- 28 October 2018
The Tudors certainly enjoyed a rich variety of music, with native English talent being greatly...
- 27 October 2018
Brighton Early Music Festival 2018 opened in great style. Perrine Devillers (soprano) began with a...
- 29 September 2018
It takes a brave conductor to prepare an ad-hoc choir for even an informal concert...
- 13 November 2017
Only two violins? Don’t worry, Alison Bury and Julia Bishop are stellar soloists, like the...
- 11 November 2017
With brilliant virtuosity and an amazing lightness of touch, the three artists most responsible for...
Advertised like a pub quiz and in ‘Café format’, this was meant to attract crowds...
- 10 November 2017
We flew back over 700 years to the strumming of a harp, a candle’s flicker...
- 9 November 2017
Fight for tickets! This is an ‘Orfeo’ to relish. Musically outstanding with just enough staging...
- 6 November 2017
Conjuring up Calcutta in chilly November will always be a challenge but lighting, a sitar...
- 5 November 2017
Six carefully matched voices (seven when you count director Oliver John Ruthven), a massive lute...
While not quite early music, this programme illustrated the seemingly haphazard development of the Classical...
The gittern (an early guitar) looked interesting and the harp and fiddle were clearly not...