Monday 28 May 2007

Back home after a cold, wet English Bank Holiday weekend in Cornwall. Welcomed by Sandrine Piau singing Vivaldi and Handel. Perhaps my musical vision is tunnelling, but I now really feel at home in music composed between around 1705 and 1745. With Bach, Handel and Vivaldi there is a freshness, and a feeling of music flexing its muscles and bursting its bonds. Exiled to a desert island, I sense more and more that it is the vocal music of Bach and Handel that would be selected to accompany me.

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