Listings card for BREMF 2010

RITUAL Courtship and marriage, religion and belief, living and dying, festivals and rites of the seasons - celebrated in music from antiquity to the present.

Emma Kirkby, Red Priest, The Sixteen, Joglaresa, Horses Brawl & much more!

22nd October to 7th November 2010 Brochure (available August) & Info: www.bremf.org.uk or 01273 833746

BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC Concerts, workshops and talks include: October 22 Ceremony and Devotion – Music for the Tudors: The Sixteen’s ‘Choral Pilgrimage’ October 23 4 weddings and a Funeral: Musica Secreta and The BREMF Consort of Voices. Music from the 1589 Florentine Intermedii and madrigals by Monteverdi and Wert October 24 The Harvest Queen: Horses Brawl invokes the ancient rites and customs of people moving with the seasons October 29 Divine Rites: Joglaresa return with an ecstatic celebration of the joyful songs of the ‘Laudesi’ October 30 Monteverdi – the 1610 Vespers: The BREMF Singers and Players, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.

400th anniversary performance with a top lineup of soloists Followed by a night of revels when young performers from Brighton Early Music Live present music until the small hours during White Night October 31 Delights from the Pleasure Gardens: Passacaglia. Reviving the mood of the earliest public concerts with tea, cakes and fizz Followed by: The glorious voices of The Boyan Ensemble from The Ukraine November 4 Music of Remembrance and Mythology Emma Kirkby with The International Baroque Players “the hottest young band around” November 6 Revels, Pageants & Fireworks: The BREMF Players. Ceremonial orchestral music including Handel’s Fireworks music Followed by: Unsung Heroine. In this imagined history of troubadour Countess Beatriz de Dia, new group The Telling reveal raw emotions engendered by courtly love November 7 Better Red and Dead!: A double bill with the immortal Red Priest in a celebration of life,

Followed by the world premiere of Dead Head by Orlando Gough. Involving massed vocal and instrumental forces and a rich diversity of styles, the piece takes a wry look at contemporary attitudes to death, dying and eternity