Musica Antica Rotherhithe

Congrats!!

Flyers ready and out for delivery! A Banchieri comedy and some lovely madrigals by Monteverdi, Marenzio and Casualana next month - tickets via our website! #earlymusic #concert #renaissance #se16 #rotherhithe

Hard copy of our book arrived!

Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books This volume explores how everyday texts in Renaissance Italy engaged with music, sound, and hearing. Of the 358 known editions printed in 1501, only a few contained formal music notation or specialist...

And it’s live! We read every book published in Italy in 1501 looking for references to music, and this is the first volume on what we found. Thanks to @sheffielduni.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk, it’s free to read, though you can buy hard copies too www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Support our first album | Musica Antica Unrecorded and long-unperformed music from the theatres of 1650s Venice.

A week after launching the final stage of fundraising for our first album, & we’re almost there! Help bring the Venetian stage back to life in a new approach to recording the music of Cavalli, Strozzi & their contemporaries www.musicaantica.org.uk/support-our-... #opera #classicalmusic #earlymusic

I suspect you would love our local Rotherhithe lot, @musicaantica.bsky.social and @oliverdoyle.bsky.social .

Loads of fun (and a completely full house) doing Rameau’s Les Incas Du Perou with @musicaantica.bsky.social on Saturday. Can’t be many trios in western music that manage to get in a love duet, rage aria and erupting volcano all at once! #se16 #earlymusic

We’re adding an oratorio not performed since 1669 to the seasonal mix of music on offer next month! Poster courtesy of Durer (with a lot of editing…) #earlymodern #earlymusic #classicalmusic #opera #lent #baroque #se16 #rotherhithe

*Dresses child as Savonarola*

Our lovely venue for tonight’s concert! #earlymusic #london

A little improvisation upon a 15th century chant source from last night’s workshop with Tim Braithwaite!

Concert | The Renaissance Singers: Unlocking the secret musical art of Josquin | Continuo Connect The Renaissance Singers’ open workshops give anyone with some experience of singing and an ability to read music an opportunity to be coached on Renaissance repertoire by leading practitioners in the ...

A big thank you to our friends at @continuoconnect.bsky.social for helping us spread the word about our Josquin workshop on 8 March, led by Tim Braithwaite. 🙏

We still have space for more singers. Find out more: www.continuoconnect.com/events/unloc...

Improvised Polyphony with Tim Braithwaite Drawing on historical visualisation and memorisation techniques, this session aims to introduce the participant to the basic building blocks of improvised counterpoint.

We’ve got a few spaces left for our *very affordable* improvised singing workshop next week with Tim Braithwaite - if you sing in a choir or play early instruments, do let your fellow musicians know! @renaissancesingers.bsky.social @swearlymusic.bsky.social www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...

Concert | Musica Antica Rotherhithe: L'Elisio, or Elysium | Continuo Connect Musica Antica perform music by Stefano Landi, Luigi Rossi and Michelangelo Falvetti alongside powerful testimonies from people who have awoken from comas.

Join @musicaantica.bsky.social for an exploration of realms of unconsciousness through testimonies & 17thC music in the UK's oldest surviving hospital chapel.
A collaboration with Seb Harcombe & Welkin Theatre.

📅 Fri, 21st Feb, 7.30pm
📍Guy's Hospital Chapel
🎟️ www.continuoconnect.com/events/music...

Application deadline for trustee positions at Southwark Charities closes tomorrow, 13th February 2025.

If you are interested in applying please forward your CV by email to: info@southwarkcharities.org.uk

More information on the trustee roles 👇
trustees-unlimited.co.uk/roles/southw...

YouTube video by Musica Antica Rotherhithe Jean-Baptiste de Bousset: Pourquoy doux Rossignol

Excited to learn from an email today that @musicaantica.bsky.social will be recording their first album later this year. They're a fantastic outfit, and I really should trek over to Rotherhithe more often. Here are a couple of them performing some French gorgeousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIN...

A brand new piece of theatre for our first event of 2025! Powerful spoken word and beautiful music by Rossi, Landi and Falvetti, all in the oldest surviving hospital chapel in the UK. Tickets via our website!

Bluesky-friendly clip of the first of our latest videos - Marenzio’s lovely ‘Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte’.

YouTube video by Musica Antica Rotherhithe Luca Marenzio: Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte

Marenzio’s lovely Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte, which we recorded earlier this month, singing from partbooks and by candlelight!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=lIKQ...

Improvised Polyphony with Tim Braithwaite Drawing on historical visualisation and memorisation techniques, this session aims to introduce the participant to the basic building blocks of improvised counterpoint.

We’re delighted to be hosting a workshop, led by Tim Braithwaite of the
Cappella Pratensis, on improvising polyphony over plainchant in London next month! Tickets £2-£10, and all welcome, whether you sing or play professionally, for fun, or not at all! www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...

Indeed! Well spotted. We’ll be scouring all the books for our favourites ahead of a Sept concert.

Lovely Marenzio from partbooks and candlelight on Sunday - hoping the audio is as beautiful as the scene looked! Table decoration inspired partly by the description of Imperia Cognati’s music table in Bandello’s Novelle

Recording fun tonight, the day after we launched our 2025 season! Six concerts spanning three centuries of music, and tickets for a tenner or less! Tickets and full details for each programme via our website, musicaantica.org.uk #rotherhithe #se16 #earlymusic

A great pity the historic crypt was backfilled with concrete! Hoping there will be moves to dig it out, and fix the ceiling above the chancel too.

That’s a wrap for 2024! We’ve already got our plans in line for our next season - announcing on 1st January. #se16 #rotherhithe #earlymusic #baroque #opera

Double theorbo today In Rotherhithe!

Lovely to share a double-bill review with @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social!

Here's a helpful starter pack of classical music, opera and dance organisations on Bluesky. It's a fast-growing list, and we'll keep adding as we spot them, but feel free to DM to be added. go.bsky.app/77K23rq

Thanks!

We’d love to be added, if possible! Bluesky wouldn’t let us DM you, though