DeNOTE's programme of recorder sonatas by Handel and Bach at MiNM this afternoon went down really well with our large and appreciative audience. Performers: Jane Booth, James Brookmyre, John Irving. Today's Charity was Music in Hospitals, for which we raised £350. This was the first appearance in MiNM (and only the second in the UK!) …
Month: March 2016
Giants of the Baroque
13 March 2016 Today’s programme explores baroque repertoire for ‘recorder and basso continuo’. ‘Basso continuo’ was a distinctive feature of baroque music (music composed between roughly 1600 and 1760) and refers to the way in which the bass line in the music was organised as a chordal foundation, above which the melodic strands were composed. …
Music in New Malden 