Bedford Festival
2024-04-27 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Bunyan Meeting, Mill Street, Bedford, MK40 3EU
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bedfordmusic
See the Festival brochure for full details
Programme
Pietro Locatelli, Trio Sonata in E major
Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Sonata in D major op. 5 no. 1
Gregorio Tedde, Austro
Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in D RV84
INTERVAL
Georg Friedrich Händel, Trio sonata in E minor
Luciano Berio, Gesti
Georg Friedrich Handel, Trio Sonata in B minor
Antonio Vivaldi, Sonata seconda in E minor, Op.2
Francesco Barsanti, A collection of Scot’s airs

Festival SESC de Música da Cámara
2024-06-06 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-06-07 20:00 - 21:30 | SESC Consolação, Unidade Consolação R. Dr. Vila Nova, 245, Sao Paulo, 01222-020, Brazil
https://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/suite-barroca-inglaterra-brasil-2/

SESC Festival da Música da Cámara
2024-06-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Sesc Jundiaí, Av. Antonio Frederico Ozanan, 6600, Sao Paulo, 13214-206, Brazil
https://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/suite-barroca/

SESC Festival da Música da Camara
2024-06-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Sesc Sorocaba, R. Barão de Piratininga, 555, Sao Paulo, 18030-160, Brazil
In this programme, Ashley Solomon is both flautist and Director of Florilegium and of the young soloists’ ensemble EMESP, in collaboration with Brazilian soloist Fabio Cury. The programme features suites, symphonies and concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), his son Carl Phillip (1714-1788) and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767).
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Orchestral suite no 2 for flute, strings and basso continuo (BWV 1067)
Ouverture
Rondeau
Sarabande
Bourrée I & II
Polonaise
Menuet
Badinerie
G. P. Telemann (1681-1767)
Orchestral Suite for three oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo (TWV 55: B10)
Ouverture
Rondeau
Air: un peu viste
Hornpipe
Menuet I-II
Bourrée
Plainte
Combattans
Passepied I-II
C. P. E. Bach (1714-1788)
Symphony no 4 for strings and continuo (Wq 182, H. 660)
Allegro ma non troppo (attacca)
Largo ed innocentemente (attacca)
Allegro assai
G. P. Telemann
Concerto for recorder, bassoon, strings and basso continuo (TWV 52: F1)
Largo
Sem indicação de andamento [Allegro]
Sem indicação de andamento [Grave]
Allegro

SESC Festival da Música da Cámara with Arakaender Choir and Jovens solistas da EMESP
2024-06-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Sesc Jundiaí, Av. Antonio Frederico Ozanan, 6600, Sao Paulo, 13214-206, Brazil
The music of the Jesuit missions and of South America is the theme of this programme that brings together musicians from Bolivia, Brasil and England.
Led by Ashley Solomon, the British Florilegium ensemble (specialised in baroque music), Arakaendar Bolivian Choir and the young soloists of EMESP (Escola de Música do Estado de São Paulo) interpret works of the Latin-American musical past like Ave Maria Guarani by Italian composer Ennio Morricone.
The soprano soloist is Alina Delgadillo.
Programme
Ennio Morricone (1908-1920)
Ave Maria Guarani
Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner (1689-1742)
Cantemus Domino (AMCh 011, Mo 09)
Giovanni Battista Bassani (1657-1716)
Missa encarnacion (AMCh 032, Mi 04)
Kyrie
Gloria
Qui tollis
Credo
Crucifixus
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Anônimo
Sonata Chiquitana n. XVIII
Allegro
Andante
Presto
Anônimo da Bahia (século XVIII)
Recitativo e Ária para José Mascarenhas
Juan Araujo (1646-1712)
Villancicos
Al llanto más tierna
Si el amore
Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner
Gloria et honore (AMCh 199, Mo 17)

SESC Festival da Música da Cámara with Arakaender Choir and Jovens solistas da EMESP
2024-06-14 20:00 - 21:30 | Sesc Sorocaba, R. Barão de Piratininga, 555, Sao Paulo, 18030-160, Brazil

SESC Festival da Música da Cámara with Arakaender Choir and Jovens solistas da EMESP
2024-06-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Catedral Evangelica de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 01222-020

SESC Festival da Música da Cámara with Arakaender Choir and Jovens solistas da EMESP
2024-06-16 17:00 - 18:30 | Matriz Paroquial Nossa Senhora da Paz, Sao Paulo, 01222-020

York Early Music Festival
2024-07-07 10:30 - 11:30 | National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret's Church, Walmgate, YO1 9TL
Le Roi s’amuse: music for a king’s pleasure
Florilegium explore the intimate and elegant sound-world of France in the decades around 1700 and perform music by composers known to both Louis XIV and Louis XV, including works by some of the titans of this period in France – viol virtuoso Marin Marais and flute pioneer Jacques-Martin Hotteterre – as well as lesser-known names such as Jacques Morel, Jean-Baptiste Barriére and Michel de la Barre.

Somerset Chamber Choir’s 40th Anniversary Concert
2024-07-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells, BA5 2UE
Unquestionably one of the most beautiful and most poetic of English cathedrals, Wells Cathedral provides the magnificent setting for Somerset Chamber Choir’s joyous Anniversary Concert, celebrating 40 years of glorious music-making. With a distinguished line-up of musicians, this will be a concert sparkling with resplendent jewels of the Renaissance and Baroque.
The Choir, under the dynamic direction of Andrea Brown, will be joined by Florilegium, one of Britain’s most outstanding period-instrument ensembles, and a stunning array of vocal soloists.
Tallis’s extraordinary 40-part masterpiece Spem in Alium, in a dramatic arrangement featuring cornetts & sackbuts, will form the centrepiece of this very special concert which will also include exuberant music by H Praetorius, JS Bach’s dazzling Magnificat in D, the soaring lines of Handel’s sublime Eternal Source of Light Divine, and one of Purcell’s most popular works, Come Ye Sons of Art.
TALLIS Spem in Alium
JS BACH Magnificat
PURCELL Come Ye Sons of Art*
H PRAETORIUS Cantate Domino
HANDEL Eternal Source of Light Divine

Musica a Venezia - The Winged Lion
2024-10-21 21:00 - 22:30 | Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Via San Vittore 21, Milano, 20123, Italy
Florilegium with Tom Lilburn (countertenor)
Sacred and profane, intimate and grand, capital of music and visual arts, Venice is the city that has been elected by the Academy of Ancient Music in Milan as the protagonist of its concert season 2024 with programmes aimed at celebrating the blend of cultures between East and West that Venice embodied in the early eighteenth century.
In the fourth concert of the season, Florilegium (founded in London in 1991), bring their research and their experience to this concert ‘The Winged Lion’.
A.Vivaldi Concerto in D major RV 89
N.Porpora Aria Alto giove from Polifemo Act III
G.F.Handel Arias:
Amor nel mio penar (Flavio)
A dispetto (Tamerlano)
Vivaldi Concerto in a minor
Handel Harpsichord Suite
Vivaldi Cessate, omai cessate RV684

Free entry, booking required via +39 02.76015728

Imperial College Lunchtime Concert
2024-11-21 13:00 - 13:45 | Holy Trinity Church, Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BA
Florilegium give their annual performance at Holy Trinity Church in South Kensington as part of the Imperial College International Lunchtime Concerts Series. Florilegium were first invited to participate in this Series over fifteen years ago and over the years have presented numerous different programmes of chamber works for four to five musicians. This year we will perform a programme entitled “Handel and the Italian Connection” which includes works by Locatelli, Handel, Scarlatti and some unusual Scots airs by the Italian composer and oboist Francesco Barsanti.
Handel and the Italian Connection
Handel Trio Sonata in E minor
Locatelli Trio Sonata in E major
Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonata
Handel Trio Sonata in B minor
Barsanti A Collection of Scots Airs
Free entry, no booking required.

FREE entry

Bath Bach Fest
2025-02-20 19:30 - 21:15 | St Mary’s Bathwick, Darlington Street, Bath, BA2 4EB, United Kingdom
Florilegium bring a programme dedicated to the music of J S Bach, his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and their friend and godfather respectively, Georg Telemann. They will be joined by mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, a BBC New Generation artist, for two cantatas, including Bach’s famously moving and emotional Vegnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust BWV 170.

GPh Telemann Orchestral Suite in A major TWV55:A1

JS Bach Ricercar a 6 from Musical Offering

GPh Telemann Cantata Ihr Volker hört from Der harmonisches Gottesdienst

INTERVAL

CPE Bach Concerto for flute in d minor Wq 22

JS Bach Cantata BWV170 Vegnugte Ruh, beliebte

Wigmore Hall
2025-03-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP
Father, Son and Godfather

Florilegium with Helen Charlston

Florilegium will be joined by mezzo soprano Helen Charlston in their programme entitled Father, Son and Godfather at the Wigmore Hall. This programme will include Bach’s beautiful Cantata ‘Vegnugte Ruh’ which must rank as one of Bach′s most original cantatas. It is not his first for solo alto, but was certainly the first written during his Leipzig years and uses the organ as an obbligato instrument in two of the arias.

Bach’s close friend Telemann is represented with one of his smaller scale cantatas from his vast collection entitled ‘Der Harmonisches Gottesdienst’ and well as an orchestral Suite. The programme also includes a flute concerto by Telemann’s godson CPE Bach and his father’s challenging and unique Ricercar in 6 parts from the ‘Musical Offering’ – a work dedicated to Frederick the Great in 1747.

GPh Telemann Orchestral Suite in A major TWV55:A1

JS Bach Ricercar a 6 from Musical Offering

GPh Telemann Cantata Ihr Volker hört from Der harmonisches Gottesdienst

INTERVAL

CPE Bach Concerto for flute in d minor Wq 22

JS Bach Cantata BWV170 Vegnugte Ruh, beliebte

St Matthew Passion with The Bach Choir
2025-04-06 11:00 - 16:15 | Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
The annual performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, sung in English, with The Bach Choir is a much-anticipated fixture in London’s musical calendar.
Hear the dramatic telling of the Passion of Christ, which features some of Bach’s most beautiful and poignant chorales, performed in full in English.
Florilegium
David Hill conductor
Ed Lyon Evangelist
Simon Shibambu Christ
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting tenor
Neal Davies baritone
The Bach Choir
London Youth Choir

St John Passion
2025-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, 6 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EF
As part of the Cathedral’s programme of worship for Passiontide, Salisbury Cathedral Choir performs J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion, a masterpiece of sacred music that vividly tells the story of Christ’s Passion. Featuring an exceptional lineup of soloists and Salisbury Cathedral Choir under the direction of David Halls, this performance promises to be a profound and moving experience.
The St. John Passion is celebrated for its dramatic intensity, emotional depth, and exquisite beauty. Bach’s work draws the listener into the narrative of Christ’s betrayal, trial, and crucifixion with unmatched artistry.
Evangelist: Ruairi Bowen
Christus: Timothy Dickinson
Soprano: Amy Carson
Alto: Anita Monserrat
Tenor: Magnus Walker
Bass and Pilatus: Jack Comerford
Choir: Salisbury Cathedral Choir
Conductor: David Halls

Florilegium with Rowan Pierce - Firth Hall, Sheffield
2025-05-01 19:30 - 21:15 | Firth Hall, Alfred Denny Building, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Exploring repertoire for soprano, solo flute and strings Florilegium present two titans of the Baroque in this programme of sacred and secular music in a number of European styles. Bach is represented by a French suite and a German cantata, whilst Handel offers an Italian concerto and an English pastoral ode.
Rowan Pierce was a Britten Pears young artist, a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera. Rowan made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 with the OAE and has returned twice since.

Florilegium with Rowan Pierce - Sherborne Abbey Festival
2025-05-02 19:30 - 21:15 | Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, DT9 3LQ
Florilegium joins Sherborne Abbey Festival opening with Bach’s First Orchestral Suite – an immensely popular genre in the late 18th century, playing on the dance forms of the day. Handel follows: the charming pastoral air ‘Sweet Bird’ and the alternately stately and lively Third concerto grosso of his op.3 set. Finally, Bach’s sublime secular cantata Ich bin in mir vergnugt professes that the greatest riches are to be found not outside of ourselves but within.

Florilegium with Rowan Pierce - Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival
2025-05-23 19:30 - 21:15 | St Mary’s Church, HU17 8DL
Florilegium return to Beverley with soprano Rowan Pierce in a suitably celebratory programme of Handel and Bach, including Bach’s lively and elegant Orchestral Suite in C together with an expressive and serene secular cantata for solo soprano and chamber ensemble.
The two works by Handel include a famous aria from his opera L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato where the virtuosic parts for both solo flute and soprano present a homage to nature and its sweet imitation of bird calls. Whilst it is unlikely that Handel ever visited Beverley, John Courtney would certainly have known of his work as his music was deeply integrated into the cultural fabric of Georgian society.

Les accents de passion
2025-09-27 21:00 - 22:30 | St John’s Cathedral, Abbeyquarter North, Sligo, Ireland
Ashley Solomon, Flute/Director
Reiko Ichise, Viola da Gamba
Siobhan Armstrong, Harp

This programme explores the intimate, elegant sound-world of France and Italy in the 17th and early 18th centuries, with music by composers who were titans at the time, writing for flute and bass viol. The Italian, triple-row harp was also played in France, described by the French scientist Marin Mersenne in his 1636 work, Harmonie Universelle.
Michel de la Barre was the first (1702) to publish Pièces pours le Flûte traversière. The Sonate l’Inconnuë is the final ‘suite’ and is rounded off appropriately with a gloriously buoyant Chaconne.
Marin Marais was the central figure in the French school of bass-viol that flourished during the late 17th and early 18th century. He spent the greater part of his life in royal service in Paris, playing under the direction of Lully.
The founder of the French flute school, Jacques Hotteterre enjoyed the status of Flûte de la Chambre du Roy, and was the first to publish a treatise to help guide players around the complexities of the instrument.
Jacques Morel was a pupil of Marais. This short Chaconne, from c. 1709, employs the flute and bass viol as solo partners.
The Italian Luigi Rossi was a master composer of operas and cantatas. His music was extremely popular in France where he spent some time working for Cardinal Mazarin who commissioned him to write the opera Orfeo, premiered in Paris in 1647.
Arcangelo Corelli, often referred to as ‘the prince of musicians’, built an enviable contemporaneous reputation as a violin virtuoso and composer of dramatic and experimental music.
Jean-Baptiste Barrière was a virtuoso cellist and composer. After studying in Italy with the cellist Franciscello, he gave numerous performances in one of the earliest public concert series, the Parisian Concert Spirituel, having been accorded special privileges by Louis XV at Fontainebleau in 1733.

Handel's Messiah with Waynflete Singers
2025-12-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Winchester Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, 9 The Cl, Winchester, SO23 9LS, United Kingdom
The Waynflete Singers together with Florilegium and conductor Andrew Lumsden return to the Cathedral for their ever-popular Christmas concert, with Handel’s Messiah set to bring festive joy to the nave of the Cathedral.
They are joined by baroque ensemble Florilegium and a superb line-up of soloists.
Please book early to secure the best seats.
Waynflete Singers
English Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Lumsden, conductor
Soloists:
Soprano: Harriet Eyley
Counter-: James Laing
Tenor: Benjamin Hulett
Bass: Felix Kemp

St Matthew Passion with The Bach Choir
2026-03-08 11:00 - 16:15 | Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
The Bach Choir’s annual performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Florilegium, sung in English, is a much-anticipated fixture in London’s musical calendar.
The St Matthew Passion features some of Bach’s most beautiful and poignant chorales, alongside rousing and striking choruses.
This is a work that The Bach Choir is renowned for performing annually to an exceptionally high standard.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of The Bach Choir, which was formed in 1876 to give the first UK performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor.

Performers
Florilegium
David Hill conductor
Toby Spence tenor, Evangelist
Simon Shibambu bass, Christ
Lucy Crowe soprano
Carolyn Dobbin mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Hulett tenor
Christopher Purves bass

Telemann Old and New
2026-03-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP
Florilegium’s fruitful immersion in the music of Georg Philipp Telemann has opened fresh perspectives on the work of a German Baroque composer who bridged the gap between past styles and new musical fashions and cultivated an eclectic ‘mixed taste’, nourished by ideas from France, Italy and elsewhere. Discover Telemann’s seductive blend of old and new in a programme complete with his dramatic cantata Ino, which Elizabeth Watts recently recorded with Florilegium.

Georg Philipp Telemann, Overture: Suite in F TWV55:F16
Georg Philipp Telemann, Concerto in E minor for flute, recorder and strings TWV52:e1

INTERVAL

Georg Philipp Telemann, Cantata: Ino TWV20:41
Georg Philipp Telemann, Conclusion in E minor TWV50:5

Bach Easter Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio
2026-05-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, 6 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EF
Florilegium joins Salisbury Cathedral Choir and conductor David Halls for a programme of Bach’s music for the Easter season, pairing two celebratory sacred works with one of his most familiar orchestral pieces.

Bach's Complete Brandenburg Concertos
2026-05-18 18:30 - 20:30 | St James Church, Church Street, Chipping Campden, GL55 6JG
The Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are widely regarded as some of the greatest orchestral compositions of the Baroque era. Director, Ashley Solomon, presents the concertos in reverse order, so that the number of players increases with each work.
BACH JS: Brandenburg 6 BMW 1051
BACH JS: Brandenburg 5 BMW 1050
BACH JS: Brandenburg 4 BMW 1049
INTERVAL
BACH JS: Brandenburg 3 BMW 1048
BACH JS: Brandenburg 2 BMW 1047
BACH JS: Brandenburg 1 BMW 1046

Bach's Mass in B minor with The Bach Choir
2026-05-26 19:30 - 21:45 | Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
The Mass in B minor is a remarkable work which combines all of Bach’s monumental gifts as a composer.
It contains solos, duets, trios and incredible choruses in as many as eight parts, combining joy, sadness, melancholy but, above all, inspired melodic writing throughout.
The lightness and control that The Bach Choir possesses makes this ensemble the perfect match for one of Bach’s most heralded works.

Florilegium
David Hill conductor
Nardus Williams soprano
Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Sam Furness tenor
Neal Davies bass
The Bach Choir
