Martin Walker

So much music, so little time.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@LoveInner There’s a handful of later recordings of works he hadn’t previously done that seem to be filling gaps, and aren’t really that good. Then you have his Mahler 9.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@rowenamezzo @igorpianist All I can say after the Dante is ‘bloody hell’!

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@PatHerbert2 @TalkingPicsTV With music by Benjamin Britten!

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@1chriswebber @hugh_canning It was my wife’s first lunchtime concert at the Wigmore, I did have to tell her they are usually good, but not always that good.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@PaddyBriggs @hugh_canning I’ve seen a few - always makes an impact - tonight’s may have been the best.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@PetrocTrelawny The octet is a fabulous piece to listen to, but when you see the joy it is to play as with these groups, it doubles the enjoyment.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@LoveInner 5 yes, 7 less so.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@LoveInner Yep - got - looking forward to it - the SACDs should be awesome. This is peak Karajan so it will be interesting to hear core works in live format.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@ks_countertenor @hugh_canning @MarkValencia @jamesmeredithd1 @wigmore_hall It seems to bring the best out of artists performing there. I remember Rene Pape was just about to announce an encore - ‘this is…oh, you’ll know what it is’.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@hugh_canning Great performance last night - Gardner makes the complicated score sound easy.
Why so few people in the audience though?

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@LoveInner I was tempted - I had a few of these already - but i thought the last LSO Beethoven cycles would be superior.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@LoveInner I think this is the best of his early Bruckners - I remember this being a blazing interpretation!

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@operamagazine And considered a late 20th c masterpiece - missed the London production - liked the recording - can’t imagine it being performed now - which is a shame.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@AnnaBonitatibus Lovely concert! Rossini knew how much to write for some of those short songs - brevity is a mark of a great composer.

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@TalkingPicsTV Just read the book!

[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@TheCinesthetic Awesome

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[Martin Walker @mXwalker18]

@Kithurst_Close @ATRightMovies Vertigo comes close - but then Saul Bass had it made - Anatomy of a Murder comes to mind