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Svyat! Svyat! Svyat!

Posted on March 5, 2011 by vhk10

Singing familiar texts in an unfamiliar language can make them feel altogether different. I know very little Russian, so there was a lot of grappling with the Old Church Slavonic texts of Rachmaninov’s Vespers (strictly the ‘All-Night Vigil’), which I … Continue reading →

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Chopin concertos

Posted on September 27, 2010 by vhk10

Last Thursday I went to the last of the Bath Phil’s ‘Summer Classics’ season at Bath Abbey. The programme had been changed (as with the last Bath Phil concert I went to) with Lutoslawski and Gorecki disappearing in favour of … Continue reading →

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Brass in the Abbey

Posted on October 5, 2009 by vhk10

I went to hear the Bath Philharmonia (like the Festival, it’s gone in for abbreviating itself, as BathPhil) in the final concert of their summer series, in Bath Abbey. We lost the programmed Borodin overture, so the first half consisted … Continue reading →

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Four hands (Mozartfest 2)

Posted on November 23, 2004 by vhk10

On Sunday night I attended the final concert of the Mozartfest, Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe playing piano duets. When I learnt the piano at school I played my way through some of this repertoire with my teacher, including such … Continue reading →

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