Seats allocated on arrival. This performance takes place at St Christopher's Church.

Tickets

Adult

£21.00 (includes £1.00 booking fee)

Child

£6.00 (includes £1.00 booking fee)

Palisander prides itself on presenting imaginative, historical programmes with a wide range of repertoire; performing largely from memory, on recorders up to 6 feet tall.

The quartet has quickly established itself as a vibrant young ensemble. Devising their own choreography, as well as writing new compositions and unique arrangements for the ensemble, the group's members are keen ambassadors for the recorder's versatility. This is brought to life in the exciting theatrical concerts for which Palisander is known.

"Palisander - making recorders phenomenally interesting and exciting" - Katie Derham, BBC Radio 3, 2019.

The theme of this evening's performance is You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. The natural impulse to move our body to music has been documented as far back as our ancestors' ancestors. Throughout history, humans have danced to celebrate, to heal, to bond, to entertain, to exercise and above all, for fun! In this programme, Palisander presents bespoke sets of dances from history, playing a selection of recorders from 6 inches to 6 feet tall, featuring music spanning more than 1000 years.

Much of the repertoire is unique to Palisander, having been written for, or developed by the ensemble and includes exotic traditional dances from the Mediterranean; a historic Queen of England's pre-breakfast dance workout, and even dances performed as a historical antidote to a spider's poison!

As well as traditional melodies recorded by history's dancing masters, this programme also includes music by Dolmetsch contemporaries Imogen Holst, Benjamin Britten and Edmund Rubbra.

Palisander are Tabea Debus, Lydia Gosnell, Caoimhe de Paor and Lizzie Knatt.

Tonight's concert is the highlight of the Dolmetsch Festival Centenary Celebration, a weekend of recorder workshops, talks and recitals celebrating the centenary and legacy of the Dolmetsch Early Music Festival.   The Dolmetsch Early Music Festival, also known as the Haslemere Festival, was founded in 1925 by Arnold Dolmetsch, who was largely responsible for the revival of the recorder, both as a serious concert instrument, and as an instrument which made early music accessible to amateur performers. He went on to promote the recorder as an instrument for teaching music in schools.