- 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
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Berlinsky (violin), Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor)
- 30 November 2014
Shokhakimov held back in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, bringing out the lyrical and charming more than...
Doom at the Comic Boom
- 28 November 2014
Normally the last Thursday of every month I relish the blend of comic styles that...
Lily Allen
- 28 November 2014
Lily’s certainly changed her tune. What fans expected to be a no-nonsense evening was permeated...