Author: Ian Louis Harris

Actually Julian Bream had to drop out of this concert at the last minute, so we got everyone else, but not him. We also got all the other pieces, but not the Bach Cello suite on the guitar.

I made no note about a replacement piece, so I suspect we had a shortened concert. This is what we heard:

• Thomas Tallis – Loquebantur
• John Taverner – Quemadmodum
• William Byrd – Tribue, Domine 
• Fryderyk Chopin – Ballade No 1 in G minor, op 23
• Johannes Brahms – Intermezzo in A major, op 118 no 2 –
• Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner – Isoldens Liebestod
• Leos Janacek – String Quartet no 2

My only other log note is that we bumped into James Davidson, who was (or probably by then, had been) the Director of Finance at Cancer Research Campaign, one of my earliest Z/Yen clients in the mid 1990s. He lived nearby in Notting Hill Gate and used to address me (in the street or at CRC) as “Lord Harris”, because he said my fee rates were so high. When we asked him for a testimonial to put on our spanking new Z/Yen website, he said:

expensive, but worth it…

…which we thought at the time was as good as it gets.

I suspect that this Tuesday night charity concert was expensive but worth it too.

Sadly, Julian Bream never recorded his live party piece of playing the BWV1012 Cello Suite on the guitar, but here’s a recording of a fine guitarist, Paulo Martelli, who has recorded his playing of part of it live:

So there’s the stuff we didn’t see or hear.

Here’s a recording of the Tallis Scholars singing Loquebantur, which is wonderful:

Here’s the Gesualdo Six singing Taverner’s Quemadmodum

Back to The Tallis Scholars, as there is a vid of them singing The Byrd:

PHILLIPS: Hey, are you looking at my Byrd?

There’s not a lot of Martin Roscoe to be found on-line – but here is Krystian Zimerman playing the Chopin:

I don’t suppose the Janáček string quartet much pleased us. Here’s the Amphion String Quartet doing their level best with it:

The things we do for charity.