Musical &b Amicable Society performance supported by the Continuo Foundation
All Saints' Church, Culmstock EX153JD
19:30 - 21:15
£15, students £10, u12 free
Organiser: Blackdowns Early Music Projects / info@bemp.uk
https://blackdownsearlymusic.co.uk/concerts/
An evening of virtuosic music for three violins and continuo by Thomas Baltzar, Gottfried Finger, John Jenkins, Davis Mell, and Henry Purcell. Kate Fawcett violin Catherine Martin violin Anna Palmer violin Jonathan Rees bass viol and bass violin Lynda Sayce theorbo and guitar Martin Perkins harpsichord and organ At the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Charles I reappointed many of the court musicians who had served his father. Yet, years in exile in France had changed his own tastes and preferences and this influenced the reformed musical organisations and the music written for them. This period saw the decline in consorts of viols and winds, and the emergence of the violin as the instrument of choice. The arrival in England of German virtuoso violinist Thomas Baltzar had an undoubted impact on the direction of musical landscape and the flourishing of the unusual combination of three violins and continuo for court ensembles. His masterful Suite in C led to a small flourishing of works for the same forces, by Mattes, Finger, and (undoubtedly the crowning achievement of the genre) Purcell.