Tag: Fabio Zanon

Fabio Zanon, Wigmore Hall, Lunchtime Concert, 22 November 2013

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48EyPonZ82A

…and here is a YouTube of someone else playing a Peter Philips pavan on the lute…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvMNlzWAFwQ

..and here is a Julian Bream masterclass on that Britten Nocturnal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNZROHfP_k

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:

The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination, Brunei gallery, SOAS, 22 November 2013

Fabio Zanon At The Wigmore Hall, 18 June 1999

A lovely concert at “The Wig”.

Here’s the “playlist”:

  • El Decameron Negro by Leo Brouwer
  • Tarrantos by Leo Brouwer
  • Elogio de la Danza by Leo Brouwer
  • Fuga no 1 by Leo Brouwer
  • Pieza sin Titulo no3 by Leo Brouwer
  • Pieza sin Titulo no1 by Leo Brouwer
  • Encantamientos by Robert Keeley
  • Grand Sonata in A Major MS.3  by Niccolo Paganini
  • Six Sonatas, K404, K474, K60, K462, K394, K477 by Domenico Scarlatti
  • Aria con Variazioni “Le Frescobalda” by Girolamo Frescobaldi

In truth I was not familiar with the work of Leo Brouwer. Fabio Zanon is clearly a fan and has (far more recently) produced a helpful explainer video about the composer:

We were really taken with the young guitarist’s playing of Scarlatti sonatas transposed for guitar. Here is a video that shows him in the late 1990s playing three such pieces:

We were very taken with Friday evenings at The Wig in those days – it seemed a very relaxing way to round off a hard week. Writing 25 years later…still does.