Name: Burns Night Concert -'Full of the Highland Humours'
Start: 2023-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St Catharine's Chapel

Organization

Orchestra

Ensemble Hesperi

Cambridge Early Music

Burns Night Concert -"Full of the Highland Humours"

Cambridge

United Kingdom

St Catharine's Chapel

Full of the Highland Humours

Public

Airs for the Seasons

Sonata on Scots Tunes

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Conductor

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Tenor

Singer

Countertenor

Contralto

Baritone

Bass

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

To celebrate the immortal memory of Robert Burns, Ensemble Hesperi presents a programme of Scottish eighteenth-century music from their debut CD with EM Records. Throughout the eighteenth century, Scottish music and musicians travelled far and wide, and by Burns’ day, there was a real craze for Scots songs and reeling across Scotland and England. Londoners were always first in the queue for the latest Scottish music, and the first printed collection of Scots Tunes, which incorporated the tag-line “Full of the Highland Humours”, was published in London rather than Scotland.

This Burns Night, Hesperi celebrates the success that Scottish music enjoyed beyond Scottish borders, spurred on by several “expat” Scottish composers who lived and thrived there. Highlights include include floral “Airs for the Seasons” and a Sonata on Scots Tunes by James Oswald, who also compiled a “Caledonian Pocket Companion”, later owned and much admired by Robert Burns; a sonata by the eccentric Scottish aristocrat and fiddler, Thomas Erskine, sixth Earl of Kellie, and raucous variations on Scots tunes by Scottish composer and publisher Robert Bremner.

In collaboration with the Kellaway Concert Series at St Catharine’s.

Concert duration: 60 minutes without interval

English

Burns Night Concert -"Full of the Highland Humours" by Oswald, J., From (2023/2023), St Catharine's Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Programme, About & Synopsis

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