Brighton Year-Round
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Brighton Year-Round 2022
All Saints Sara Oschlag Quartet Recital
A sovereign group, with Sara Oschlag a wonderful vocalist at its core
Chapel Royal Jane Faulkner and Gary Peacock in Mozart Violin/Piano Concert
Consummate Mozart performers - with a revelatory unskeining of the Lili Boulanger.
Chapel Royal Peter Sulski and Philippa Mo in Concert Mozart Violin/Piano Recital October 18th 2022
Sulski is sovereign in the viola, and Mo proves a radiant partner. An outstanding recital.
A paean to live theatre; soaring seasonal spirit, struck with tenderness, joy, sorrow, plangent affirmation.
With memorable music and ensemble singing added to a first-rate BLT production, there’s no better Christmas show in town.
John Collins St Nicholas Organ Recital
Yet another superb Collins recital. A hidden luxury we should enjoy.
Karen Wong Solo flute, piccolo & baroque flute
Karen Wong, solo or playing in trio, is clearly a driving force of new repertoire, often the prelude to a great career
Michele Roszak and Lynda Spinney: Love – Its Depths of Joy and Despair
A terrific way to blow the autumn leaves
Michiko Shimanuki Piano Recital at All Saints, Hove
Consummate exploratory playing by a composer-pianist wholly inside these idioms.
This is more than panto: it’s an affirmation of something that panto here welcomes in, in our time uniquely invoking layers as only Elizabethan/Jacobean drama can.
Kelly Hunter’s team have wrought a miracle of flight, realised by an outstanding cast who here at least, make us rank Pericles with Shakespeare’s other late Romances.
Private Lives can never disappoint: it plays itself and as far as it’s a work of verbal tennis this production won’t pall either
Spirit of Woodstock 2 – The Sequel
There’s no greater writer/performer working in Brighton, or Sussex, and Spirit of Woodstock Parts I and 2 is Jonathan Brown’s most dazzling show to date.
A triumph for all concerned. Juliet Stevenson even gains in stature. Robert Icke’s revival could hardly go better than this.
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice sings out of damage into heartbreak and redemption. Those who don’t know the play or its outcome should see this, even those who have.
Unitarian, Kevin Allen Piano Recital
Kevin Allen stands among other composer-pianists who essay this territory: for whom the music is essential as composer and a language to breathe in.
Halfpenny raises soaring music theatre, an ounce of gold in the throat and stars six inches above it.
Yoko Ono and Paul Gregory Piano/Guitar Recital
Revelatory and a spellbinding introduction than in these performers hands, couldn’t be bettered.
