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Christmas concerts

As Christmas approaches, the Fiori calendar is full of delights. There are Victorian carols this Saturday 8 December – timed to celebrate as Number Nine, Guildhall Road morphs itself into the exciting new home of Northampton’s contemporary art gallery – not that there will be much contemporary about Fiori’s Victorian Christmas event! all in period costume, with Hardyesque minstrels evoking an age gone by.

And four days later on 12 December we are thrilled to welcome iconic soprano Emma Kirkby for Bach and Zelenka at Aynho – not to be missed! Just a very few tickets remaining.

And then of course there’s Fiori’s traditional Mr Handel’s Messiah in the Guildhall, Northampton on 22 December – celebrating the start of Christmas. The Fiori Musicali Choir & Orchestra will be joined by an exceptional team of soloists, amongst them exquisite soprano Grace Davidson, whose recent successes . . . .

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London’s best kept secret?

This weekend, Stationers’ Hall (one of London’s most historic City livery halls) hosts the annual St Ceciliatide Festival in honour of music’s Patron Saint.
This festival – one of London’s best kept secrets – oozes with quintessentially English culture. Tucked away in the splendid 17th-century livery hall where Henry Purcell once performed pæons of praise to [...]

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pre-Christmas concerts

As Christmas approaches, the Fiori calendar is full of delights.

For starters, November wouldnt be complete without Fiori’s annual visit to the St Ceciliatide Festival in the City of London. This year’s celebrations take place on Sunday 18 November, and include: a Festal Eucharist in honour of St Cecila at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, followed by the traditional procession up Ludgate Hill to Stationers’ Hall for a lunchtime concert of Purcell and Dowland, given by the exciting young recorder ensemble Wolken.

The Festival grand finale is Fiori’s evening concert of Mozart and Haydn – when the Fiori Musicali Choir & Players will be joined by exquisite soprano, Grace Davidson (reception 6.30pm for 7pm concert – and of course the opportunity to push the boat out and dine afterwards in the splendour of the gilded 18th-century Court Room at Stationers’ Hall).

Fiori’s burgeoning new residency at the Castle Theatre in Wellingborough moves up a gear. After our recent popular lunchtime concerts, there’s Handel & the English Baroque on Saturday 24 November – an orchestral concert with . . . .

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