
: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , February 13, 2010 Robin Blaze in Bach To the Wigmore Hall , again , on Wednesday to see the Retrospect Ensemble , again , but this time in Bach . The programme consisted of two cantatas for alto solo with Robin Blaze , plus orchestral movements from other cantatas . Given that Bach only wrote 3 cantatas for alto solo alone , it was a shame that we could not hear all . three The ensemble consisted of 5 strings , 3 oboists playing a variety of oboi and bassoon . The continuo was played on a large chamber organ by director Matthew Halls . A big feature of the alto cantatas and the other instrumental movements played was that they featured a major organ part rather than just continuo . Matthew Halls , in his spoken introduction in part 2, pointed out that the organ was all wrong . Bach wrote his cantatas for his church in Leipzig and he would have played the bravura organ part on the large organ there . In