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Reviews
Southwell Music Festival 2024. Southwell Minster and other venues, 23 – 26 August 2024, 5✩✩✩✩✩. Review: William Ruff
“The Southwell Music Festival: a distinctive and rewarding experience.”
Photo Credit: Joe Briggs-Price.
The Hallé, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 27 June 2024, 5✩✩✩✩✩. Review: William Ruff.
“Nottingham says an emotional farewell to an outstanding conductor.”
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 31 May 2024. 4✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Discovering Glazunov: music that delights the ear and touches the heart.”
Photo Credit: BBC. Image of Alexander Glazunov.
The Hallé, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 17 May 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Two musical knights in a concert to treasure.”
Photo Credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke.
Guarneri Trio of Prague, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, 02 May 2024.5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Old friends return to Nottingham’s Lakeside.”
Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 01 May 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff
“An evening of muscular musicality from the Philharmonia.”
BBC Concert Orchestra and Alistair McGowan, Lakeside, Nottingham, 20 April 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Vivid, unsettling music-drama in which the Devil has all the best tunes.”
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 19 April 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“An exhilarating ride through 60 turbulent years of Russian music.”
Angela Hewitt (piano), Lakeside, Nottingham, 11 April 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff. Review: William Ruff.
“Angela Hewitt: an artist of flawless technique and probing intelligence.”
Photo Credit: Keith Saunders.
Sinfonia Viva, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 23 March 2024. 4✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff
“A concert memorable for tender restraint and thoughtful intimacy.”
Image: Courtesy of Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
Hanni Liang (piano) Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham17 March 2024. 3✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Hanni Liang: fine piano-playing - but controversial presentation.”
Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera North) Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 07 and 09 March 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Cosi fan tutte: Opera North’s revival has lost none of its freshness – or ambiguity.”
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Cavalleria Rusticana/Aleko (Opera North)Theatre Royal, Nottingham 06 and 08 March 2024 (touring to Theatre Royal, Newcastle and to The Lowry, Salford Quays till 22 March) 4✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Cavalleria Rusticana and Aleko: compelling but unequal operatic partners.”
The Hallé, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham. 01 March 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Sir Mark Elder and Bruckner 8: an overwhelming experience.”
Photo Credit: Courtesy of The Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.
Marmen Quartet, Lakeside, Nottingham. 22 February 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“The Marmen Quartet: alive to every nuance of the music they perform.”
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lakeside Nottingham
Royal Northern Sinfonia, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham 20 February 2024. 5✩✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“A concert which breathed new life into old favourites.”
Photo Credit: Photo of Julian Bliss, Courtesy of Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Zee Zee (piano)Lakeside, Nottingham. 15 February 2024. 4✩✩✩✩ Review: William Ruff.
“Zee Zee explores the work of classical music’s most famous love triangle.”
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham. 01 February 2024. 4****: William Ruff
“The CBSO’s presents a fairy tale programme with plenty of Technicolor spectacle.”
Ossian Huskinson (bass-baritone) with Matthew Fletcher (piano), Lakeside, Nottingham 25 January, 2024. 4****: William Ruff
“Vivid musical story-telling from a singer with a bright future.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lakeside, Nottingham.
Alexander Ullman (piano)Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham. 21 January 2024. 4****: William Ruff
“Fine pianism – and impressive stamina - from Alexander Ullman.”
Photo: Courtesy of Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.