The Baroque Ménagerie – an exploration of animal and bird life in music from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Creatures in music vary from the literal to symbolic & they can also serve as moral inspiration for humanity. Whether it’s the recognisable sound of the cuckoo or the lesson in cunning from the fox, animals have …
Join us at the beautiful venue of St Cecilia's Hall for an afternoon of folk song sung in 3 or 4 part harmony, mostly Scottish and many with a 'coastal' or fishing theme. Sangstream is an Edinburgh-based community choir that focuses on traditional songs. We've been performing for over 25 years, and are led …
Join us for this month's quiet concert featuring music from FOLK(ISH) with the Haver String Quartet. We have thought about some of the sensory issues that can keep people away from many events and made some small but important adjustments. What we will do differently includes: Asking audiences for quiet applause, such as only using …
Música d'Outrora is an early music ensemble founded in 2022 by Spanish director and harpsichordist Pablo Devigo (1989). Specialising in 17th-century Italian repertoire, the ensemble employs historical research methods to develop new interpretative approaches to the Baroque stylus phantasticus. The Continuo Foundation funded the Across the Alps tour throughout the United Kingdom and renewed its …
The Edinburgh Quartet presents the third concert of their series at St. Cecilia's Hall. This concert continues the exploration of Beethoven's magnificent op. 18 quartets with the third of the cycle, paired with another masterpiece of the string quartet repertoire, Mendelssohn's quartet in a minor, op. 13. Since their founding in 1960, 'Scotland's string quartet' has brought …
The best of medieval and Renaissance festive music, on period instruments of every kind. Friendly presentation. For all the family. Children are especially welcome and go free!
Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice's public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years. Using surviving payment records from venetian theatres, Mezzo Camilla Seale and countertenor Tristram Cooke will be accompanied by an ensemble which matches a Venetian theatre band of …