I went to hear the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trio in the Guildhall. This concert made me realise that with some famous exceptions my knowledge of the piano trio repertoire is very limited and there is lots of wonderful stuff that is unfamiliar. The trios we heard were Mozart’s K502, Mendelssohn’s Op.66 and Brahms’ Op.87. I felt the Mendelssohn came off best of the three.
My husband went to two other concerts: firstly, Stephen Kovacevich playing Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert which was certainly one of the highlights of the Mozartfest this year. To our knowledge he hadn’t performed in Bath in the last decade at least.
On Thursday the Lott/Murray recital was replaced by Ian Bostridge singing Die Schöne Müllerin. My husband took a party of mathematicians, none of whom seemed to have any cause for complaint about the substitution!
I get a bit more Mozart this weekend as there are a couple of pieces by him in a concert I’m singing in. Perhaps one day the Bath Festival Chorus will be used in the Mozartfest again.