LINNET BAROQUE
Next Concerts 2025
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Creation & the Vital Spark
6pm, Sunday 8th June
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Linnet Baroque returns to St. Mary’s Church, Twickenham with vocal and instrumental music celebrating creation, including a selection of Handel’s Deutche Arien, music from the cantatas of Telemann and Bach, Addison’s Spacious Firmament Hymn set to music from Haydn’s Creation & Harwood’s setting of Alexander Pope’s ode, ‘The Dying Chritian to his Soul’, at the magnificent church opposite Eel Pie Island where Pope’s remains are laid to rest.
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The team for this concert is:
Elin Harries - soprano
Thomas Pickering - baroque flute/recorders
Ibrahim Aziz - bass viol
Matthew Brown - harpichord
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Tickets: £12, conc. £8 students, under 18s at the door or from https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creation-the-vital-spark-tickets-1311565400419
there is no fee for advance booking
PAST CONCERTS 2025
Linnet Baroque's first concert of the year at St Mary's Church, TwickenhamTW1 3NJ.
2nd Feb, 6pm. A fantastic venue, right on the Thames, opposite Eel Pie Island!
There is no charge for advance booking this concert.
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The players for this concert are:
Elin Harries - soprano
Thomas Pickering - recorders/baroque flute
Ibrahim Aziz - bass viol
Asako Ogawa - harpsichord
LINNET BAROQUE invite you to join us as we welcome Flora, Goddess of the Spring, with a selection of baroque & early classical music from England, France, Italy & Germany.
There is no ticket fee for advanced booking.
Past Concerts 2024
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A Winter Scene - Candlelight Classical Concert
with Mince Pies & Mulled Wine
2pm, Sunday 8th December
Long Gallery, Forty Hall, Enfield EN2 9HA
https://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/whats-on/candlelight-classical-concert
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Linnet Baroque present a sprogramme of music celebrating Winter by Arne, Hayes, Purcell, Zahnhausen & others.​
Be prepared for a little audience participation!
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Elin Harries - soprano
Andrew Collis - recorders
Nikoy Ginov - baroque cello
Asako Ogawa - harpsichord
'Pope's Messiah'
6pm, Sunday, 17th November
St Mary's Church, Twickenham, Church St TW1 3NJ
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/popes-messiah-tickets-1017302989627
There is no charge for advance booking this programme.
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Elin Harries - soprano
Andrew Collis - recorders
Ibrahim Aziz - bass viol
Asako Ogawa - harpsichord
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Simone Pirri - violin
will join Linnet Baroque for this event
and play a sonata by Corelli.​
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Linnet Baroque perform extracts of Pope’s 'Messiah' eclogue of 1712 in this wonderful Gd2* riverside church where Pope is buried. Music by Scheeles, Billington & others, interspersed with extracts of Handel’s 1741 'Messiah' & instrumental music.
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Haunted Landscapes
2pm, Sunday 20th October
Long Gallery, Forty Hall, Enfield EN2 9HA
https://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/whats-on/autumn-baroque-concert-haunted-landscapes​
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Elin Harries soprano & classical harp
Asako Ogawa - harpsichord
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Songs by Haydn, Broderip, Storace, Salomon & trad. English song.
Instrumental music by Weippert & Arne.​
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Elin & Asako present settings of English pre-gothic poetry by t​he 'Boneyard Boys' of the mid to late 18th C, obsessed by ivy-clad ruins and meditations on mortality & the Bluestockings, a group of 'liberal' and educated high-society ladies, who were politically and socially influential with their calls for the abolition of slavery and religious tolerance.
A variety of domestic scenes and landscapes, social & geographical, are represented in this hour long concert.
Birds, Bees, Moths & Maggots
4 pm* note change of time
Sunday 28th July
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Long Gallery, Forty Hall, Enfield EN2 9HA.
tickets & further information from Forty Hall website
https://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/whats-on/summer-concert-linnet-baroque-birds-bees-moths-maggots
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LINNET BAROQUE are delighted to present the second concert in their nature-themed series at the stunning gd1 listed Forty Hall estate.
Featuring music with all manner of flying creatures, the centrepiece of the programme is Scarlatti's stunning cantata 'Augellin, vago e canoro', the tale of a caged bird released by his loving mistress.
This is complimented by songs and instrumental interludes by Arne, Handel, Walsh, Purcell, Clarke & Croft.
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The performers for this concerts are:
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Elin Harries - soprano
Andrew Collis - recorders
Thomas Pickering - recorders
Nikolay Ginov - baroque cello
Asako Ogawa - harpsichord
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Linnet Baroque
Elin Harries – soprano
Andrew Collis – recorders
Ibrahim Aziz – bass viol
Asako Ogawa – harpsichord
2pm, Monday 1st April
Forty Hall, Long Gallery
Forty Hill, Enfield EN2 9HA
*** STOP PRESS ***
Linnet Baroque have been named 'Musicians-in Residence' at Forty Hall,
the stunning Grade 1 listed estate in Enfield!
They will be presenting a series of nature-themed concerts during 2024 in The Long Gallery.
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2pm, Monday 1st April - An Address to Flora
4pm* note: change of time, 28th July -
Birds, Bees, Moths & Maggots
2pm, 20th October - Landscapes
All tickets £10
Book in advance from
https://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/whats-on/an-address-to-flora/
Come and welcome in the Spring with Linnet Baroque in the Long Gallery at Forty Hall on Bank Holiday Monday, April 1st at 2pm.
Nightingales, primrose-covered fields and the awakening of new love all feature in the first of three nature-themed programmes that Linnet Baroque will be performing in collaboration with Forty Hall this year, after an enthusiastically received Christmas concert.
The performers for this concert are: Elin Harries – soprano, Andrew Collis – recorders, Ibrahim Aziz – bass viol and Asako Ogawa – harpsichord, with vocal music by Pepusch, Quignard, Hasse, Handel, Carr and Scottish folk song arrangements by Pleyel and instrumental music by Couperin, Caix d'Hervelois & Zahnhausen
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2pm Sunday 3rd December 2023
Long Gallery, Forty Hall
Enfield EN2 9HA
https://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/whats-on/candlelit-christmas-concert-ad-gaudia/
Ad Gaudia!
Elin Harries - soprano
Andrew Collis - recorders
Thomas Pickering - recorders
Ibrahim Aziz - bass viol
Asako Ogawa - harpsichord
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A fascinating and diverse programme of Christmas music from Linnet Baroque, featuring compositions from three female composers - Italians, Bembo and Peruchona both composed in the late 17th C from the reflective solitude of religious communities; and Jane Savage, composer of an extended setting of 'While Shepherds watched their Flocks' for a girls orphanage in Lambeth.
The combination of two recorders with the voice and continuo team creates a wonderful celebratory ambience for this concert of familiar and rarely heard gems. Other composers include Bach, Telemann & Rovenský.
The vocal music is interspersed with virtuosic instrumental music
6pm, Sunday 17th Sept
Long Gallery, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill N6 5GH
tickets £12, £8 students/under 18s available from Lauderdale House
'Gilded cages', or, 'Handel's Birds'
Elin Harries - soprano
Diane Moore - baroque violin
Thomas Pickering - recorders
Jacob Garside - baroque cello
Matthew Brown – harpsichord
Linnet Baroque present an exploration of music written for Handel's divas and their infamous rivalry.
Based on Cibber’s description of the Italian singers as ‘costly canary birds’ and music in the ‘bird-song’ genre, the voice and obbligati instruments are treated as equal partners.
12pm, Sunday 18th June
Lauderdale House (Long Gallery)
Highgate Hill N6 5GH
ticket £12, £8 conc for under 18s, students & low wage
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Summer Landscapes
Elin Harries - soprano
Andrew Collis - recorders
Ibrahim Aziz - bass viol
Asako Ogawa- harpsichord
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Join Linnet Baroque for a pre-lunch concert on a Summer Sunday. The hour long programme of delightful Baroque and early Classical music, alongside a 20C gem, features pastoral English scenes and invokes the naïve passions of a foregone era.
Music from the Pleasure Gardens, 18th C theatre and works written for domestic music-making are included, with compositions by Handel, Vivaldi, D Scarlatti, Shield, Dubourg, Abel, Pixell & Gioradani.
Rubbra’s Cantata Pastorale, written for Baroque ensemble and premiered at the Wigmore Hall in 1957, provides the perfect stylistic contrast, with its Indian tonal influence and dramatic rhythms.
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