Keble Early Music Festival: The Bate Collective

Entry free (retiring collection).

Please come along and join us for the Bate Collective's performance as part of this year's Keble Early Music Festival - a concert marking the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Concert Spirituel on 18 March 1725. 

Programme:

Archangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso op. 8, no. 6

‘Fate per la notte di Natale’ (‘Christmas’ Concerto)

1. Vivace – Grave. Arcate, sostenuto e come stà

2. Allegro

3. Adagio – Allegro – Adagio

4. Vivace

5. Allegro

6. Largo. Pastorale ad libitum

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Two Marian petits motets for three dessus

Ave Regina cælorum (H.19, ca. 1672)

Gaudia virginis Mariae (H.59, ca. 1677)

Georg Philipp Telemann Concerto for recorder and flute in E mi TWV 52:e1

1. Largo

4. Presto

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Stabat Mater (1736)

1. ‘Stabat mater’

12.‘Quando corpus morietur – Amen’

Antonio Caldara Cantata Non v’è pena ne l’amore (ca. ?1700)

1. ‘Non v’è pena ne l’amore’

Jean-Joseph Mouret Excerpts from Les Amours de Ragonde (1714)

1. Prelude ‘Allons, allons!’ – Seb Carrington (Ragonde)

2. Bourées

3. Passepieds & Air ‘Fui, gloire inhumaine’ – Holly Smith (Colette)

4. Marche

5. Air de paysan

6. Rondeau & Air ‘Il est temps’ – Grace Hall & Sydney Haskins (Mathurine)

7. Air

8. Contredance

The Bate Collective is the Faculty of Music’s ensemble which specialises in historically in formed performance. Founded in 2022, and growing out of the student-formed Bate Players, the group uses period instruments, many of them part of the University’s famous Bate Col lection, and has so far performed vocal and instrumental music from Cesis and Cozzolani to Graupner, Heinichen, Bach and Rameau. This is the group’s third appearance at the Keble Early Music Festival.

Thanks and acknowledgements

We would like to offer our sincere thanks to Rachel Byrt and Ben Hebbert for so generously sharing their expertise with our string players; to Isabelle Carré and Leander Wells at the Bate Collection and Nicky Brown at the Music Faculty for giving so much time to supporting the project; to Chris Goodwin at the Lute Society; and finally to Edward Higginbottom for the in spiration behind the theme of the programme. If you would like to hear more music from the Concert Spirituel be sure to book your tickets to ITT’s concert at the Sheldonian Theatre on Friday 13 June…

To see the full list of events taking place, please visit the Keble College website, where you can purchase tickets for all festival events.

Keble Early Music Festival 2025 website