🎙️ The microphone is back on!
First day yesterday recording phase two of our project with the Deux-Elles label.
Clarinets — Katherine Spencer & Sarah Thurlow
Basset Horn — Fiona Mitchell
Bassoon — Chris Rawley
With thanks to
@continuoconnect.bsky.social and all our other supporters.
A group of 10 smiling people are standing on some steps in a church. The three at the front are holding period basset horns.
A very happy team at the completion of the first phase of our recording project with
Deux-Elles record label 🎶✨
Thank you to everyone for two inspiring days working together to create something truly amazing.
Supported by @continuoconnect.bsky.social and others not on social media.
A great first day of our project with Deux-Elles Classical Recordings.
Basset Horns & Clarinets: Katherine Spencer, Sarah Thurlow and Fiona Mitchell
Sopranos: Grace Davidson, Julia Doyle
Bass-Baritone: Edward Grint
Horns: Richard Bayliss, Martin Lawrence.
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The Vauxhall Band orchestra are standing on stage, smiling warmly as the audience applauds them after a concert.
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The Basset Horn in Vienna, 13.10.2025
Thanks to everyone who performed and listened.
This concert was generously supported by The Vauxhall Band's Friends & Supporters, and grant awards from Angel Early Music, the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, and The Golsoncott Foundation.
Extend your weekend this Monday with a night out 18th-century Viennese style!
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: £20 full price, £5 for students/under 25s.
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Thank you so much to Continuo Foundation for awarding a project grant to support our 2026 debut recording of chamber and orchestral works featuring basset horns with the renowned Deux-Elles Classical Recordings.
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A painting of Mozart from the eighteenth century. Mozart’s head and shoulders are visible. He is dressed in a dark coat, with a white shirt with frills at the collar. He wears a grey wig. He is looking into the distance.
Hear Mozart’s solemnly beautiful Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music), which includes three basset horns, at our next concert:
🎶 The Basset Horn in Vienna
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, East Finchley
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Did you know that Georg Druschetzky wrote a concerto for not one, not two, but THREE basset horns?
Hear Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow & Katherine Spencer perform this amazing work:
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, London N2 9DP
⏰ 19.00
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Concert! 🎶
Discover the sounds of the basset horn in Vienna at the height of its popularity there in the 1780s.
Orchestral and chamber music by Mozart and his contemporaries.
Book tickets here: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Just over a week until our Salon Music Supper Concert in Highgate. 🎶
Tickets available below.
The Vauxhall Band Basset Horn Trio, Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow and Katherine Spencer, along with special guest, bassoonist Chris Rawley, return to perform in the amazing Salon Music Supper Concert series in Highgate, London on the 6th July.
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Mystery solved! Thank you to one of our social media followers who identified this tune as Delyow Sevi, a traditional Cornish tune.
According to the Cornish National Music Archive records of this tune date back to 1698 when it was sung to Thomas Tonkin, the Cornish scholar, by Edward Chirgwin.
Name that tune! 🎶
Beautiful, sad, profound... How can we even begin to describe the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem?
Here’s a moment from rehearsals for our performance with the Choir of St Philip’s Church, directed by Sam Coates, in April.
The bassets are back! And this time…with a bassoon!
Music by Druschetzky, Hoffmeister, Nudera and Mozart plus an 18th-century inspired supper created by host and food historian Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.
📆 6th July 2025
📍 Highgate
⏰ 18.30
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We had a great time last night performing Mozart's Requiem with the amazing Choir of St Philip's Church, which includes Libera, directed by Sam Coates.
Here we're rehearsing the terrifying and awe-inspiring Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) 😱
Join us this Sunday 6th April when we’ll be performing Mozart’s Requiem with the amazing all boys and young male voice Choir of St Philip’s, which includes members of Libera.
No advance tickets. Please make a donation of your choice after the concert.
Details: thevauxhallband.com/6th-april-20...
Scotch Gavotte from the Overture to Thomas Arne's opera Thomas and Sally.
Hear us perform this jolly little tune plus other folk-inspired pieces, trio sonatas & traditional folk music at the London Handel Festival.
Tuesday 1st April, 1pm
The Charterhouse
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An old map of London showing the locations of pleasure gardens in the 18th century, including Vauxhall Gardens.
Join us at our London Handel Festival concert to experience music from 18th-century London’s many pleasure gardens.
🎶 Garden Folk
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
⏰ 13.00
📍 The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN
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A portrait of Mozart’s head and shoulders. Mozart is wearing a red jacket with a gold brocade, a white shirt and a grey wig with curls at the side. Mozart is looking directly at the viewer.
We're looking forward to performing Mozart's awe-inspiring Requiem with the amazing St Philip's Choir of men and boys.
📆 Sunday 6th April 2025
📍 St Philip's Church, London SW16 4NW
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ No advance ticket booking. There will be a retiring collection towards the costs.
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This painting of Vauxhall Gardens is set in the 18th century. People are walking through trees, enjoying the atmosphere. There is a building to the right which has a raised platform. This is the orchestra building that the original Vauxhall Band used to perform from.
Trustee Vacancy: Treasurer
We're seeking an individual with a finance background and an interest in the arts to join The Vauxhall Band's Board of Trustees as Treasurer.
For further info and to apply please visit: thevauxhallband.com/treasurer/
In this photo four members of The Vauxhall Band, one man and three women, are standing in front of a harpsichord, smiling after a concert. There is a cellist, a flautist and a violinist all holding their instruments. They are standing in front of a black wall with large pink and blue shapes on it. The photo has been digitally enhanced to give the cello the harpsichord and the violin a pink hue.
We’re looking forward to performing our Garden Folk concert at the London Handel Festival on the 1st April.
Music by Handel, Thomas Arne, William Boyce, James Oswald, Scottish fiddler William Marshall and Irish harper Turlough O’ Carolan.
More info & tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
Colourful picture of Handel in pink and purple.
Join us at the London Handel Festival for our Garden Folk concert which explores the influence of folk music on society music, song and dance from eighteenth-century London’s pleasure gardens.
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
📍 The Charterhouse, London
⏰ 13.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who made 2024 so amazing. Looking forward to some great projects in 2025!
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