Amersham Arms: set list
The second night of the pub tour went down a storm (we think?!) in a rather chilly Amersham Arms, as we made our New Cross debut! Here’s a full set list from the evening. Set One Handel Trio Sonata in...
View ArticleParadise: set list
Here’s the full set list from our gig at Paradise on Tuesday. Pictures will follow shortly… Set One Purcell Golden Sonata No.9 from Sonatas in Four Parts Purcell Fairest Isle from King Arthur Purcell...
View ArticleNew summer event announced
We’re very excited to be able to reveal details a very special summer event, taking place on 1 August on Blackheath in South East London, as part of the Lewisham Big Screen. This will be an intimate...
View ArticleFairy Queen: First reviews
Last week Glyndebourne’s production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen opened, with us providing musical accompaniment from the pit. The first reviews are in and here’s what they had to say: Guardian...
View ArticleGlyndebourne: on demand
We’re very pleased to be able to offer you the chance to watch the 2009 Glyndebourne production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, featuring the OAE, online. When it was first produced at the Dorset Gardens...
View ArticleFeisty Females: Part 3
In Part 3 of our guide to female opera characters, we’re looking into the life of famous queen Dido…and tonight at the Royal Festival Hall, Anna Caterina Antonacci will be portraying the lady herself...
View ArticleFrench Exchange: Audience Reactions
After last month’s performance of Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: French Exchange at Southbank Centre, we spoke with some audience members to find out what they thought of the concert. Here’s what...
View ArticleLive Friday Playlist
Anyone present at ‘Live Friday’ last week will have heard Margaret Faultless, Robin Michael and Matthew Truscott putting Purcell through his paces, on the rooftop of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.It was...
View ArticleTOTS playlist: March
We hope you enjoyed our OAE TOTS go Wind today- it was fabulous to see so many music makers at Kings Place on a snowy Saturday morning! If you grown-ups would like to know what you heard and maybe...
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Countertenor
The countertenor is the highest male adult voice. Peter Giles, a professional countertenor and noted author on the subject, defines the countertenor as a musical part, rather than a vocal style or...
View ArticleThe Night Shift
If ever a composer was glad to be dead before his name could be confused with another musician, it’s Biber. And what better way to celebrate the Bohemian composer, than with the Orchestra of the Age...
View ArticleFairy Queen DVD
The DVD of Glyndebourne’s spectacular production of Purcell’s exuberant take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is now available. Part spoken, part sung, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is almost...
View ArticleSpeed Interview – Jonathan Rees
Cello player Jonathan Rees will be playing at The Night Shift on 23 April, when we return to the Amersham Arms for some Handel, some improv and, of course, a few drinks. We spoke with Jonathan about...
View ArticleA couple of celebrations…
Today is not only St. George’s Day but also World Book Day, so we thought we’d mix some British music with some literature-related music and the result is a new Spotify playlist, including Purcell’s...
View ArticleA Northern Treat!
Education Director Cherry Forbes is currently up in Beverley, working on an exciting project based on Purcell’s Fairy Queen. Here, Cherry tells us about the first day of the project; the quirks of...
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A Way Forward
This week, as part of our collaboration with National Centre for Early Music (NCEM), we’ve been working with students from Years 7 and 8 from Beverly Grammar School, as well as York University MEG...
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A Souvenir from Beverley
Education Director Cherry Forbes discusses her time at the Beverley Early Music Festival. ‘Last week James, Cecelia, Hetty, Rob and I spent four days in Beverley, North Yorkshire, working with over 100...
View ArticleGoing on a Journey
Thanks to everyone who came along to TOTs on Saturday, we had a great time and very much enjoyed taking you on our musical tour of Europe. Below you’ll find a full list of the music included in the...
View ArticleNew Year with the OAE
This year, our popular New Years concerts return to Kings Place on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, to welcome in twenty fourteen with music that’s even more rousing than Auld Lang Syne, and the good...
View ArticleTOTS Playlist – Purcell’s Fairy Queen
For those of you who’d like to delve deeper into the work of Purcell, here’s a taste of the music from his much celebrated opera Fairy Queen, featured in TOTS this weekend. The post TOTS Playlist –...
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