| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 7-Jun-2013 Christ Church, Spitalfields | Feasting on medieval music with the Orlando Consort at Spitalfields Music Summer Festival 2013 |
 Amidst all the hustle and bustle, the humming and buzzing of post-work Friday-night drinkers lining the sun-kissed streets of Spitalfields, who’d have thought that in the church at the very heart of that lively London area would be a man, standing alone, singing music written 800 years ago? Music from another human-inhabited world, so alien to our modern-day, Commercial Street lives, and yet still being performed: words praising the life of St Francis of Assisi sung to a melody composed only a few years after his death.
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| 20-Feb-2013 College of St Hild and St Bede Chapel | The Rose, the Lily and the Whortleberry: The Orlando Consort |
 The medieval garden was an enchanted place, a place where the beauties of nature took on formal and symbolic qualities, and the perfect setting for the coded artifice of courtly love. Through a carefully selected programme, the Orlando Consort allowed us a peek into the secrets of medieval gardens across Europe, to observe both the rigid formality of the knights and ladies, and much earthier goings-on behind the rose bushes and in the garden shed.
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| 8-Feb-2013 Cadogan Hall | Insalata I Fagiolini at Cadogan Hall |
 I Fagiolini is a vocal group I have been trying to see live for quite a while now, so I was extremely excited to be attending the London offering of Insalata I Fagiolini at Cadogan Hall. Performing early repertoire in a fresh and exciting way is their niche (within a niche, within a niche, as we were informed by director Robert Hollingworth) and tonight we were to be treated to an evening of madrigals, some of which were inventively staged to illustrate the narrative of the text.Read full review... | |
| 20-Dec-2012 SJE Arts at St John the Evangelist Church | The Sixteen and Harry Christophers get ready for Christmas in Oxford |
| The theme of tonight’s concert, revealed the programme notes, was that of “marking time and preserving timeless values” – Christmas being a season that connects the past with the present. Musically, there were several strands to the programme that were supposed to demonstrate this theme: contrasting settings of the same text composed centuries apart, contemporary arrangements of ancient festive folk tunes, and juxtapositions of modern and renaissance carols with similar messages. Read full review... | |
