Bach, Beethoven And Brahms; Kathryn Stott & Ensemble 360, Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield 15/5/23

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Bach The Art Of Fugue, Contrapunctus 14; Beethoven Septet; Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor

The programme for this afternoon concert was slightly re-arranged, so that the Bach was followed by the Brahms and with the Beethoven then in the 2nd half, Unfortunately, it was really the Brahms I had come to hear, and as I was off to Leipzig the following day, I am afraid I gave the Beethoven a miss and sloped off after the Brahms, during the interval.

The pianist was Kathryn Stott, who is a ‘guest artist’ of the Music in the Round chamber music festival of concerts this week, all of which except for this concert I shall miss. The Brahms was a very invigorating performance and it sounded to me very fine – it is a bit of a sensory over-kill when you are seated literally 4 feet from the piano, downstairs in the Crucible and so the music washed over me in a series of undulating crashing waves. I was never bored, but would find it difficult to be objective…………………….

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I'm a grandfather, parent, churchwarden, traveller, chair of governors and trustee!. I worked for an international cultural and development organisation for 39 years, and lived for extended periods of time in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Egypt and Ghana. I know a lot about (classical) music, but not as a practitioner, (particularly noisy late Romantics - Wagner, Mahler, Bruckner, Richard Strauss). I am well travelled and interested in different cultures and traditions. Apart from going to concerts and operas, I love reading, walking in the hills, theatre and wine-making. I'm also a practising Christian, though not of the fierce kind. And I'm into green issues and sustainability.

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