A few weeks ago, I dropped in on the Tartini ensemble during a rehearsal in St Mary’s church, Penzance. They were preparing for a concert of music by Dietrich Buxtehude and Jan Adam Reincken. And a very interesting and exciting concert it turned out to be: music by two composers whose work is heard less often than it deserves to be, with brilliant performances on period instruments by the ensemble.
Here’s a photograph taken during the rehearsal.
It was also the first outing for the baroque violin that I wrote about a couple of posts ago. After the rehearsal, Pamela Rosenfeld played this adagio by Tartini on it, accompanied by Nigel Wicken on a chamber organ.
Finely Strung 