- 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
Withering Looks
- 21 January 2015
Essentially a ‘Bronte For Dummies’ or ‘Bitesize Bronte’ (copywrite pending!), as if the lives and...
Sir Chris Bonington
- 21 January 2015
It’s hard not to like Sir Chris. Humble, unassuming, demure even. Yet over the course...
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rory Macdonald (conductor), Lambis Vassiliadis (piano)
- 19 January 2015
Humperdinck’s prelude to Hansel and Gretel was a warmly played opener, although fairly slight and...