In the oratorio the soloist and accompanist were certainly paid.
I have no doubt that in the eisteddfod the accompanist and adjudicators were paid.
If we had both played the fiddle, we might have gone outside to find our accompanist.
Following her own wide experience as a piano accompanist, her research interests centre on the psychology of performance, particularly the use of imagery among concert performers.
A professional accompanist was present and the pupils were reminded to listen carefully to the piano, to remember to 'tell a story' and to observe expression marks.
Slatkin proved a sympathetic accompanist, always taking his lead from the soloist's understated and aristocratic approach.
This can be highly disconcerting: no one would suffer an accompanist who might stop playing in the middle of a performance because of a wrong note!
This is a most welcome recording by a fine soprano and a competent accompanist (although the instrument does, one has to say, sound a bit tinny at times).
