Live Music at The Early Music Shop

We are delighted to present a series of informal recitals at our Snape Maltings showroom, every month until the end of 2024.

Each concert will last approximately 30 minutes and refreshments will be served after the performance. Admission is free and there is no need to book tickets.

View the full programme below...

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THIS MONTH'S EVENT

Friday, 22 October 2024 at 12:00

Pellingmans' Saraband

Division Musick • Divisions & polyphonic duets from the early 17th Century.
In celebration of St Cecilia's Day. 

The viol and the lute are close cousins. There is much exquisite music written for each by some of the great composers of the Renaissance and Early Baroque periods and the two played together are “greater than the sum of the parts”, as one reviewer said recently.

Jacob Heringman and Susanna Pell have been musical colleagues for 35 years and have both enjoyed distinguished careers; Jacob as a soloist and with many prominent period ensembles; Susanna as a freelance performer and member of the pioneering groups, Fretwork and The Dufay Collective.

In 1999 they celebrated their marriage. Composer, Andrew Keeling, wrote a piece, Pellingmans' Saraband, to mark that occasion.

Now they take that title for their musical collaboration as they explore the unique sonority of a bowed fretted instrument with a plucked and bring some of the greatest music of the Renaissance and Early Baroque period to life.