Music Reviews

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 – 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...

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...

Dame Evelyn Glennie

BPO – Evelyn Glennie and Scheherazade – Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

- 3 December 2024

I’m so glad I did my homework and read Joanna MacGregor’s detailed programme notes before...

BPO-Madness-Lightness-of-Being

BPO – The Madness/Lightness of Being – Joanna MacGregor (piano/conductor)

- 18 November 2024

Any programme that begins with Bach has my full attention, giving a free pass to...

Cantoria

BREMF: Catherine & Mary: Tudor Queens Forever Entwined – Cantoría

- 28 October 2024

Cantoria seemed comfortably at home with BREMF, and no wonder, their charming director Jorge Losana,...

BREMF: French Connections – BREMF Players, Baroque Collective Singers, John Hancorn (Director)

- 28 October 2024

Who would have thought a tale of a man killing his own daughter could be...

Hildegard Transfigured

BREMF: Hildegard Transfigured 2 – Voice Trio

- 21 October 2024

This concert had two elements, some sublime singing and a light show, which was disappointing...

BREMF: Connections of Power – Cappella Pratensis, BREMF Consort of Voices

- 19 October 2024

The Brighton Early Music Festival has worked its magic again. It enticed an unexpectedly large...