Travel, Theatre, Music, Cricket, Tennis, Writing, Life
Even by our enthusiastic standards, three visits to the Wigmore Hall within three weeks is going some.
Xuefei Yang is a superb guitarist, though and this was a very interesting programme:
A real mixture of stuff.
We really liked all of it. And we really liked Xuefei Yang too.
This concert was a very relaxing end to (by the looks of it) a pretty full-on working week.
We were supposed to see someone else. Was it Paco Pena? Juan Martin? Yet another well-known guitarist?
Anyway, we weren’t supposed to see Tom Kerstens.
Had we known his relative quality, we’d have accepted the offer of our money back rather than persevered with a Sunday evening concert substitute. But we thought, heck, give the fellow a try. Oh dear.
Still, we’d had a corker of a month in the theatre and music department until this point. Here’s the programme (yes, really) – let’s draw a veil.
A lovely concert at “The Wig”.
Here’s the “playlist”:
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.
