{"id":1895,"date":"2014-08-21T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:11:05","slug":"tower-brass-at-holy-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"Tower Brass at Holy Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Holy Trinity Church, Hastings, 20 August 2014<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tower Brass may be an ad-hoc group of local professional brass players but they caused quite a stir at yesterday\u2019s lunchtime concert. From behind a screen at the far west end of the building they opened with a transcription of <i>Mr Valiant for Truth <\/i>from Vaughan-Williams\u2019 <i>Pilgrim\u2019s Progress <\/i>arranged for them by Roger Wilcock. This electrifying start led to a series of pieces spread around the building. Monteverdi\u2019s <i>Domine ad Adiuvandum<\/i> \u00a0&#8211; familiar as the opening sinfonia from <i>Orfeo-<\/i> came from east and west ends, Palestrina\u2019s <i>Jesu, Rex Admirabilis <\/i>from the south aisle and Pitoni\u2019s <i>Cantate Domino<\/i> from deep in the chancel. But of these roving performances perhaps the most thrilling was Gabrielli\u2019s <i>Sonata Piano\u2019e Forte<\/i> with its fine antiphonal and echo effects ringing round the church.<\/p>\n<p>Experimentation is always welcome even if it sometimes fails. An arrangement of Bach\u2019s D minor Toccata, normally an organ piece, was one such. Given that it was almost certainly written for solo violin its transmission to brass ensemble became somewhat ponderous. A pity for what followed returned us to the immediacy of the earlier works. An arrangement by Jim Alexander of Rheinberger\u2019s <i>Abendlied<\/i> using the soft voices of three flugelhorns was wonderful and segued effortlessly into a fine horn solo in <i>Jeanie with the light brown hair. El Gato Montes<\/i> brought us into the world of the bull-fight and demonstrated the fine articulation of the players.<\/p>\n<p>The concert ended with <i>The Saint\u2019s Hallelujah \u2013 <\/i>a combination of the <i>Alleluia Chorus <\/i>and <i>When the Saints Go Marching In \u2013<\/i> and a chance for all the players to show off their improvisatory and jazz skills.<\/p>\n<p>The highly enthusiastic welcome should hopefully ensure they are encouraged to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Trinity Church, Hastings, 20 August 2014 Tower Brass may be an ad-hoc group of local professional brass players but they caused quite a stir at yesterday\u2019s lunchtime concert. From behind a screen at the far west end of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=1895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}