Peacocks flying high at Leighton House yesterday as a true discovery was revealed.

Lisa Peacock courageously inviting a quartet that played with fearless mastery as Janacek’s ‘ Intimate Letters’ was allowed to seduce us in the extraordinary Pre Raphaelite oriental music room in Leighton House.

Levon Chilingerian was on the edge of his seat as his star prodigy Takanori Okamoto reached for the heights taking his colleagues with him as he himself had done with his own historic quartet that followed in the wake of the Amadeus some fifty years ago.

Mozart’s quartet K 428 in comparison was played with great style as they had learnt their lesson well giving an exemplary but strangely colourless performance .

The mysterious world of Janacek ignited their imagination and opened a palette of chameleonic colours of the same perfumed world as our surrounds. A kaleidoscope of colours as each of the four components was inspired to greater heights with searing intensity and poignant disturbing beauty. Four players united as one in a performance that almost had the peacocks blushing ,in this oasis of otherworldly beauty, just a stones throw from the reconstructed metropolis of Hammersmith and the imminent re birth of Olimpia.

A distinguished audience of connoisseurs of great music making was happy to celebrate after the concert and talk to the artists and even discuss the Kings visit to Trump towers !

Passionately involved music making not only from Takanori but also from Sophia Molina whose second violin shone like gold in so many places . Passionate intensity of Haruka Makino’ s viola together with the vibrant beauty of Freya Souter’s cello created an ensemble of refined visual beauty as well as the intense recreation of two masterworks on this voyage of discovery stimulated by such exotic surrounds.

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