Trios

The love affair with trios continued last week with the Razumovsky Ensemble giving us one trio from Schubert (D.929) and another from Shostakovich (Op.67) - with this occasional trio doing a better job of ensemble playing that the people noticed at reference 2. From which we deduce that Oleg Kogan, who leads from the cello, knows his business.

The weather was summery enough to resume picnics in Cavendish Square with its handsome trees. We wondered about their roots, given the car park underneath, ending up thinking that the Westminster Council tree people must have got it right as the trees look healthy enough and the car park has been there some time, with Wikipedia telling me of an IRA(P) attack on it in 1992. The Morrison's trolley noticed before was still there, looking a little tired. Unfortunately my snap of same was spoiled by my getting my finger over the lens of my telephone.

Wigmore Hall maybe two thirds full, but the lack of faces did not put off the ensemble which did very well indeed. Inter alia, one really got a sense of being able to track all three parts, something I rarely get with a quartet. Maybe my working memory can only cope with three, the three-in-one, aka the Trinity.

Little trouble switching from Schubert to Shostakovich on this occasion; perhaps it helped there being an interval.

Made it to Vauxhall, through all the building works underneath the John Lewis canopy, with five minutes to spare, so no need to run up the final flight of stairs to platform 8.

Wound up the proceedings with crumpets with Marmite. Must be some months since I last had a go at the stuff, it being a bit like pork pies, something one gets a yen for from time to time. From where I associated to that very special occasion, perhaps near Warrington, when I was passed by a Marmite tanker thundering up some motorway or other. See reference 3.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/search?q=trios. Evidence of the love affair.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/06/trout.html.

Reference 3: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=marmite. See the third of the three posts turned up by this search for Warrington. More than a decade since I first mentioned it.

Reference 4: http://www.razumovsky.org.uk/.

Reference 5: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/07/razumovsky-ensemble.html. This being the only mention that the archive contains of any of the musicians involved here, from around two years ago. But we have been to at least once concert under this banner much more recently, just about a year ago - although had I been asked, I would have gone for a few months ago. More memory problems. Or are they archive problems?