ThoroughBass | Music Ensemble Sydney http://www.thoroughbass.com.au We are ThoroughBass, one of Sydney’s newest and most innovative early music ensembles. Join us for our next concert. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:48:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Forbidden Territory http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/forbidden-territory/ http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/forbidden-territory/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:43:06 +0000 admin http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/?p=289 Two concerts in September for Willoughby Spring Festival and Manly Arts Festival.  Alessandro Scarlatti’s luscious cantata Bella Madre de Fiori, Handel’s cantata Non sospirar, a cello sonata by Vivaldi, a sonata for 2 recorders by Telemann and some interesting oddments all demonstrate ways in which composers investigate ideas outside the conventional and established. Musicians include Inara Molinari (soprano), Alicia Crossley and Jo Arnott (recorders), Angus Ryan (cello) and Diana Weston (harpsichord).

]]> http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/forbidden-territory/feed/ 0 Delights of the Drawing Room http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/delights-of-the-drawing-room-3/ http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/delights-of-the-drawing-room-3/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:12:44 +0000 Stephen http://www.pulingling.com/bass/?p=81 The lighter side of music, where humour, playfulness & flirtation are the order of the day. Music by Pepusch, de la Pierre, Marais, Corrette, Telemann & Rameau. With Anna Fraser (soprano), Jo Arnott (recorder), Alicia Crossley (recorder), Clara Blazer (cello) and Diana Weston (harpsichord).

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Equal but opposite. Arrangements for 2 harpsichords of music by Vivaldi, Rodrigo & Pasquini. Featuring ‘Reflections’, the dual harpsichord partnership of Monika Kornel and Diana Weston. With repertoire for this combination practically non-existent, we beg, borrow & steal other instruments’. Joined by Angus Ryan, fresh from London, we continue the trend with arrangements for cello and harpsichord by Piazzola and da Falla.

]]> http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/black-and-white/feed/ 0 Treasures of Versailles http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/treasures-of-versailles/ http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/treasures-of-versailles/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:40 +0000 admin http://www.pulingling.com/bass/?p=37 Dipping further into the treasure-house of riches that Versailles and the court of Louis XIV offer, French music & gamba specialists Jennifer Eriksson & Cathy Tabrett present music for viola da gamba by Marais, Boismortier and Caix d’Hervelois. Soprano Belinda Montgomery reveals the genius of the largely unrecognised composer Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre in her cantata ‘Judith’.

]]> http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/treasures-of-versailles/feed/ 0 Love and Desire in the time of Handel http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/love-and-desire-in-the-time-of-handel/ http://www.thoroughbass.com.au/love-and-desire-in-the-time-of-handel/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:25:44 +0000 admin http://www.pulingling.com/bass/?p=33 The language of Handel’s chamber cantatas is highly ambiguous. Peopled by mythological figures, nymphs & shepherds, the characters in the cantatas from his early Italian period voice the passions of his ‘feminine’ side & form the imagery of homoerotic lust. All brought to life by soprano Hester Hannah.

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