Saturday was quite a decent day, and the weather was glorious. Sunday was pretty dire, although the weather continued fine. Yesterday the weather took a turn for the worse; a dark, leaden sky, strong gusty winds, and the ever-present threat of imminent rain. I had a decent sort of day though. And elderly gentleman came back for the fourth time to buy some more of my Haydn cds. The visitors were more generous too. I made enough over the weekend to get this week's bacca.
The Dandrieu is coming along nicely, and I'm now playing in public all of the pieces of his that I'm including in my recital. In the meanwhile I've started working on some pieces by Louis Couperin (La Pienontoise and La Pastourelle), Rameau (Courante and Sarabande from the A minor Suite (Nouvelles Suittes), D'Anglebert (minuet from the suite in G, and the Air Ancien 'Ou estes-vous alle'. I've already got two Scarlatti sonatas ready, and may well play one of Soler's. Then there will be a couple of Pavans and Galliards by Byrd, his Earl Of Oxford's March, and some short pieces from the Fitwilliam Virginal Book. Oh yes, and then there's a sixteenth-Century Spanish piece called La Romanesca. I think that will be variety enough.
This morning I took a booking for a wedding reception in August, where they just want some background music.
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