- 14 May 2025
No fuss, just a ripple of applause, a moment of calm, then fortissimo G octaves....
- 13 May 2025
It’s so lovely when talented youth teaches old ears wonderful new tunes. That’s exactly what...
- 10 May 2025
What nerve! For a happy troupe of mainly middle-aged men to adopt the label of...
- 10 May 2025
Anoushka Shanka’s curating of the Brighton Festival 2025 has divided opinion, whilst many of us...
- 8 May 2025
Five excellent musicians – that is three singers, one also playing a Vielle (an early...
Reviews
Of Mice and Men
- 13 March 2018
The dramatisation of classic fiction is a fashionable trend in British theatre and a trend...
encore concert – BYO String Ensemble, Rachel Fryer (piano), Andrew Sherwood (conductor)
- 12 March 2018
This talented ensemble of young musicians, each one effectively a soloist, gave a splendid concert...
Palestinian Musicians in Concert
- 12 March 2018
Prize-winning pianist, Iyad Sughayer, began most delicately with Lizst’s evocative ‘Bells of Geneva’. He also...






