There comes a potent moment at every live concert. When the audience are giving their thanks, admiration, and whatever else, to the performers as their final applause. Is it heartfelt? Is it diplomatically generous? Is it polite and lukewarm? It’s not just an audience verdict, it’s a human connection deepened when the vibe is good. Continue reading Coffee Concert 5th December 2021 – Brahms Horn Trio – Other Reviews
The next concert will be held on 5 December at 11 am at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) at the University of Sussex. It will be given by the Brahms Horn Trio comprising:
Ben Goldscheider horn
Benjamin Baker violin
Huw Watkins piano/composer
It’s an unusual Continue reading Newsletter #65 December 2021
Joanna MacGregor’s appointment as Music Director of Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra has been an enormous and welcome boost to classical music in the city. Personally charismatic, and a magnificent Continue reading Coffee Concert 14th November 2021 – Joanna MacGregor & Brighton Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble – Strings Attached Review by Michael Wilkinson
The first concert of the 2021/22 season was given on 24 October by the stunning Adelphi Quartet. The audience was 115 strong, which is about half our pre-Covid attendance; not bad considering the various constraints people are functioning under. Michael Wilkinson, a longstanding Strings Attached member, has posted an excellent review Continue reading Newsletter #64
Frank Martin (1890 – 1974) Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes (1925)
Allegro moderato
Adagio
Gigue
Frank Martin was born in Geneva, the tenth child of a Calvinist, Huguenot pastor; this Christian background particularly influenced his large-scale theatrical and choral works. Much of his chamber music was written in the 1920s and 30s during which time he was heavily involved in the Geneva Chamber Music Society that he had founded. Today’s Trio comes from early in this period. His most individual music, however, started to emerge in the mid-1930s when he developed his own more tonal and rhythmically energetic variety of Schoenberg’s 12-tone system. Continue reading 14th November 2021 – Joanna MacGregor Piano With Brighton Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble – Programme notes by Chris Darwin
Whether absence has made the heart grow fonder, or whether I am growing softer with increasing years, may be moot arguments, but there was something rather special about this superb concert by the young, immensely Continue reading Coffee Concert 24th October 2021 – Adelphi Quartet – Strings Attached Review by Michael Wilkinson
