Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at Philharmonic Hall

First live concert with an audience since December 2020 and one of a set of 'last' concerts with Vasily Petrenko as conductor.  Changes in social distancing rules allowed a larger orchestra than has been possible recently. Paul Lewis gave an intimate performance of Betthoven's First Piano Concerto. Two Spring-related tone poems by Delius were then followed by a performance of the rarely heard Sinfonietta by Prokofiev. According to Petrenko in an introduction to the piece, it was the first time that work, written in 1909, had ever been performed in Liverpool. 

We were still social-distancing in this concert and so the audience was only about a fifth of the size of a normal one.  Of course, as Petrenko pointed out in his introduction, nearly all of us in the typical Philharmonic audience would already have had both our doses of vaccine.❤❤❤❤