Tag: Victoria & Albert Museum

Art Nouveau 1890-1914, Victoria & Albert Museum, 24 July 2000

crowded!

That’s all he wrote, folks.

Janie and I concluded our culture vulture odyssey day (we had already visited the British Museum & the Tate Modern)…at the V&A.

It was clearly a well received show, if the following “review of reviews” from The Guardian is anything to go by:

Art Nouveau Guardian Review of Reviews

Article from 14 Apr 2000 The Guardian (London, Greater London, England)

That might explain why it was crowded.

BBC Proms Lunchtime Concert, Victoria & Albert Museum, 17 August 1998

Victoria & Albert Museum by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0

We took a Monday off work to enjoy a lunchtime concert at the V&A, then meander around that space and then go to the evening Prom at the Royal Albert hall.

This was the lunchtime concert:

  • Francesco Gasparini – Quanto sei penosa
  • Arcangelo Corelli – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op 1 No. 9 in G major
  • Innocenzo Fede – Bellezze voi siete
  • Innocenzo Fede – Sei pur dolce
  • Innocenzo Fede – Violin Sonata in D minor
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – Correa nel seno amato

London Baroque was the chamber orchestra, with Charles Medlam leading and Catherine Bott beautifully belting the soprano bits.

Nice. Here is a link to the BBC stub for this concert.

To be clear we really enjoyed the concert and indeed our whole day.