The pomp was pepped up further with inter artist competitions, although Bach and Handel studiously avoided any risk of a play-off, but Crispian and fellow trumpeter Tom Rainer gutsily took up the challenge on Concerto for Two Trumpets by Vivaldi.
The main event came in Act II.
The Four Seasons is familiar to everyone thanks to copious employment in TV costume dramas, while Juritz has played it so many times he no longer requires a score. But there wasn’t a hint of going through the motions.
He was a drunken player in Autumn’s drinking party and shivered with cold in Winter. Hearing the Four Seasons played with such colour and imagination brought an old Master vividly to life.
EMMA PINCH
