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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 4d

🌐 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

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 4d

🌐 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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

☕ 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 · 9d

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

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

Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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baroqueinthenorth.bsky.social @baroqueinthenorth.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

'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 · 11d

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 · 14d

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 · 15d

NEWS | Applications open for prestigious orchestral experience scheme

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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 · 15d

🙌 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 · 15d

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 · 17d

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 · 17d

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

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Fretwork Viol Consort @fretwork.bsky.social · 17d

Many thanks indeed to Continuo Foundation who have awarded us a grant so we can perform our new Albion project, coming up in Oxford in 2026. Watch this space for details!

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 17d

📣 Continuo Foundation Patron Mary Bevan MBE announces our tenth round of grant awards, bringing us to an incredible £1 million in funding for Baroque & Early Music ensembles in the UK!

🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/continuo-gra...

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 18d

Where music and theatre collide 🎭

Catch The Telling from 19 to 30 September in their Vision tour and experience what @theguardian.com describes as "A beautiful piece…it really is wonderful, so do try and catch it."

🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/the-telling

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 18d

Artistic Director of Música d’Outrora Pablo Devigo is passionate about the radical expressivity of the 17th-century ‘stylus phantasticus’ and brings this creative energy to their debut recording, STILL LIFE, out now on Deux-Elles Records.

➡️ go.continuoconnect.com/musica-doutr...
📸 Gareth Howell

Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 18d

Ahead of revealing the recipients of our latest round of grants, we're looking back at some of the many successful projects we've funded since 2020. This commute playlist contains one track from each of the 32 albums we have helped bring to life! 💿

🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/former-conti...

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