Reviews
Review of Index Cantorum – 17th September 2016
By James Montgomery Thomas Weelkes was described by the authorities at Chichester Cathedral as a ‘comon drunckard, notorious swearer and blasphemer’ and sacked in about 1615 for being inebriated while playing…
Read MoreReview of The Alauda Quartet – 23rd April 2016
By James Montgomery With attack, that’s how these young players began their performance. This was the spirited first of four movements of Haydn’s String Quartet Opus 76, written in his…
Read MoreReview of The London Harp Trio – 12th March 2016
By James Montgomery What other instrument played these days possesses more than four thousand years of beguiling musical pedigree? I suspect hardly any. The ancient Egyptians would have marvelled at…
Read MoreReview of Sarah Deere-Jones “The Time Traveller’s Guide to the Harp” – 17th October 2015
By Guy Boney Etruscans, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, angels(of course) and a full house at Stockbridge Music’s concert in the Town Hall last saturday( 17th October 2015) have all thrilled over…
Read MoreReview of The Brook Street Band – June 6th 2015
James Montgomery writes: The Brook Street Band are four consummate instrumentalists who played sonatas written purely by baroque composers who lived between 1653 and 1764. They performed as one, delighting…
Read MoreReview of Sansara Choir – 11th April 2015
James Montgomery writes: With surround sound – that’s how Sansara greeted the audience in St Peter’s Church for the second concert of this year’s Stockbridge Music series. The twenty one…
Read MoreReview of by La Serenissima – 14th March 2015
James Montgomery writes: What’s in a name, in this case La Serenissima? To begin with, Venice, because that’s how the beautiful city was described when the music we enjoyed in…
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