Reviews

Festival Of The Spoken Nerd: You Can’t Polish A Nerd

- 6 November 2017

Gleeful giddy fun with the peerless – and peer reviewed – science trio. Helen Arney,...

BREMF – Calcutta – Ensemble Tempus Fugit

- 6 November 2017

Conjuring up Calcutta in chilly November will always be a challenge but lighting, a sitar...

BREMF –Carissimi’s Jephte – Musica Poetica

- 5 November 2017

Six carefully matched voices (seven when you count director Oliver John Ruthven), a massive lute...

BREMF LIVE! – Shifting Identities – Istante Classical

- 5 November 2017

While not quite early music, this programme illustrated the seemingly haphazard development of the Classical...

BREMF LIVE! – Summer unde winder: songs from medieval Germany – Rumorum

- 5 November 2017

The gittern (an early guitar) looked interesting and the harp and fiddle were clearly not...

WWE

- 5 November 2017

Who would have thought that a wrestling night could be so emotionally involving? A generous...

BREMF LIVE! – Improviso

- 5 November 2017

This unusual ensemble of recorders, violin, ’cello and theorbo play early music with a folksy...

BREMF LIVE! – Flauti d’echo

- 5 November 2017

This charming set of works featured tangled echo effects, close canons and the extraordinary Spiegelkanon...

BREMF LIVE! – The Gesualdo Six

- 5 November 2017

Seven (counting Owain Park the director) well matched male voices can make an almost bewildering...

BREMF – The Phesant’s Eye – Ensemble Hesperi

- 4 November 2017

Mary-Jannet Leith (recorders) and Thomas Allery (harpsichord) are well known to BREMF audiences for their...

BREMF – Roots, Shoots and Celestial Flowers

- 4 November 2017

Sublime music, unsung for half a millennium and as anonymous as nuns, formed the core...

Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room

- 3 November 2017

With overarching themes of pleasing yourself, loosely connected to the titular ‘Glitter Room’ Ryan’s eight-year-old...