The Corelli Ensemble are one of Britain’s leading baroque music groups, composed of experienced orchestral and chamber musicians. This fringe concert of well-known JS Bach violin concertos showed why they are so highly regarded but it was disappointing that fewer than a hundred people attended.
The concert would probably have had more prominent publicity as part of the main festival programme and, indeed, some people do not expect the Fringe to include this sort of event and would not bother to wade through the Fringe programme to discover it.
Nathaniel Anderson-Frank was the soloist in two violin concertos, in A minor (Bach catalogue no. BMV 1041) and E major (BMV 1042) with its brilliant finale set of variations, and he partnered Maeve Jenkinson in the famous Double Concerto in D minor (BMV 1043) with its beautifully lyrical slow movement.
Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, a young Canadian violinist with the Philharmonia Orchestra, added some wonderful embellishments to the solo violin parts; Maeve Jenkinson, a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, teaches in Sussex and is musical director of the Corelli Ensemble.
St Michael And All Angels in Victoria Road on Clifton Hill is a church which values music in worship and has public concerts all year round.
Its fine acoustic suit most types of music and was perfect in this case for the ensemble of five violins, viola, two cellos, double bass and harpsichord.
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