Thoroughbass Presents Tout Français – Refinement Or Decadence?

Thoroughbass Presents Tout Français – Refinement Or Decadence?

With its roots in early music, Thoroughbass presents French courtly music and song, featuring the richly amber tones of the viola da gamba – an instrument beloved by Bach and by the French – from an era characterised by formality, procedure and excess, but also subtlety and ambiguity. Is this the ultimate in refinement and bon gout or mannered…

Britten’s Phaedra, Gorecki, Handel and Vivaldi

Britten’s Phaedra, Gorecki, Handel and Vivaldi

Benjamin Britten’s final vocal work, the dramatic cantata Phaedra, Op.93, for mezzo-soprano and small orchestra, Handel’s cantata Lucrezia, Gorecki’s Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings and two trio sonatas for two violins by Handel and Vivaldi are all in the line up in a performance conducted by Sarah Penicka-Smith featuring award-winning soprano Hester Hannah and early music ensemble Thoroughbass directed by harpsichordist…