Tag: Parley of Instruments

Salve Regina, Robin Blaze & The Parley of Instruments, Wigmore Hall, 22 June 2000

We must have really fancied this one, as we don’t (and didn’t) much go to the Wigmore Hall for this type of concert midweek. Our work diaries were so full back then.

Janie was on a bit of a countertenor kick back then; that would have clinched it.

Anyway, what an interesting concert:

  • Johann Rosenmuller – Ascendit Christus in Altum
  • Giovanni Legrenzi – O Mirandum Mysterium
  • Giovanni Legrenzi – Sonata in G major ‘La Pezzoli’
  • Giovanni Antonio Rigatti – Nunc Dimittis
  • Giovanni Antonio Rigatti – Cum Invocarem
  • Claudio Monteverdi – Iam Moriar, Mi Fili (Pianto Della Madonna)
  • Alessandro Grandi – Ave Maris Stella
  • Alessandro Grandi – Amo Christum
  • Biagio Marini – Sonata Quarta in A minor
  • Francesco Maria Marini – Jesu Dulcis Memoria
  • Dario Castello – Exultate Deo
  • Giovanni Rovetta – Salve Regina

Here is one of the pieces they performed that night:

The following year, this troupe released the Salve Regina album, which contains many of the “hits” we heard that night – I have saved it to my YouTube Music account here.

My log records just one word to describe my feelings about this concert:

Lovely.

Haydn & His English Friends, Wigmore Hall, 20 September 1998

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.