Columba Dromgoole-Cavazzi (violin) & Duncan Honeybourne (piano) Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, 25 January 2023 Spring came early to Weymouth with a fine performance of music by Beethoven, Debussy and Cecilia McDowall at the first concert of 2023 presented by Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts (of which I am concerts manager). Concert-goers escaping a cold, grey January […]
The final instalment in a series of essays exploring my personal independent study of Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata. This essay first appeared in The Schubertian, the journal of the Schubert Institute UK. O thrice romantic master, wouldn’t you like to stroll under the cherry blossom with your love in the daytime and listen to Schubert […]
Startling contrasts The dark arpeggiated sonorities at the close of the Andantino are transformed into the sparkling arpeggiated chords which open the Scherzo, and a sense of levity is portrayed through staccato articulation and a lyrical dance-like figure, which is further developed in the second section. The Scherzo serves several purposes in the overall scheme […]
Several things have happened since I started this series of articles about my learning and study of Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata. The first is that after a long period of reflection and time away from the piano following my disappointing Fellowship diploma result, I started playing the sonata again – and with a very different […]
The Cross-Eyed Pianist 