This is an extra special group of talented experts who manage to move beyond their clearly apparent mastery of these instrutmens into that delightful zone of combining talent, intellect and passion to produce these warm and frothy pieces.
This is an extra special group of talented experts who manage to move beyond their clearly apparent mastery of these instrutmens into that delightful zone of combining talent, intellect and passion to produce these warm and frothy pieces.
The BREMF Consort singers were admirable in their flawless production of the complex cross rhythms in this work, redolent of echos, which worked well rolling around the high ethereal vaults of St Martins church
Brian Butler finds a breath of fresh air in these outdoor midsummer offerings from Brighton Early Music Festival
This support will enable the Festival to stage a Summer Season of outdoor events in June, bringing live music back to Brighton audiences
Brian Butler samples a captivating initiative by Brighton Early Music Festival
Brighton Early Music Festival virtual concert 21 March
REVIEW: OPERA “La Dafne” da Gagliano @ Old Market
Brighton Early Music Festival to stage Early Opera Marco da Gagliano’s La Dafne in February 2020
Brian Butler previews four further winter outings for the Brighton Early Music Festival.
Fitting in with this year’s theme of Metamorphosis, this concert showed how Renaissance composers were all too willing to imitate their contemporaries or those of the recent past – often embellishing and developing the original. So in Transformers we were served up an intriguing mix of church and secular music from the late 15th to the late 16th century.
