2024 Festival
Archive
SNEMF 24 presented music from Vienna to medieval city gates, from the power of love to delight in the wild woods: dances, lullabies, music for the table, and unaccompanied Bach suites, with concerts in the historic Old Church, the new church, the acoustically-beautiful Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, and the historic Abney Park chapel.
Our 2024 Programme:
Pleasures of Youth | O Sweet Woods | Innocence and Devotion | Trumpets, Horns & Sackbuts
Love's Fire, Love's Ashes | Tafelmusik | Medieval Lullabies
Pleasures of Youth
Wednesday, 19 June, 7.30pm
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Bouverie Rd, N16 [venue]
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Trio Notturno
Jamie Akers (guitar) Eva Caballero (flute) and Rachel Stott (viola) present chamber music from the salons of Vienna in the early 19th century. Music by Beethoven, Matiegka and Diabelli, with operatic highlights of Mozart and Meyerbeer, and concertante solo, duo and trio works by Guiliani, Hoffmeister and Molino.
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PROGRAMME
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Dance
Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) Minuet in G major
Franz Josef Haydn arr. Trio Notturno Minuet from Baryton Trio in A minor
Ludwig van Beethoven arr. Matiegka Polonais from Trio Op. 8
Travel
Anton Diabelli Allegretto Rondo in A minor
Francesco Molino (1768-1847) Larghetto and Theme and Variations from Grand Trio Concertante Op. 3
Ludwig Berger (1777-1839) Sonata in C major: Moderato,
Theme and Variations, Allegro Molto
Song
Anton Diabelli Andante in F major
Athénaïs Paulian (1802-1875) Variations on a theme of Mozart
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (1773-1830) Lento e Patetico from Serenade
Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856) Trio on themes from The Prophet by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Revelry
Anton Diabelli Scherzando Presto in D major
Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) Allegro from Duo in G major
Johann Decker-Shenk (1826-1899) Fantasie Romantique
Joseph Küffner (1776-1856) Rondo Russe-Hongroise
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O Sweet Woods!
Thursday, 20 June, 7.30pm
Abney Park Chapel, Abney Park N16 [venue]
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Pellingmans' Saraband with Faye Newton, soprano
Pellingmans' Saraband and Faye Newton present a programme of songs and instrumental music inspired by the flora and fauna of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Composers include Ravenscroft, Dowland, Byrd, and Morley.
More about Pellingmans' Saraband
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PROGRAMME
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George Handford (1582/5-1647) Now each creature joyes
Anthony Holborne (1545-1602) The Honie-Suckle
Thomas Campion (1567-1620) There is a garden in her face
John Dowland (1563-1626) O sweet woods
John Johnson (1545-1594) The leaves be green
Thomas Morley (1557-1602) Thyrsis and Milla
Richard Braithwaite (1588-1673) The Squirrel
Francis Cutting (1550-1603) The Squirrell’s Toy
William Byrd (1540-1623) The Nightingale
Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657) English Nightingale
Henry Chillester (1579) A Commendation of the Robin Redbreast
Anon. (c1600) Robin is to the Greene wood Gonn
Robert Johnson (1583-1633) As I walk’d forth
Anon. Greensleeves
Robert Smith (c1648-1675) A Division for two Trebles
Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) No more shall meads be deck’d with flowers
Thomas Ravenscroft (1588-1635) Tomorrow the fox will come to towne
Innocence and Devotion
Monday, 24 June, 7.30pm
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Bouverie Rd, N16 [venue]
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Kinga Gáborjáni, cello
Swithun Cooper, reader
Kinga Gáborjáni continues her series of Bach cello suites, begun at SNEMF 2019, with Suite No. 3 in C major and No. 4 in Eb major, keys associated with the concepts of innocence and devotion.
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In a short interlude between the suites, reader Swithun Cooper will present some music-related poems by Tomas Tranströmer, Sarah Mnatzaganian and Laura Del Col Brown.
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PROGRAMME
Poem: c major by Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015)
Bach Suite no. 3 in C major BWV 1009
Prélude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Menuets I & II
Gigue
Poem: Slow Movement by Sarah Mnatzaganian
Poem: Montagnana Calling by Sarah Mnatzaganian
Poem: Solo Suite by Laura Del Col Brown
Bach: Suite No. 4 in e flat major BWV 1010
Prélude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Bourees I & II
Gigue
Trumpets, Horns, and Sackbuts
Thursday, 27 June, 3.00pm
St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
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Students from the Guildhall School of Music Historical Brass Department present music composed for royal courts, chapels and battlefields, performed on trumpets, horns and sackbuts.
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PROGRAMME
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Love's Fire, Love's Ashes
Friday, 28 June, 7.30pm
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
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Rachel Ambrose Evans
Zoë Brookshaw
Nicholas Mulroy
Thomas Herford
Edward Grint
Toby Carr
Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) returns to SNEMF with some of the leading singers in UK early music - Rachel Ambrose Evans (soprano), Zoë Brookshaw (sorano), Thomas Herford (tenor) and Edward Grint (bass baritone), accompanied by lutenist Toby Carr. Programme includes exquisitely beautiful madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi and Barbara Strozzi.
PROGRAMME
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Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Ecco mormorar l'onde (Il Secondo Libro de Madrigali) (book 2)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Zefiro Torna (book 6)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Sfogava con le Stelle (book 4)
Bellerfonte Castaldi (1580-1649) Lusinghevole passegio [for theorbo]
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Lamento della Ninfa (book 8)
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) Silentio Nocivo
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Si, ch'io vorrei morire (book 4)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Parlo, misero, o taccio (book 7)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Al Lume delle Stelle (book 7)
Bellerfonte Castaldi (1580-1649) Un bocconcino di fantasia [for theorbo]
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Sestina (book 6)
Tafelmusik: Telemann's Music for Feasting
Wednesday, 3 July, 1:00pm
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
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Istante Collective
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The Istante Collective – Nicola Barbaglia (oboe) Gabriella Jones and Beatrice Scaldini (violins) Elitsa Bogdanova (viola) Carina Drury (cello) and Matthew Brown (harpsichord) present a lunchtime concert of concertos, solo sonatas and trio sonatas from Telemann’s Tafelmusik.
PROGRAMME
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Overture from Suite TWV55:E2
Trio sonata for two violins and continuo in E flat major TWV42:Es1
- Affettuoso, Vivace, Grave, Allegro
Concerto for oboe, strings and continuo in D major TWV51:d1
- Adagio, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro
Solo in A major for violin and continuo TWV41:A4
- Andante, Vivace, Cantabile, Allegro
Solo in G minor for oboe and continuo TWV41:g6
- Largo, Presto-Andante-Presto, Moderato, Allegro
Rigaudon, Aire and Rondo Hanaquoise from Suite TWV55:E2
Medieval and Traditional Lullabies
Friday, 5 July, 11:00am
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
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Clare Norburn, soprano
Jean Kelly, medieval harp
For our pre-school audience and their parents, grandparents and carers, a concert of Medieval and Traditional Lullabies, with Clare Norburn, and Jean Kelly, who gave the first ever of our Early Music for Early Years concerts at SNEMF 2022.
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PROGRAMME
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Hush the Waves - Irish trad.
The Connemara Cradle Song - Irish trad.
Alles still in Süßer Ruh - German trad.
Ukrainian Lullaby - Ukrainian trad.
Täimse in chodladh ('I'm asleep') - Irish trad. (harp instrumental)
Fatte la nanna - Tuscan trad.
Eriskay Love Lit - Hebridean trad.
Lullay, my child - Anon. English 13th century
Swan LLK243 - Caitriona McKay (Harp instrumental)
Golden Slumbers - English trad.
Hush-a-by-Baby - English trad.