Stour Music Festival

Annual Early Music Festival in East Kent. Founded by counter-tenor Alfred Deller in 1962, now run by @ifagiolini.

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

This really is #EarlyMusic at its best! Fiesta Flamenco at #StourMusic 2024.

🎬👉 https://t.co/7GfHkF0RQc

@katebeaugie

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

Then on to our continuing #dance features in the festival - Fiesta Flamenco from Nuria García & Friends, and of course, finishing a night of #Handel’s Water & Fireworks Music with our own!

#StourMusic #Kent #music #earlymusic #festival #concerts #dance #flamenco
📷 @katebeaugie

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

💃🎇 Our first weekend certainly went off with a bang!

The opening concert, Apollo’s Lyre, ft. some of the best C17th songs, including #Monteverdi, #Carissimi, #Fescobaldi & Isabella #Leonarda with @JuliacDoyle, @Hannah_Ely @toby_carr Aileen Henry @ukingadom & Manama Mizumoto.

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

🎶 #StourMusic is over for another year, but it was a memorable one.

Great weather, fireworks (musical and literal), and stellar performances of early music to modern jazz.

Stay tuned as we reflect on this year's highlights...
#EarlyMusic #kent #concert #music
📷 @katebeaugie

[Boxwood & Brass @BoxwoodandBrass]

It’s been a couple of weeks, but here we are @MusicStour, after a lovely performance of #Haydn’s Harmoniemesse conducted by Robert Hollingworth @ifagiolini, with our friends Eva Caballero, #flute, and Richard Thomas, #trumpet, & Rosie Moon double bass… 1/3

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

Beginning to get that festival itch? Us too! But while you wait, check out last years' concert tribute to David Munrow from @TheCityMusick : THE COUNT AND THE DUKE #earlymusic @polyphonicfilms

[POLYPHONIC @polyphonicfilms]

Buckle-up #earlymusic fans 🎶 New concert film #streaming 📺 THE COUNT AND THE DUKE from @TheCityMusick recorded live at York Early Music Festival last yr. Rare treat to hear renaissance 'big band' with amazing array of instruments 👏👏

Watch 👉 https://t.co/uKZfJx0Mwh

[Robert Hollingworth @ifagiolini]

I'm on @BBCRadio3 Record Review at 9.30am but have been left alone in Radio3 offices... @PetrocTrelawny (Btw Choral Chihuahua hits Ep50 on Monday)

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

Catch our Artistic Director, Robert Hollingworth (@ifagiolini) on @BBCRadio3’s Record Review tomorrow at 9am, or listen back anytime on @BBCSounds.

https://t.co/HmWoZlLYq4

[Robert Hollingworth @ifagiolini]

Very glad this is now available again. I grew very fond of the piece. @Music_at_York Significant remastering of the mass that improves choir 5. And the forst of our new series with Coro.

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

The music doesn't stop! 🎶☀️ Our friends at @JAMontheMarsh are celebrating their 10th festival next week!

4-16th July on Kent's atmospheric Romney Marsh, the programme includes an array of concerts, exhibitions & performances, with debuts from international & national stars.

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

For all those that didn’t manage to catch this last weekend. Don’t miss it! Friday 7th July @yorkearlymusic ‼️

[Robert Hollingworth @ifagiolini]

David Munrow fans. (July 7th)

[POLYPHONIC @polyphonicfilms]

#BreakingNews #ChoralChihuahua back in @ApplePodcasts Music Chart @ No. 105 😂 alongside @BBCRadio3 glitterati @tomservice + @LintonStephens Help get the choral dogs in the Top 100 listen + subscribe at https://t.co/ApX2FjllDW

... and, it's beating a pod about musical cats!?

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

🎶 That’s a wrap on our 2023 festival! Thank you to all the wonderful musicians and our audiences for making it another fantastic year 👏

We’ll be back again 21-30 June for #StourMusic2024.

Sign up to our mailing list at https://t.co/mEjOxo6oSm

[Graeme Macphee @GjaMacphee]

@MusicStour @ifagiolini @TheCityMusick
A spectacular end to the Festival!
Benevoli Missa Maria Prodigio Celeste for 4 choirs !! Astounding wall of sound ! Phil Spector comes to 17th century Rome 😍 followed by Carissimi s Jepthe Glorious music making ❤️🎶

[Continuo Foundation @ContinuoFndn]

A week of touring, time travel and a treasure trove of instruments. With concerts across the UK - including @MusicStour @SNEMFestival @ArtsFestOxford @MusicinCC - there’s something for everyone on #ContinuoConnect
👀 https://t.co/JjdeLsTpVH

[Cantoría @cantoriamusic]

⭐️ El primer contratenor en la recuperación histórica, Alfred Deller fundó @MusicStour que ahora dirige Robert Hollingworth. Ayer tuvimos la oportunidad de cantar Ensaladas aquí.

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

@ChrisGVeitch @TheCityMusick @WilliamFLyons @ifagiolini Certainly! We’ll reserve you one at the box office today if you’re joining.

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

🥁📯 2nd weekend started with a BANG! A full house for our Renaissance BIG BAND 🤘 concert. 21 players and many more instruments from @thecitymusick & pre-concert talk on David Munrow, early music pioneer, with director @WilliamFLyons @ifagiolini and Mark Deller.

[Stour Music Festival @MusicStour]

✨🇪🇸 Then for our late night, the stunning singing of charming vocal quartet @cantoriamusic. One of the best days so far! #StourMusic2023

[Graeme Macphee @GjaMacphee]

@ifagiolini @WilliamFLyons @MusicStour A marvelous evening ( sorry that a musical idol of my youth James Bowman has passed ) great recollections from Mark and Wm and "hosted" by RH with aplomb and ..what a Big Band to follow 16th Century Swing and Rock !😻