Lammermuir Festival / Iritziak
Erakundearen berrikuspenak
1Lammermuir festival’s artist-in-residence Jeremy Denk is a multi-faceted, intelligent pianist, equally at home playing solo Bach in recital, as he did over the weekend, or concertos with orchestra as he will demonstrate in the closing concert. This concert in the spacious surroundings of Dunbar parish church presented Denk in the guise of chamber musician performing Schubert’s Trout Quintet with an ensemble drawn from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Iraganeko Produkzioaren Iritziak
1Gladsmuir’s lovely 19th-Century Parish Church on the morning of 17th September saw the first of two concerts by the young French quartet Quatuor Agate at the Lammermuir Festival. In his prefatory remarks before the performance, Artistic Co-Director of the Lammermuir Festival James Waters drew attention to the church’s fine organ (promising to feature it in future Festival programming) and the building’s acoustic, purportedly ideal for string quartets. I can wholeheartedly concur, and the contrast with some other venues of the Festival was as pleasing as it was welcome. The programme consisted of three works: Haydn’s Op.20 No.2 in C, Webern’s Langsamer Satz and, after an interval, Brahms’ No.1 in C minor.
