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• Passion, Emotion and Exceptional Vocals Throughout ; La Nuova Musica | St George's Bristol

LA Nuova Musica (Italian for "New Music") is a classical music ensemble, founded five years ago and dedicated to presenting music of the European Renaissance and the Baroque period. In that time, they have met with enthusiastic reception from audiences and critics alike, with the BBC calling them "one of the most exciting consorts in the early music field". At St George's concert hall, La Nuova Musica brilliantly performed one of England's most famous and beloved oratorios, Messiah. Messiah was composed by George Frideric Handel and written by Charles Jennings in 1741 and is an adaptation of both the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It covers both Old Testament and New Testament accounts, including the prophecy about the birth of Jesus, Christ's Passion and his death, his...

• Evening Post (Bristol, UK)
• December 20, 2011

• Musica Vera Performance at Church

A SUMMER concert in aid of Sue Ryder Care will be performed by Musica Vera next month. The singers will be conducted by Oliver Mason and accompanied on the piano by John Wade at St Peter's Church in Leckhampton on July 16.

• Gloucestershire Echo, The
• June 16, 2011

• Horse Racing: Musica Bella Is On Course for Historic National Bid

MUSICA BELLA will bid to become the first French-trained winner of the John Smith's Grand National since 1867. Francois Cottin's charge will arrive on Merseyside next week looking to become only the third from France in the race's 170-year history following the successes in the early days of Huntsman in 1862 and the last to triumph Cortolvin 142 years ago.

• Daily Post
• March 25, 2009

• Cluny Tunes ; Musica Weekender to Remember Is Booked to Celebrate a Decade of One of Tyneside's Best-Loved Music Venues. Sam Wonfor Raises a Glass of Commemoratively-Brewed Ale to the Cluny

When you've got an awardwinning venue and its associated collection of ales at your disposal, I'm pretty sure there's some sort of by-law dictating it shouldn't take too much to prompt a bit of a party. And when an occasion such as a 10th birthday comes along at the aforementioned place of merriment, I'm equally confident of there being a statute of sorts dictating a bells and whistles jamboree to mark it.

• The Journal
• October 30, 2012

• Music Box ; World Musica High Point at This Year's Womad Festival Will Be the Performance by the Manganiyar Seduction -- Their Show Is As Much Theatre As Music, Says Simon Broughton, and Inspired by the Red Lights of Amsterdam

IT STARTS quietly with the soft bowing of a desert fiddle, but it ends in an extravagant cacophony of sound, lights and colour. Thirty- six Rajasthani musicians dressed in white robes and turbans of red, yellow and orange are placed in a four-storey tableau of little curtained boxes -- each containing a musician surrounded by the sort of lights you see in a theatrical dressing room. Is it a concert? Is it theatre? It's the Manganiyar Seduction -- part brothel, part Bollywood -- and a colourful treat for Womad's 30th birthday this summer. The Manganiyar Seduction was created by Indian theatre director Roysten Abel, and he admits the jewelbox presentation of the musicians was influenced both by the windows of Amsterdam's red- light district and Jaipur's Palace of the Winds.

• Evening Standard - London
• May 18, 2012

• Musica Vera Backs Hospice

COUNTY choir Musica Vera are performing in Leckhampton next month to raise money for the Sue Ryder hospice. The show takes place on July 16 at St Pete...

• Gloucestershire Echo, The
• June 28, 2011

• Longton: A Concert by Musica [...; in Brief

LONGTON: A concert by Musica takes place on Saturday, October 15 at Longton Central Hall Methodist Church. The performance starts at 7.30pm, and ticke...

• Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK)
• October 07, 2011

• Innovative Music with Energy ; Musica Vera and Major Pipework

St Mary's Church, Charlton Kings LAST September Cheltenham Arts Council awarded Musica Vera the Cheltenham Opera Cup for enterprise and innovation in music making. Their latest concert, entitled Renaissance Voices, had these attributes in abundance.

• Gloucestershire Echo, The
• April 27, 2010

• Reviews: Facebook: The Musical/ Chat! The Musica/ Facebook Fables: All the Cyber World's a Stage

MUSICALS & OPERA, FACEBOOK: THE MUSICAL *** C (VENUE 34)

• The Scotsman
• August 18, 2009

• An Uplifting and Joyous Evening ; Review Musica Vera, St Gregory's Church, Cheltenham

ON a very cold evening we were transported to Germany and Italy by Music Vera for an evening of Baroque music. This enthusiastic choir gave a joyous performance of Vivaldi's Gloria which they obviously enjoyed singing. Conductor David Dewar showed his involvement in the music, and drew expressive passages from his singers. With appropriate pacing of each section and variety of dynamics, we could appreciate the choir's hard work in preparation.

• Gloucestershire Echo, The
• March 25, 2013