“Schubert? Hummel? Spohr?” one asked oneself as the work sidled into motion with deceptive amiability – only to be assailed by a fierce motivic argument of Beethovenian impetus, but with quite a different stylistic slant.The sombre andante and fizzing scherzo proved equally distinctive. But not before dazzling Vienna with his brilliant piano improvisations and leaving the remarkable Symphony in D Major, Op 24. But then, still to come was Vorisek.Born in the year Mozart died and Beethoven turned 21, Bohemian-born Jan Vaclav Vorisek died younger than either, at only 34. This was a performance of real intensity, and one was surprised a near-capacity audience did not rise to it more demonstratively. Her qualities were immediately evident in Mozart’s scena “Bella mia fiamma”, K528: an even-toned range combining a mezzo-ish richness with a radiant edge, and considerable reserves of power. It was clear we were in for a lively evening.
Just as well, since there was a lot of it – not least, three substantial scenas from the rising young Swedish soprano Hillevi Martinpelto. So here was the ever-young Sir Charles Mackerras, pitching urgently into the slow introduction of the Overture to Mozart’s Don Giovanni – no dragged-out bass pedals, no halting caesuras from him – and zipping the 43 period players of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment through the ensuing allegro as if the Age of Authenticity had only just dawned.

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Hidden between the two, and often hard to find, is the brewery’s most distinctive product, Special London Ale, strong (6.4 abv) with a beautiful hop aroma (earthy, oily, Goldings and aniseedy Fuggles, from Hereford and Worcester). In recent years, it has also begun to develop a range of speciality beers aimed at the supermarket customer. A vestige of surviving Britishness in our beer capital.Young’sThis family-run brewery in south-west London is renowned for having persisted with cask-conditioned draught when that seemed to spell doom. The beer was hard to pour bright if the bartender had a hangover. The beer has a firm maltiness; a herbal, sappy, briar-like, hop bitterness; and an underlying apple fruitiness The perfect ale with a Sunday roast It is produced at the Museum Brewery, in Burton upon Trent. At one stage, it was Britain’s only bottle-conditioned ale, notorious among bartenders for its yeast sediment. He calls it O’Hanlon’s Port Stout.Worthington White ShieldThe most famous pale ale.