- 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
Animals – New London Chamber Choir
- 16 May 2015
We were promised ‘A joyously original programme of choral singing’ and it was that, although...
Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
- 16 May 2015
I loved this intelligently balanced programme of Liszt, Rubenstein, Dvořák and Schumann songs. However, the...
Being Both – Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), The English Concert, Harry Bicket (conductor)
- 15 May 2015
Handel required much from his singers, male, female or castrato. ‘Being Both’ demanded the whole...