I see it's sponsored by Lufthansa ... Lufthansa used to do some great things in the early music space, for example, for many years they sponsored a baroque concert series in London (sadly now stopped which is a real shame though the concert series has started up again as the London Festival of Baroque Music)Originally Posted by jandl100
In summer 2011 as part of the festival we were lucky enough to hear Gustav Leonhardt play what turned out to be his last ever UK concert, at a church in Pimlico. He died just a few months later in January 2012. What struck me most was that as encores he played some 'easy' Bach pieces from the Anna Magdalena Notebook that I would guess half the audience must have learned as children, beforehand talking about how characteristic in various ways these pieces were of the master and what a wonderful gateway. He was 'only' 83 at the time but looked almost unchanged from the recordings he made in his 50s back in the 1970s and didn't look frail in any sense. His death was a shock and a huge loss.
Will look up the Handel
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