{"id":9019,"date":"2013-01-17T23:11:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2013-01-17T23:11:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:11:53","slug":"concert-review-tafelmusik-teams-up-with-r-h-thomson-for-visit-to-late-baroque-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/01\/17\/concert-review-tafelmusik-teams-up-with-r-h-thomson-for-visit-to-late-baroque-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert review: Tafelmusik teams up with R.H. Thomson for visit to late-Baroque London"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9020\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9020\" alt=\"R.H. Thomson and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Trinity-St Paul's Centre on TRhursday night (John Terauds iPhone photo).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/london.jpg\" width=\"864\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/london.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/london-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R.H. Thomson and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Trinity-St Paul&#8217;s Centre on Thursday night (John Terauds iPhone photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tafelmusik and music director Jeanne Lamon are taking the themed concert programme one step further this week with the help of actor R.H. Thomson, inviting their audiences on a trip through mid-18th century London.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our guide is Thomson&#8217;s Richard Neale, a retired oboe player from the Orchestra of Her Majesty&#8217;s Theatre, Haymarket, who, with the help of his &#8220;spectral players,&#8221; a.k.a. Tafelmusik, survey the pan-European collection of composers and styles that comprised musical life in Britain&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The concert programme is a mix-and-match assortment that allows each section of the period-instrument orchestra to show off a bit &#8212; something everyone did very nicely at Trinity-St Paul&#8217;s Centre on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was a treat to have visiting flautist Gr\u00e9goire Jeay show off his nimble way with the wonderfully mellow sound of a Baroque transverse flute.<\/p>\n<p>The anchor composer in this programme is George Frideric Handel &#8212; himself a German import who came to represent the best of English Baroque music. France is represented in Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Italy in Francesco Geminiani, Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Pietro Castrucci and Giuseppe Sammartini.<\/p>\n<p>Germans Johann Ernst Galliard and Johann Joachim Quantz round out the list of European visitors who all offer variations on Baroque style &#8212; even if the date of the reminiscence, 1759, approaches the Classical borders of the Baroque era.<\/p>\n<p>Thomson&#8217;s script is good, mixing fact with whimsy, the serious with humour. The words never feel too long, nor does the insertion of Neale&#8217;s character strain the flow of the concert.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, this is a great variation on the standard concert format &#8212; one that is entertaining as well as educational. That&#8217;s a pretty significant accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>The programme continues to Sunday afternoon at Trinity-St Paul&#8217;s Centre, with an additional performance at George Weston Recital Hall on Tuesday. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tafelmusik.org\/concert-calendar\/concert\/baroque-london\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tafelmusik and music director Jeanne Lamon are taking the themed concert programme one step further this week with the help of actor R.H. 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