Laidlaw Live: Mary-Jannet Leith (recorders), Thomas Allery (harpsichord)

Описание: From Caledonia to the Capital

From Airs for Autumn (c. 1761) James Oswald (1710-1769)

• The Phillyrea

From A Collection of Old Scots Tunes (1742)
Francesco Barsanti (1690-1775)

• Lass of Peaty’s Mill
• Pinkie House
• Clout the Cauldron

Sonata VI from 12 Trio Sonatas Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750)

• Allegro
• Largo
• Allegro (Minuet)

From A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes (Full of the Highland Humours) Henry Playford (1657- c.1707)

• Peggy's the Prettiest
• My Lady Hope's Scotch Measure     

From A Harpsichord or Spinnet Miscellany (1760)
Robert Bremner (c.1713-1789)

Variations on “Maggie Lauder”

Sonata in C major, op, 1, no. 7, HWV 365
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)

• Larghetto
• Allegro
• Larghetto
• A Tempo di Gavotta
• Allegro

From A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick (1749)
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)

• Auld Bob Morrice
• Sleepy Body

From Airs for the Summer James Oswald

• The Thistle

Mary-Jannet Leith is a Scottish recorder player, researcher, and educator, specialising in historically informed performance.

She is a founder member of period group Ensemble Hesperi, which has gained a strong reputation for bringing forgotten musical stories to life through original historical research. Supported by the Continuo Foundation and Arts Council England, she has designed several research-led performance projects, including ‘From Caledonia to the Capital’, which brings to life the music of Scottish composers who settled in eighteenth-century London, and ‘Then I play’d upon the Harpsichord’, an immersive concert exploring the musical tastes and talents of Queen Charlotte, consort to George III. Hesperi’s 2021 debut album, Full of the Highland Humours, was the result of her extended research into the lives of Scottish composers in eighteenth-century London. As a soloist, and with Ensemble Hesperi, Mary-Jannet regularly performs at leading festivals and venues across the United Kingdom and Europe. In 2018, she won first prize at the Internationaler Gebrüder-Graun-Wettbewerb, and is a laureate of the London International Festival of Early Music Young Ensemble Competition, and the International Van Wassenaer Competition. With Hesperi, she was selected as a Britten Pears Young Artist in 2020, and as a City Music Foundation artist in 2021. Mary-Jannet has appeared regularly on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and the Early Music Show, as well as recording in studio for Classic FM.

She is a Lecturer in Music (Historical Performance) at the University of York, where she also coaches the baroque ensemble.

Thomas Allery enjoys a varied career as a director, organist and early keyboard player. He is currently based in London, where he divides his time between performing, teaching, and research. He is director of Music at London's Temple Church.

Having originally trained at the University of Oxford, Thomas subsequently studied organ and harpsichord at the Royal College of Music before pursuing an Artist Diploma in harpsichord at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His teachers have included Margaret Phillips, Terence Charlston, Carole Cerasi and James Johnstone. Generous sponsorship from the Eric Thompson Trust enabled him to pursue specialist tuition in early organ techniques with Erwin Wiersinga at the Martinikerk in Groningen.

In 2023, Thomas was appointed as Director of Music at Temple Church, London, renowned for its centuries-long tradition of choral excellence. Here he directs and trains the professional choirs in a busy programme of services and concerts, regularly working with period orchestras and commissioning works from leading composers. Thomas also leads Temple Church’s choral education and outreach programme for young musicians aged 7 to 21, working to widen access to the English choral tradition.

Thomas is a professor of basso continuo at London's Royal College of Music.