Category: Review
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Thoroughly Good Parish Circular: Thetford, Grimes and Reconciliation
In a week of unrest in a Norfolk town, a fiftieth-anniversary memory, and the difference between reaching for reconciliation and being ready for it. ASYLUM SEEKERS have been removed by police from their homes in Thetford for their own safety in light of protest, unrest, and threatening behaviour this past week. That the unrest in…
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Review – Beethoven’s Mass in C at Three Choirs 2026
Let’s not split hairs over a wobbly fugue, this was jaw-dropping stuff from Sam Hudson, the Philharmonia and the Three Choirs Festival Chorus
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Review – Songs Of the Sea – Three Choirs 2026
Stellar performances from Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir who thrived in Gloucester Cathedral’s generous acoustic
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Review – King’s Lynn Festival at 75
In north Norfolk a music Festival in its 75th year could be doing more to honour the vision of its founder
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Review – Opus13 play Mendelssohn, Janáček, and at Cheltenham 2026
From a signature Mendelssohn to Janáček’s fevered final quartet, Opus13 play like a group with little to prove and everything still to say.
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Review – Angela Hewitt at Cheltenham Festival 2026
A performer drawing her advocates close in to make the case for an escape to the country.
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Review – Gervase De Peyer: As I Knew Him (Katia de Peyer)
A touching memoir from Katia de Peyer about her life with the internationally renowned clarinettist
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Review – Carducci Quartet play Kurtag, Clarke, Reich and Debussy at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
The Carducci Quartet brought Kurtág, Reich, Clarke and Debussy to the Britten Studio for a programme spanning a century of string quartet writing. Not everything landed. But the playing undoubtedly did.
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Review – Kristian Bezuidenhout plays Schubert at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
The idea of hearing any Schubert piano music on a modern piano now feels like a shameful act of betrayal after Bezuidenhout’s Aldeburgh concert.
