PREVIEW: BREMF@home – a weekend of joyous early music
Brian Butler finds reasons to rejoice in a weekend of streamed early music
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PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music Festival online
Brian Butler welcomes back the Brighton Early Music Festival in its new virtual space
MUSIC REVIEW: Christmas Oratorio: BREMF
This evening’s music was superb, it’s almost as if the BREMF was saving the best till last but this year’s programme has excelled in the quality of its music and tonight was no exception. John Hancorn conducted with a florid grace which kept the music tight and graceful while allowing the complex in
REVIEW: TALES IN MUSIC: THE PIGEON AND THE ALBATROSS: Little Baroque Company
TALES IN MUSIC: THE PIGEON AND THE ALBATROSS Little Baroque Company The room was full of rows of expectant children and the parents in a semi circle everyone excited. The room was lovely and warm. The musicians were wearing feather wigs, bright colours, looking resplendent in their outfits and engag
REVIEW: ORFEO: BREMF
Once again the Brighton Early Music Festival shows that you can take problematic and difficult pieces of early music and when stripped down and presented with care and consideration they can be allowed to shine and be appreciated for their own idiosyncratic, early charms.
REVIEW: Roots, Shoots and Celestial Flowers: BREMF
The Soprano and two mezzos gave some sublime and subtle performances across the evening and I found myself floating off into the ethereal vaults more than once as their voices combined and entwined in perfect harmony and sored into blissfulness.
REVIEW: PLAINSONG TO POLYPHONY: BREMF
Music from the 12th to the 16th centuries culminating in the ultimate polyphonic work, Tallis’s 40-part motet Spem in alium this large gathering of voice had some gentle choreography added to explore the roots of polyphony in ancient chant melodies.