Variations

Alternative in extras. 

I wrapped up warmly and went to the lunchtime concert today. Lukas Loss played Bach's Goldberg Variations, one of the most perfect piano pieces. The trouble is that I've listened to the Glenn Gould version so many times that it sounds wrong when anyone else plays it, even though they are likely sticking more closely to what's written in the score. Gould also makes it sound easy, so you don't realise how hard some parts are to play. Loss got his fingers tangled up a few times ... maybe his hands were cold. Incidentally Gould often played in gloves and a woolly scarf, even indoors.

There was a ten-minute break after the variations; it was cold enough that I decided returning home for lunch cooked by S was more enticing that hanging around in the open waiting for the second half. And there were even a few spots of rain as I left. Later it rained properly; I stayed in and made bread. Hope the weather improves for tomorrow's Fête Nationale!