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REPERTOIRE PERFORMED (for performance archive see below)

anonymous
L'ospedale (ca. 1640-1660)*

MA Charpentier
Celle qui fait tout mon tourment

GB Draghi
A song for St Cecilia's Day ('From harmony')

Frescobaldi
Se l'aura spira

Handel
Messiah HWV 56 ('standard' version)*
Messiah HWV 56 (Dublin version, 1742)*
Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV 76
Solomon HWV 67

M Lambert
Ombre de mon amant
Vos mépris chaque jour


Lully
Chaconne & Bel tempo che vola (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

Marais
Suite for viol and continuo                                        

Monteverdi
Lamento d'Arianna
Ohimè ch'io cado
Pur ti miro (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

Zefiro torna

Purcell
Welcome to all the pleasures

L Rossi
Mio ben (Orfeo)
  
* sung from memory

PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE

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2010

10 December 2010
Music for Mazarin
Monteverdi Zefiro torna, Lamento d'Arianna, Ohimè ch'io cado, Pur ti miro (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
Frescobaldi Se l'aura spira                                       
M-A Charpentier Celle qui fait tout mon tourment
Michel Lambert Ombre de mon amant, Vos mépris chaque jour
Marais Suite for viol and continuo
L Rossi Mio ben (Orfeo)                                            
Lully Chaconne & Bel tempo che vola (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

Temple Church, London, UK
(private performance in Farnham on 11 December 2010)
Solomon Consort, director: James Halliday


27 February 2010
Musical Tears
M-A Charpentier Magnificat à 3, Messe des morts à 4 H.7, Le Reniement de St Pierre H.424
Carissimi Missa a tre, Jephte
Marais Passacaille en mi mineur

St John's Smith Square, London, UK
Solomon Consort, director: Jonathan Sells

if the Solomon Consort can make a first appearance with singing and playing of such consistently high quality, it ought to have a starry future Musical Opinion

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2009

5 December 2009
Handel Messiah HWV 56
Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, UK
Soloists from the choir
Solomon Choir & Orchestra, conductor: Jonathan Sells


21 November 2009
Purcell Welcome to all the pleasures
GB Draghi A song for St Cecilia's Day ('From harmony, from heav'nly harmony)
Handel Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV 76

Handel Institute Conference, Grosvenor Chapel, London
Soloists: Anna Devin & from the choir
Solomon Choir & Orchestra, conductor: Jonathan Sells


21 March 2009
Handel Solomon HWV 67
St James's Church, Piccadilly, London, UK
Soloists: Michal Czerniawski, Anna Devin, Rebecca van den Berg, Juan Sancho, Derek Welton
Solomon Choir & Orchestra, conductor: Jonathan Sells

your magnificent performance of Solomon on Saturday evening was an exceptional experience, in a lifetime (85) of wide experience musically Audience member


 2008

8 December 2008
Handel Messiah HWV 56
Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, UK
Soloists: Sadhbh Dennedy, Michal Czerniawski, Andrew Kennedy, James Gower
Solomon Choir & Orchestra, conductor: Jonathan Sells


27 March 2008
Handel Messiah HWV 56
St James's Church, Piccadilly, London, UK
Soloists: Anna Devin, Michal Czerniawski, Richard Butler, Derek Welton
Solomon Choir & Orchestra, conductor: Jonathan Sells
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