Reviews

It is every concert promoter’s worst fear when an artist cancels a concert due to illness – finding replacements at short notice is never easy. Imagine then the problem when the replacement artist … [Read more...] about Review: Paul Turner, Piano – Friday 8 November

Stockbridge Music continues to enrich our musical lives. The Craig Ogden Ensemble attracted an audience from as far away as Wales for their concert in May. In the first half, David Juritz (violin), … [Read more...] about Review: The Craig Ogden Ensemble, A Baroque Journey towards the Goldberg Variations, 17 May 2024

If the king of instruments is said to be the organ, the harp is surely the queen of the orchestra. Stockbridge Music, ever keen to explore fresh or unusual musical territory to place before its … [Read more...] about Harriet Adie – The Harp at Christmas

Concert given by The David Owen Norris Piano Trio Friday 23rd September 2022 in St Peter’s Church, Stockbridge The Stockbridge Music faithful eagerly awaited the approaching climax concert of the … [Read more...] about Review of David Owen Norris Piano Trio, 23 September 2022

When you go to a concert you may hope for moments of delight but you do not expect the hairs to stand up on the back of your neck. Yet this is what happened to many of us in this concert by the … [Read more...] about Gesualdo Six Concert 22nd October 2021

In 2015 two young prize-winning musicians, the British cellist Cecilia Bignall and the Russian classical accordionist losif Purits met to form Duo Bayanello, now described as one of the most exciting … [Read more...] about Duo Bayanello with Andrey Lebedev

This concert, called Caledonian Connexions, proved full of contrasts, twists and turns.  Choral music that intrigued and enlightened at one. Obviously the theme was Scotland - mostly by association. … [Read more...] about Index Cantorum – St Peters Church – June 8th 2018

This is the fourth time Sansara have performed for Stockbridge Music. The choir has grown fast in stature here and abroad, and it’s difficult to avoid endless superlatives about their singing. Here … [Read more...] about Concert by the Sansara Consort – St Peter’s Church – 10th November 2017

They have thrilled us before in the ideal acoustic of Stockbridge Town Hall. Remarkably, three years on, the make-up of this superbly gifted youthful group has seen only one change, the viola player. … [Read more...] about Concert by the Delmege Quartet – Stockbridge Town Hall – September 16th 2017