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Recent CD Release

The Parley of Instruments with Crispian Steele-Perkins and Alison Balsom

Famed Italian MastersThe Fam'd Italian Masters
Music for two trumpets from the Italian Baroque by Lazzari,Cazzati, Grossi,
Jacchini, Vitali, Melani, Legrenzi, Stradella, Torelli, Scarlatti and Vivaldi


CD to be recorded by Hyperion in July 2003, for release before Christmas

Volume 49 of English Orpheus:

Nativity
Christmas Music from English Parish Churches and Chapels, 1740-1830.
Psalmody and The Parley of Instruments.

Following the success of CDA 66924, While Shepherds Watched (English Orpheus volume 40), this is a second CD of Christmas music in the so-called 'gallery' style.


Future recording plans - with Catherine Bott

Hyperion's English Orpheus Series Volume 50

Music for Shakespeare
by Thomas Arne and his contemporaries
Catherine Bott and The Parley of Instruments


The Parley of Instruments celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2004

with three specially devised programmes to be performed at the Wigmore Hall

Thursday 25th March 2004, with Stephen Varcoe
A programme to mark the 300th anniversary of Charpentier’s death

  Charpentier  Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres du Mercredy Saint (H123)
    Sonata à 8 in C major (H548)
  Couperin Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres du Vendredy Saint (H125)
    Ad te levavi oculos meos
    Salvum me fac Deus
    Sonata in D minor ‘La Sultane’

Friday 23rd April 2004, St Georges day,  with Catherine Bott

A programme of Shakespeare Songs by Thomas Arne and his contemporaries, to celebrate the release of volume 50 of Hyperion's English Orpheus Series

Catherine Bott soprano
Rachel Brown  flute
The Parley of Instruments
directed by Peter Holman harpsichord

Music by: Thomas Arne, Jeremiah Clarke, John Weldon, John Eccles, Maurice Greene, Thomas Chilcot, Richard Leveridge, John Christopher Smith, William Boyce, Willem de Fesch, John Christopher Smith and Henry Purcell


Forthcoming Courses & Concerts

21 - 27 April 2003 Baroque Opera Course - Boismortier, Don Quichotte
Tutors: Peter Holman, Judy Tarling, Steve Adby, Lucy Graham & John Flinders
Benslow Music Trust (30 minutes by train from King's Cross, London)
Contact: Benslow Music Trust, tel: 01462 459446,
email: BmusicT@aol.com

27 July - 3 Aug 2003 Cambridge Early Music Summer School
'Purcell, Handel and the English Baroque'
An annual summer school held in the beautiful surroundings of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Tutors: Peter Holman, Judy Tarling, Mark Caudle, Gail Hennessy & Philip Thorby
Contact: Selene Mills: info@cemss.org


THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS
Director: Peter Holman
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Early Music Agency
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updated - Wed, 26th March 2003