Unforgettable Thaxted recital: place, music, Chance and Carr in perfect congruence

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2025 [2] – Love and Loss: Music for Countertenor & Lute: Songs by Dowland, Danyel, Rosseter, Campion, Purcell, Blow and Cynthia Harper. Alexander Chance (countertenor), Toby Carr (lute). Thaxted Parish Church, 22.6.2025. (CC)

Toby Carr (lute) and Alexander Chance (countertenor)

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A delightful performance of The Fairy Queen by the Armonico Consort and Players in Thaxted

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2024 [3] – Purcell, The Fairy Queen, Z 629: Oz Clarke (narrator), Eloise Irving, Hannah Fraser Mackenzie, Laura Moretto (sopranos), William Towers (alto), Matthew Pochin (tenor), Robert Davies (bass), Armonico Consort & Baroque Players / Christopher Monks (harpsichord / director). Thaxted Parish Church, 6.7.2024. (CC)

Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the Thaxted Festival 2024

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Nadine Benjamin and Jan Karl Rautio make perfect musical partners at the Thaxted Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2024 [1] – Liszt, Hall, Verdi, Puccini: Nadine Benjamin (soprano), Jan Karl Rautio (piano). Thaxted Parish Church, Essex, 22.6.2024. (CC)

Nadine Benjamin and Jan Karl Rautio after their recital at Thaxted © Bertille Cascio

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The Tippett Quartet premiere Noah Max’s Quartet No.2 at the Thaxted Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mendelssohn, Noah Max, Holst, Schumann: Tippett Quartet (John Mills & Jeremy Isaac [violins], Lydia Lowndes-Northcott [viola], Bosidar Vukotic [cello]), Emma Abbate (piano).  The Church of Saint John the Baptist with Our Lady and Saint Laurence, Thaxted, 1.7.2023. (CS)

Tippett Quartet

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