2025 Festival
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SNEMF 25 presented music from the tales of Boccaccio, songs of love and devotion, fanfares, the art of embellishment, lullabies, and unaccompanied Bach suites, with concerts in the historic Old Church, the new church, the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, and the historic Abney Park chapel.
Our 2025 programme
Fiamma D'Amore │ Sound Forth! │ Vestiva │ Resonance │ Decameron │ Summer Lullabies
FIAMMA D'AMORE PROGRAMME Dolcissimo sospiro -Giulio Caccini (1551-1618) Aravot luso -Nerses Shnorhali (1102-1173) Susanne un jour -Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) Havoon havoon -Grigor Narekatsi (c. 950-1007) Si dolce è'l tormento -Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) In un boschetto -Luca Marenzio (1556-1599) O vive rose -Francesca Caccini (1587-1640) INTERVAL Che si puó fare -Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) Hov Arek -Armenian trad. Soorp Soorp -Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935) Lamento della ninfa -Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Keler Tsoler -Armenian trad. Amor dormiglione -Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) Kakavik -Armenian trad. (Komitas Vardapet [1869-1935])
Fiamma D'Amore
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Abney Park Chapel, Abney Park N16 [venue]
Intesa Duo:
Lucine Musaelian, voice and viola da gamba
Nathan Giorgetti, viola da gamba
Venice and the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni provide the inspiration for Intesa Duo's programme: works by Monteverdi, Caccini, Strozzi and Morenzi, as well as Armenian composers Nerses Shnorhali and Grigor Narekatsi, exploring romantic and sacred love.
SOUND FORTH! PROGRAMME Tutti Toccata from 'L'Orfeo' -Claudio Monteverdi Horns Duos, Trios and Quartets Double Reeds (Oboes and bassoons) Dances from 'Rodrigo' - George Frideric Handel Sackbuts Domine ad Aduvandum - Chiara Margarita Cozzolanni Stabat Mater - Sulpita Ludovica Cesis Ave Verum Corpus - Caterina Assandra Trumpets and timpani Heroic Music - Anton Diabelli Tutti Tristes Apprêts - Jean-Philippe Rameau March from 'The Married Beau' - Henry Purcell
Sound Forth!
FROM FIELD, TOWN AND COURT
Thursday, 19 June, 2025
St Mary's (New Church], Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
Students from the Historical Performance department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama perform music for trumpets, horns, sackbuts and oboe band.
VESTIVA PROGRAMME Tweede Nachtigaeltje (from "T Uitnemend' Kabinet") - Anonymous (Amsterdam, 1649) Diminutions on "Vestiva i colli" (from "Motetti, madrigali et canzone francese”, Venice, 1591) - Giovanni Pierluigi daPalestrina (c.1525-1594). Diminutions by Giovanni Bassano (1558-1617) Cosi le chiome mie - Palestrina Embellishments by Laurenzino del Liuto (c.1552-1590) Venus' Birds (consort song of 5 parts, single manuscript, published in "Songs from the Oxford manuscripts, and later Play– songs" MB 22) - John Bennet (c.1575-1614). Diminutions by Mirjam-Luise Münzel Bransle de la Torche - Michael Praetorius (1571-1621). Diminutions by Mirjam-Luise Münzel Slap o zoete slap (from "Fluyten Lust-hof") - Johann Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657) Diminutions on "O dolce notte" - Philippe Verdelot (1485-1552). Diminutions by Mirjam-Luise Münzel Susanne ung Jour - Orlando de Lassus (c.1530-1594). Lute intabulation by Anonymous, from the "Wickhambrook" lute manuscript When Daphne from fair Phoebus did fly - Anonymous. Diminutions by J. J. van Eyck Vestiva i colli - G. Palestrina. Embellishments by Laurenzino del Liuto Paradizo (from "Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs", 1599) - Anthony Holborne (c.1545-1602). Diminutions by Mirjam-Luise Münzel Spagnolette (from "Terpsichore, Musarum Aoniarum" Pierre-Francisque Caroubel (1556-c.1611) - Assembled and arranged by M. Praetorius (1612) Susanne ung jour (from "Tiers livre des chansons a 4-6 parties" 1560) - Orlando di Lasso. Diminutions by Mirjam-Luise Münzel Prelude - Nicola Matteis (1650-1714) Diminutions on "Ancor che col partire" - Cipriano de Rore (ca.1515-1565). Diminutions by Mirjam-Luise Münzel Toccata Nona from "Primo Libro di Toccate" - Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Diverse bizarrie sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaccona - Nicola Matteis
Vestiva
Monday, 23 June, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel, N16 [venue]
Lux Musicae London:
Mirjam-Luise Münzel, recorder
Aileen Henry, harp
Toby Carr, lute
Just as spring clothes the hills and valleys with fresh growth, recorder player Mirjam-Luise Münzel, harpist Aileen Henry and lutenist Toby Carr bring spontaneous improvisation and embellishment to popular tunes of the 16th and 17th centuries. Inspired by the song Vestiva i colli, this programme connects with the beauties of nature as well as the ingenuity of man.
RESONANCE PROGRAMME Sonata No.6 from the Mystery Sonatas for violin in scordatura & continuo The Agony in the Garden—Lamento - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644—1704) Suite No. 5 in C minor for solo cello Prélude—Allemande—Courante—Sarabande Gavottes I & II—Gigue - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685—1750) Partita in C minor for viola d’amore, viola da gamba & continuo Allemande—Courant—Gavott—Saraband—Gigue - Mr Grobe (fl.1700) Partita No. 7 for two viole d’amore & continuo from Harmonia Artificioso-Arioso Praeludium—Allamande—Sarabande—Gigue Aria—Trezza—Arietta variata - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Resonance
Friday, 27 June, 2025
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
Kinga Gáborjáni, cello and viola da gamba
Catherine Martin, violin and viola d'amore
Rachel Stott, viola d'amore
Jan Waterfield, chamber organ
Kinga Gáborjáni concludes her cycle of Bach's cello suites, begun at SNEMF 2019, with the suite No. 5 in C minor. This suite requires the cello to be tuned in an unusual way (scordatura) which creates a unique resonance. The programme also includes a scordatura violin sonata by Biber as well as works for viola d'amore by Grobe and Biber.
Decameron
Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
RUNE:
Angela Hicks, soprano
Daniel Thomson, tenor
Daniel Scott, recorder and portative organ
May Robertson, vielle
Jean Kelly, medieval harp
A mosaic of musical stories from early modern Europe
Boccaccio's Decameron portrays the various aspects of human nature and experience in vivid detail. Through pieces by Landini, Ciconia, Machaut, de Vitry and Binchois, Ensembe RUNE spin musical tales of Fortune, Virtue, Love and Trickery.
SUMMER LULLABIES PROGRAMME Dalmatian Cradle Song -Traditional (Croatia) Sleep Wayward Thoughts -John Dowland (1563—1626) Time Stands Still Wiegenlied (Schlafe, schlafe) -Franz Schubert (1797—1828) Wiegenlied -Attrib. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756—1791) I know my Love As I was Going to Ballynure -Traditional Irish folk songs arr. Rebecca Clarke (1886—1979) Fatte la Nana -Italian lullaby from Tuscany arr. Rachel Stott Wachet Auf -Johann Sebastian Bach (1685—1750) Goodbye from Along the Field -Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1872—1958) Pur ti Miro -Claudio Monteverdi (1567—1643) AND SOME SONGS TO JOIN IN - Traditional rounds Ah, poor bird White Sand and Grey Sand
Summer Lullabies
Friday, 4 July, 2025
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
Freya Parry, voice
Imogen Parry, voice
Kathryn Parry, violin
A relaxed morning event for babies, pre-school children, their parents, grandparents, and carers.
