F.Biondi and P. McCreesh on R3 Live

**aeolium** · 06-05-13, 12:55

As ff has speculated, if the reduced budget means an increase in chamber concerts, I’ll say it is a very good thing.

Agreed

- and long overdue (the increase, I mean, not the reduced budget).

One opportunity is the proliferation of summer festival concerts both here and on the continent, many of which are of chamber music.

**doversoul1** · 07-05-13, 14:46

Tonight at 7.30.
Not the most exciting looking programme for Fabio Biondi, but I am looking forward to hearing this:

a rarity by Gaetano Pugnani, the 18th-century violin prodigy who studied with Giuseppe Tartini, himself taught Giovanni Battista Viotti, and who unknowingly gave his name to the pastiche compositions passed off by a notable virtuoso violinist of our own times - Fritz Kreisler.

**doversoul1** · 08-05-13, 19:36

Nice and pleasant but I don’t think we’ll see a great revival of Pugnani. However, Haydn’s Violin Concerto was most enjoyable, although it was very much more Fabio Biondi than Haydn (or what I am used to as Haydn’s music) but I don’t think Haydn would have minded. Worth catching up if you like this sort of thing (both the music and the performance)