Pizza Baroque
Earls Court, February 13, 1994
Recorders
Helen Hooker
Victoria Rees
Michelene Wandor
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
1. Sonata in B flat major (Op 7, No 5)
(c. 1691-1755) Allemande – Legerement – Lentement – Gigue
Johann Mattheson (1681-1764)
2. Sonata in g minor (Op 1, No 3)
Prelude – Allegro – Chaconne
Karl Friedrich Weidemann (d. 1792)
3. Sonata in F major (Op 3, No 3)
Spiritoso – Allabreve – Affetuoso – Presto
Boismortier
4. Sonata in d minor (Op 7, No 2)
Moderement – Rondeau – Lentement – Gigue
Mattheson
5. Sonata in c minor (Op 1, No 4)
Adagio – Fugue – Menuet
Johann Scherer (fl. 1740)
6. Sonata in F major (Op 1, No 2)
Allegro – Adagio – Allegro – Menuet
This recording was one of a number of concerts we gave as Pizza Baroque. We had all graduated from Trinity College of Music (me rather more ‘mature’ – ie, older – than the other two). The Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London no longer exists, and none of us can remember the exhibition for which we played this!
The music has been digitised from its original cassette and polished by Simon Weir, of the Classical Recording Company. Because it was a live performance, surrounded by activity, the frequencies, and the pitches, vary somewhat. And yet we have all found it very listenable-to, notwithstanding the mists of our various nostalgias. This is repertoire which is rarely recorded and so deserves a hearing in its own right. Hope you agree. Michelene Wandor