Previous Recital – 3 December 2021

Lunchtime recital is on the 3rd December
Gina Kruger with Orpheus Leander Papafilippou.

Retiring Collection: There will be a plate inside the church for you to express your appreciation.

It was great to have Gina Kruger back with us in person (another very welcomed Zoom Recital performer last year!) and this time she brough the violinist Orpheus Papafilippou to play us violin Sonatas from Debussy and Brahms. It’s the first time we have had a solo violinist play in for us in a recital, and it was a real joy to watch and to listen.

They led off with Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, then Gina played us two short piano pieces – Reverie from Debussy to calm us down, and an Intermezzo from Brahms – before Orpheus returned to finish the recital with Brahms’s Sonata No.3 in D minor Op.108.

One of the pleasures of watching a live performance close up is to see the little signals between the performers, the watchful eye, the raised eyebrows, the fleeting smile. And a great flourish from both of them to finish!

We were pleased that Orpheus’s father and mother were with us on Zoom as was Tony Corfe in a Covid isolation hotel having just got back safely from Zambia.

A big thankyou to both Gina and Orpheus!