| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Jan-2013 All Souls Church | Valletta International Baroque Festival: Italian sacred polyphony in 17th-century Malta |
My second course of the sumptuous feast under the title of the Valletta International Baroque Festival arrived on 16 January. The fare was a Maltese delicacy with Italian overtones. The concert was performed by the Cappella Sanctae Catharinae at the church dedicated to all souls in Valletta.
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| 22-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 53: Remarkable vocal variety and colour from I Fagiolini's Italian Vespers |
The scene is 1612 in Venice: a great battle has been won against the dreaded Ottoman Empire, and in celebration, evening prayers are ordered to be set to music specially composed by the great Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi and others. It's an imaginary scene, of course, actually taking place in this late Prom at London's Royal Albert Hall, and dreamt up by Robert Hollingworth, director of the period ensemble I Fagiolini.
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