Review 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 nearly three milenia to the ethereal sound of harp music. Rulers from Agamemnon to Edward VII have joined their company. Sarah Deere-Jonesis is as accomplished…
Review 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 in the thematic detail, the swapping of musical phrases, the suspensions before the resolutions, made so much more intense by the use of original baroque…
Review 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 young singers split into smaller choirs along both side aisles to perform the complex motet Nasciens Mater by the French composer Jean Mouton (1459-1522). A divine sound…
Review 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 St Peter’s Church in Stockbridge was composed. How rare and pleasurable it is to hear a concert devoted entirely to the baroque music of Venetian…
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