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  • LMcD
    Full Member
    • Sep 2017
    • 8410

    I'm really enjoying this week's lunchtime concerts featuring performances from the 2018 Mozartfest in Bath, particularly the contributions from London Winds and Angela Hewitt.

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    • doversoul1
      Ex Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 7132

      Monday 31 December

      Thomas Dunford plays Dowland:

      Today Sarah Walker presents a recital of music by John Dowland, the greatest Elizabethan lutenist, who travelled widely throughout Europe and worked at the court of King Christian IV of Denmark. Dowland excelled at writing in the fashionable Elizabethan 'Melancholy' mode and today's performers have chosen works that Dowland wrote in Denmark in this mood.

      Including: The King of Denmark, his galliard; Flow my teares; Semper Dowland Semper Dolens; Mellancoly Galliard; Go cristall teares; Lachrimae


      Thomas Dunford (lute)
      Lea Desandre (mezzo soprano)

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      • LMcD
        Full Member
        • Sep 2017
        • 8410

        Quite staggering virtuosity and assurance from Mariam Batsashvili in today's Lunchtime Concert. It would perhaps have been interesting to hear her play just one less overtly bravura piece - something by Debussy perhaps - but this was still a very impressive recital indeed.

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        • Edgy 2
          Guest
          • Jan 2019
          • 2035

          Originally posted by LMcD View Post
          Quite staggering virtuosity and assurance from Mariam Batsashvili in today's Lunchtime Concert. It would perhaps have been interesting to hear her play just one less overtly bravura piece - something by Debussy perhaps - but this was still a very impressive recital indeed.
          Just listened to this,phenomenal playing.
          She’d be great in Alkan I reckon.
          “Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22115

            I caught today’s lunchtime concert, a recital by Leila Josefowitz and John Novacek - I really liked the P & V transcription of Mahler 5 - Adagietto.

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            • gradus
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5604

              Plenty of notes, almost all the right ones, in today's LC. I'd not heard of Sophie Pacini before but she stormed into my ears with her Chopin, Liszt and Schumann programme, of which I heard only the latter two. Anyone who programmes the Tannhauser transcription as the middle offering in a recital must have extraordinary stamina if they go on to play Carnival and she plainly has. Well worth catching for her playing of Eusebius and Chiarina in particular. The Saint Saens encore was lovely too.

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              • edashtav
                Full Member
                • Jul 2012
                • 3668

                Originally posted by gradus View Post
                Plenty of notes, almost all the right ones, in today's LC. I'd not heard of Sophie Pacini before but she stormed into my ears with her Chopin, Liszt and Schumann programme, of which I heard only the latter two. Anyone who programmes the Tannhauser transcription as the middle offering in a recital must have extraordinary stamina if they go on to play Carnival and she plainly has. Well worth catching for her playing of Eusebius and Chiarina in particular. The Saint Saens encore was lovely too.
                I'm with you but not all the way,gradus, as I thought some of her chording became a trifle "splashy" in the later movements of Carnival,but her runs remained limpid. The Saint-Saens was more relaxed and very effective.

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                • LMcD
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2017
                  • 8410

                  Some wonderfully expressive Mozart from the young Quatuor Arod in today's Lunchtime Concert. I kept trying to visualize their indigo jackets!

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                  • Padraig
                    Full Member
                    • Feb 2013
                    • 4226

                    Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                    Some wonderfully expressive Mozart from the young Quatuor Arod in today's Lunchtime Concert. I kept trying to visualize their indigo jackets!
                    Loved the music.
                    Can't help you with the jackets.

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8410

                      Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                      Loved the music.
                      Can't help you with the jackets.
                      It's OK, a quick search for 'Quatuor Arod images' did the trick!

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                      • doversoul1
                        Ex Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 7132

                        Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                        Some wonderfully expressive Mozart from the young Quatuor Arod in today's Lunchtime Concert. I kept trying to visualize their indigo jackets!
                        Wednesday
                        Now playing:
                        Leoš Janáček
                        Mládí
                        Belfiato Quintet

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                        • LMcD
                          Full Member
                          • Sep 2017
                          • 8410

                          Originally posted by doversoul1 View Post
                          Wednesday
                          Now playing:
                          Leoš Janáček
                          Mládí
                          Belfiato Quintet
                          https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rwc
                          Another enjoyable hour containing familiar and less well know works.

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                          • LMcD
                            Full Member
                            • Sep 2017
                            • 8410

                            More truly sensational pianistic brilliance from Mariam Batsashvili in today's Lunchtime Concert.

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                            • Alison
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 6455

                              Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                              More truly sensational pianistic brilliance from Mariam Batsashvili in today's Lunchtime Concert.
                              Indeed. The last piece does test my patience though!

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                              • Pianorak
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 3127

                                Originally posted by Alison View Post
                                . . . The last piece does test my patience though!
                                Indeed - too much of a good thing! My mind just switched off. Loved the Bach and Haydn.
                                My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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