Brighton Festival

Doric String Quartet

- 27 May 2017

Haydn, Brahms and John Adams make a wonderful Festival programme. Adams’ oddball ‘Alleged Dances’, two...

Pelléas Ensemble

- 26 May 2017

This interesting combination of flute, viola and harp was always going to attract attention. However,...

This Bright Field

- 26 May 2017

The world premiere of Theo Clinkard’s This Bright Field got off to a good start,...

Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet

- 25 May 2017

Kaleidoscope chose their music carefully, starting with reassuringly familiar tunes from Grieg’s melodic Holberg Suite....

It’s okay, I’m dealing with it

- 25 May 2017

Comedy dance? It’s a hard sell. Combining things with comedy so rarely works well; take...

Monteverdi: Combattimento – Les Talens Lyriques

- 24 May 2017

In celebration of Monteverdi’s major anniversary the Festival has staged a few concerts, this one...

An Evening With Picador Poetry

- 23 May 2017

Picador Poetry celebrated its twenty year anniversary with a stunning evening of performances from Hollie...

Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo

- 22 May 2017

Informative, entertaining and exquisitely performed, this programme by acoustic guitar duo Julian Vickers and Daniel...

Belem – Didier Laloy (diatonic accordion), Kathy Adam (cello)

- 20 May 2017

Listed under ‘Classical’ I expected some smoochy café tunes, Piazzolla’s nuevo tango or even clever...

Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists

- 19 May 2017

Matthew Fletcher made a very welcome return to accompany this year’s Jerwood Young Artists. Soprano...

No Dogs, No Indians

- 18 May 2017

The world premiere of No Dogs, No Indians, written by Siddhartha Bose and directed by...

Jeremy Hardy

- 18 May 2017

Jeremy Hardy moseys onto stage with no fanfair and addresses his audience with a delightful...