- 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 Cabinet Of Jan Švankmajer + panel
- 20 November 2013
This is what film festivals are for, bringing the unusual to the general public. Most...
Kindertransport
- 19 November 2013
As time passes fewer and fewer remain who can really tell what it felt like...
5ive: Greatest Hits Tour
- 19 November 2013
A fun flashback to 1997 but with mobile phones instead of whistles; yes, there were...






