Concert Season 2008–9

Sunday 16th November 2008 at 3:00 p.m.

Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds

Messiah

Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra, Directed by Peter Holman

Looking forward to the Handel anniversary in 2009, Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra present Messiah in a period instrument performance using the choral and orchestral forces of Handel’s day.

Tickets: £12; adult concessions £8; full time students and young people £3, available from Friends of Leeds Baroque (telephone: 0113 226 7564) and at the door.

Sunday 8th March 2009 at 3:00 p.m.

Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds

Handel in Italy

Leeds Baroque Orchestra, Directed by Peter Holman

A Handel anniversary concert: music by Handel and his Italian contemporaries, including Pergolesi’s haunting Stabat Mater.

Tickets: £10; adult concessions £7; full time students and young people £3, available from Friends of Leeds Baroque (telephone: 0113 226 7564) and at the door.

Wednesday 18th March 2009 at 7:30 p.m.

Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds

A Venetian Vespers of c.1640

Leeds Baroque Choir, Chorus Master Clive McClelland, Directed by Peter Holman, with members of Leeds Baroque Orchestra.

Not the well-known 1610 Vespers, but a sequence of psalms and motets with a hymn and a setting of the Magnificat drawn mainly from music Monteverdi wrote during his years at St Mark’s in Venice.

Tickets: £10; adult concessions £7; full time students and young people £3, available from Friends of Leeds Baroque (telephone: 0113 226 7564) and at the door.

Saturday 23rd May 2009 at 8:00 p.m.

St Andrew’s Church, Grinton, Swaledale

Swaledale Festival Concert

Leeds Baroque Choir, Directed by Clive McClelland

Music by Purcell, Handel and their contemporaries.

Tickets: Adult £12, Child £6; see the Swaledale Festival website for details.

Sunday 14th June 2009 at 3:00 p.m.

Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, The School of Music, University of Leeds

Purcell and Handel: A Celebration

Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra, Directed by Peter Holman
Chorus Master Clive McClelland

Celebrating two notable anniversaries, the programme will include:
Handel: Dixit Dominus in G minor, HWV232 (1707)
Henry Purcell: Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, Z46 (1689).

Tickets: £12; adult concessions £10; full time students and young people £3; available from Friends of Leeds Baroque (telephone: 0113 226 7564) and at the door.