A real treat of a day off, this one. Our first treat was this lunchtime concert at the Wigmore Hall.
We were most impressed with Fabio Zanon.
Click here for the Wigmore Hall programme for this concert.
It was Britten centenary day, so the centrepiece was Britten’s Dowland-inspired Nocturnal, although we did get some Peter Phillips to get a genuine Tudor feel and also some Bach and others to cruise us through the centuries.
Here is a YouTube of Zanon playing some Scarlatti…
…and here is a YouTube of someone else playing a Peter Philips pavan on the lute…
..and here is a Julian Bream masterclass on that Britten Nocturnal:
After lunch at The Wig, we went on to see an exhibition about Zoroastrianism at SOAS, but that’s a different story – click here or below: