Fieri Consort: Freeing the Muse
Freeing the Muse explores Renaissance ideas of female beauty as shaped by women themselves. Bringing together solo songs and five-voice madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, Raphaella Alleotti and Francesca Caccini, the programme places female creativity firmly at its centre, revealing composers who wrote, performed and shaped musical culture in their own time.
These works are set alongside madrigals by Giaches de Wert, Cipriano de Rore and Luzzasco Luzzaschi; music forged in close dialogue with exceptional female singers, whose virtuosity and expressive power transformed the sound of late-sixteenth-century Italy. Here, the “muse” is not a silent ideal but an active presence, inspiring innovation through collaboration.
Fieri celebrates the boldness, imagination and artistic authority of women whose individual voices resound throughout this remarkable repertoire.
Fieri Consort: Freeing the Muse
Freeing the Muse explores Renaissance ideas of female beauty as shaped by women themselves. Bringing together solo songs and five-voice madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, Raphaella Alleotti and Francesca Caccini, the programme places female creativity firmly at its centre, revealing composers who wrote, performed and shaped musical culture in their own time.
These works are set alongside madrigals by Giaches de Wert, Cipriano de Rore and Luzzasco Luzzaschi; music forged in close dialogue with exceptional female singers, whose virtuosity and expressive power transformed the sound of late-sixteenth-century Italy. Here, the “muse” is not a silent ideal but an active presence, inspiring innovation through collaboration.
Fieri celebrates the boldness, imagination and artistic authority of women whose individual voices resound throughout this remarkable repertoire.
New Paths: Songs and Sanctuary
Emma Dillon (speaker) | Hannah Ely (soprano) | Fiona Fraser (soprano) | Rebekah Nießer-Jones (mezzo soprano) | Jonathan Pratt (bass) | Patrick Allies (director)
The programme is connected to the UKRI-funded project, ‘Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song 1100-1300’, hosted at King’s College London. This project is led, and the research introduced today, by Beverley-born Professor Emma Dillon, Thurston Dart Professor of Music (Medieval Music and Cultures) at King’s.
Musica Gloria: Thuringer Bach Woche - Meiner Seele Reichtum
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Kantaten
„Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir“ BWV 131 (Mühlhausen, 1708)
„Was frage ich nach der Welt“ BWV 94 (Leipzig, 1724)
„Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille“ BWV 120 (Leipzig 1728)
Besetzung:
Chor und Ensemble
Musica Gloria
Nele Vertommen – Oboe und Leitung
Beniamino Paganini – Flöte, Cembalo und Leitung
Fieri Consort: Freeing the Muse
Bellezza e Bruttezza
Freeing the Muse explores Renaissance ideas of female beauty as shaped by women themselves. Bringing together solo songs and five-voice madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, Raphaella Alleotti and Francesca Caccini, the programme places female creativity firmly at its centre, revealing composers who wrote, performed and shaped musical culture in their own time.
These works are set alongside madrigals by Giaches de Wert, Cipriano de Rore and Luzzasco Luzzaschi; music forged in close dialogue with exceptional female singers, whose virtuosity and expressive power transformed the sound of late-sixteenth-century Italy. Here, the “muse” is not a silent ideal but an active presence, inspiring innovation through collaboration.
Fieri celebrates the boldness, imagination and artistic authority of women whose individual voices resound throughout this remarkable repertoire.
Ensemble Masques: Pygmalion
Circassien roue cyr : Jef Everaert
Pygmalion: Cyril Auvity
La Statue: Hannah Ely
L’Amour: Judith van Wanroij
Céphise: Marie-Frédérique Girod
Olivier Fortin
Fieri Consort: Freeing the Muse
Freeing the Muse explores Renaissance ideas of female beauty as shaped by women themselves. Bringing together solo songs and five-voice madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, Raphaella Alleotti and Francesca Caccini, the programme places female creativity firmly at its centre, revealing composers who wrote, performed and shaped musical culture in their own time.
These works are set alongside madrigals by Giaches de Wert, Cipriano de Rore and Luzzasco Luzzaschi; music forged in close dialogue with exceptional female singers, whose virtuosity and expressive power transformed the sound of late-sixteenth-century Italy. Here, the “muse” is not a silent ideal but an active presence, inspiring innovation through collaboration.
Fieri celebrates the boldness, imagination and artistic authority of women whose individual voices resound throughout this remarkable repertoire.
Le Banquet Celeste: Mein Geist
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantate « Mache dich, mein Geist bereit » BWV 115
Concerto pour hautbois d'amour en la majeur BWV 1055R
« Ein neues lied », suite instrumentale tirée de motets (transcription Antoine Touche)
Cantate « Ich bin ein guter Hirt » BWV 85
Hannah Ely, Soprano
Marine Fribourg, Alto
Thomas Hobbs, Ténor
Benoît Arnould, Basse
Patrick Beaugiraud, Hautbois
Le Banquet Céleste, Orchestre
Le Banquet Celeste: Mein Geist
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantate « Mache dich, mein Geist bereit » BWV 115
Concerto pour hautbois d'amour en la majeur BWV 1055R
« Ein neues lied », suite instrumentale tirée de motets (transcription Antoine Touche)
Cantate « Ich bin ein guter Hirt » BWV 85
Hannah Ely, Soprano
Marine Fribourg, Alto
Thomas Hobbs, Ténor
Benoît Arnould, Basse
Patrick Beaugiraud, Hautbois
Le Banquet Céleste, Orchestre
Alia Mens Ensemble: Bach “Deus Calculat” with Cantatas BWV 8, 127 and 12
Performers
Soloists
Hannah Ely, Soprano
Paul-Antoine Bénos, Alto
Thomas Hobbs,Tenor
Romain Bockler, Bass
Musicians
Kati Debretzeni (1st Violin), Ugo Gianotti, Noyuri Hazama, Violins
Fanny Paccoud, Alto
Emilia Gliozzi, Cello
Christian Staude, Double Bass
Julien Martin, Marine Sablonnière, Recorders
Annie Laflamme, Traverso
Emmanuel Laporte, Oboe
Loris Barrucand, Organ
Director
Olivier Spilmont
Alia Mens: Tout est né pour aimer
Airs de cour des XVII et XVIIIes siècles,
Ensemble Alia Mens (dir. Olivier Spilmont), avec Hannah Ely, soprano
Monteverdi String Band: A Thousand Flexible Ways
Oliver Webber - violin
Hannah Ely - soprano
Toby Carr - lute
FOLKESTONE EARLY MUSIC
Monteverdi String Band in focus will play for us a programme of music entitled “A thousand flexible ways”. Including works by Monteverdi, Caccini, Merula, Sances and the mysterious Carlo G.
Monteverdi String Band: A Thousand Flexible Ways
Oliver Webber - violin
Hannah Ely - soprano
Toby Carr - lute
WORCESTER EARLY MUSIC
Monteverdi String Band in focus will play for us a programme of music entitled “A thousand flexible ways”. Including works by Monteverdi, Caccini, Merula, Sances and the mysterious Carlo G.
Monteverdi String Band: The Madrigal Reimagined
Oliver Webber violin, Theresa Caudle violin, Wendi Kelly viola, David Brooker viola, Mark Caudle bass violin
Hannah Ely - soprano
Toby Carr - lute
Little Missenden Festival