The first of four concerts – the return of Peter Sheppard Skaerved’s ‘Preludes & Vollenteries series.
In association with ‘The Friends of the City Churches’
Programme to include works by Biber, Baltsar, Purcell, Matteis
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Coreen Morsink – ‘Lockdown Sketches’
This will be a socially distanced concert and there is a cap of 30 places available.
Admission, payable on pre-booking £15 (£7 concessions)
To pre-book E mail ptrshpprdskrvd@aol.com
Further concerts:
Thursday June 24 – St Mary Aldemary
Friday July 9th – St Vedasts Foster Lane
Thursday July 22 – St Margaret Lothbury
‘Preludes & Vollenteries’ is to-date, a 30 – concert rolling series, inspired by, and performed in, Wren, Hawksmoor, Hooke, and Dance churches in London’s Square Mile. It explores solo works from the period marked out by these ‘City Churches’, including many anonymous works. In addition new work by Peter’s collaborators are featured in each concert, including premieres inspired by the series by Nicola LeFanu, Michael Hersch, and Hafliði Hallgrimsson (to name just a few). There have been spin-off concerts across the UK, Scandinavia, and the USA (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City), and linked research events at institutions including Peabody Conservatoire (Baltimore), Cambridge University Music Department Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (Tromsø), and the RNCM. The series is driven and inspired by both the stakeholders in the buildings and the audience/community which gathered around the concerts, always given as early evening salons.
Initial inspiration came from Walsh’s ‘Preludes & Voluntarys’ (1700), published and sold from his shop behind the Royal Exchange, in 1700. This is the most important collection of works for solo violin alone to appear in the UK, featuring works by London violinists and composers ranging from Nicola Matteis senior and Henry Purcell to major mainland-European figures who never visited the UK, such as Torelli, Biber, Corelli and Lonati.
The series also draws attention to the importance of lutherie in the Square Mile during the period, and its relationship to making in Italy and elsewhere. Instruments heard in the series include Richard Meares, Barak Norman, Jacob Rayman, the 1664 Charles II violin, Stradivari, Amati (Andrea, Girolamo, Nicolo), Maggini, to name just a few. These instruments come from a number of institutional and private collections in Europe and UK