This was a super way to kick off a bank holiday weekend. Janie and I had taken the day off work. No sign in the diaries of us eating out – perhaps we ate at Sandall Close and then jumped in the car to go to Kensington.
Interesting concert – Janie is partial to a bit of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, so that would have been the clincher. The other three pieces were rare items, all of which were getting their Proms premier that night.
- Francesco Durante – Concerto No. 4 in E minor
- Antonio Vivaldi – Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638
- Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer – Concerto No. 5 in F minor
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Stabat mater
Here’s a beautiful recording of Andreas Scholl singing the Vivaldi piece (with a different orchestra), embedded from Andreas Scholl’s YouTube Channel:
I cannot find a review of the concert we heard, but I can find a most interesting preview in The Telegraph, including an interview with the Scholl siblings:
Scholl x2 Telegraph Rye 21 Aug 1999, Sat The Daily Telegraph (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
As Andreas himself says, the Royal Albert Hall is far from perfect acoustically for baroque music, but it does have a unique atmosphere of its own. This concert was a good one.