It was just like the good old days at the Barber, an enthusiastic full house packing this charming auditorium to hear a celebrity recital from players of the highest calibre.Read
Spare us the wunderkind, over-hyped flavour-of-the-month young pianists. Give us instead an unassuming middle-aged gentleman whose sole aim is to bring us music-making of the highest order, with nothing emblazoning “look at me!” to come between the composer and the audience.Read
William Walton’s entertainment Facade continually attracts celebrity reciters, and the latest of these is William Sitwell, editor, broadcaster and foodie writer, and great-nephew of Edith Sitwell herself, poetess of these lorgnette-gazing, surreal verses.Read
The trouble with Handel’s large-scale vocal works is that the nuggets of genuine treasure drown in the morass of composing-by-numbers (and plagiarism) which make up their inordinate length.Read
This concert at the Barber paid an affectionate farewell to the University’s music department lecturer Vic Hoyland, who retires later this year after many years of devoted service.Read
In theory it was a brilliant idea to turn this concert into a celebration of Mahler and Wolf, both great Viennese songsmiths, both born 150 years ago, and both disciples of their teacher Anton Bruckner.Read
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