| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 12-Jul-2012 St Paul's Cathedral | Meditations in sound from The Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek |
 In 1993, by some strange musical alchemy, a creative partnership was born that has gone on to bear some remarkable fruit. On Officium, stylish jazz and classical label ECM brought together The Hilliard Ensemble – a vocal quartet known for the precision with which it had tackled and animated austere soundworlds from Perotin to Pärt – and Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek. The resultant album, of early vocal music overlaid and intertwined with plangeant, improvised saxophone, proved not only original but enormously successful.Read full review... | |
| 21-Jun-2012 National Museum Cardiff | In Venetia: QuintEssential perform and evening of Gabrieli and contemporaries |
 The celebrated Giovanni Gabrieli, one of the most innovative and influential composers of the Venetian school, exacting the transition between the Renaissance and Baroque musical periods, died on 12 August 1612. Four hundred years on, QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble with guest soloists soprano Grace Davidson and tenor Steven Harrold present In Venetia, the headline concert of the Gregynog Festival 2012 and a tribute to this exceptional man.
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