Brighton Festival

Brighton Festival – RPO & BFC, Francesca Dego (violin), Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

- 23 May 2025

This was a very serious programme with a very important message that was best delivered...

Brighton Festival – Quatuor Van Kuijk

- 21 May 2025

Quatuor Van Kuijk are a jolly lot. They entered laughing (somebody backstage had started to...

Brighton Festival – Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)

- 20 May 2025

Half the vast space of the Corn Exchange miraculously became a Victorian parlour – How?...

Brighton Festival –  London Symphony Orchestra, Leila Josefowicz (violin), Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

- 17 May 2025

What a risky programme! Not so long ago it would have scared away the crowds...

Brighton Festival – Jamie Cochrane (piano)

- 14 May 2025

No fuss, just a ripple of applause, a moment of calm, then fortissimo G octaves....

Brighton Festival – Brighton & East Sussex Youth Orchestra

- 13 May 2025

It’s so lovely when talented youth teaches old ears wonderful new tunes. That’s exactly what...

Fringe – Nerds – Resound Voices, Sam Barton (conductor)

- 10 May 2025

What nerve! For a happy troupe of mainly middle-aged men to adopt the label of...

Rune

Brighton Festival – Rune: Decameron Musicale

- 8 May 2025

Five excellent musicians – that is three singers, one also playing a Vielle (an early...

Brighton Festival Reflections

- 8 May 2025

Latest TV’s Entertainment correspondent Andrew Kay is joined by Gavin Henderson CBE, who directed the...

Brighton Festival 2025 – roundup of highlights with Andrew Kay

- 27 February 2025

Brighton Festival 2025 – roundup of highlights with Andrew Kay Latest Bill asks Latest TV’s...

Ronald Power

Ronald Power MBE – Obituary

- 13 September 2024

Ninety-nine is a great age and yet Ronald Power could quickly shake off the restrictions...

NO FIT STATE CIRCUS: SABOTAGE

- 9 August 2024

Circus has been reinvented in recent years. I grew up up with lion tamers and...