- 22 October 2025
Craig Jordan-Baker discusses his new book Brick Dust, exploring themes of family, hoarding, and the...
- 20 October 2025
Isn’t it rather naughty to be obsessed with nuns? Well, when their music is so...
- 20 October 2025
There’s a very good reason that Coleridge-Taylor’s work was so popular 100 years ago, and...
- 20 October 2025
The BREMF Emerging Artists scheme can be the making of a career. There are four...
- 18 October 2025
The atmosphere was electric – the heart of the church was curtained on three sides...
Reviews
Brighton Philharmonic – John Bradbury (violin), Richard Balcombe (conductor)
- 7 December 2014
This Sunday afternoon promenade around Britain began in full romantic flood with Mendelssohn’s Hebrides overture....
The Nutcracker – Russian State Ballet & Opera House
- 7 December 2014
The State Ballet & Opera Orchestra of Komi, perhaps 20 players but with a splendid...
Giselle – Russian State Ballet & Opera House
- 6 December 2014
The astonishingly good Russian pit-orchestras seemed like an ensemble of fine soloists: violin, oboe, cello,...