I have great respect for woodwinds. They don't play so often, unlike the consistent, unrelenting playing of the strings, but when they do, the lines are essential statements of melody or at least of colour and contrast and those lines can be very difficult. The bass is clumsy and slow if defining, but woodwinds are fast and fleet also definitional in their different way. So I recorded the Aeolus Wind Trio at Wesley. They were doing a program with the theme of love. It appeared in four parts: first attraction; happy in love; lost love; enduring love. The music was often modern, so Gershwin, Fats Waller, Nino Rota, Lennon and McCartney appeared, although some little Tchaiks and Bach were there too. But given the tunes, much was arranged by the trio, so there were handwritten scores. Clarinet Lis was given the task of determining the program because she's a prolific author of romantic and romantic suspense novels under the pseudonym Elisabeth Rose. Apparently 29 novels to date! More than an acquaintance, Sally Thorne, another Canberran, who is on 3. Either way, I am in awe. The music was pleasant and nicely framed and sometimes complex to spell harmonic colours, very well introduced by David and well played, as expected from this NCO trio. But this is not music for Llewellyn, but for Goodwin and great as it is. Very much a wonderful classico-pop crossover outing and I love a decent pop melody.
The Aeolus Wind Trio performed at Wesley. They comprise Jodie Petrov (flute), Lis Hoorweg (clarinet) and David Whitbread (bassoon).
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