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July 2019
Sounds Sublime
Fieri will perform a concert as part of the Sounds Sublime Festival in central London on 20th July. More info to follow.
Find out more »November 2019
Her Father’s Voice – Brighton Early Music Festival
A play with music exploring the early years of composer Barbara Strozzi (b.1619) written and directed by Henry Bauckham. Let’s travel back in time by 400 years to Venice in 1619 - Barbara has just been born to the poet Giulio Strozzi and his mistress Isabella Garzoni. Not long after this in 1625, Francesca Caccini becomes the first woman to have an opera commissioned and performed. Thanks to developments in the previous century, women all over Italy are becoming…
Find out more »December 2019
The Shepherds of Bethlehem – London
Buy tickets here Take a trip to Rome on Christmas Eve in the year 1629, where a performance is taking place in the lavishly decorated Vatican palace. The Shepherds of Bethlehem, an oratorio composed by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger with a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX). Singers play the roles of shepherds and angels and tell of the nativity story through solos, duets, trios and full choruses. Fieri Consort will present this Christmas play interspersed with instrumental…
Find out more »The Shepherds of Bethlehem – York early music festival
Take a trip to Rome on Christmas Eve in the year 1629, where a performance is taking place in the lavishly decorated Vatican palace. The Shepherds of Bethlehem, an oratorio composed by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger with a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX). Singers play the roles of shepherds and angels and tell of the nativity story through solos, duets, trios and full choruses. Fieri Consort will present this Christmas play interspersed with instrumental and vocal pieces…
Find out more »March 2020
Residency at the Watts Gallery
Fieri will be in residence at the Watts Gallery in Guildford for three days. We will be developing new programmes with rehearsal sessions open to the public each afternoon.
Find out more »April 2020
Digital concert by Fieri Consort and Camerata Øresund
Pour yourself a glass of wine and join Fieri for a pre-dinner Friday night concert. Filmed in July at the West Cork music festival in collaboration with the vivacious Danish ensemble Camerata Øresund, the programme features the vocal music of Monteverdi along with Marini and Castello. The concert will be available to stream from YouTube from Friday 24th April 6pm, for two weeks. The original concert was performed at the West Cork music festival on July 3rd 2019 in collaboration…
Find out more »June 2020
York Early Music Festival online concert
York Early Music Festival will release a lunchtime concert featuring Fieri Consort and L’Apothéose (a Spanish instrumental ensemble from the 2019 Competition) at 1pm on the 13th June.
Find out more »July 2020
Tears of a Lover – online concert
The sensuous harmony and heart-wrenching poetry of the Italian Renaissance, groundbreaking in its time, continues to ensnare the imaginations of composers and performers today. In Tears of a Lover, the Fieri Consort explores the theme of love’s torments from a 21st-century perspective, through the work of the great composer Claudio Monteverdi, and through The Turn, a reflection on Monteverdi’s famous Lamento d’Arianna by contemporary composer Benjamin Rowarth. Programme notes
Find out more »September 2020
Another Dawn
In sixteenth century Italy, Claudio Monteverdi fundamentally changed the future of music, demonstrated in a rebirth of the madrigal style. Fieri Consort present a programme featuring music by Monteverdi and Marenzio from that crucial turning point in the genre of the Italian madrigal, alongside 20th-century and contemporary works that take this style and rework it into something new.
Find out more »October 2020
Another Dawn
In sixteenth century Italy, Claudio Monteverdi fundamentally changed the future of music, demonstrated in a rebirth of the madrigal style. Fieri Consort present a programme featuring music by Monteverdi and Marenzio from that crucial turning point in the genre of the Italian madrigal, alongside 20th-century and contemporary works that take this style and rework it into something new. This concert was previously filmed and will streamed online. More info to come.
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