Spring at last! With the wind now a soft southerly and the sun shining, the butterflies are out and flying happily – among them the Orange Tips, whose appearance I always count as the true beginning of spring. My morning walk was enlivened not only by my first Orange Tips of the year, but my first Holly Blues and Speckled Woods, a few more Commas and another surge of Peacocks and Brimstones. And a Chiffchaff was singing, in full view...
This means it's time for some more spring music. Here, in one of his best-loved sonatas, is Beethoven, whose 250th anniversary it is this year. His 'Spring' Sonata (No 5 in F Major, Op. 24) finds him in a sunny, relaxed mood (well, nearly all the time) and is wonderfully melodic. It's played here by Anne Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis.
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
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