- 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
Richard Hawley
- 27 October 2015
The audience are starting to gather. A mixture of 40+ rock’n’roll dudes and 40+ straight-laced...
BREMF – Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter (Musica Secreta, Celestial Sirens, Brighton Festival Youth Choir)
- 27 October 2015
The concept of this performance was about discovering hitherto unheard music from nuns in convents...
BREMF – ‘Vision’ – Niamh Cusack (narrator), ‘The Telling’
- 26 October 2015
You wouldn’t expect excitement from 12th century chant but ‘Vision: The imagined testimony of Hildegard...