{"id":3035,"date":"2016-12-01T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/school.chethams.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2016-12-01T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T11:14:26","slug":"historical-performance-at-chethams-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/blog\/historical-performance-at-chethams-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Performance at Chetham\u2019s and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November has been a busy month for historical performance at Chetham\u2019s. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This term\u2019s Baronial Baroque concert took place on Wednesday 9 November in the school\u2019s historic Baronial Hall.\u00a0 Chetham\u2019s students performed a variety of works from the high and late baroque to a packed audience.\u00a0 The concert began with an evocative performance of Telemann\u2019s first flute fantasia by Beth Stone on the baroque flute.\u00a0 Ethan Mitchell gave a spell binding performance of Rameau on the harpsichord, followed by a mature interpretation of Bach\u2019s first\u00a0Cello Suite by Levente Nagy, and Alastair Niven, in a truly virtuosic performance of Telemann. Works of chamber music followed, concluding in Bach\u2019s beautiful fourth Brandenburg Concerto, directed by Dr Martyn Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 12 November, Chetham\u2019s was represented again at the Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival 2016.\u00a0 The Greenwich festival represents the world\u2019s largest festival of early music.\u00a0 It is hosted each year by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, bringing together musicians from across the globe, uniting performers, instrument makers and musicologists. This year\u2019s festival took place at Blackheath Halls, just south of Greenwich, built in 1895 by William Webster.<\/p>\n<p>Chetham\u2019s presented a recital of French and German chamber works from the late baroque.\u00a0 Highlights included Handel\u2019s celebrated German Arias, performed by Katy Allan and Bach\u2019s Trio Sonata in G Major BWV 1038.\u00a0 It was also a great opportunity to catch up with Chetham\u2019s alumni, including Luke Challinor (leaver 2015).\u00a0 Luke is currently studying at the Royal College of Music, and was representing the Viola da Gamba Society at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, on Friday 18 November, Chetham\u2019s Recorder Consort visited Northenden Community Primary School, where they gave a performance of seventeenth-century dances.\u00a0 After the performance Chetham&#8217;s students\u00a0assisted Dr Shaw in a baroque dance workshop with year 5 students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November has been a busy month for historical performance at Chetham\u2019s. This term\u2019s Baronial Baroque concert took place on Wednesday 9 November in the school\u2019s historic Baronial Hall.\u00a0 Chetham\u2019s students performed a variety of works from the high and late baroque to a packed audience.\u00a0 The concert began with an evocative performance of Telemann\u2019s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[101,97],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-outreach","tag-woodwind"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}