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Brighton Early Music Festival

St Bartholomew's Church

7pm

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Brighton Early Music Festival

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With everything from 6th century chant to contemporary arrangements of traditional and world music, BREMF at White Night is a kaleidoscopic celebration of music throughout the ages. BREMF 09 (EAST meets WEST) will run until November 8. Visit www.bremf.org.uk for full festival details!

The Brighton Early Music Festival this year is also a celebration of the anniversaries of Purcell, Handel & Haydn.

The festival launches at White Night with a mixture of free and ticketed performances.

7pm: Glorious Venice – the gateway to the East

Multi choir music for voices and instruments by Monteverdi and the Gabrielis.  His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts; 1607 Ensemble. The Esterhazy Chamber Choir, BREMF Consort of Voices, Brighton Consort.  Directed by Deborah Roberts

  • Tickets:Premium £20 (£18 conc); A £15 (£13 conc); B £12 (£10 conc); C (restricted view, standing or bring a cushion) £3

Venice was the main trading port from which merchants sought their fortunes in the new markets of the East. This lavish concert reflects the great wealth of the city in the early 17th century

11pm: Calcutta

Emily Baines recorder; Liam Byrne bass viol; Jessica Bridge Cicic stage direction & choreography; Katherine De La Matter direction and harpsichord; Mary Anne Furey puppeteer; Sanjay Guha sitar; Andrew Pickett counter-tenor; Nina Virdee vocalist; David Wish baroque violin; Explore music from the streets of Calcutta, where performers from many cultures traded melodies and wound them into their own traditions. Tempus Fugit melds an unusual combination of period music and Indian sitar and song with shadow puppetry, dance and drama to tell a story of a traveller seeking his fortune in the musical heart of the City of Palaces.

Following Calcutta, St Bartholomew’s Church will be a quiet space with two events featuring serene music from the monastic Office:

Midnight Compline: chant and polyphony sung by PlainSing

2 am Matins for St Agnes: sung by Celestial Sirens (as featured on the soundtrack to BBC Radio 4’s dramatisation of Sarah Dunant’s novel ‘Sacred Hearts’).

From 8pm, 3 young ensembles featured in BREMF Live! 08 will perform various slots around the city:

Gandolpho virtuoso violin and harpsichord

I Flautisti recorders with attitude!
Prince and Pauper medieval & traditional to Baroque

  • £3-£20 7pm

Traded cultural melodies make up Tempus Fugit, an unusual combination of period music and Indian sitar, alongside shadow puppetry, dance and drama telling the tale of a traveller seeking his fortune in India.

  • £6 11pm
  • St Bartholomew’s Church, Ann St, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4GP‎
  • Tel 01273 620491‎
  • www.bremf.org.uk
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Supported by the Foyle Foundation and the Stanley Picker Trust.