Brighton Festival

Jeremy Deller – Desert Island Pics

Jeremy Deller – Desert Island Pics

- 19 May 2014

Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller was a laid-back, unpretentious subject for this event, choosing eight...

The Beethoven Project, Part 2 – Elias String Quartet

The Beethoven Project, Part 2 – Elias String Quartet

- 19 May 2014

The penultimate concert in this series included some of Beethoven’s most impassioned, tragic music which...

The Tempest in Musick

The Tempest in Musick

- 19 May 2014

We had high expectations of this celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. The publicity promised so...

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Jonathan Biss (piano)

- 19 May 2014

For his Brighton Festival debut Jonathan Biss was in festive mode, starting with Beethoven’s Sonata...

Like Rabbits

Like Rabbits

- 16 May 2014

Elegance, poetry and cohesive thinking, get it right and this kind of modern dance works....

Gildas String Quartet

Gildas String Quartet

- 16 May 2014

With  Florence Cooke stepping in at short notice for Sophie Cameron, the Gildas Quartet sensibly...

In Good Company

In Good Company

- 15 May 2014

Getting to witness dance performance of this calibre is such a treat; transportive and transformational...

Long Live The Little Knife

Long Live The Little Knife

- 15 May 2014

This could have fallen apart in so many different ways, but so well was it...

Blush

Blush

- 14 May 2014

Containing a frog-drinking scene (yes, you read that right), choreographer Wim Vandekeybus’ film Blush was...

Cinema of Childhood: Children in the Wind

Cinema of Childhood: Children in the Wind

- 13 May 2014

Hiroshi Shimizu’s 1937 tale of the innocence of childhood in a small Japanese village has...

Gavin’s Antiphonies – Brighton Youth Orchestra and Andrew Sherwood (conductor)

Gavin’s Antiphonies – Brighton Youth Orchestra and Andrew Sherwood (conductor)

- 12 May 2014

Extended fanfares in Pavilion Gardens really captured the spirit of the Brighton Festival. An array...

Orpheus Britannicus

Orpheus Britannicus

- 12 May 2014

Dowland lute songs and Purcell favourites sung to an archlute, played most delicately by Paula...