Reviews Archive
I Fagiolini – Draw on, Sweet Night - Three Choirs Festival, All Saints Church, Hereford, Saturday 23/07/22 5***** Reviewers David Gray & Paul Gray
A sweet, late-summer evening of music, with tales of chivalry and sweet honey-sucking bees
Fretwork - music by John Jenkins, Matthew Locke & Henry Purcell – Three Choirs Festival, Leominster Priory, 23/07/22: 5***** David Gray & Paul Gray
A perfect summer's day of exquisitely intimate music for viol consort at this year's Three Choirs Festival in Herefordshire
Birmingham Symphony Hall: CBSO & CBSO Chorus with Markus Stenz - Mahler Symphony No.2 "Resurrection" - Saturday 25th June 2022. 5***** . Paul Gray
Superb interpretation of Mahler - Markus Stenz is a conductor who understands Mahler's hidden proportions
Kazuki Yamada, CBSO Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, Symphony Hall Birmingham, 04 May 2022, 4**** David Gray & Paul Gray
Mendelssohn’s Highland Fling
The Traveller - Unending Love Weekenders - EX CATHEDRA Choir & Academy of Vocal Music, BRITTEN SINFONIA, Birmingham Town Hall - Sunday 1st May 2022 5***** David Gray & Paul Gray
A truly magical concert of works by Roxanna Panufnik and Alec Roth - part of what might be described a new musical renaissance in the composition of choral music
Calcutta, Ensemble Tempus Fugit, Birmingham Town Hall, Sunday 24 April 2022, 3*** David Gray & Paul Gray
An intriguing musical exploration hampered by a lack of dramatic scale
Zagreb Philharmonic. Symphony Hall, Birmingham 4**** Paul Gray
Magnificent Mahler