Review: Patrick Avery Guitar Recital
Exquisitely performed. It takes nerve and artistry to perform so consistently slowly till near the end: a fascinating career to watch.
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Review: Juliet Edwards and Yoko Ono Four Hand Piano, Ravel and Rachmaninov
From Yoko Ono’s sweeping glissandi in the Ravel through to Edwards taking her treble line in the Rachmaninov, the unanimity of their performance is really distinguished playing.
Review: LIPS Wind Quintet
LIPS are a superb ensemble, and typical of the Chapel Royal team to have discovered them.
Review: Of Heart and Homeland
A hugely enjoyable, accomplished and accessible recital for violin and piano
Review: Organ Recital, All Saints
A superb double-recital to celebrate the return of the Hill organ.
Review: Michele Roszak and Lynda Spinney: Music in May
Michele Roszak’s as ever a richly engaging singer pushing her range through the soprano register. Always pushing new repertoire too she ranges widely here. Lynda Spinney’s acute understanding maximises their impact.
Review: The String Quartet’s Guide to Sex and Anxiety
A melange of music, spoken word and performance, musing on mental health.
Review: Meera Maharaj (flute) and Dominic Degavino (piano)
One of the most exciting flute recitals I’ve attended. Maharaj is back on September 20th at All Saints.
Review: Lana Trotovsek and Yoko Misumi
Lana Trotovsek and Yoko Misumi are a compelling duo, and I’ve not heard violin playing of that force and character for a long time.
Review: Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues
Powell makes more of the interconnectedness of this music perhaps than anyone since Tatiana Nikolayeva, and more lucidly than anybody ever. Acclimatising himself to the St Michael’s acoustics he delivered something extraordinary.
Review: The Boy, the Piano and the Beach
A good experiment that the Slot Machine Theatre hasn't quite managed to pull off… yet.
Review: Border Tales
Brilliant - creatively devised, provocative, well performed, poignant and moving!
Review: Amanda Brown & the Common Ears
In which I attempt to explain that which I do not truly understand
Review: Esben & the Witch
A devastating storm of raw emotion that somehow failed to find the audience it richly deserved
Review: Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer: The Chap-Hop Decade
Returning to his roots, festival fave and Brighton’s own Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer celebrated 10 years of the musical genre he founded, Chap Hop.
Review: Souvenir
Uproarious “kamikaze cabaret” history of Brighton Theatre Royal told through song and amusing anecdotes.
Review: When Love Grows Old
Could this be the pilot to a melancholically-observed sitcom like Vicious? One audience member suggested it. Whilst The Romance of the Century is beautifully observed and deftly revivifies a much-fictioned historical turning-point, The Weatherman is outstanding comedy, as are the performances.
Review: Million Dollar Quartet
This is outstanding for is peerless characterising of the four legends with their unexpected female singer, the acting of Duncan and above al for the way the structure allows such extraordinary musicianship its head.
Review: The White Devil
The gender-slashing part of Vittoria demands venom and defiance as well as passion in verse. Joseph Timms and Kate Stanley-Brennan as Vittoria shine delivering Webster’s verse, pointing up with defiant splendor or self-delighting braggadocio tinged with Trainspotting. Ryan’s pacey revival is timely, thrusting us to Webster’s sadly timeless themes. But misogyny’s purged of its merely temporal strut with the force of such verse inhabited, which lays its living sinew bare.
Review: One Night in Miami…
This work’s even more urgent now human rights in the US and elsewhere are temporarily at the least regrouping. Kwei-Armah’s pace and dance made this beautiful to hear and behold, but even more to absorb. An all-black cast has been a long time coming.
Review: Carla Lippis – Baby Carla’s Bad Girl Rumble
Baby Carla's Edinburgh debut - "Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las"
Review: Tomás Ford’s Craptacular!
A crazy hour of anarchic cabaret karaoke with audience participation from Tomás Ford.
Review: Pianomorphosis
More enchanting storytelling from this rising star on the Scottish music scene.
Review: An Dhá: Urban Folk Music
Go if you are a human being and reconnect with your ability to feel, deeply and joyfully.
Review: Here All Night
Sam’s all night shiner, Beckett’s Wake and Cabaret. Haunting, funny, unmissable.
Review: The London Gay Men’s Chorus Ensemble
If their goal is to entertain, these guys succeed handsomely
Review: A Really Really Big Modern Telly
A re-imagining of the myth of Narcissus and a contemporary fable blending live theatre & projection, which questions what happens when the consumer becomes the consumed.
Review: Beth Orton – Brighton Festival
This concert is an inspiring mixture of Beth's electronic and folk roots, but with more of an emphasis on the electronic. Her soulful and beguiling voice is tantalising enough to enthral an audience and this concert did not disappoint.
Review: Song Conversation
"magical dreamscape of noise, sound and music fused with written and improvised text."
Review: Groomed
Patrick Sandford's groundbreaking play, acted by himself, of his own childhood abuse, acted alongside a sax player...
Review: Daniel Cainer: 21st Century Jew
"witty, eloquent and wise, and worthy of its standing ovation"
Review: Face All Vocal Rock
Throughout the show our preconceptions were expertly dismissed as tune after tune thrilled and entertained us.
Review: Scarlet Shambles: It Used To Be Me
Stunning physical noir performance from a Fringe newcomer to watch
Review: Anatomy of the Piano (for Beginners)
Enchanting storytelling from a rising star on the Scottish music scene.
Review: Ali McGregor’s Jazzamatazz
Foot stomping music for the 0-7s. And the oldies can join in too if they like
