Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/04/2019
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
The Old Baptist Chapel
Categories
On the Saturday of the Easter weekend, enjoy reflective music by Purcell, Humfrey, Handel and others including works from the Harmonia Sacra collections, with instrumental music from the period
Kate Fawcett and Martin Perkins revived the original Musical and Amicable Society, founded in Birmingham in 1762, as a collective of professional period-instrument specialist musicians. Known for the clear quality and agile nature of her voice, Hannah Grove has a particular affinity for the repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, working with period instrumentalists such as the Academy of Ancient Music and the Corelli Orchestra.
Performers
Hannah Grove – Soprano
Sophie Barber and Kate Fawcett – Violins
Martin Perkins – Organ
Programme
Henry Purcell – Evening Hymn: ’Now that the sun hath veiled his light’ (Harmonia Sacra, 1693)
John Weldon – ‘Blessed by the Lord my Strength’ (Divine Harmony, 1716)
Robert Tailour – Psalm 130: ‘Out from the deep’ (Sacred Hymns, 1615)
Robert Tailour – Psalm 103: ‘Pure light of soule’ (Sacred Hymns, 1615)
John Pixell – Psalm 23 ‘The Lord my Pasture shall Prepare’ (Odes, Cantatas, Songs, &c. op. 2, 1775)
George Frederic Handel – Violin Sonata in A major HWV 361
Handel – ‘Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle’, HWV 205 (Nine German Arias)
Handel – ‘In den angenehmen Büschen’, HWV 209
Reviews
“sensitively judged… beautifully clear coluratura…impeccable tuning, and a lovely warm sound”
“…throughout, Musical and Amicable Society reminded us what a really first-rate period-instrument band sounds like…” Birmingham Post
Tickets
£15
Book online at: oldchapelcourtconcerts.eventbrite.com (booking fees apply)
or purchase from the John Moore Museum
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