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 …
Join volunteer Dona to learn all about our early keyboard instruments.
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! Please note this concert is now SOLD OUT! If you would like to join the waiting list, please contact the Edinburgh Renaissance Band via the details below.
Join volunteer David to learn about all things keyboards to pipes.
Dr Jenny Nex explores and examines the roles, lives and stories behind the often overlooked women who were instrumental in the making, selling and collecting of some of the instruments in the collection. Jenny Nex is Curator of the Musical Instrument Collection and Lecturer in Musical Instruments at the University of Edinburgh, where her research …
Join Dr Sabine Klaus as she explores the role of Madame Florentine Besson in the invention of the modern trumpet, with live demonstrations. The origin of the modern piston-valve trumpet—the trumpet used in most countries today—is often associated with the French firm of Besson. But when and by whom was this iconic trumpet design …
Anna Stegmann (recorder) & Corina Marti (harpsichord) Music in the 16th century was closely connected to the human voice, even when played on instruments. The art of diminution, ornamenting a simple line, allowed performers to shape music with expression and individuality. In La Fontegara (1535), Silvestro Ganassi presents the recorder not just as an instrument, but as a means of speech, capable of expressing a variety …
Please note that this event is hosted by an external organisation and not St Cecilia’s Hall. For any enquiries about this specific event please see the organiser contact information below. Beethoven's Op. 18 No. 6 captures the composer at his most playful and searching, its extraordinary final movement — marked La Malinconia — a glimpse …
Jean-François Madeuf (natural trumpet) & The Rossetti Players Barbara Konrad, first violin Yun-Kyung Kim-Fernandez, second violinSylvestre Vergez, viola François-Emmanuel Douchy, bass violinMario Sarrechia, harpsichord “Formerly, the trumpet had its place in noisy military music; now, having learned to play softly, it knows how to accompany the most tender flutes and perform in duets with the most delicate voices.” (Godfrey Keller, Six Sonatas…, dedication to …