HARP AND FLUTE

Lunchtime concert at Chelmsford Cathedral

15.01.10

A snow cancellation meant that this was the first concert of the popular Cathedral Friday season.

Lynne Creasey and her harp are a familiar sight in mid-Essex musical circles; she was joined this time by flautist Kerry Bassil.

They began with a happy Haydn Serenade, then via Bach and Mozart to the salon, the natural home of this pleasing pairing.

The lighter pieces included Gossek's cheeky Gavotte, variations on Greensleeves, the perennial Wild Rose, and, my favourite of the set, the charming Pathetico from Berthemieu's Cinq Nuances.

Lynne also squeezed in two solos, a Prelude by the French harpist Marcel Tournier, and a lush, lazily flowing Moon River.

More chamber music later in the season, with the Coggeshall Baroque Trio – next week, the superb Brentwood School Big Band, followed in February by Forest School, and in March by St Cedd's.