Review: Belladonna: Sue Mileham Soprano, Jane Plessner Clarinet, Nicola Grunberg Piano
With clarinet piano and soprano, a gloriously rich vocal recital
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Review: Paul Gregory and Yoko Ono Guitar and Piano Recital
An elegant case for this unique repertoire and its sovereign performers.
Review: Meera Maharaj and Dominic Degavino Flute and Piano Recital
Vertiginous, tricky and exhilarating
Review: St Nicholas Daria Robertson, Polina Loubnina, Zhanna Kemp Soprano Flute Piano Recital
Both this recital and its repertoire remain special
Review: Oliver Nelson and David Way Violin and Viola Recital
Consummate and distinctive music-making with repertoire nearly forgotten.
Review: Lance Mok Piano Recital
A pianist bristling with oblique lyricism – an ideal twentieth century interpreter.
Review: Frank Schaefer and Ethna Tinney Cello and Piano Recital
A mesmerizingly first-class recital.
Review: Michele Roszak and Lynda Spinney: Filial Relationships
Vocally adventurous yet again, a joy to hear
Review: Kymia Kermani and Belinda Jones Clarinet and Piano Recital
Great debut and homecoming in one duo.
Review: Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus
The performing brio is phenomenal, of a standard you’d be happy to see anywhere in the world. So would any child.
Review: Albach Guitar Duo Recital
A highly distinguished duo, with a repertoire both intelligently chosen and superbly executed
Review: Adam Le Clercq Chopin Recital
Readings of distinction. Le Clercq really is a recitalist to watch.
Review: James Shenton, Paul Gregory Recital
An improvised concert doesn’t get much better than this.
Review: Gemma Kateb Piano Recital
Entrancing. A sensitive, searching and individual debut at Chapel Royal.
Review: St George’s Church Vote 100 Celebrating Women Composers
An outstanding, rousing and moving concert.
Review: Duo Asteria Corinna Hentschel and Giulio Poggia
A highly distinctive, powerful duo. It would be wonderful to hear them again.
Review: Emma Halnan Flute, Heather Wrighton, Harp
Truly first class music-making, alluring and scintillating, but with heart and adventure too.
Review: Niall O’Riordan and Anne Marshall Flute and Piano Recital
Enchanting territory, enchantingly and stratospherically played.
Review: Gemma Kateb Piano Recital
Entrancing. It’d be good to see such a sensitive, searching musician back.
Review: Pam Crag and Maggie Grimsdell Four Hand Piano Recital
It’d be a delight to see these artists return.
Review: Cruft Robertson Pleeth String Trio
A superb trio and what unexpected, refreshing repertoire too. With such consummate musicianship, they should be on record.
Review: Oliver Nelson and Vasilis Rakitzis Violin and Piano
Consummate playing. We shouldn’t be complacent about the luxury of such instrumentalists delivering programmes like these.
Review: Yoko Ono Piano Recital
Another iridescent recital by an artist far too easy to take for granted.
Review: James Osler and the Pillow Band
First-class crossover music-making for anyone who cares for music that stretches delight.
Review: Poet in da Corner
Exemplary, thrilling, adrenalin-shot and shout-worthy. There has to be a part two, and it ought to be soon.
Review: St Nicholas, Belladonna – Sue Mileham Soprano, Jane Plessner Clarinet, Nicola Grunberg Piano
With clarinet piano and soprano, a gloriously rich vocal recital
Review: Tamzin Barnett and Nancy Cooley Soprano and Piano Recital
Tamzin Barnett’s already a remarkably versatile and mature artist. Where most was asked for she was at her most thrilling. Watch out for her.
Review: Bach and Stern Violin and Piano Recital
Altogether, we need players like Bach who understand what’s there to be discovered. Stern proves ideal.
Review: Olive Murray, Christopher Foreman, Soprano and Piano Recital
A delighted, delightful recital, exploratory and really worth hearing again.
Review: Mike Hatchard Piano Recital
Mozart would have been delighted wit what Mike Hatchard does with his Turkish March.
Review: BBC Prom 66 Dukas, Prokofiev, Schmidt Requiem Berlin Philharmonic, Petrenko.
BBC Prom 66 was - with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko – at least as adventurous as anything Simon Rattle brought across with this band. Schmidt’s Symphony 4 though is the revelation.
Review: Belly of a Drunken Piano
masterful evening of drama, riveting music, beautiful storytelling, pulsating beats, all woven with music of the boomer generation.
Review: Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road
A selection of the political songs and writings of the great Scottish folklorist
Review: The Beatbox Collective: What’s Your Sound?
The vocal talent of this crew is nothing short of extraordinary
Review: Anthony Pleeth and Tatty Theo Baroque Cello Duo
It takes integrity to stick to such deeply reflective music and project it so well. More than worth spending an hour with.
Review: Jon Rattenbury and Brian Ashworth Guitar Duo
Jon Rattenbury and Brian Ashworth one of the best-known guitar duos on the south coast enjoy a particular way with the classical guitar.
Review: Letters For Peace
Haunting, poignant music from one of Scotland’s leading guitarist and composers
Review: Bowjangles: Excalibow
Outstanding music, vocals, comedy, movement, and innovation combine to create a remarkable performance.
Review: Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers Tribe
Thrilling Taiko drumming with stunning visual effects and choreography
Review: Lucia di Lammermoor
This is a stunning pocket-sized opera-house quality Lucia. You won’t find a better-sung, more affecting Donizetti this year.
Review: Sussex Flutes, All Saints
Beautifully consummate, with memorable repertoire, they’re a unique group who should be selling discs.
Review: Harmonia Trio Cara Barseghian, Daphne Elston, Elizabeth Shepley
Bracing, innovatively chosen repertoire makes the Harmonia Trio an essential part of music-making in the south.
Review: BBC Prom 33 Musgrave and Brahms Requiem BBC SO & Chorus, Richard Farnes RAH August 7th 2018
A superb reading of the Brahms Requiem. In Phoenix Rising, never before programmed, we find another Thea Musgrave classic.
Review: Chapel Royal, Paul Gregory and Peter Shulski, Bach and Schubert, August 7th 2018
Gregory and Shulski make both works seamless and I the Bach, powerfully truthful. And Gregory’s proved his point with this arrangement too: you see it in a new, summer-laden light.
Review: BBC Prom 28 Mussorgsky, Benjamin, Ravel Ligeti and Debussy NYO, George Benjamin RAH August 4th 2018
An outstanding concert. We need George Benjamin to inspire young players to fall in love with modern works not least his own.
Review: Janice Fehlauer Piano Recital
On the strength of this astonishing recital Janice Fehlauer should be at the Wigmore Hall and with a number of CDs to her credit.
Review: BBC Prom 22 Haydn Symphony 104 in D; Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 2
The Haydn was excellent and we need more. The Vaughan Williams a revelatory cleansing and asserting its stature - which should be international.
Review: Victoria Puttock and Mark Dancer, Saxophone and Piano
An exhilarating recital, from a duo who plan to return in January. Look out for them when you need winter blues blown away by the summer ones.
Review: The Rape of Lucretia
Far from being just timely, this Grimeborn production reinvents how we might feel about this troubling, disturbed and absolutely contemporary piece in a time of #Me Too.
Review: Proms 17 Parry Vaughan Williams Holst Royal Albert Hall July 27th 2018
A revelatory programme, and fresh, flowing performances that pick up the keen lyricism and blow the fustian. A couple more masterpieces we can count on the strength of this one.
Review: Jon Rattenbury and Brian Ashworth Guitar Duo
Jon Rattenbury and Brian Ashworth one of the best-known guitar duos on the south coast enjoy a particular way with the classical guitar.
Review: Phillip Dyson 60th Birthday Piano Tour
Dyson proves how supreme he is in conjuring orchestral sonorities in this stand-out recital bringing so-called lighter classics home where they belong.
Review: Hammig String Quartet with Pianist Clare Wibberley Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 A major, Op 26
The ensemble’s absolutely inside the music, and they all fit each other with unanimity and panache.
Review: Ellie Blackshaw, Yoko Ono, Paul Gregory Piano Trios
If you care about chamber music, and want to be surprised, this is the place to be.
Review: Hannah Peel, BBC Music Stage, Latitude
Dreamy swirls of quirky electronica to lose yourself in.
Review: Liam Gallagher, BBC Music Stage, Latitude
I'm as surprised as you are, but this actually was my gig of the festival!
Review: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead at the BBC Music Stage, Latitude
Silly name, stupendous show.
Review: Joseph Spooner and Glen Capra Russian Cello and Piano Recital
This is first rank cello and piano playing and we’re incredibly lucky these artists live amongst us.
Review: This Is Elvis
Inevitably this stands or falls by Steve Michaels, but it could only be outstanding if the whole production revs around it, and this one fires into life, never letting up. This Is Elvis. Elvis lives. End of.
Review: Imogen Hancock and Jennifer Hughes
Trumpeter Imogen Hancock and pianist Jennifer Hughes gave an outstandingly vital recital at All Saints.
Review: Christina McMaster Recital
Christina McMaster confirms we hardly need the Wigmore if such artists travel to Brighton for the Chapel Royal and a few other venues.
Review: Eliette Harris and Joshua Urben, Violin and Piano Recital
A tremendous burgeoning; I hope this duo continue.
Review: Maeve Jenkinson, Sarah Davison, Rachel Fryer Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb, D898
This is first-class music-making, the kind that persuades you you don’t need to travel up to the Wigmore Hall or wait for the Festival and fringe to enjoy all round music-making of this calibre.
Review: Johan de Cock Piano Recital
Revelatory pianism from a composer pianist who proves classic and film music adaptations belong in the same repertoire.
