Members Live Q&A with Iain – September 2023
‘The heart’s anatomy’ by Enrique Simonet Lombardo, 1890
Dramatic, beautiful, exquisite in execution – and disturbing: once seen never forgotten. The bottles in the window are a minor masterpiece in themse…
‘Church Going’ by Philip Larkin
Larkin offers us a serious reflection on a serious matter, but does so almost flippantly. Oddly, by emphasising distance, he comes all the closer to h…
‘Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit’ [‘Sacred hymn of thanksgiving to the Godhead from one who is healed’]
This is the third movement from Beethoven’s quartet in A minor Op 132, one of the six so-called late quartets, which are each among the most astonis…