{"id":5538,"date":"2019-09-23T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T10:37:48","slug":"sussex-concert-orchestra-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5538","title":{"rendered":"Sussex Concert Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>St Peter\u2019s Church, Bexhill, 22nd September 2019<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sussex Concert Orchestra presented a matinee of Baroque works at St Peter\u2019s under their regular conductor Kenneth Roberts. Opening with William Boyce\u2019s early First Symphony they moved rapidly on to Handel\u2019s Organ Concerto in F major more familiarly known as the <em>Cuckoo and the Nightingale. <\/em>Organist Anthony Wilson provided clean high registration for the <em>Allegro<\/em> with its bird song, and a more profound tone for the melancholic central fugue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ken-Roberts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ken-Roberts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The orchestra was then joined by Hastings Bach Choir for two brief but effective movements from Bach cantatas before the afternoon concluded with Bach\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Brandenburg Concerto. This proved to be the highlight of the day with its fine balance of solo instruments and superb playing from Andy Gill\u2019s high, bright piccolo trumpet and the warmth of Thomas Pickering\u2019s recorder.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Peter\u2019s Church, Bexhill, 22nd September 2019 Sussex Concert Orchestra presented a matinee of Baroque works at St Peter\u2019s under their regular conductor Kenneth Roberts. Opening with William Boyce\u2019s early First Symphony they moved rapidly on to Handel\u2019s Organ Concerto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5538\">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\/5538"}],"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=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5541,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}