Music at a....certain event

[Spitzflute]

This is pretty good- music gets a look in here...https://youtu.be/SKV6h_5XFbk

[french frank]

Hello, Spitzflute - for those who look askance at strange urls, have no fear of this one

This is pretty good- music gets a look in here...https://youtu.be/SKV6h_5XFbk

[jean]

As if poor Elin Manahan Thomas hadn't suffered enough on this thread already!

[Richard Tarleton]

Brilliant, surreal.

Oh, and welcome, Spitzflute!

[gurnemanz]

Thanks for filling me in on all this. I haven't yet brought myself to watch any wedding highlights - except for the above lipsynch. I may now not actually get around to it. As the wedding was taking place we happened to be driving past Windsor on the M4, listening to R3 Music Matters. We were on our way to a matinee show of Congreve's Way of the World at the Donmar, which includes a bravura performance as Lady Wishfort by Haydn Gwynne (Camilla in Channel 4's spoof, "The Windsors").

[Richard Tarleton]

a bravura performance as Lady Wishfort by Haydn Gwynne

A brilliant actress - I think I first spotted her in David Lodge's Nice Work, BBC2, 1989. Also hilarious in Drop the Dead Donkey, and a fine episode of Lewis, among much else -

[Pianorak]

a bravura performance as Lady Wishfort by Haydn Gwynne . . .

Haydn Gwynne - an exceptional and versatile actress. I remember her vividly in "City of Angels" with Roger Allam and the late Martin Smith at the Prince of Wales theatre in (1993?).

[greenilex]

Have only just seen the Bad Lipreading above.

Truly a work of genius.

Thank you.

[jean]

The other day, the Liverpool Phil phoned me about my subscription to next season's concerts.

They wanted to discuss a 'close-up' concert planned for the small Music Room, which they'd had to move into the main hall because it's already sold out, five months in advance.

The concert is this one:

Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello, Isata Kanneh-Mason piano

Boccherini: Cello Sonata No.6 in A major
Poulenc: Cello Sonata
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2

I know he was Young Musician of the Year in 2016, but would that have been enough by itself to arouse such interest?

[oddoneout]

I know he was Young Musician of the Year in 2016, but would that have been enough by itself to arouse such interest?

I think he, and the family name, have become a draw, beyond the 'usual' concert-going population. Isata attracted sponsorship from Elton John, a younger sister was in this year's Young Musician, and there was a documentary about the family last year which, added to all the attention given to Sheku himself is likely drawing on a wider audience than would be the case for other chamber music performers.