Well, thank you one and all!
It's been a busy day for the Dough, so this is the first chance I've had to log on. Have just returned from the RSNO concert in Dundee - R Strauss
Don Juan, Tchaik
Violin Concerto, Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi and
La Mer. The extraordinarily accomplished soloist was Hilary Hahn. How a tiny slip of a thing like that has the strength to produce that huge lustrous tone I just don't know, especially when she can turn it on a sixpence to the silkiest of harmonics: I could describe the whole concert and lard it with superlatives (save for some occasionally sour horns), but fortunately it's been recorded for R3 , tx date 11th February, presumably Po3, possibly AP, so you should have a chance to judge for yourselves. This was the trial for the short European tour
http://www.rsno.org.uk/cms/content/view/311/229/so maybe one or two of you might even catch them personally. A couple of encores too, solo Bach
Sarabande from HH, and a finale fizzing L'Arlésienne Farandole from the band under Stéphane Denève, who looks more like a Hoffnung cartoon each time I see him. Bless!