n the same week that the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption in southern Iceland released its now infamous cloud of ash into the skies,writes Emily Cooper, Anglo-Spanish Society members who weren’t stranded across Europe like my husband were lucky enough to see eleven explosive talents take to the stage in South Kensington.
This year’s Classical Concert, which attracted young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal College of Music and Barcelona’s Academia Marshall, took place In the beautifully intimate surrounds of the Brompton Oratory’s St Wilfrid’s Hall. The audience, which included both our chairman Dame Denise Holt and our President the Spanish Ambassador, was treated to a diverse programme of celebrated Spanish composers including Falla, Albeniz and Sarasate as well as Bottesini, Monti and Poulenc.
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