Ensemble Antiqua Concert and Art Exhibition
Ensemble Antiqua has a concert coming up on Friday April 10th at 6.00 p.m. at St Mary’s Cathedral. The theme of the concert is ‘The Song of Birds’ and it will feature mostly Renaissance and Baroque works which have been inspired by bird song. The programme includes the following instrumental works: the Goldfinch Concerto op. 10 no. 3 by Vivaldi; Sonata in Imitation of Birds by William Williams; The Wedding of the Hen and the Cuckoo by Marco Uccellini (whose name means ‘little bird’) and The Cuckoo by Michael Henkel. There are also two poignant songs: Ah Robin, Gentle Robin by William Cornysh and The Three Ravens by Thomas Ravenscroft as well as a buoyant song Zefiro Torna by Claudio Monteverdi which evokes the swirl of a gentle summer breeze.
Some of this repertoire will also be included as a sound recording (interspersed with recordings of native bird calls from Tasmania) in an exhibition titled ‘Nature as Artifice’ curated by Llewellyn Negrin at Narryna Historical House, Battery Point which features the work of artists Christl Berg, Jane Slade, Ruth Frost, Chantale Delrue, Janine Combes, Jan Dineen, Frances Watson, Linda Erceg and Denise Rathbone. This exhibition examines the responses of colonial women to the unfamiliar natural world which they encountered when they first settled in Van Diemen’s Land as evidenced in the sketchbooks, botanical illustrations, albums and collections of specimens, which these women left behind, as well as in the ways in which they decorated their homes and themselves. It includes objects from Narryna’s collection as well as the works of the above-mentioned artists made in response to this visual legacy. It opens on March 20th and will continue until at least the end of May.
Ensemble Antiqua consists of Llewellyn Negrin — recorder, Christine Akerman — violin & viola, Alexander Rodrigues — spinet & voice, and Tim Lowe — guitar & lute.
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