Baroque masterpieces for a summer’s night at Leamington’s parish church

Conducted by Paul Leddington Wright, the two groups will perform Vivaldi’s Summer from his famous Four Seasons, as well as his choral piece Gloriana, Albiononi’s Oboe Concerto in D Minor, Motet Beatus Vir by Claudio Monterverdi, Henry Purcell’s My Heart and two unaccompanied choral works by Giovanni Gabrielli.

These pieces will include solo performances by Michael Bochmann, leader and concert master of the ESO and an internationally renowned soloist in this concerto for violin and orchestra; and oboist Graeme Adams, also of the ESO, who has broadcast many times on radio and television and has toured extensively in this country and abroad.

While the programme features both choral and orchestral works, there will also be the opportunity to see the groups perform together, including in the Monterverdi composition, which is scored for six-part chorus and soloists with an instrumental accompaniment of obligato violin with basso continuo and keyboard. The work, in which small groups of singers are contrasted with the full chorus, is in the ‘stile concertato’ characteristic of Baroque music.

The concert begins at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £15 from 01676 532436 or www.saintmichaelssingers.org