Baroque challenge met beautifully by international line-up
These concertos still represent a challenge in ensemble playing, a challenge met by the performers who gave brilliant, witty and cohesive performances of all three works.
These concertos still represent a challenge in ensemble playing, a challenge met by the performers who gave brilliant, witty and cohesive performances of all three works.
If you are at a loose end on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, between 3pm and 6pm, you could do a lot worse than amble along to The Seven Stars in St Thomas Lane.
Joglaresa’s distinctive sound, which blends traditions without sounding in any way artificial, sounds fresh and alive. Well worth hearing…
Midlake have grown from five to seven for their new tour and it’s an irresistible soundscape. When the intro to Roscoe sounds out, it is met with an uproar of cheers and whoops.
Back in the 1950s Salad Days was a smash hit for Bristol Old Vic. Now it’s coming back at the theatre where it all began…
There’s nothing homespun about Laura Veirs’ stripped-down, folk-tinged music, her finger-picking guitar, or her hauntingly beautiful lyrics
The performance was not perfect but was lucid, energetic and expressive. Gauterin and the Bristol Classical Players gave a performance worthy of the symphony.
For me the Christmas season finally began last night with Bristol Bach Choir’s delightful concert of carols and readings at St George’s Bristol.
He’s been described as a “consummate musician”, “a true living genius” and “about as far from the finger-in-your-ear school of folk droners as it’s possible to be”
A musical hero from Zimbabwe will be in Bristol on Saturday to support the plight of refugees from his homeland.