Thursday 22 December 2005

If you missed us on the radio last night you can listen again here for a week (click on the Radio 3 Radio Player link) - we're in A Bach Christmas 43 with Fiona Talkington, starting about 27 minutes in. Listening on the radio, the concerto was more successful than I thought after all: there's plenty of music in there, and James plays really beautifully.

The 'upstaging bastard' award of 2005 goes to Alan Emslie for coming on at the end of last night's performance of Messiah and blowing everyone away with some spectacularly appropriate timpani playing in the last 14 bars of the piece - stunning.