Concerto delle Donne

 

Our programmes

 

Music for the Virgin Mary
celebrating 300 years of Charpentier

Music written for convents by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)

St John's Smith Square, Thursday 16th February 2006 at 7.30pm

The official launch of Concerto delle Donne's new CD for Signum Records.

 

Gower Festival, Saturday 14th July 2007

With the ladies of Swansea Bach Choir

 

Cantatas by Luigi Rossi (c.1597-1653)

Cantatas for one, two and three sopranos by one of the two leading composers of vocal music - the other being Carissimi - in the Rome of his day.

Wycombe Arts Festival, Friday 5th May 2006

St John's Smith Square, Thursday 1st June 2006 at 1.00pm

 

From Palm Sunday to Easter Day

A journey through Holy Week: music by Charpentier and Carissimi, with Allegri's Miserere and Couperin's Leçons de ténèbres

Wycombe Arts Festival, May 2007

 

Handel and his predecessors in Italy

Music by Luzzaschi, Monteverdi, Carissimi, Rossi and Steffani, and including Handel's wonderful Italian duets

 

Christmas with Concerto delle Donne

Music by Charpentier, Guerrero, J S Bach, the original versions of Silent Night and Three Kings of Orient, and a specially-written carol, Song of the Nuns of Chester, by Andrew M Wilson

 

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