Xuefei Yang - fabulous concert at Turner Sims hosted by Southampton Classical Guitar Society

Photo Yongxin Chen

Another wonderful event  last night as SCGS hosted the classical guitarist Xuefei Yang at the Turner Sims. It was a terrific concert with some incredible demonstrations of Xuefei's unique guitar virtuosity. Paganini would have had to admit, I think, that she had done on the guitar (if not OUTdone) what he did with Caprice No. 24 on the violin. I liked the beautiful traditional Chinese piece that she opened the second half with and her introduction as she described the fisherman sailing his boat towards the horizon was as poetic as the music that followed. Her performance of Milonga del Angel by Piazzola was fantastic; she played three Schubert lieder transcribed for guitar that were ravishing and closed with a stunning Homage pour la tombeau de Debussy by De Falla. I'm just mentioning a few things that are standing out for me, there was much more and in between there were her engaging and interesting comments. She has a very good sense of humour. I really enjoyed myself.

Vulcan - nothing to do with guitars at all

Here I am having a pint, nothing odd there - but note the camera poised for action. I'm one of several other people and they all had cameras poised. The lady behind me only seems casually chatting - she was synchronising with someone further up the flightpath and it was her who spotted it first.

So here's my tiny film of it: