for the second live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series! This week, Tom will perform a fantastic programme of well-known and lesser-known music, including a Purcell Suite in G, A Suite by the City Organist Abiel Whichello, Daniel Purcell Toccata in A minor, and a gorgeous Fischer Chaconne.
3rd February 2021, 1pm: Hesperi at Home: Concert for the Friends of the Wighton Collection, Dundee
Bite-size Baroque #3 "Music from the Wighton Collection"
http://friendsofwighton.com/category/whats-on
Duo Hesperi present a Zoom concert for the Friends of Wighton, featuring music from the Wighton Collection, a fantastic repository of Scottish eighteenth-century music, held at Dundee Central Library. Kindly, the Friends of Wighton have allowed us to open this concert to all our supporters as part of "Bite-Size Baroque" - so, please do join us!
Catch up:
4th February 2021: Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands
"There Goes London's Musical Coalman"
www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/ensemble-hesperi
Gottfried Finger: Op. 3, Sonata No. 1 in F major
Johann Christoph Pepusch: “Prelude” from The Division Flute
Georg Friedrich Händel: Chaconne in F Major HWV 485
Giuseppe Sammartini: Sonata in D minor
Francesco Geminiani: A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick - Auld Bob Maurice – Sleepy Body
William Babell: Op. 3, Concerto in D major (transposed to C Major)
Philip Hart: Lesson in C minor - Almand
John Banister: “A Division on a Ground” from The Division Flute
James Paisible: Recorder Sonata in G minor from The Detroit Manuscript
Duo Hesperi paint a picture of London’s vibrant musical scene in the early 1700s, through the lens of the extraordinary musical small-coal merchant Thomas Britton. For several decades until his death in 1714, Britton ran musical evenings, which he hosted in his small coal-loft in Clerkenwell, attracting the best performers of the day, including Handel himself on the chamber organ! Britton’s successful business enabled him to purchase an impressive book collection, which featured a huge number of musical manuscripts. The programme features music by several of the musicians who performed in Britton’s concert series, as well as some of the more unusual music featured in the catalogue of music listed by the historian John Hawkins at his death. Most of these composers were leading musicians in late 17th century London: Johann Pepusch, William Babell, John Banister, Gottfried Finger and James Paisible were all celebrated court and theatre musicians, organists, and teachers. At this time, musicians were pouring into London from Europe to enjoy the rich opportunities for work and private patronage: many hailed from France or Germany, and later Italy – so Britton’s coal-loft would have been home to a cornucopia of musical styles and cultures.
10th February 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #4 - Thomas Allery (Live)
Join harpsichordist Tom Allery for the fourth live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
Catch up:
17th February 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #5 - Magdalena Loth-Hill (Pre-recorded, Scheduled)
Join our Baroque Violinist Magda for the fifth live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
Link to watch:
24th February 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #6 - Thomas Allery (Live)
Join harpsichordist Tom Allery for the sixth live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
3rd March 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #7 - Mary-Jannet Leith & Thomas Allery (Live)
Join M-J and Tom for the seventh live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
10th March 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #8 - Thomas Allery (Live)
Join harpsichordist Tom Allery for the eighth live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
17th March 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #9 - Mary-Jannet Leith & Thomas Allery (Live)
Join M-J and Tom for the ninth live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
24th March 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #10 - Thomas Allery (Live)
Join harpsichordist Tom Allery for the tenth live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
31st March 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #11 - Florence Petit (Pre-Recorded)
Join our Baroque Cellist Florence for the eleventh live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
7th April 2021,1pm: Hesperi at Home
Bite-size Baroque #12 - Thomas Allery (Live)
Join M-J and Tom for the last live-stream in our new "Bite-size Baroque" series!
31st May, 2021: English Music Festival
Programme TBC
www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk
6th September, 2021: Newbury Spring Festival
Programme TBC
www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk
17th September, 2021: 7.30pm, St Mary-le-Bow Church
"From Caledonia to the Capital"
This programme features Scottish composer James Oswald (1710-1769), whose artistic success culminated in a thriving publishing business and performing career in mid-eighteenth century London. This live programme will feature Oswald’s rarely performed songs for solo voice and continuo, from his 12 Songs composed in the Scotch Taste and Colin’s Kisses. These are delightful and accessible songs, which work well in sets interspersed with instrumental repertoire. Alongside these we will perform airs from Oswald’s astonishing collection, Airs for the Seasons - a set of 96 short miniatures, each depicting a flower or plant. The programme will also feature a sinfonia by the influential Scottish aristocrat Thomas Erskine, Earl of Kelly, as well as music by members of Oswald’s London-based mysterious musical society, “The Temple of Apollo”.
For our online audiences, a second programme will be available on-demand in September 2021. More details tbc.
Made possible by a grant from the Continuo Foundation
https://www.continuofoundation.co.uk
19th September, 2021: Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden
"The Pheasant's Eye" with Kathleen Gilbert, Highland Dancer
13 November, 2021: London International Festival of Early Music
Programme TBC
29th November, 2021: Temple Music
Programme TBC