Wren300 Concert: Instruments of Time and Truth

Sun 16 Apr | 3.30pm-5.00pm
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Trinity Chapel

This special concert in the atmospheric surroundings of Trinity’s Wren modified Chapel offers a musical glimpse of London in the later years of the architect’s extraordinary life. It showcases composers who were active around 1723 and who represent the musical styles prevalent in London in the first three decades of the 18th century as Wren stepped back to survey his astonishing lifetime’s work. The programme features trio sonatas by William Croft (1678-1727), sacred songs of John Weldon (1676-1736) and secular songs and theatre music by John Eccles (1668-1735).

Programme:

Henry Purcell: Fairest Isle (from King Arthur) 

William Croft: Trio in B flat  Largo – Prestissimo – Adagio – Allegro – Vivace – Prestissimo 

John Weldon: O Lord, rebuke me not (from Six Select Anthems for a Voice alone [1716]) 

Francis Withy: Divisions in F for bass viol 

Francesco Geminiani: Violin Sonata in d, op1/2 (London, 1716) 

Johann Christoph Pepusch: Love frowns, a cantata for soprano and treble recorder 

Daniel Purcell: Amintas, a cantata for soprano (Six Cantatas for a Voice [?1710]) 

Gottfried Finger: Sonata for Recorder in F, op.3/8 (Amsterdam, 1701) 

A short miscellany of songs by John Eccles and John Weldon 

Jeremiah Clarke: Lesson in A   Almand  – Round O – Jigg  (from Choice Lessons for the Harpsicord, 1711) 

G. F. Handel: Sweet Bird, aria from L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato