Maidstone Symphony Orchestra 3 February 2018 (Susan Elkin reviews...
“Now sits expectation in the air” as Shakespeare put it. Never in twenty years as a regular have I seen Mote Hall,...
“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...
Elgar’s In the South, written in 1904 and the oldest work of the afternoon, was a resounding opener in this all twentieth century programme....
Loosely, but not aggressively, themed for Remembrance Day this concert gave us the works of one composer whose pacificism drove him across the Atlantic,...
Iain Burnside is a commensurate communicator. Witness his often quirky, but always fascinating, programmes on Radio 3 over the years and his...
Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto is a bit out of fashion – apart from, maybe, at Raymond Gubbay concerts. I haven’t heard a...
It is often said that his Requiem is Verdi’s greatest opera and it certainly isn’t short of musical drama. So it’s an...
The Kings Head Theatre, 2 October 2017 Puccini’s 1887 masterpiece was, of course, meant for the big stage, initially at Theatre de...