Thursday

On Thursday I joined in Caroline Cox's Question on the Burmese elections (www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/101111-0001.htm#10111158000901). Then I had a meeting with Vivien Stern and David Ramsbotham to discuss their forthcoming visit to Bahrain we had a three hour debate on the EU Committee's report.

In the evening, to the London Bach Society's concert in St Bartholomew the Great:


THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER at 7.15pm

The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smithfield, London EC1
(By kind permission of The Rector, Dr. Martin Dudley)
STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS
Anthony Robson guest director & recorder
Rodolfo Richter leader & solo violin,
Gillian Keith soprano
Rachel Beckett solo flute & recorder
"Be content..and on with the dance"
Joh. Seb. BACH (1685-1750)
Suite No 2 in B minor BWV 1067
Ouverture: Lentement-Rondeau-Sarabande-Bourree l/ll-Polonaise-Double-Menuett-Badinene

Solo Cantata " "Ich bin in mir vergnugt" BWV 204
(Leipzig 1726/7, probably composed for a family occasion and originally sung by Anna Magdalena Bach)
Interval (20 minutes)
Suite No 1 in C major BWV 1066
Ouverture: Courante-Gavotte l/ll-Forlane - Menuett l/ll-Bourre l/ll-Passepied l/ll
Brandenburg Concerto NO 4 in G, BWV 1 049
(Allegro-Andante-Presto) Peter AllsoPP OMO-2010)