Cambridge - Part One
May. 30th, 2018 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitWe went for a long weekend in Cambridge, where, despite it being a bank holiday, and heavy rain and thunderstorms in other parts of the country we had a lovely sunny time.
SM had been talking about visiting Cambridge for some time, so when I saw Andreas Scholl was performing at the Saffron Hall in Saffron Waldron, I suggested we combine going to the concert with a few days break since it was half term.
Andreas School is a German counter-tenor, and this was the third time we'd heard him, and the best yet. We had seats in the middle of the second row, which was amazing. He was performing with the English Concert, in a programme of mainly Handel and Purcell. I do like English Baroque music so the concert was very enjoyable, especially Mark Bennett who was playing a period trumpet, which is rather like a coaching horn, curved round in the form of a trumpet but with the valves in the lower part of the tube rather than the upper.
Scholl was wonderful. I wasn't familiar with the pieces he sang - and can't find any Youtube versions to give justice to his live performance, but in particular 'What power art thou' from Purcell's King Arthur, which is like singing staccato was brilliant and had as much force as a good actor delivering a soliloquy. He also sang two duets with the trumpet Handel's 'Eternal Source of Light Divine' which was beautiful and finishing with Purcell's 'Sound the Trumpet'. The latter is usually a sung duet, but was incredible with voice and trumpet. When Scholl returned to sing his encore 'Ombra Mai Fu' it was just perfect.
SM had been talking about visiting Cambridge for some time, so when I saw Andreas Scholl was performing at the Saffron Hall in Saffron Waldron, I suggested we combine going to the concert with a few days break since it was half term.
Andreas School is a German counter-tenor, and this was the third time we'd heard him, and the best yet. We had seats in the middle of the second row, which was amazing. He was performing with the English Concert, in a programme of mainly Handel and Purcell. I do like English Baroque music so the concert was very enjoyable, especially Mark Bennett who was playing a period trumpet, which is rather like a coaching horn, curved round in the form of a trumpet but with the valves in the lower part of the tube rather than the upper.
Scholl was wonderful. I wasn't familiar with the pieces he sang - and can't find any Youtube versions to give justice to his live performance, but in particular 'What power art thou' from Purcell's King Arthur, which is like singing staccato was brilliant and had as much force as a good actor delivering a soliloquy. He also sang two duets with the trumpet Handel's 'Eternal Source of Light Divine' which was beautiful and finishing with Purcell's 'Sound the Trumpet'. The latter is usually a sung duet, but was incredible with voice and trumpet. When Scholl returned to sing his encore 'Ombra Mai Fu' it was just perfect.
