{"id":7165,"date":"2023-08-08T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2023-08-08T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:20:17","slug":"hastings-all-saints-organ-series-robert-quinney-7th-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=7165","title":{"rendered":"HASTINGS ALL SAINTS ORGAN SERIES \u2013 ROBERT QUINNEY \u2013 7th August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-variant-caps: normal;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.new.ox.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large_navigation\/public\/2017-11\/New_College_Portraits_by_John_Cairns_18.10.17-231.jpg?itok=ZD2BbfnO\" alt=\"Robert Quinney\" width=\"655\" height=\"435\" \/>Robert Quinney, based now at New College, Oxford, has a well-deserved reputation, alongside his excellent choral directing, as an expert performer of the organ music of J S Bach. He has produced a number of fine recordings and I know that several of us in the audience were particularly looking forward to hearing the two pieces of Bach in this programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the well-known<em> \u2018Dorian\u2019 Toccata and Fugue in D minor<\/em> (not the other, more famous one) the evening got off to a very good start. Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the influential English composer William Byrd we heard his <em>Ut re mi fa sol la<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 a freely composed piece based around the major scale. Three <em>Dances<\/em> from a Set of Five by the twentieth century English composer John Gardner, were delightful \u2013 rhythmic, melodic and at, times, surprising \u2013 I was really pleased to be introduced to these pieces. The simple but lovely <em>Prelude in E flat<\/em> by William Harris followed and the first half closed with three well-known movements from Handel\u2019s <em>Water Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The second work by JS Bach opened the second half. The <em>fifth<\/em> of the set of six <em>Trio sonatas<\/em>, this piece really demands completely independent control of the two hands and feet to weave a complex texture, registered to allow the different lines to be easily heard. Robert Quinney\u2019s performance of Frank Bridge\u2019s <em>Adagio in E<\/em> brilliantly demonstrated the ability of an organ such as this to create an enormous swell of sound from almost nothing and then back to where it began, in the 19th\/20th Anglican cathedral tradition of music suitable to set the scene before worship. The evening ended with a complete contrast to this \u2013 Victorian jollity in the form of Stainer\u2019s <em>Jubilant March<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A most enjoyable and varied evening of music from an experienced performer who was last here twenty years ago!<\/p>\n<p>Next concert \u2013 14th August Margaret Phillips, concert organist.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Quinney, based now at New College, Oxford, has a well-deserved reputation, alongside his excellent choral directing, as an expert performer of the organ music of J S Bach. He has produced a number of fine recordings and I know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=7165\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165"}],"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=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7169,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/7169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}