On Saturday 12 April, Maya Homburger and Barry Guy gave a duo concert, ‘Tales of enchantment’, at St John’s Downshire Hill, playing music by Biber, Kurtag, and by Barry Guy himself.

This was the first of what we have projected as an annual series of invitation concerts: the first had been the harpsichord recital by Gustav Leonhardt at St John’s in 2012, which sadly never happened.

We were pleased to see that the audience contained quite diverse elements: our Hampstead regulars, some jazz and new music people, old friends and colleagues of Maya and Barry. Their applause was rapturous.