Classical Reviews

BREMF - Les Caractères de l’Amour

BREMF –Les Caractères de l’Amour – BREMF Emerging Artists, Ensemble Molière, BREMF Players, Satoko Doi-Luck & John Hancorn (directors)

- 11 October 2025

Quality always tells and Ensemble Molière is pure quality. BREMF stalwarts, they opened this year’s...

BPO – A New World – Junyan Chen (piano), Joanna MacGregor (conductor)

- 29 September 2025

This concert season began so quietly with the gently lulling opening of Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano...

BREMF Consort of Voices

BREMF: Palestrina Crawl – BREMF Consort of Voices, James Elias (director)

- 22 September 2025

Twenty minutes is quite long enough polyphony on a Saturday morning, especially when sung so...

Florian Mitrea

Midsummer maestro Florian Mitrea

- 22 June 2025

This midsummer maestro brilliantly exceeded my already very high expectations. I thought I knew the...

Fringe – Beth Levin (New York) – Piano Recital

- 30 May 2025

It was so wise to start with the Mozart, Beth Levin presenting her credentials –...

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 – 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...

Rune

Brighton Festival – Rune: Decameron Musicale

- 8 May 2025

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

BPO – Centenary Gala: Turangalîla Symphony – Joseph Havlat (piano), Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Joanna MacGregor (conductor)

- 15 April 2025

We all knew it would be glorious – and of course it was! Brighton’s much-loved...