With her striking long, tightly curled hair cascading down her back, one might have expected pianist Ida Pelliccioli to specialise in dramatic, ostentatious repertoire that gave plenty of opportunity for her hair to provide a theatrical accompaniment to the music being performed. However, on an intimate night at the Acorn Centre in Inverurie, we were […]
Review: JKL Duo – Inverurie Music and NESCGS – Sunday May 22nd 2022 at St Andrew’s Church Inverurie
JKL Duo (Jacopo Lazzaretti – classical guitar and Kerry Lynch – flute) are become regular features at IM. They played at one of the last concerts before the world changed at the start of 2020. So, it was a treat have them play for us again. These Sunday pop-up concerts have been a popular addition […]
Review: Pelléas Ensemble; Acorn Centre, Inverurie, 22 April 2022
‘I think we might have played this piece over 150 times…it is such a gift for this ensemble’, so said flautist Henry Roberts of the Pelléas Ensemble in relation to Claude Debussy’s seminal work, the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp of 1915 which provided the backbone and undoubted highlight of this wonderful concert at […]
Review: Christopher Baxter; Inverurie Town Hall, 26 March 2022; King’s College Chapel, 27 March 2022
‘…le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d’une occupation inutile’ wrote Maurice Ravel at the head of his manuscript to one of his most enduring piano works, Valses nobles et sentimentales in 1911. These are the words of the symbolist poet Henri de Régnier and this description of the ‘delicious and forever-new pleasure of a useless occupation’ […]