Music through the eyes of the editor

Our Scholars Ensemble, joined by students and staff instrumentalists from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's Historical Performance Department and distinguished alumni, present a diverse programme of French choral music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

This concert forms part of a three day international symposium that brings together scholars and performers working in the field of music editing. In the pre-concert conversation, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Professor Graham Sadler, an international authority on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French music, and Professor Hugh Macdonald a world-renowned expert on Hector Berlioz discuss the challenges they’ve experienced in editing a range of works, including some of those that feature in the concert. They share their insights on the role of the editor, drawing on a combined experience of sixty years in this field.

EX CATHEDRA Scholars Ensemble
Jeffrey Skidmore conductor

The programme includes:

Guillaume Bouzignac (c.1587-c.1642)
Ecce homo
Salve, Jesu piisime

Etienne Moulinié (1599-1676)
Dum esset rex

Henry Du Mont (1610-1684)
Desidero te millies

André Campra (1660-1744)
'Aimable esperance' (Indoménée, Acte III Scène 6)
'Sommeil, qui chaque nuit' (L'Europe galante, Acte III, Scène 1)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Prayers for the Convalescence of Louis XV (a UK premier)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Songs for mixed voices and piano, including Le pêcheur. Ballade imitée de Goëthe, La captive (H.55a) / Orientale / Version III (H.60c)

How to book

Tickets are priced £12 (£8 under 18s, over 60s).

Book online via the link on this page.