Musical interiors

I intended to upload another image of Maribor but I discovered that in the four days I have been here I have only taken one. All my photos are taken in the concert hall.

I have just come back from the first concert of the Maribor Festival. A nostalgic piece called Nostalgia (!) by Takemitsu (written originally for Yehudi Menuhin) lead into Beethoven which lead into a piece by Janacek that blew the socks off the audience and must have been heard several miles away. Then a piece by Lutoslavski, a Polish composer that no one had heard of. It turned out to be a perfect follow on from Janacek.

That is the point about this festival I think. The programming is outstanding, as well as the musicians.