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[…]
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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[…]
Festa Fatuorum VI – the people and gratitude The sixth in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools The whole event is a massive collaborative effort. This is an aspect of the show that I find really lovely, it’s such a collective work. I might have[…]
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”[…]
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[…]
Festa Fatuorum III – medieval satiric disruption The third in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools More musical ideas also surfaced in relation to the idea of subversion of order and disruption. I wondered whether we might include anything from the Roman de Fauvel for[…]
Festa fatuorum II – first steps, important manuscripts The second in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools I am a self-proclaimed manuscript geek. These objects connect us to all the many “anonymouses” whose names we will never know. They were cherished and expensive and rare[…]
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[…]
I have long wanted to use Metamorphosis as a theme for BREMF, even though I know some had worried that its meaning in the context of music might not be clear enough to audiences. So maybe I should introduce the subject, and my reasons for choosing it. The idea of things undergoing transforming change has[…]
How do you tell a story through sound? How might we capture the divine, the sex, and the cold in Music and Silence? This summer, while reading Music and Silence, I felt cold. The damp and dark musicians’ room below the dining hall in Copenhagen, the icy silver mines, the bitter and cutting rain during[…]
I woke up at 5:30am as my alarm rang without hitting snooze. It was my first event today as a trainee in Brighton Early Music Festival. I was feeling very excited to help out in our OAE Tots concert as I do love working with kids a lot! I took the train from London to[…]
Why Music and Silence? Welcome to Brighton Early Music Festival’s book club. This year the book is Music and Silence by Rose Tremain. The book is one of the finest examples of historical fiction and follows a lute player, Peter Claire, who, in 1629 begins to work in the court of Christian IV of Denmark.[…]
This is Brighton Early Music Festival’s new blog. We’re going to be using it to post behind the scenes info, host our new book club, and start a conversation….