Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 26 March 2018 (Susan Elkin review...
The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra finished the season in fine festive fettle. I don’t often laugh aloud in the concert hall but there...
The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra finished the season in fine festive fettle. I don’t often laugh aloud in the concert hall but there...
It was a concert full of drama, mostly Russian, under Stephen Bell’s incisive baton. The drama included the conductor literally leaping up...
Anvil Arts, Basingstoke, 16 February 2018 Dvorak is to the Czech Philharmonic what, say, Strauss is to the Vienna Philharmonic. It’s in...
Merry Opera Company Wetherspoons Opera House, Tunbridge Wells and touring Billed as “opera meets jazz” this 1960s Figaro is rescored by Harry...
Marcio da Silva is a warmly arresting baritone and, for a first stab at Winterreise this was a commendable performance. Twenty four songs in...
There was a lot of lilting 3/4 time and enough tunes to set you humming all week in this enjoyable concert. First...
“Now sits expectation in the air” as Shakespeare put it. Never in twenty years as a regular have I seen Mote Hall,...
This conventionally structured concert – a concerto sandwiched by two symphonies – presented the BPO pared down to classical chamber size, which...