by admin | Jul 30, 2019 | IFR, Portugal, Setubal
This was an event that, on paper, looked like a modest community Saturday morning song concert but then turned out to be a highly inventive and hugely moving piece of musical story-telling. Tough old blokes like me were choking back the tears at the end – not because of the drama but because of the extraordinary achievement of the performers…
by admin | Jul 25, 2019 | Bulgaria, IFR, Varna
The trouble with Paganini and the rest of the cohort of virtuoso violinist composers is that, after a while, a listener’s astonishment gland goes on strike. Having gone ‘wow!’ at the brilliance of the eleven and twelve year-olds, a couple of fifteen year-olds and one player of seventeen, as they rattle off Caprices as if they were tapping out a facebook message, it becomes hard to think sensibly about the music…
by admin | Jul 24, 2019 | IFR, Portugal, Setubal
There are sentences you never expect to write as a commentator and this is one of them; the young string players of the festival camerata, most of them still students, were directed from the carnyx. That’s how it was…