Reading Time: 2 minutes‘A triumphant balance of playfulness and prowess’ Sir Willard White’s rich bass tones can lend gravitas to even the most lighthearted music. Combined with the Brodsky Quartet’s deft, ludic playing, the pairing is formidable. This concert is…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“accomplished, elegant musical journey from Bach to Gershwin” A trumpet and string quartet is an unusual formation for a concert, but is the chosen vehicle for this concert inspired by the European salon concerts of the 18th and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“A charming and exuberant rendition of Mozart’s beloved comedy.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Am I already being forgotten in posterity?’, the celebrated baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau asked his last pupil in their final lesson before his death in 2012.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA quality performance by an orchestra who shone most in the colossal, sumptuous acmes ofBruckner’s immense work. Bruckner’s symphonies are famed for their magnitude, embodying the grandeur of late German Romanticism with their rich harmonies and searing…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA mesmerising ode to the eerie, uncanny, and oceanic
Reading Time: 2 minutesFloppy-haired and charismatic, Kit Ford waltzes onto stage in their promising London debut to the tune of “Funky Town”. Introducing this one-person show, Ford wryly explains that it does exactly what it says on the tin: an exploration of their own life growing up queer.
Reading Time: 2 minutes*The King of Broken Things* is a visually inventive and emotionally rich play that explores the fragility of human relationships through the eyes of a lonely child, but its lack of pacing and coherent messaging leaves its audience adrift in a sea of densely packed metaphors.