Top Italian group La Fonte Musica (‘The Roots of Music’) at Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) on Saturday 26 October at St George’s Kemp Town (7.30pm). Sopranos Alena Dantcheva, Francesca Cassinari; tenor Guianluca Ferrarini; medieval fiddlers Susanne Anson (upper), Toedoro Bau (lower); lute Michele Pasotti (director). Metamorphosis Trecento (‘Three Hundred Metamorphosis’) – 14th Century repertoire[…]

Read More

BREMF Polychoral Transformations Workshop led by Gawain Glenton, Sunday 29 September 2019 – Report by Richard Whitehouse The theme of this year’s Brighton Early Music Festival is Metamorphosis and this was the basis for Gawain Glenton’s workshop for voices and instruments on 29th September.  He chose pieces to demonstrate how composers used existing works to[…]

Read More

Interview for Sussex Life Magazine with BREMF Artistic Director Deborah Roberts November 2019 What first sparked your interest in Early Music?I was probably around 14 years old when I first heard some renaissance music on the radio. There was something about the whole style and the way the cadences worked that immediately appealed. From then[…]

Read More

Festa Fatuorum V – the drinking bit The fifth in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools At the end of the liturgical action, the whole community would go to eat together, a feast in the more common sense of the word. The versus ad prandium “O crucifer”[…]

Read More

Festa Fatuorum IV – a medieval Feast day The fourth in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools Having spent some time thinking about all sorts of other medieval sources I might tap into, ultimately I ended up sticking quite closely to the idea of an[…]

Read More

Festa fatuorum I – introduction The first of a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools It’s been a fabulously enriching and satisfyingly long journey, but in less than a month I will be ‘directing’ (at least partially) the massive final night party of Brighton Early[…]

Read More