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Coffee Concert 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Other reviews

 

The curtains are open and the stage, lit and ready, containing just a solitary black piano stool. An oddity in any other situation. Apiece of furniture left behind? Forlorn-looking? Or dignified? Is a piano about to join it?

Or have we come on the wrong day? Not a concert at all but Continue reading Coffee Concert 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Other reviews

9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Programme notes by Andrew Polmear and Chris Darwin

Bach’s  Suites for Unaccompanied Cello

There are few works of classical music that inspire the awe that cellists feel for the Bach Suites. They start to play them within a year or two of taking up the instrument and, if hands and minds hold out, they are still working on the same pieces 60 years later.

We know very little of the background to the Suites. They were written in about 1720 when Bach was Continue reading 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Programme notes by Andrew Polmear and Chris Darwin

Coffee Concert 18th November 2018 – Jacquin Trio – Review by Andrew Polmear

A lovely brisk day, sunlight filling ACCA’s café, an engaging brief talk by Jessie Grimes: everything augured well for this concert by the Jacquin Trio. Yet I found myself slightly thrown for a moment or two. It was partly that Schumann opens his Märchenerzählungen with quirky little Continue reading Coffee Concert 18th November 2018 – Jacquin Trio – Review by Andrew Polmear