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’ […]
Review: Wonderful concert at Inverurie Town Hall given by Lana Trotovšek and Maria Canyigueral
This recital was given by Lana Trotovšek (violin) and Maria Canyigueral (piano) on Friday 4th March 2022 at Inverurie Town Hall. The first half of the concert consisted entirely of works by the Ukrainian born composer Sergei Prokofiev. The programme opened with his Sonata in D major for solo violin, opus 115. Written in 1947, […]