Wednesday 15 August 2007

The Tiger Lillies arrangements are coming on: Martyn's songs are still growing on me even now, so I'm looking forward to next week very much. I also saw Keith Lewis on Monday just before his taxi came to take him to the airport (I cluttered up the foyer of the Sheraton hotel with my bike), and our plan for the first half of the concert to include some actual Monteverdi is shaping up just fine. 

I was back in Edinburgh this morning and watched some of Concerto Italiano's rehearsal, which was absolutely stunning. Individually and collectively, it sounded like music, it sounded like Monteverdi, and it expressed something. That'll do. And the two theorbo players were facing the singers rather than the audience, which given their function in the music, made perfect sense.