- 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...
- 8 May 2025
Latest TV’s entertainment correspondent Andrew Kay is joined by international actor and performer Kumar Muniandy...
Reviews
Brighton Festival – ‘The South Country’ – Hugh Cutting, Rebecca Leggett & George Ireland
- 9 May 2024
We expected good – very good – and got more than excellent! Two years ago...
Brighton Festival – Mahan Esfahani at Glyndebourne with Britten Sinfonia soloists
- 6 May 2024
Mahan Esfahani clearly loves hosting a party and that is how this afternoon turned out,...
Brighton Festival – London Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)
- 6 May 2024
Samuel Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ seemed a strange choice to launch a Festival, but I’m...






