WVM: Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque

Sunday 14th June, 2026

3:00 pm

St Mary’s Parish Church, Ross-on-Wye, HR9 5HN

Concert

Rachel Podger, violin
Mélisande Corriveau, cello and viola da gamba
Toby Carr, theorbo
Marcin Świątkiewicz, harpsichord and organ

“the British goddess of the gut-stringed violin … Podger and her Brecon colleagues radiate infectious delight in the music they perform” (The Times)

World-renowned period violinist, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque take the resurgence of the Arts in England post-1660 as the inspiration for The Muses Restor’d. Their violin-led chamber music programme from Jacobean to Early Georgian England.

Handel, George Frideric: Sonata in D major HWV 371
Jenkins, John: Fantasia Suite in A minor
Schop, Johann: Lachrimae Pavaen
Jones, Richard: Chamber Air Op 2, no 4 in A minor

Interval

Lawes, William: Sonata (Fantasy Suite) no 8 in D major
Blow, John: Ground in G minor
Locke, Matthew: Little Consort in two parts For Severall Friends in C minor-major
Purcell, Henry: Sonata in G minor Z.780
Baltzer, Thomas: Prelude from The Division Violin
Barsanti, Francesco: ‘Lochaber’ from A Collection of Old Scots Tunes, 1742 (G major)
Purcell, Henry: Lilli Bullero (Purcell) Z 646 aka ‘A new Irish Tune’, 1686 (G major)
Oswald, James: Alloway House from A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes (1740s)
Geminiani, Francesco: Airs for a violin or German flute, violin cello and harpsichord from A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick, 1749

General Admission £20.00
Wye Valley Music Members £17.00
Young Person (Under 25) £2.00
Child (Under 15) Free

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