This evening I went to a concert at Holy Trinity Church, Rotherhithe, which might seem a long way to go, but in fact is a very easy journey - Central Line to Oxford Circus, change to the Victoria Line to Green Park, and then pick up the Jubilee Line to Canada Water, from where it is just a short bus-ride to the church.
Holy Trinity is a modern Church; the impressive original one, dating back to 1838, was bombed in 1940, the first church to be completely destroyed, and it was later rebuilt in the 1950s. It is not very big, although it is set is quite large grounds, and seems to have quite a lot going on.
I had come to listen to a concert of music by Henry Purcell and John Blow, sung by soprano Emily Atkinson and mezzo-soprano Cathy Bell, accompanied by musicians on harpsichord, organ, viola, violin and guitar.
The singing was wonderful; both girls have lovely voices and it is not difficult to find excellent pieces from the seventeenth century. The programme included a large number of short pieces by both composers, including "Sound the Trumpet", "If music be the Food of Love" and "Dido's Lament".
It wasn't a stuffy concert; although all the singers and musicians were very professional, there was a certain light-heartedness about it, although this didn't detract at all from the performance.
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