RITUALCourtship and marriage,religion and belief, living anddying, festivals and rites of theseasons - celebrated in musicfrom antiquity to the present.Emma Kirkby, Red Priest, The Sixteen, Joglaresa,Horses Brawl & much more!

22nd October to 7th November 2010Brochure (available August) & Info: www.bremf.org.uk or 01273 833746

BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC

Concerts, workshops and talks include:October 22 Ceremony and Devotion – Music for theTudors: The Sixteen’s ‘Choral Pilgrimage’

October 23 4 weddings and a Funeral: Musica Secretaand The BREMF Consort of Voices. Music from the 1589Florentine Intermedii and madrigals by Monteverdi and Wert

October 24 The Harvest Queen: Horses Brawl invokesthe ancient rites and customs of people moving with theseasons

October 29 Divine Rites: Joglaresa return with anecstatic celebration of the joyful songs of the ‘Laudesi’

October 30 Monteverdi – the 1610 Vespers: The BREMFSingers and Players, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.400th anniversary performance with a top lineup of soloists Followed by a night of revels when young performers fromBrighton Early Music Live present music until the small hoursduring White Night

October 31 Delights from the Pleasure Gardens: Passacaglia. Reviving the mood of the earliest publicconcerts with tea, cakes and fizzFollowed by: The glorious voices of The Boyan Ensemblefrom The Ukraine

November 4 Music of Remembrance and MythologyEmma Kirkby with The International Baroque Players“the hottest young band around”

November 6 Revels, Pageants & Fireworks: TheBREMF Players. Ceremonial orchestral music includingHandel’s Fireworks music Followed by: Unsung Heroine. In this imagined history oftroubadour Countess Beatriz de Dia, new group The Tellingreveal raw emotions engendered by courtly love

November 7 Better Red and Dead!: A double bill withthe immortal Red Priest in a celebration of life,

Followed by the world premiere of Dead Head by Orlando Gough. Involving massed vocal and instrumentalforces and a rich diversity of styles, the piece takes a wrylook at contemporary attitudes to death, dying and eternity