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Monday 17 January 2022

Celebrating Charles Burney: King's Lynn Festival's first Early Music Weekend

The Snetlzer organ case at King's Lynn Minster, installed during Charles Burney's time there as organist
The Snetlzer organ case at King's Lynn Minster,
installed during Charles Burney's time there as organist

The King's Lynn Festival has announced its first Early Music Weekend, from 1 to 3 April 2022 they will be presenting a series of concerts celebrating musicians associated with the town and with West Norfolk.

Charles Burney was organist at St Margaret’s Church (now King's Lynn Minster) in for eight years and promoted concerts in the town, and there will be a walk exploring Georgian King's Lynn and A Teatime Concert for Dr Burney where violinist Dominika Feher and harpsichordist Jack Gonzales Harding will be performing music by JS Bach, CPE Bach, Haydn and Mozart. The 17th century composer and viol player John Jenkins and his patron Sir Roger Le Strange lived in West Norfolk, and the Rose Consort of Viols will be performing music by Jenkins alongside that of Byrd, Robert Parsons, Tallis, Ferrabosco, Thomas Tomkins, Purcell and William Lawes. 

Other concerts include The Trials and Triumphs of Oriana, a programme of Elizabethan madrigals performed by sopranos Penelope Appleyard and Angela Hicks with lutenist Sam Brown and viola da gamba player Harry Buckoke, and Ibrahim Aziz, from the Rose Consort of Viols, is joined by harpsichordist Petra Hajduchov for Virtuoso Variations with music by Nicolas Hotman, Purcell, Christopher Simpson, Handel, Couperin and Marais.

Before then, one of the festival's Spring coffee concerts (on 11 March 2022) features the Passacaglia Trio in music from the Royal Court of Frederick the Great for flute, viola da gamba and harpsichord. 

Full details from the King's Lynn Festival's website.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the mention. We are looking forward to playing Jenkins' music so near to where he worked in the 17th century.

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