SAVADI
Ulrike Hofbauer soprano
Kristine Jaunalksne soprano
Marie Bournisien harp

Savadi is one of the most exciting ensembles to arrive on the early music scene in recent years. Its three members come from Latvia, Germany and France, and studied together in Basle. They won the 2003 International Early Music Competition at York and the 2004 Van Wassanaer Concours at The Hague, and since then have performed in festivals and concert series throughout Europe.

Savadi means ‘in an another way’ in Latvian, and the group is unique in performing the Baroque repertory for one and two sopranos with the beautiful and flexible accompaniment of the Italian triple harp.  In this programme they contrast intense and dramatic solos and duets by Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Barbara Strozzi and others with music from seventeenth-century England, including songs and dialogues by John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Richard Dering, John Coprario and Henry Purcell. A concert not to be missed.

‘Their fascinating programme was carefully and cleverly chosen, presented with equal measures of humour and scholarship, and brilliantly performed’ – Stephen Varcoe