Coffee Concerts 2016-17: feedback from friends

Strings Attached Friends have provided useful feedback on the 2016/17 season which will be shared with Brighton Dome and Festival.

Highlights include our enjoyment of the varied repertoire and the mix of ensembles and approval of the temporary concert venue at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.

Read a summary of feedback by SA Friends on the 2016/17 season here here

 

 

Newsletter #20 April 2017

Welcome to our twentieth newsletter – designed to keep you informed about our activities, as well as other local chamber music events.

2016/17 COFFEE CONCERT SERIES AT ACCA HAS ENDED

The final concert of the series, on 19 March, featured the Trio Wanderer. For once, opinion was divided about the success of the concert. Richard Amey found the programme “well played but miscalculated” while Guy Richardson wrote about their “absolutely wonderful committed performance” and Helen Simpson about their “enormous sensitivity”. What did you think? Continue reading Newsletter #20 April 2017

Coffee Concert 19th March 2017 Part 2 – Review by Guy Richardson

Schubert Piano Trio No 2 in E flat major D.929

Having heard a performance two days previously of Schubert’s Piano Trio No 1 in B flat in Lewes, it was fascinating to her this, his second piano trio, a work I wasn’t familiar with. A lot of commentaries sing the praises of the B flat trio and are a little patronising about the E flat, even though Continue reading Coffee Concert 19th March 2017 Part 2 – Review by Guy Richardson