RE: The piano duet recital at the Carice Elgar Recital Room on Thursday, March 29.
Pianists Duncan Honeybourne and Geoffrey Buckley, stepped into the breach at a month's notice as a result of the illness of one of the original performers. The highly unusual programme they performed was planned around the forces available at short notice and was, in the eyes of Elgar lovers and scholars of my acquaintance, hugely innovative and of enormous interest.
The overture, In the South, was a revelation and, for me, the performance conveyed more than the many times I have heard the full orchestral version. Probably because some conductors pull the music about and try to perform the work in a more Richard Strauss-like manner.
I was completely bowled over by the Second Symphony. I was taken along with the performance to the extent that I was sweating just sitting there. I know most of the audience, mainly members of the Elgar Society, and I know we were all taken along.
MR R BLEACH, Ravenswood Road, Bristol.
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