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2nd Festival Baroque concert, Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich, 21/7/25

Violin, Verena-Maria Fitz,Clara Scholtes; Viola, Johanna Maurer; Cello, Allan Bergius; Zinc (which I think means cornet – presumably a high Bach trumpet), Gebhard David;  Conductor and organ; Stefan Steinemann; Augsburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir  I was to be off from Berlin at 1028 am, allegedly, on a train to Munich, though in fact it didn’t arriveContinue reading “2nd Festival Baroque concert, Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich, 21/7/25”

Handel Messiah. Westminster Abbey 26/11/24

Choir of Westminster Abbey, Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Nethsingha, conductor; Anna Dennis, soprano; Tristram Cooke, countertenor; Simon Wall, tenor; Jonathan Brown, bass. Going to this event was a matter of happenstance. I had hoped to be going to the L’Elisir D’Amore production at ENO but had wrongly written down the date of the showContinue reading “Handel Messiah. Westminster Abbey 26/11/24”

MITR – Consone Quartet, Mendelssohn. St Matthew’s, Carver St, Sheffield. 26/10/24

Mendelssohn:    String Quartet in E flat (1823);  Scherzo from Four Pieces Op.81;  String Quartet in E minor Op.44 No.2   plus to follow Mendelssohn Roundtable, with Consone Quartet & Laura Tunbridge The blurb of the Consone Quartet’s web site says that they are the ‘first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New GenerationContinue reading “MITR – Consone Quartet, Mendelssohn. St Matthew’s, Carver St, Sheffield. 26/10/24”