I had thought that we had heard them before, but search of blogs and blog archive fails to reveal anything, the search not being helped by confusion with the popular cheese of a similar name.
We started off well by marking down the trolleys noticed at reference 2. Then there was a Morrison's trolley at Cavendish Square, full of cardboard as I recall. Given that I know of no shop of that name in the vicinity, one wonders how it got there - and in any event, it will not be me who claims the capture. There was also an apprentice bag lady, with shopping trolley and bags, but a year or two short of maturity.
Warm enough to take our picnic in the square, so we were allowed back in the bar proper at Wigmore Hall. Flowers back up to their usual standard, with the white noticed at reference 2 having been cut with some red. Hall, unusually, only half full, a fact possibly connected with the tickets beings half the usual price - but they made up for numbers with enthusiasm at the end.
A violist with a slightly awkward presence, but he more than made up for this with his passion. He also seemed to have little need for his score, despite an occasional turning of the page. Being nosey, we puzzled about his origins, with an Irish name (Richard O’Neill), but of eastern appearance and said to be very popular in South Korea, while the various biogs. turned up today by Bing were unhelpful on this point. I vote for diplomatic or military father.
The Schubert was good, inter alia a reminder that we like trios. The Watkins' quintet was interesting and to my mind rather Shostakovich flavoured. A rather abrupt ending. We also got to see the composer on stage at the end, presumably the brother of the Paul Watkins on the cello, whom we have seen with the Emmerson Quartet and noticed in another capacity at reference 4. The Brahms was very good, as good as I recall hearing, and as with the companion piece, the clarinet quintet noticed at reference 5, lots of new bits. I might also say that I thought the team did very well in the quiet bits generally.
Two computers and two scores for the Watkins. Violinists swapped over for the Brahms. The page turner for the Brahms looked slightly uncomfortable perched on the edge of her chair and, not for the first time, I thought that this was not a job I would care for, even supposing that I was qualified. But I suppose that, for a student of music, the opportunity to watch a master at work at close quarters is not to be missed, uncomfortable or not.
Both the Watkins brothers made an appearance in the bar at the interval, together with their friends and supporters.
Journey home rather marred by a large man, perhaps in his late twenties or early thirties, chomping his way through twenty or thirty lumps of sushi between Oxford Circus and Vauxhall, popping them in whole. All rather unsightly. And then, the platform library at Raynes Park had been stocked up behind a locked door, with the locking being omething which has been getting more common of late.
Reference 1: https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/.
Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/trolley-142.html.
Reference 3: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/beethoven.html.
Reference 4: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/power-play.html.
Reference 5: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/st-lukes.html.
Reference 6: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/werther-not-goethe.html. It seems likely that we have heard the piano quintet since 2014, but this was the best that I could do this evening. Along the way discovering that I had heard Huw Williams doing the Elgar piano quintet at St. Luke's, a quintet of which I have no recollection at all. Perhaps YouTube will be able to stir up the memory bank.
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