Tag Archives: Bath Assembly Rooms

Bath Festival 2013: Berlioz at the Forum

Posted on July 1, 2013 by vhk10

I went to only one Bath Festival concert this year because most of the other interesting ones were around the first weekend of the Festival when I was away or busy. There were certainly some other concerts I’d have gone … Continue reading →

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Mozartfest 2012 (2): Alisdair Beatson and the Jerusalem Quartet

Posted on December 12, 2012 by vhk10

I went to two more concerts in the Mozartfest. Firstly Alisdair Beatson played a song-inspired programme in the Guildhall. The centrepiece was Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy. I’m not sure I’d ever heard this live before. It was played with great vigour … Continue reading →

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The Art of Fugue on a Fazioli

Posted on December 8, 2012 by vhk10

We went to hear Angela Hewitt make one of her fairly frequent visits to Bath to give a recital in the Mozartfest. Last time I went she moved some distance from her usual stomping ground of Bach; this time she … Continue reading →

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The sword of Damocles

Posted on June 12, 2012 by vhk10

I missed most of the Bath Festival this year, but caught towards the end the Belcea Quartet’s Beethoven programme at the Assembly Rooms. After hearing an efficient performance of the fifth of the ‘Haydn’ quartets, I managed to track down … Continue reading →

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an invited audience

Posted on March 28, 2012 by vhk10

QCX8F7BA4GBJ EE5BNTGVNBT6 I attended a concert which was broadcast live as part of the BBC’s mammoth Schubertiad, Elisabeth Leonskaja playing the last two piano sonatas, D959 and D960, in the Assembly Rooms. The audience was not very large, and I … Continue reading →

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Bath MusicFest 2011

Posted on June 30, 2011 by vhk10

The Festival is shorter now and largely coincided with half-term, so there was less opportunity to go to concerts, but we managed two. Some in the family went to hear the Scholtes and Janssens Piano Duo perform in the Assembly … Continue reading →

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Mozartfest 2010: two chamber music concerts

Posted on November 21, 2010 by vhk10

There was the usual attractive programme for the 2010 Bath Mozartfest, and between us we went to three concerts. First up was the Belcea Quartet with Julian Rachlin on viola, for which we bought what must have been the last … Continue reading →

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Bath Mozartfest 2009

Posted on November 21, 2009 by vhk10

Between us we attended four concerts at this year’s Bath Mozartfest. There were quite a few others we might have gone to, including Mozart’s Requiem in Bath Abbey, which some people I know were singing in and which caused me … Continue reading →

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my Assembly Rooms fantasy

Posted on May 26, 2009 by vhk10

I can’t go to a concert in Bath’s Assembly Rooms without imagining what it would be like to swing on one of the large chandeliers that hang in the middle of the room. How heavy would you have to be … Continue reading →

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What’s a lady like me doing in a joint like this?

Posted on December 4, 2007 by vhk10

So asked Felicity Lott at the end of the recital in Bath’s Guildhall. I bet she saves that particular encore for all the plushest, most chandelier-laden venues. Many of the songs in her programme of Mozart, Strauss, Barber and Poulenc … Continue reading →

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