- 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
The Lads In Their Hundreds: Comèdie de Picardy
- 7 May 2015
With only schoolboy French I was worried that this might be a tough act to...
Louise Alder (soprano) and James Baillieu (piano)
- 6 May 2015
Louise Alder began with Gypsy songs by Schumann, one bright-voiced and the second beguilingly plaintive....






