October 2019
Concert by Candlelight – Age of Baroque Virtuoso
Hastings Early Music Festival presents an evening of baroque concertos in a Concert by Candlelight, performed on authentic period instruments. Festival artistic director Jane Gordon returns with HEMF Baroque, the Festival Ensemble, which draws together international period instrument specialists. They will perform a scintillating programme of Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann concertos displaying the Italian style fashionable of the era. Featuring solo, double, triple and quadruple concertos, each member of the ensemble gets to shine with virtuosic music from the height…
Find out more »Bach In Focus – Piano Recital
Hastings Early Music Festival presents Bach 'In Focus'. Pianist Jan Rautio explores Italian connections in a coffee concert of JS Bach’s music, mirroring the theme of the ‘Concert by Candlelight’. Jan Rautio was born in Russia and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. He works as a soloist, chamber musician, composer and conductor. His work has taken him to many performance venues across the UK, Europe, Russia and the USA. Notable performances include Edinburgh Festival, Wigmore…
Find out more »I FAGIOLINI – Leonardo ‘Shaping the Invisible’
Featured in this year’s Hastings Early Music Festival are the internationally renowned vocal ensemble I Fagiolini. Celebrating Leonardo’s 500th anniversary and the legacy of this forward-thinking ‘Renaissance Man’, the solo-voice-consort I Fagiolini, combines art, music and science in a new immersive concert: Leonardo - Shaping the Invisible. Inspired by Leonardo’s restless curiosity, Shaping the Invisible explores his best-loved images through the prism of music by Tallis, Howells, Victoria, Bach, Monteverdi, Rubbra, Janequin, Daniel-Lesur and Josquin des Prez. Introduced by Leonardo…
Find out more »Consone Quartet – Sunday Chamber Music Platform
BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet, perform in Hastings Early Music Festival’s chamber music platform at Kino Teatr. They are the first period string quartet to have been accepted onto the BBC’s prestigious scheme. Their Sunday afternoon programme includes string quartets by Haydn, Schubert and Schumann performed on period instruments, recreating the style typical of the era. With an impressive international touring schedule, these rising stars are not to be missed. "... a musical, emotional, stylistic and technical bullseye." The…
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