Enjoy an evening concert of baroque delights with the Nocturnalia Ensemble.

The Foundling Museum is delighted to welcome the Nocturnalia Ensemble to the Picture Gallery for an enchanting evening recital, which celebrates the women contemporary to Handel.

Nocturnalia Ensemble is composed of three young performers on violin, cello/gamba, and historical keyboards. They believe that baroque music is tremendously contemporary, and look to offer fresh concerts to audiences that celebrate the freedom and unique creativity of 17th and 18th-century compositions.

Performers:

Mojca Jerman, historical violin

Alex Mastichiadis, historical keyboards (harpsichord and organ)

Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez, historical cello and viola

Image: Faustina Bordoni by Bartolomeo Nazari, on loan to the Foundling Museum from Handel Hendrix House

  • Musical Contexts: Sonata Forms
Isabella Leonarda: Sonata Duodecima a violino solo e organo
G.P. Telemann: Trio Sonata for violin, cello and B.C. in G Major, TWV 42:G7
  • Handel in Rome: A Pastoral Salon
G.A. Perti: Sonata for violin and B.C.
Handel: ‘Felicissima quest’alma’ from Apollo e Daphne, HWV 122. (arr. for violin, cello and harpsichord)
Laura’s Lament (composed by Nocturnalia, 2025)
Handel: ‘Se m’ami, o caro’, from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72/14. (arr. for violin, cello and harpsichord)
Handel: Violin sonata in D major, Op.1, No. 13
  • Handel in London 
Handel: Sonata in G minor for violin & B.C., Op.1, No.6, I. Larghetto
Elisabetta Gambarini: Harpsichord Sonata from Six Sets of Lessons for the Harpsichord, Op.1, London, 1748
Francesco Geminiani: Cello Sonata, H.104, from Sonates pour le Violoncelle et Basse Continue dans lesquelles il a fait une étude particuliere pour l’utilité de ceux qui accompagnent, Op.5, No.2
Elisabetta Gambarini: Andantino, ‘Se dir non lice al mio tesoro’, and ‘Se mai fosse’
Handel: ‘O liberty, thou choicest treasure’, from Judas Maccabaeus, Act 1 (arr. for violin, cello and harpsichord)

Nocturnalia was born in 2021 as part of the EEEmerging+ Program. They performed their first concert in Athens in January 2023 and since then have been chosen as part of the Fringe Scheme of both Utrecht Early Music Festival and Contratemps Festival. They have also been selected as semi-finalists in the Loire International Early Music Competition.

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