Author: David Botibol

It’s usually only the time-poor amateur who finds himself in the gym on Sunday morning while others hear a gale howling outside and happily postpone leaving bed. And there’s no full-out professional sport played at least until the afternoon.

But obey the alarm clock and be performing, with all the stops out, Brahms’ Piano Quintet before lunch and you’d be doing it surely for money not love. Continue reading The Aronowitz Ensemble 29th November 2015 – Review by Richard Amey, Worthing Herald

It was lovely to be back in the round for the latest Strings Attached concert at the Corn Exchange, although the original idea had been for seating on only three sides to avoid placing audience members behind the piano. In the event the concert was oversubscribed and seats had to be put on the fourth side after all. Continue reading The Aronowitz Ensemble 29th November 2015 – Review by Andrew Polmear

A white cello case walks up Gardner Street in late October sun through the teeming Sunday lunchtime throng. Its feet belong to Marie Bitlloch and she trails behind three black fiddle cases that have waists and legs below them. It’s the Elias String Quartet on their way back to Brighton station Continue reading Elias String Quartet 25th October 2015 – Review by Richard Amey, Worthing Herald

Brighton audiences are getting to know the Elias String Quartet, not least from their Beethoven series in All Saints Church, Hove in the 2015 Brighton Festival. There they triumphed over an echoing church acoustic with playing as intimate as in a drawing room. In the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange for the start of the new coffee concert season the acoustic was warm but still resonant enough, Continue reading Elias String Quartet 25th October 2015 – Review by Andrew Polmear