A list of all concerts since 1994 (most recent at the top)…
To find out more about any concert listed, or to request programme notes or more information about specific works, please email: baroquevoicesdirector@gmail.com
125) 15 June 2025 - “Draw on, sweet night…” (part of the “Colours of Futuna” 2025 concert series)
English, Spanish, French and Italian 14th, 15th, 16th & 17th Century madrigals and part songs, and 21st Century NZ music for unaccompanied voices; contemplative and coquettish, devotional and delightful songs to brighten up a Winter's afternoon… Works by: Morley, Wilbye, Anon., Landini, Dufay, Machaut, and NZ composers Pepe Becker & Ross Carey
Singers: Pepe Becker, Genevieve Gates-Panneton, Alexandra Granville, Toby Gee
Venue: Futuna Chapel, Karori, Wellington
124) 1 Sept 2024 – “… a feather on the breath of God” (a BV 30th Anniversary concert! 😊)
A concert based on the one on 17 Dec 1994 by the same name: sacred German music from Hildegard von Bingen to JS Bach, spanning 600+ years from the 12th C to the 18th C, with several pieces substituted and with the addition of a second Hildegard chant and P Becker’s “O ignis spiritus” (2009), inspired by Hildegard’s “O ignis spiritus” written c.900 years earlier… Music by: Anon., Hildegard, The ‘Tannhauser’, Wizlau, Othmayer, Walther, Eccard, Schütz, JM Bach, JL Bach, JS Bach, Becker
Singers: Pepe Becker, Jane McKinlay, Kate Lineham, Andrea Cochrane, Katherine Hodge, Toby Gee, Samuel Berkahn, Simon Christie, David Morriss
Extra BV singers and #guest singers from Nota Bene and Bach Choir (joining us for the final work in the programme): Jo Hodgson, Milla Dickens, Nigel Collins, Herbert Zielinski, Roger Wilson; #Katie Chalmers, #Tina Carter, #Vicky Mabin, #Shawn Condon [rehearsal only], #Jonathan Lane, #Lindsay Groves
Venue: Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington
Recorded by: Anthony Donovan & Sam Ogle (see YouTube channel)
123) 9 June 2024 – “The Choicest Songs” (a BV 30th Anniversary concert! 😊)
A concert celebrating BV’s 30 years of musicking, June 1994 to June 2024! Music spanning 400+ years, by John Dowland and contemporaries, Henry Purcell, Monica Verburg and Pepe Becker, on themes of love, nature, the passage of time, life and death, rest and renewal... [In another happy confluence of events, as well as June being BV’s birthday month, this concert date, 9th June, happened to mark the would-be 100th birthday of the innovative and creative architect, John Scott, who designed this beautiful Futuna Chapel in 1958, and the 1st anniversary of the passing of Jim Allen, artist and sculptor of the four arts works embedded into the Chapel’s architectural fabric. Pepe is honoured to have been commissioned (by the Futuna Chapel Trust) to write a new work in celebration of John Scott’s and Jim Allen’s extraordinary lives and achievements. The resulting work, “concrete, wood and light…” was premiered at the conclusion of the concert.]
Singers: Pepe Becker (soprano) and David Morriss (bass) - the ‘extremities of BV’
Instrumentalists: Robert Oliver (bass viols) and Douglas Mews (virginall, recorder)
Venue: Futuna Chapel, Karori, Wellington
Recorded by: Anthony Donovan, Chris Palmer & Alexander Garside (see YouTube channel)
122) 3 Sept 2023 – “How great is the pleasure” (BV trio at Classical on Cuba)
A repeat of the previous performance…
Venue: Hanging Ditch, Wellington
121) 3 Sept 2023 – “How great is the pleasure” (BV trio at Classical on Cuba)
A short but sweet selection of German, French, Spanish, Italian, English and Irish music for one, two and three voices, including Medieval chant, duets and trios; Renaissance madrigals; Irish folk songs… on the perennial theme of love, in all its forms… Part of the “Classical on Cuba” street music festival, where classical music that is normally presented in a concert hall is performed either outdoors or in pubs, hotels and cafes in Wellington’s ‘Cuba Quarter’
Singers: Pepe Becker, Kate Lineham, Theo Moolenaar
Instrumentalist: Pepe Becker (hand drum, shruti box)
120) 16 June 2023 – “A Mass of Byrd’s and some Sundrie Songs”
A lunchtime concert as part of Wgtn Cathedral of St Paul’s TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) series… Mass of Three Voices by William Byrd (c.1540-1623), the movements interspersed with three-part “songs of sundrie natures” by Byrd and a viol solo by Tobias Hume (1570-1645); commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd…
Singers: Pepe Becker, Andrea Cochrane, with tenor voice-parts played on viol
Instrumentalist: Robert Oliver (bass viol)
Venue: Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Recorded by: Anthony Donovan (email Pepe to request a video link)