Another Sunday evening concert at the Wigmore Hall, this time to explore the church music of Haydn and his contemporaries with Peter Holman, Psalmody and The Parley of Instruments.
We heard:
- Joseph Haydn – Three Psalms from Improved Psalmody (Ps 31, Ps 41, Ps 69)
- Charles Burney – The Dialogue Hymn: Tell Us, O Women
- John Stafford Smith – Horrible is the End of th’Unrighteous Generation
- Joseph Haydn – The Emperor’s Hymn: Poco Adagio from the String Quartet in C Major, Op 76/3
- Joseph Haydn -Give to God Our Thankful Songs
- William Gardiner of Leicester – Give to God Our Thankful Songs
- John Foster of High Green, Yorkshire – The God of Gods the Lord Hath Call’d
- Johan Arnold Dahmen – Three Songs from Eleven Sacred Songs
- Johan Arnold Dahmen – Two Psalms from Improved Psalmody
- Samuel Webbe Senior – Where, Lord, Shall My Refuge See
- William Shield – My God, My King with Joyful View
- Thomas Greatorex – This is the Day the Lord Hath Made
- Samuel Webbe Junior – Variations in A Major on “”Adeste Fideles”
- Joseph Haydn – Three Psalms from Improved Psalmody (Ps 61, Ps 26, Ps 50)
Jolly good it was too, in the hands of these experts.