Robert Plant’s Saving Grace ft. Suzi Dian in Carre yesterday evening.
His voice is still amazingly good considering he’s 76, and harmonises beautifully with Suzi Dian’s.
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Solomon’s Knot, a baroque orchestra, performing 2 of Bach’s funeral pieces at the Wigmore Hall last night. Excellent as usual
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Steven Wilson @ The Symphon Hall Birmingham
This is the only picture, for the obvious reason 
It was an amazing gig though😊
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Kate Rusby at the Union Chapel last night. She is funny between songs and has a great voice. However, this is folk music with all the rough edges sanded off and no hints of darkness so that in the end it resembles twee pop. Mrs Duck and I snuck off at the interval to get red wine and chocolate 
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I was there also. As you say a cracking gig. Really enjoyed it.
She has been a favourite of mine for about 20 years, but her recent offerings are, as you say ‘twee pop’. Her latest album, which was released a couple of weeks ago, fits that description well.
Her early albums, such as Underneath the Stars, Sleepless and Awkward Annie, are folk rather than pop and have much more appeal to me. I have seen her live on numerous occasions and she is certainly a great entertainer, but I don’t think her voice is as strong as it used to be.
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China Crisis last Friday in Cadogan Hall, Chelsea, brilliant live band.
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Booked for Stuttgart Germany, cant wait
Martin
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Where is that? Doesn’t anyone get this the WWW with 120 plus countries?
Martin
You’ve asked that question before and were told the answer. Google it if you’ve forgotten
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Skipinnish at the Lowry in Salford , great little theatre and as always a fantastic lively performance from this Scottish band.
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Last Friday I had Lukas Sternath on piano with Andrew Manze conducting the Bamberger Symphoniker.
The opening was a surprising piece of Tobias Brostrom Transit Underground…., will explore the composer a bit further.
Then we had Grieg Piano Concerto and Sibelius 5th Symphony. I had never before heard of Lukas before this season but saw him now a 2nd time and in both occasions I liked his playing. Sibelius was ok, but nothing extraordinary….
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Mahler Plays Mahler
As a part of the Mahlerfest in Amsterdam, Rejiksmuseum curated a 1906 Walter Mignon self playing machine attached to a 1917 Steinway.
Fascinating listening as I was curious to find out how he played. It sounded way better than other player piano I have heard in the past. Unfortunately tho the pedal stopped working by the time we got to the last tune ( a piano reduction of Symphony No.5 1st movement ) so it sounded rather choppy. It was very good otherwise. Astonishing that this crude machine was able to produce a half decent piano playing.
I’ve never seen a player piano attached to a real piano. Per Wiki: “It automatically replayed the tempo, phrasing, dynamics and pedalling of a particular performance, and not just the notes of the music, as was the case with other player pianos of the time.”
Here is the piano roll signed by Mahler. Looks like he made this recording on June 9 1905.
This was the poster from the last Mahlerfest back in 1920.
Mengelberg was a huge proponent of Mahler back then. His widespread popularity was not realised in the US till Bernstein started to play and record in the 60s. ( even tho several of my friends still do not care much for Mahler’s music )
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Nduduzu Makhathini Trio at Ronnie Scott’s. Beautiful South African jazz. It was like an old movie set in a jazz club in some parts as Nduduzu invited friends from the audience to join the band on stage. His friends included Shabaka Hutchings and a fabulous South African singer whose name I didn’t catch. I went along to this one on a bit of a whim but was completely blown away. Unfortunately the photo is terrible as they’re actually not allowed!
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He really really really doesn’t want his photo taken. Obviously important to him.
Yeah, there has been a bit of flaming of folks posting pictures and videos on the Facebook fan page. Concert reviews are great. Sadly, it doesn’t look like he is coming to New Zealand after his Australian gigs.
Signalling she has three tickets for sale?
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Think it’s a gang thing, Stevie 
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