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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Sunday, December 23, 2007

As the end of 2007 rapidly approaches, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Geert Allegaert for his invaluable help in setting up this website for me.  My thanks also to you for taking the time to visit. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas with much jollity, a fair amount of silliness and lots of good things to eat [...]

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Can You Help?

Monday, December 10, 2007

I am looking for a venue in Brussels in which to perform my latest programme : Poetry in Music. Ideally, the concert would take place in February or March 2008. If you know of a small concert hall with an intimate atmosphere (seating-capacity of about 150 people), a good acoustic and a decent piano, please post [...]

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Chamber Music on Period Instruments

Saturday, December 8, 2007

On Monday I heard the Flemish cellist Roel Dieltiens playing Brahms and Schubert with his chamber music group Ensemble Explorations.  The two works featured were Brahms’ second sextet Op. 36 and Schubert’s string quintet in C.  The musicians played on ‘original’ instruments – that meant, for example, gut strings, and no spikes for the cellos.  The resulting sound, [...]

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