Got on rather better than on the previous occasion (reference 2), perhaps because the vegetarian lunch we had taken weighed us down less than whatever it was we had had previously. There was some blood supply left over to service the head, after attending to the demands of the bowels.
Haydn F minor, Op.20 No.5, as good as we have come to expect of him. Perhaps we have finally got what the Endellions told us, in the course of another concert at Dorking, some years ago now, about Hadyn being the first master of the string quartet. The place where it all began. He might have knocked out a lot of stuff, but he maintained a good standard, certainly in this department.
The first time that I had ever heard the Ravel String Quartet, although BH was familiar, probably from the radio. Considering it was both French and modern, I got on very well with it, as did BH - but then she has long inclined more to the modern than myself. Not sure how well it would wear though, depending so much as it does on texture and colour.
Tchaikovsky No.2 was good in parts. The middle sections were good but I found myself floundering a bit in the first and fourth movements, where the music did not seem to be going anywhere.
The cello paid more attention to his posture than last time, not appearing to be bored at all. Much better.
Puzzled on the way home by what appeared to be black cows on the steep approach slopes to Box Hill, above Rykers. We have not been on these slopes for a while, but last time we were, the grass was in a very sorry condition, presumably the result of far too many walkers. The thin grass on the thin soil over the chalk just couldn't take it. And I would not have thought that it could take cows either - most unsuitable animals for such a place, far too heavy on their feet and far too heavy with their eating action. Have the trusties who look after the Hill fallen prey to the same mad cow disease which has afflicted the Epsom Common trusties? Don't they know about how cows are an important driver of global warming?
Further puzzled by a copse on the left just before the roundabout where one turns right over the M25, a copse in which almost all the trees - tall spindly things - appeared to be infested with ivy. Not just the trees on the edge of the copse where the extra light seems to encourage the stuff. What was wrong with this copse to have ivy all the way through? Possibly gmaps 51.297177, -0.316315.
Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/heath-quartet.html.
Reference 2: Ravel to be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVVONYkivM.
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