Bach at St Cecilia's Hall 1983

Date: 
Sunday, May 29, 1983
Time: 
8 pm
Season/No: 
1983, fourth concert

Fourth in a series of five concerts entitled 'Bach at Saint Cecilia's Hall', given in the summer of 1983.
An evening devoted to the music for gamba of Marin Marais (1656-1728), gamba virtuoso at the courts of Louis XIV and XV.

Venue:

Participant(s): 

John Hsu - viola da gamba
Peter Williams - harpsichord

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

Lecture-demonstration by John Hsu, 'French baroque musical rhetoric as seen through French baroque viol technique'.

INTERVAL

Music from 'Première Livre de Pièces de Viole' (Paris, 1686-9) of Marin Marais.

Suite no. 4 in A major
  Prelude
  Allemande and Double
  Courante
  Sarabande
  Gigue

Sujet avec 20 couplete

Fantaisie in B minor

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Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Instrument / Organ Specification: 
Goermans, Jean/Taskin, Pascal (double manual harpsichord) 1764/1784

Performance Type:

Programme: 
8-page turquoise series booklet
Programme Notes: 

No programme notes.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Tickets £1.50 (season ticket [5 concerts] £6), Student tickets £1
Publicity and Reviews: 

Turquoise poster with outline details of each of the five concerts.

[Reid] Professor: 
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988

Promoter:

Printer(s): 
Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh
Notes: 

Viola da gamba by Kazuya Sato, Chiba (Japan 1976); kindly loaned to John Hsu for this visit by Julie Anne Sadie.
Harpsichord by Goermans-Taskin, Paris, (1764, 1783) from the Russell Collection, restored by Grant O'Brien.

Concert tickets available from: The Music Faculty, 12 Nicolson Square; The Usher Hall Box Office, Lothian Road and at the door.
Interval refreshments by kind assistance of the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall.
Harpsichord restoration by John Barnes and Grant O'Brien.