Coffee Concerts

Coffee Concert 27th January 2019 – Doric Quartet – Strings Attached Review by Andrew Polmear

Word must have got out that something special was going to take place; the Attenborough Centre was fuller than we have ever seen it for a Coffee Concert. The Doric have played in Brighton before and been superb. There has been a change since the last time Continue reading Coffee Concert 27th January 2019 – Doric Quartet – Strings Attached Review by Andrew Polmear

Coffee Concert 27th January 2019 – Doric Quartet – Other reviews

 

Are we in a golden era of the string quartet concert? I can’t speak for nationwide but the Brighton Coffee Concerts sound and taste even better than they smell at 11 o’clock in the morning. It’s not just the ever soaring quality of the younger quartets’ playing. It’s what they choose to programme, then deliver.

Mind you, this audience Continue reading Coffee Concert 27th January 2019 – Doric Quartet – Other reviews

Coffee Concert 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Other reviews

 

The curtains are open and the stage, lit and ready, containing just a solitary black piano stool. An oddity in any other situation. Apiece of furniture left behind? Forlorn-looking? Or dignified? Is a piano about to join it?

Or have we come on the wrong day? Not a concert at all but Continue reading Coffee Concert 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Other reviews

9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Programme notes by Andrew Polmear and Chris Darwin

Bach’s  Suites for Unaccompanied Cello

There are few works of classical music that inspire the awe that cellists feel for the Bach Suites. They start to play them within a year or two of taking up the instrument and, if hands and minds hold out, they are still working on the same pieces 60 years later.

We know very little of the background to the Suites. They were written in about 1720 when Bach was Continue reading 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Programme notes by Andrew Polmear and Chris Darwin