Liberated from hosting The Duchess at The Proms, Janie and I went along to this concert on a Sunday evening planning nothing more than a light supper at my flat after the show. It was a Sunday evening and we both had ridiculously early starts the next morning.
Here’s the running order:
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225
- Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La passione’
- Joseph Haydn, Non nobis, Domine, Hob. XXIIIa:1
- Joseph Haydn, Insanae et vanae curae
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem in D minor (compl. Süssmayr).
This was an excellent concert. You don’t need to take my word for that – it seems it got rave reviews afterwards. It has taken me 25 years to check out those rave reviews, but that’s me.
Here’s Geoffrey Norris in The Telegraph:
Pinnock Telegraph Norris 09 Aug 1999, Mon The Daily Telegraph (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Tom Sutcliffe in the Standard was a little more equivocal, but still wrote very well of the gig.
Pinnock Sutcliffe Standard 09 Aug 1999, Mon Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com