- 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
Jason Byrne’s Special Eye
- 21 October 2013
“Every time I play this venue, people say ‘those plants were great.’” There are no...
Fascinating Aïda
- 21 October 2013
After 30 years together, Britain’s doyens of cabaret performers (plus a superlative younger soprano) have...
Crime And Punishment
- 21 October 2013
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime And Punishment (by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Colombus) was a...