Last weekend I went to Cardiff to see U2 live for the first time. It was a great show, showing off the new 'Claw' staging, with 360 degree runway and video display system. Wouldn't I like one of those to play with?! The music mostly came from the ...
For Martha's birthday we went to the Town Hall to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The high point was Boris Giltburg tackling Rachmaninov's glittering 2nd Piano Concerto - Martha's favourite piece of music. But we liked Tchaikovsky's Firs...
A real treat - Martha's favourite concerto and one of my favourite symphonies and at our favourite concert hall the same night. Wonderful playing from the CBSO under the baton of Xian Zhang. The concert started with Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, whi...
Went to a great concert yesterday with Tim and Ann, who are visiting for the weekend. Unusually, we sat on the Town Hall stage and watched the orchestra that was on the ground at the back of the hall, I guess because the BBC Philharmonic at fairly...
All 4 of us went to this concert recently, at Birmingham's great Symphony Hall. It included such classical 'pops' as Grieg Morning and In the Hall of the Mountain King, Strauss Radetzky March, Delibes Prelude and Mazurka from Coppélia, Elgar Nimro...