Edinburgh Festival (hopefully)

I'm about to set out on a northern trip via Newcastle and Stirling, visiting friends along the way. If tightly timed trains permit (it's a big "if" at the moment) I'm hoping to coincide with an Edinburgh Festival recital by Steven Osborne on Monday ( 17th August in the Queen's Hall.)

Steven is one of three major pianists in the Festival performing programmes which commemorate Alfred Brendel. Although I don't myself recall hearing Brendel playing new music, I can definitely remember, on several occasions, seeing him in the audience to hear contemporary music played by others. He was altogether a most refreshing musician. And so, I'm delighted that Steven's Schubert programme will also include my own pieces Fragile and Chorale, for Steve, together with James McMillan's Lumen Christi.