Reviews

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A MUSICAL

- 3 December 2024

Now That’s What I Call Music started life as a series of vinyl records filled...

WORLD AIDS DAY CONCERT

- 2 December 2024

December the first is a global day of remembrance, the time when we remember those...

BPO-Madness-Lightness-of-Being

BPO – The Madness/Lightness of Being – Joanna MacGregor (piano/conductor)

- 18 November 2024

Any programme that begins with Bach has my full attention, giving a free pass to...

BEETHOVEN & TIPPET: GLYNDEBOURNE

- 3 November 2024

In recent years Glyndebourne have expanded their season into autumn and winter, not only with...

FRANK SKINNER: 30 YEARS OF DIRT

- 3 November 2024

There’s something comfortingly ordinary about Frank Skinner, his gangly frame, grey suit and orange top,...

1984

- 30 October 2024

The title is legend, iconic, few people in the English speaking world will be unaware...

Cantoria

BREMF: Catherine & Mary: Tudor Queens Forever Entwined – Cantoría

- 28 October 2024

Cantoria seemed comfortably at home with BREMF, and no wonder, their charming director Jorge Losana,...

BREMF: French Connections – BREMF Players, Baroque Collective Singers, John Hancorn (Director)

- 28 October 2024

Who would have thought a tale of a man killing his own daughter could be...

THE WELKIN

- 24 October 2024

Not for the fragile or faint of heart this intense drama, and I say this...

Hildegard Transfigured

BREMF: Hildegard Transfigured 2 – Voice Trio

- 21 October 2024

This concert had two elements, some sublime singing and a light show, which was disappointing...

IL TURCO IN ITALIA

- 21 October 2024

Rossini’s opera buffo is wittily transformed by Mariame Clément’s clever shifting of time, not once...

BREMF-LIVE

BREMF LIVE SHOWCASE – Lowe Ensemble, Triple Fipple, Nocturnalia Ensemble, Minerva Baroque

- 19 October 2024

BREMF LIVE! is the life blood of the Brighton Early Music Festival. This scheme for...