Tag: Wigmore Hall

Homage To Marc Chagall, Wigmore Hall, Chagall Trio & Samuel West, 25 October 1998

Sunday night at “The Wig” to see this concert by the Chagall Trio, peppered with readings from Marc Chagall’s autobiography delivered by my old schoolmate, Samuel West.

We heard:

  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Trio No 2 in E Minor, Op 67              
  • Philip Grange – Homage to Chagall       
  • Igor Stravinsky – Rag-time for Eleven Instruments         
  • Aaron Copland – Vitebsk – Study on a Jewish Theme    

Janie is partial to a bit of Chagall, visually, and is fascinated by Chagall’s life story, so the whole idea seemed to tick a lot of boxes for us. It was indeed a super concert that pleased us.

Nash Ensemble At The Wigmore Hall, 13 October 1998

I think we must have been experimenting a bit at The Wigmore Hall for this one, as I don’t think of this music as being Janie’s taste. Perhaps I was especially keen to encourage her to hear the Richard Strauss songs…or at least i was keen to hear them performed live. Olaf Bär certainly gave them some baritone oomph.

We heard:

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Trio in B Flat Op 11 for Clarinet, Cello and Piano         
  • Gustav Mahler – Kindertotenlieder for Voice and Ensemble     
  • Richard Strauss – Five Songs    
  • Arnold Schoenberg – Verklarte Nacht Op 4 for String Sextet.

I sense that I enjoyed this concert more than Janie did.

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.