- 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
Cinema of Childhood: Children in the Wind
- 13 May 2014
Hiroshi Shimizu’s 1937 tale of the innocence of childhood in a small Japanese village has...
Ours Was The Fen Country
- 13 May 2014
Creator Dan Canham recorded conversations with people of East Anglia fens for two years, resulting...
Gavin’s Antiphonies – Brighton Youth Orchestra and Andrew Sherwood (conductor)
- 12 May 2014
Extended fanfares in Pavilion Gardens really captured the spirit of the Brighton Festival. An array...






