Bunty and I took to the Town House last night for an absolutely superb concert given by a young Russian married couple pianist Oxana Shevchenko and her husband, violinist Alexei Osipov. An extremely varied and technically demanding programme of Beethoven, Ravel, Stravinsky, Saint-Saens and Liszt stretched their combined talents to the limit with Oxana being the lead musically since she had the dominant role, being involved in four of the five pieces!
The Town House does provide an intimate atmosphere for these concerts as the audience is limited to about 120 and the stage is no more than 20 yards from the back seats.
"Lisztomania" was the film by Ken Russell featuring the "Who's" Roger Daltrey and it describes the real fan fever for the hedonistic Ferenc (Franz) Liszt and when you listen to the piano maestro's wizadry on the keyboard as produced by Oxana Shevchenko in this concert you can understand why he was the ultimate musical star of his era.
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