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)

The official launch of the CD was in St John's Smith Square, Thursday 16th February 2006 at 7.30pm

Followed by performances in

Gower Festival, Saturday 14th July 2007 With the ladies of Swansea Bach Choir

Douai Abbey, Saturday 6th September 2008

St Michael's Church, Framlingham, Suffolk, Saturday 3rd September 2011

 

Handel and his predecessors in Italy

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

The group was launched with this programme, which we sang in the Göttingen Festival in 1997

Our next performance is

Saturday 3rd May 2014 at 7.30pm

St. Matthew's Church, Blackmoor, near Bordon, Hampshire, GU 33 6BS

 

Ave Maria

Sacred music for women's voices by Fauré, Poulenc and Massenet

This was a new venture for us, breaking away from our 17th and 18th century repertoire.
We sang this programme in Douai Abbey on Saturday 1st September 2012

 

Carissimi - Jephte
Monteverdi - Magnificat
from the Vespers of 1610
Motets by Victoria and Guerrero

St Michael's Church, Framlingham, Saturday 31st August 2013

 

François Couperin
Messe pour les Convents

With plainsong arranged by Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
Queen's College, Oxford, Wednesday 6th February 2013

 

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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