Reid Chamber Concert

Date: 
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Time: 
7.30 pm.
Season/No: 
1963-64 season, 3rd concert

Harpsichord and spinet recital.

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Peter Williams - harpsichord and spinet

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

1. Huitieme ordre in B minor, from second livre de clavecin (1717) ... F. Couperin

    La Raphaéle; L'Ausoniéne (allemande); Courante II;
    L'Unique (sarabande); rondeau; gigue; passacaille;
    La Morinéte

2. Pieces for virginals ... John Bull

    (G minor)       pavane; coranto I; coranto II; coranto III
    (A minor/C)   vaulting galiard; duke of Brunswick's alman; les bouffons
    (D major/G)   galiard; what care you?; Bull's jewel; Bull's goodnight

3. Concerto in G (BWV 592a) ... Vivaldi (?) — J. S. Bach

    Allegro; grave; presto

INTERVAL

4. Five sonatas ... D. Scarlatti

    D major (Kk. 490)
    E major (Kk. 395)
    D major (Kk. 492)
    D major (Kk. 491)
    D minor (Kk. 516)

5. From the well-tempered clavier ... J. S. Bach

    Preludes and fugues in G sharp minor, books I and II

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Performance Type:

Programme: 
4-page programme
Programme Notes: 

Programme notes by P.W. [Peter Williams] including important comments on Bach and performance practice.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Admission free. Programme: two shillings
1963-1964 Reid Concerts
[Reid] Professor: 
Newman, Sidney T. M. 1906-1971

Promoter:

Notes: 

It was advertised in the 1963-64 concert brochure that Dr Peter Williams would give the recital on a Kirckman harpsichord and a Baker Harris spinet, both from the 1770s (possibly one of the Kirckman instruments and the Baker Harris spinet now in MIMEd - Musical Instrument Museum, Univesity of Edinburgh). No mention is made of the instruments in the programme itself. It is now believed that the concerto in G (?after Vivaldi) was originally written by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.