| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 27-Nov-2012 Geertekerk | Suonar Cantando brings a taste of old Venice to the Netherlands |
 In an age of modern convenience and so-called progress, it’s refreshing to witness an endeavor by a group of enthusiastic young musicians seeking to dig up music’s past. Bojan Cicic and his ensemble Suonar Cantando put on a marvelous display of musical responsibility by treating this repertoire with the fire it deserves. Invigorated by their youth yet wise in their programmatic decisions, this emerging ensemble proved itself a worthy representative on the stage.
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| 12-Jul-2012 St George's Bristol | Soloists of Oxford Philomusica: Baroque music at St George's Bristol |
 Baroque music is pretty old, isn’t it? But the great thing is, you don’t have to have the advanced years of a Brandenburg Concerto to put it on. The Oxford Philomusica has been active for little more than a decade – and they rushed through the pouring rain to play at the similarly young St George’s Bristol. Both institutions have earned a solid reputation within the challenging commercial landscape that is “arts outside London”, and with a damp audience who were likely very familiar with the programme, I was glad to be in safe hands.
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| 18-Jul-2011 Cadogan Hall | Spellbound by Bach |
 At the splendid venue that is Cadogan Hall, just north of London’s Sloane Square, Iranian-born harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani demonstrated J S Bach’s immense skill and ingenuity in a spellbinding performance of the Goldberg Variations, one of the high Himalayan peaks of the keyboard repertoire.
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| 6-Jan-2011 Christ Church, Spitalfields | Exploring Recitative in Baroque Opera |
| Entitled “Monteverdi, Opera and Beyond”, lyric tenor and baroque specialist Paul Agnew devised a 90 minute programme exploring the role of recitative in Monteverdi’s opera and its influence on seventeenth-century English and French operatic music. Read full review... | |
