Elin Harries - soprano
Diane Moore - baroque violin
Thomas Pickering - recorders
Jacob Garside - baroque cello
Matthew Brown - harpsichord
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About Linnet Baroque
Find out who ended up in jail and why, featuring tales of wig-pulling and temper tantrums in 18th Century London!
Linnet Baroque presents an exploration of music written for Handel's divas and their infamous rivalry. Based on the playwright Colley Cibber’s description of the Italian singers as ‘costly canary birds’ and music in the ‘bird-song’ genre, where the voice and obbligati instruments are treated as equal partners.
Elin Harries, soprano, has gathered together a team of talented and experienced baroque specialist players to present an hour of dazzling operatic arias from Handel's Ottone, Allessandro, Joshua, Riccardo Primo d'Ingilterra and Bononcini's Astiannatte, interspersed with instrumental interludes.
Performers
About Linnet Baroque
Linnet baroque is a collective of experienced and talented musicians who have worked together in various combinations over the years and have come together to offer programmes mostly related to mid-18th century London with appropriate anecdotes and historical insights. Their inaugural concert was at Lauderdale House in October 2022.
The raison d'être of the group is to present informative and carefully researched programmes of English baroque and early classical repertoire, including music written for domestic entertainment, much of it undeservedly languishing in obscurity.
For further details of the group, please find visit our website here.
