Edinburgh University Summer Concerts 1989

Date: 
Sunday, June 18, 1989
Time: 
8 pm
Season/No: 
1989, fourth concert

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Alison Crum - viola da gamba
Christopher Field - baroque violin
John Kitchen - harpsichord

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

Sonata in G minor for iola da gamba and basso continuo, HWV 364b ... George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
  Andante larghetto
  Allegro
  Adagio
  Allegro

Sonata IV in B flat major for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord, BuxWV 255 ... Dietrich Buxtehude (c1637-1707)
[VII Suonate, opus 1, Lübeck, ?1694]

  Vivace - Allegro - Lento - Allegro

Sonata in G minor for harpsichord and viola da gamba, BWV 1029 ... Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
  Vivace
  Adagio
  Allegro

INTERVAL

Cloches ou Carillon, for bass viol and basso continuo ... Marin Marais (1656-1728)
[Second Livre de Pièces de Viole, Paris, 1701]

Sonnerie de Ste. Geneviève du Mont de Paris, for violin, bass viol and harpsichord ... Marais
[La Gamme et autres Morceaux de Simphonie, Paris, 1723]

Suite II in G major for bass viol and basso continuo ... Antoine Forqueray le père (1671/2-1745)
[Pièces de Viole, Paris, 1747]
  La Bouron
  La Du Breuil
  La Leclair
  La Buisson

Concert I in C minor-major for harpsichord, violin and bass viol ... Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
[Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts, Paris, 1741]
  La Coulicam
  La Livri
  Le Vèzinet

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Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Instrument / Organ Specification: 
Anonymous baroque violin, c1720
Goermans, Jean/Taskin, Pascal (double manual harpsichord) 1764/1784
Kaiser, Matthias and Augustinius (Viola da gamba)

Performance Type:

Programme: 
8-page yellow series booklet
Programme Notes: 

No programme notes

Promoter:

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

Instruments
Violin by an unknown English or Scottish maker, c1720 (lent to the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments by Mrs D. McDonald); violin by Colin Ir by Colin Irving, Guildford, 1985.
Viola da gamba by Matthias and Augustinius Kaiser, Dusseldorf, c1700 (bought for the Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments in 1988 with assistance from the Government's Local Museums Purchase Fund, the General Council Trust of Edinbugh University, the Pilgrim Trust and an anonymous benfactor; viola da gamba bu Guy Derat (1988) after Nicholas Bertrand, 1720.
Two-manual harpsichord by Johannes or Jacques Goermans, Paris, 1764, rebuilt by Pascal Taskin, Paris, 1783-4 (bought by the University of Edinburgh from Mrs Gilbert Russell in 1974.  
a'=415Hz
Harpsichord maintenance by Grant O'Brien and John Raymond.
Interval refreshments in the Laigh Room by kind assistance of the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall.