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The Codrington Library at All Souls has the best acoustics in Oxford: a fact which has not escaped the attention of the administration of the English Bach festival, for the last 16 years promoters of the best music in Oxford. Yesterday afternoon, Lina Lalandi, the festival's leading lady and brilliant impresario, and Julian Lloyd Webber gave a recital of Bach's solo Suites for Harpsichord and unaccompanied cello (respectively). Intimate chamber works of this type tend to be overshadowed by events involving large numbers of performers. This, then, was a concert for the connoisseur.Suffuce it to say that in its technical acumen and innate musicality, Julian Lloyd Webber's account of the first two cello Suites was as sensational as anything the reviewer can recall since the start of the festival. |