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[…]
November 2019
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[…]
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[…]