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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 4h

September was a huge month for Continuo Foundation, announcing our tenth round of grantee ensembles and crossing the million-pound threshold in grant funding!

Read our September update 👇

🔗 www.continuofoundation.co.uk/post/septemb...

Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 7h

NEWS | London Bach Society Announces Study Day For Singers

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News | London Bach Society announces Study Day for singers | Continuo Connect

Your guide to early music: concerts, festivals, articles, interviews, and artist profiles. Discover renaissance, baroque, classical and more.

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 11h

The autumn festival season continues apace, and this weekend we've got a Saturday Shout-out 📢 to Brecon Baroque, established by our wonderful Continuo Patron @rachpodger.bsky.social!

Full concert info 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/brecon-baroque

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 11h

In our latest feature, hear how Jorge Losana took Cantoria Music and Mateo Flecha's musical 'ensaladas' from Catalunya to the Concertgebouw in under 10 years 👉 go.continuoconnect.com/jorge-losana...

📸 Samuel Pereira (Jorge), Félix Vázquez (ensemble)

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baroqueinthenorth.bsky.social @baroqueinthenorth.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s rehearsal pals ❤️#concentrationface 🤣Join us for an hour of beautiful music + tea, cake & chat. £10/£7. Carers & U16s free. 12 October, 2.30-4.30, Church of the Immaculate Conception, Charlesworth. SK13 5ES @continuoconnect.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroque-in-the-north #livemusic

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 4d

Who will you see this weekend? 👀

With 300+ upcoming concerts on our website, Continuo Connect is the definitive place to find your next Baroque & Early Music concert in the UK 🙌

Head to go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on to find a concert near you 📌

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 7d

🌐 Free online event this Wednesday!

Join Gramophone Magazine Editor Martin Cullingford to celebrate the release of @themozartists.bsky.social latest album, 'Gluck Arias', in conversation with Ian Page and soloist Ann Hallenberg.

Register now at 🔗 mozartists.com/gluck-arias-...

'Gluck Arias' Album Launch with Ann Hallenberg - The Mozartists

mozartists.com

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 6d

BAROQUE & EARLY MUSIC IN THE UK THIS WEEKEND 🎵 feat. @brightonemf.bsky.social @oxfordsong.bsky.social and more...

Full listings 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on

#baroquemusic #ukconcerts #southbank #earlymusic #livemusicuk

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 7d

🌐 Free online event this Wednesday!

Join Gramophone Magazine Editor Martin Cullingford to celebrate the release of @themozartists.bsky.social latest album, 'Gluck Arias', in conversation with Ian Page and soloist Ann Hallenberg.

Register now at 🔗 mozartists.com/gluck-arias-...

'Gluck Arias' Album Launch with Ann Hallenberg - The Mozartists

mozartists.com

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 7d

A Saturday Shout-out 📢 to Hatfield House Music Festival curated by Artistic Director Guy Johnston, taking place this year 9-12 October in the stunning surroundings of Hatfield Park in Hertfordshire 🌳

🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/hatfield-hou...

📸 Allan Engelhardt (gardens), Matt Brown (interior)

Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 7d

FEATURE | On 10 Oct, @brightonemf.bsky.social audiences will hear Ensemble Moliere and the BREMF Players perform a concert version of Mademoiselle Duval's 'Les Caractères de l’Amour', almost exactly 289 years after its premiere in 1736 🎭

🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/les-caracter...

Feature | Les Caractères de l’Amour | Continuo Connect

Satoko Doi-Luck’s bespoke reconstruction of Mlle Duval’s 1736 opera-ballet receives its UK premiere in a concert performance at Brighton Early Music Festival.

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 11d

Saturday in #Manchester!

@manchesterbaroque.bsky.social performs 'Dance of the Nations', a programme of Baroque dance music with live dancing on stage by period dance specialists Ricardo Barros and Kath Waters.

📅 4 Oct 7:30pm, @hallestpeters.bsky.social
🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/manchester-b...

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 12d

☕ Today is #internationalcoffeeday, so why not take a minute to sit and enjoy your favourite brew this morning with our latest playlist BAROQUE DANCES inspired by Le Maître à danser (‘The Dancing Master’) and the tricentenary of Pierre Rameau...

🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/baroque-danc...

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 13d

BAROQUE & EARLY MUSIC IN THE UK THIS WEEKEND - 3-5 October 🎵

Full listings 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on

Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 13d

NEWS | @brightonemf.bsky.social unveils new programme, celebrating ‘Love’

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News | Brighton unveils new programme, celebrating ‘Love’ | Continuo Connect

Your guide to early music: concerts, festivals, articles, interviews, and artist profiles. Discover renaissance, baroque, classical and more.

go.continuoconnect.com

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baroqueinthenorth.bsky.social @baroqueinthenorth.bsky.social · 13d

Last Baroque & Beyond of the year is fast approaching! Join us for an hour of beautiful music, tea, cake & chat. £10/£7. Carers & U16s free. 12 Oct, 2.30-4.30, Charlesworth. SK13 5ES @continuoconnect.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroque-in-the-north #livemusic #travelswithmymusette

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to the 28 ensembles who are celebrating their successful grant applications this week!

Here's a new commute playlist featuring an hour of beautiful recordings by some of this round's new grantees.

Listen now on Spotify 🎧 go.continuoconnect.com/grant-round-...

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 14d

'It is so important to understand music history through influences. I do not play the great masterworks in the same way once I know the music around them.’

Read our latest Feature interview with Christophe Rousset of Les Talens Lyriques 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/christophe-r...

christophe rousset dramatically waving his arm above his head while directing from the keyboard

Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 14d

With the autumn festival season well and truly upon us, we're giving a Saturday Shout-out 📢 to one of the crown jewels of the Baroque & Early Music scene... @brightonemf.bsky.social!

Check out the wide variety of events happening this year at 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/brighton-ear...

Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 18d

Not just concert halls... 🚂

Round 9 grantees Queen Victoria's Consort provided a historically informed soundtrack to the bicentenary of the first railway in their project Brass in Motion. Toot toot!

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 18d

NEWS | Applications open for prestigious orchestral experience scheme

🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/applications...

News | Applications open for prestigious orchestral experience scheme | Continuo Connect

Your guide to early music: concerts, festivals, articles, interviews, and artist profiles. Discover renaissance, baroque, classical and more.

www.continuoconnect.com

Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 19d

🙌 Live Baroque & Early Music in the UK 26-28 September (plus, see our previous post about two amazing festivals also happening this weekend!)

Full listings 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 19d

What's on this weekend MEGA FESTIVAL EDITION! 🎪

There are two wonderful Baroque & Early Music festivals happening this weekend: Banbury Early Music Festival, and love:Handel by @brookstreetband.bsky.social 🎻

Full info on both festivals is available now at 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/festivals

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted to be able to say that we've been awarded a grant to expand the #GreensleevesProject by recording a selection of #Tudor & #Stuart #music & #song associated with clothing.
Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity!

#earlymusic #earlymodern

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The Vauxhall Band @thevauxhallband.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you so much to Continuo Foundation for awarding a project grant to support our 2026 debut recording of chamber and orchestral works featuring basset horns with the renowned Deux-Elles Classical Recordings.

@continuoconnect.bsky.social

thevauxhallband.com/support-our-...

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