Programmes

The concert programmes offered on this page are all available in large or small versions in order to accommodate any performing space or budget. It is also possible to provide bespoke programmes to fit with festival themes. for more information, please contact us at info@caecilia-concert.com

Treasury of a Saint

- cornetto or violin, trombone, dulcian, keyboard

Based on our award winning CD released in 2006, Treasury of a Saint is a show-case for the four core members of the Caecilia-Concert. The music in the programme comes from Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain and spans almost the whole 17th century. There are solo sonatas which display virtually every aspect (some rather unknown) of each instrument and duets and trios which demonstrate the wide range of colour and musical expressiveness that is fast becoming a trade mark feature of the Caecilia-Concert. The pieces vary in style through composition and the individual sentiments that each player brings to the ensemble results in a truly unique, fresh sound.

Click here to visit our page dedicated to Treasury of a Saint, read programme notes and listen to extracts from the programme.

The Venice of the North - violin, cornetto/violin, trombone, dulcian, keyboards - larger version also available including soprano

This programme features music by North German composers who were working in during the second half of the seventeenth century. Some of the music here can also be heard on our most recent CD entitled Buxtehude & Co which was released in May 2007. Joined by a violin, we play music by composers such as Matthias Weckmann, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Theile and JP Krieger whom all wrote and published pioneering instrumental works between 1650 and 1700. These works not only pushed the technical boundaries of the players but also played a crucial role in the developement of chamber music composition techniques and musical form in general, helping forge critical links between the glorious Rennaisance style and the fully developed Baroque style of more well known composers such as JS Bach and Telemann.

The resulting sonatas give one the feeling of a culmination of nearly a centurys worth of developement and progression, since music in this form first began appearing with Cima and then Castello.

Founded in 1660 by Matthias Weckmann, this was the first Collegium Musicum to exist in Hamburg. It's purpose, according to Johann Mattheson was to present concerts of the best music being composed in such cities as Venice, Rome, Vienna, Munich and Dresden. The Collegium Musicum drew instrumentalists from Hamburg's "Ratsmusikanten" and church choirs. Thus, this programme works equally well both with and without the inclusion of vocal music.

The Collegium Musicum did not survive Weckmann's death in 1674. Only two years later, Hamburg became the richest and largest city in Northern Europe and this achievement together with the network of canals which connected the Elbe river with the Alster lake on which Hamburg was built, claimed it the title of The Venice of the North.

For the vocal version we add violin and soprano. This programme gives us the perfect opportunity to showcase not only pioneering instrumental works from composers mentioned above, but also ravishingly beautiful vocal compositions by Buxtehude, colleague Christoph Bernhard and father in law, Franz Tunder.

"Musica Imperiale"
Music from the Habsburg court.

Coming Soon...

"Regla Espagnola"
Music from the Spanish Netherlands

Caecilia-Concert - "Regla Espagnola"   virtuosic instrumental music from the Spanish Netherlands.  During the 17th-century, Flanders was under Spanish rule.  It was a melting pot for composers and performers and thrived as a music publishing centre.  This programme features music by 'foreign' composers who contributed to this cultural wealth.