Bedlam reigns at Longborough’s sparkling The Barber of Seville
10/06/2025 by Clive Peacock United Kingdom Rossini, The Barber of Seville ( Il barbiere di Siviglia ): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra...
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Welsh National Opera’s Peter Grimes is simply magnificent in Birmingham
Welsh National Opera deservedly won the 2024 Sky Arts Award for Opera with their production of Britten’s Death in Venice. Their current...
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Leamington Chamber Orchestra, “Spring Concert”, Holy Trinity Church, Sunday 23 March 2025.
With a little bit of help from BBC Radio 3’s Sunday morning “upcoming concert” announcements, Holy Trinity Church provided a good house...
Leamington Music, Ensemble 360, Royal Spa Centre, Sunday 2 March, 2025
“Sniggers and cold silence” greeted the first performance of Benjamin Britten’s precocious work, Three Divertimento for String Quartet,...
Leamington Music, Family Concert, “Giddy Goat”, Royal Spa Centre, Sunday 2 March 2025
With a bright sunny morning, a lawn covered by crocuses outside the Spa Centre and masses of young excited young people gathering in the...
Leamington Music, Fibonacci Quartet, Pump Room, Friday 14 February, 2025.
What good fortune the Pump Room should host four brilliant young musicians on Valentine’s Day who take the name Finobacci - after the...
Kenilworth Jazz Club, “Swing From Paris”, Kenilworth Rugby Club, Monday 3 February, 2025.
Each February a celebration of the Hot Club de France of the 1930’s and 40’s returns to Kenilworth in the form of Swing From Paris. Early...
Beauchamp Sinfonietta, Celebration of Six Women Composers, Conductor, Lauren Wasynczuk, Holy Trinity Church, Sunday 26 January, 2025
Beauchamp Sinfonietta’s contract coup of the season, Conductor, Lauren Wasynczuk, led a celebration of works by six women composers with...
Leamington Sinfonia, Young Soloists’ Competition, Holy Trinity Church, Saturday 25 January, 2025
Joe Davies, the protagonist of this splendid event, conducted the ever-enthusiastic Leamington Sinfonia in support of three outstanding...
Coull Quartet, Leamington Music String Quartet Series, Pump Room, Friday 24 January, 2025
As the most troubling week of 2025 came to an end, the Coull were back where they belong! Banishing the disturbing, irrational behaviours...
Oriflamme Amnesty Concert 2025, ‘A Wonderful Evening of Mozart’ St Mary’s Church, Warwick, Saturday 11 January, 2025
Consistent praise heaped on the woodwind sections of local orchestras is well deserved. Last Saturday two outstanding principal players...
National Youth Orchestra (NYO) community demonstrate brilliance and a creative passion at their Illuminate concert at Warwick Arts Centre
06/01/2025 by Clive Peacock What an inspired choice of encore! The Waltz from Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No 2 brought National Youth...
Collegium Warwick, Handel’s Messiah, St Mary’s Church, Saturday 7 December 2024
Ending thirty eight years of Collegium Warwick performances was a Christmas surprise few in the audience were expecting. Programme...
Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir, A Requiem for Remembrance, All Saints’ Church, Leamington, Saturday 9 November, 2024.
In these pulverised times, the opportunity for moments of reflection and contemplation are precious. Such moments were offered by the...
Warwick and Kenilworth Choral Society, St Nicholas’s Church, Warwick, Saturday 16 November, 2024
Many in the audience on Saturday were prepared for chill conditions thanks to social media posts and the grapevine reporting the failed...
Leamington Music, Jubilee Quartet, Royal Pump Room, Friday 8 November, 2024.
Leamington Music welcomed the return to the concert stage of the remarkable Tereza Privratska to lead the Jubilee Quartet at the Royal...
Butlers Marston Concert Society (BMCS), Autumn Innovations, Church of St Peter and St Paul, 27th October 2024.
Commercial world failures frequently reflect a failure to innovate ending in evaporation! So too, the music world the needs to innovate....
WARWICKSHIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Warwick Hall, 12 October 2024.
Seventeen-year old Ryan Martin Bradshaw’s début with Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra (WSO) playing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2, was...
28/29 September Royal Leamington Spa Pump Room audiences thrilled by the Brodsky Quartet with their complete cycle of string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich.
United Kingdom Brodsky Quartet – Shostakovich: Royal Leamington Spa Pump Room. Warwickshire. Krysia Osostowicz – violin Ian Belton –...
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