It comes as no surprise that these young talents plucked from the chorus and nurtured should be so good, but in a one hour programme that skipped around the opera and song repertoire they certainly proved their worth. Angharrad Lyddon’s fine mezzo-soprano… Read more →
How low can one go, how deep, how far down? For Clod Ensemble the answer is to zero. Fortunately for the audience they do this with extraordinary skill in a performance that takes the idea of feeling the blues and delivers it… Read more →
Varmints was a minimalist, but beautifully staged production with countryside and cityscapes projected onto a screen that looked like woven paper. The sparse set – strips of grass to denote the country and giant tyres for the city – and few props… Read more →
Joined on stage by Norman Cook, the man himself, and Skint Records’ Damian Harris; Adam Buxton hosted a retrospective of Mr Slim’s music videos that, while not completely extensive, was never less that breezily entertaining. Augmented by Buxton’s own musings on his… Read more →
The Elias Quartet continued this series of quartets with their distinctive vigour and exaggerated contrasts, again taking risks and indulging in what seems to be their trade-mark bold, emphatic phrasing. Perhaps it is Beethoven for these times of sound-bites, ‘music-on-the-move’, and short… Read more →
The excellent BYO and splendid conductor Andrew Sherwood have, over the years, exhibitied an adventurous and passionate approach to their music that many a professional set-up would envy. Born out by the quality of soloists they can attract, from Evelyn Glennie and… Read more →
Polly Toynbee, chaired a discussion between conservative politician Nick Gibb, the former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker, writer on education Melissa Benn, and the children’s writer Michael Rosen. This was a highly entertaining discussion, tinged with shock that the two… Read more →
Nick’s talk was horrifyingly blunt; I experienced a terrible dawning - I thought tax havens were a marginal phenomenon, and that they were only available for dodgy rulers from far-flung countries or fat greedy cats whose reason for being is to hang on… Read more →
Irving Finkel, is an Assyriologist and curator of cuneiform inscriptions on ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets, at the British Museum. He is also a gem; a lucid, sceptical and passionate orator. He entertained his audience, who listened transfixed, with explanations and stories about… Read more →
It’s not often that we go to a concert for the accompanist but James Baillieu attracts such excellent friends. Philip Higham astonished and delighted us in equal measure with Poulenc’s Cello Sonata, a work so difficult that most cellists avoid it. Then… Read more →
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