Actually I think it was just my husband who did so – he went to a recital at the Wigmore Hall by Bernanda Fink and her brother Marcos (accompanied by Anthony Spiri), singing a polyglot selection of songs. The novelty was some Slovenian songs which were pleasant enough but could have been written several decades earlier then they were, which was in about the 1930’s. ‘A sort of Slovenian Roger Quilter’.<\/p>\n
In July he went to a recital by Samara Ginsberg and Leo Nicholson at the Pump Room under the aegis of the Bath Recital Artists’ Trust, which also included some Piazzolla.<\/p>\n
In July others in the family also went to Prom 23 (my daughter’s first time in the Arena) and heard Daniel Harding with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra perform lots of music in C.\u00a0 Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music shaded without a break into Schumann’s Second Symphony, in an account which didn’t really make much of a case for it.\u00a0 In the second half Paul Lewis played Mozart’s K503 piano concerto and the concert ended with Sibelius 7.\u00a0 The Mozart concerto also seemed rather bland, but the Sibelius was better.<\/p>\n
In another family development, my elder son got a merit in Grade 1 trumpet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Actually I think it was just my husband who did so – he went to a recital at the Wigmore Hall by Bernanda Fink and her brother Marcos (accompanied by Anthony Spiri), singing a polyglot selection of songs. The novelty … Continue reading