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  • Sun
    19
    Sep
    2021

    Fontanella: The Delightful Companion

    4.30 and 7pm

    The Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 1HE

    Tickets £13/£3

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    Drawing on a vast array of recorders from the tiny garklein to the great sub-contra bass (including a 15-piece renaissance consort), the recorder quartet Fontanella present a programme aptly named after Robert Carr’s popular music book, published in London in the 1680s.

    From a virtuosic concerto by John Baston, to divisions on the famous Greensleeves, Henry Purcell’s Chaconne 3 Parts Upon a Ground and hits from The Catch Club, this concert promises to paint a colourful musical landscape of a country regaining its rich musical identity after the austerity years of Cromwell’s rule, the great plague and fire of London.

    With additional repertoire by Locke, Campion, Banister, tunes from the Division Flute and Playford’s Dancing Master.

    Kindly supported by the Continuo Foundation