To the depths of January gloom and back again…

Great couple of days of song recitals –  another Winterreise with Marcus Farnsworth on Thursday, and then an eclectic (and altogether more cheerful) programme with Louise Alder last night, ranging from passionate Strauss and Liszt, to Ivor Novello and Flanders and Swann, via the beautiful and striking Huw Watkins cycle, Five Larkin Songs.