A football free day, with a nice relaxing evening listening to Eugene Alcalay on the piano in Egham. The concert was organised by Egham and District Music Club, although I knew of the performer through friends. Myrtle, the two Daves and myself had the pleasure of listening to some piano sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven, a Liszt etude and fantasia and Mussorgsky’s Picture at an Exhibition, all played very energetically with a Bach prelude tagged on the end. It was great just to be able to sit and listen to some live music from across the classical spectrum. Admittedly, I preferred the earlier era music to some of the later stuff, but the quality of the playing couldn’t be faulted. Of all the pieces, I thought The Great Gate of Kiev at the end of the recital was magnificent and finished off with a very grand majestic flourish.