If love's a sweet passion, why does it torment? Delve into the delicious agony of love, through the works of Henry Purcell, Barbara Strozzi, G. F. Handel and more.

Angela Hicks, soprano

Kristiina Watt, theorbo

The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Canongate Kirk for the 12th time with a programme featuring exciting young soloists Angela Hicks (soprano) and Hannah Foster (flute) performing Bach's solo cantata Ich Habe Genug. Angela will also sing Vivaldi's beautiful sacred motet Nulla in Mundo and Mozart's motet Ergo Interest… Quaere superna

Phantasia are a dynamic and innovative music group specialising in art and folk music from the 17th – 19th centuries, played on period instruments.

Gabriel Abularach, guitar/composer

Angela Hicks

Queen’s Park Singers, Oliver Till

Angela Hicks, soprano

Lucinda Cox, soprano

Sam Brown, lute

Harry Bucoke, viola da gamba

Louise Duggan, percussion

Angela Hicks, soprano

Penelope Appleyard, soprano

Harry Buckoke, viola da gamba

Jonatan Bougt, theorbo

David Wright, Harpsichord

St Michael’s Choir
St Michael’s Baroque Orchestra
Laurence Williams, Conductor

Angela Hicks, soprano

Luciana Mancini, alto

Kieran White, tenor

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, bass

Fabio Trümpy, Evangelist 

Berend Eijkhout, Jezus

Angela Hicks, soprano

Penelope Appleyard, soprano

Sam Brown, lute

Harry Buckoke, viola da gamba

Repertoire: Leçons de ténèbres, Couperin

More information coming soon.

Spring Concert

Fauré Requiem

Haydn Missa Brevis

Mozart Kyrie in D

Director: Leo Duarte 

Soprano: Angela Hicks 

Musicians of Opera Settecento 

A recital by ravishing soprano, Angela Hicks, charting the career of one of Handel’s most famous stars, Francesca Cuzzoni. Opera Settecento will perform music by Vivaldi and Orlandini, on which Cuzzoni cut her teeth, and will follow her meteoric rise through the music of Handel, as well as her treacherous defection to Handel’s rivals’ opera company with music by Porpora and Hasse.

FAIR ORIANA SILVER BAROQUE

BREMF@ Christmas: Pour Noël

A French baroque festive celebration including Charpentier Messe de Minuit pour Noël.

THE CITY MUSICK

directed by William Lyons

with George Bartle, Gawain Glenton, Sarah Humphrys, Tom Lees, Nicholas Perry and Richard Thomas

Christmas Revels in seventeenth-century London

The City Musick – an ensemble of seven versatile musicians – performs festive dances and carols sung and played on the joyous sound of shawms, cornetts, sackbuts, dulcians, regals, recorders and bagpipes. 

Handel’s Messiah, Spendmore Lane Methodist Church, Coppull

Sunday November 27th at 2.30  for part 1 and 6pm for parts 2 and 3 with refreshments in the interval.

Handel’s Messiah, Spendmore Lane Methodist Church, Coppull

Sunday November 27th at 2.30  for part 1 and 6pm for parts 2 and 3 with refreshments in the interval.

A brand new carol service in the Christmas offerings of St Bartholomew the Great—music from the Middle Ages, with readings from the Wycliffe Bible, set in the mediæval wonder of our ancient Priory Church. Period instruments will accompany the choir, and the congregation will join in with some of the hymns of the era.