Monthly Archives: June 2005

a May week concert

A week ago, during a brief visit to Cambridge, we were able to go to Corpus’ May Week concert. For anyone there, we were the couple with the baby! Here I should thank Dan Soper, the senior Organ Scholar, and … Continue reading

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a week of Beethoven

Even Choral Evensong had to make way for this! Radio 3 has just come to the end of its week of Beethoven, which broadcast the composer’s entire works and nothing else. Turning on in the middle of the night, as … Continue reading

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two piano recitals

I attended two piano recitals during the Bath Festival. The first was Freddy Kempf playing Beethoven and Chopin in a programme consisting entirely of music I have known well for a long time. I wasn’t very happy with the performances, … Continue reading

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more MacMillan in Julian Road

The Bath Festival Chorus has re-formed this year, and on Monday I went to hear them with James MacMillan conducting music by himself and others. Inevitably I found myself comparing the account of the Canticos Sagrados with the Exultate Singers’ … Continue reading

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