Ely

Back from England, where I was playing in the Monteverdi Vespers in Ely Cathedral. The concert was in the Lady Chapel, shown on the left hand side of this picture. It was packed full and the audience was fantastic.









The choir Cambridge Voices was directed by Ian de Massini (otherwise known as one half of the Classic Buskers) and the orchestra was the Chuckerbutty Ocarina Quartet, here performing under the pseudonym of the Orchestra of the Age of Reason, on recorders and trumpet. In this picture at the rehearsal I am playing theorbo for soloist Katy Edgcombe in Audi coelum.





Remember the hungry creature from St. Pompont a week or two back? Here's an English cousin, above the door in the Lady Chapel. This is a Green Man, with sprays of leaves coming out of his mouth and winding around his head.







p.s. the theorbo got back home safely afterwards, despite having to go down the 'fragile' chute at Stansted and travelling in the hold.