Arts PREVIEW:Two great musical offerings and a chance to help create a production Brian Butler finds a breath of fresh air in these outdoor midsummer offerings from Brighton Early Music Festival By Brian Butler • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW : Myths and Legends celebrated in Brighton Brian Butler welcomes back live music from Brighton Early Music Festival By Brian Butler • 1 min read
Arts Brighton Early Music Festival to receive £50,346 from Culture Recovery Fund This support will enable the Festival to stage a Summer Season of outdoor events in June, bringing live music back to Brighton audiences By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts P/REVIEW: Lockdown Larder 4 Brian Butler looks at streaming delights from a love letter to NYC to medieval madrigals By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: That Was 2020 That Was Brian Butler gives his top 20 of 2020 – on stage, film and streaming By Brian Butler • 4 min read
Arts PREVIEW: BREMF@home – a weekend of joyous early music Brian Butler finds reasons to rejoice in a weekend of streamed early music By Brian Butler • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music playathon showcases young musicians Brian Butler samples a captivating initiative by Brighton Early Music Festival By Brian Butler • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music Festival online Brian Butler welcomes back the Brighton Early Music Festival in its new virtual space By Brian Butler • 1 min read
General News 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 By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Orpheus Caledonius: BREMF This was a beguiling mix of the 18th century blending with contemporary Scottish folk singing and the talents of Miller and Ozmo which together brought us into a state of sublime simplicity, where the music and atmosphere transcended the event and took us to a very special pure space of perfection. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: THE LILY AND THE ROSE: The Telling This concert and The Telling provided us with an illuminating and illuminated evening of evocative and emotionally vibrant music which highlighted not only the colour and sustained purity of their voicesboth solo and wrapped up together in tonal harmonic bliss but also the way in which this music, b By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: THE ART OF FUGUE: Fretwork Fretwork were superb and we were instantly plunged into the perfect, sublime brilliance of the music and this elegant consort’s majestic handling of the music of Bach. Fretwork are celebrated for their attitude and poise with Bach and their commitment to presenting the works of the baroque in novel By Eric Page • 3 min read
