| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 23-Feb-2013 St George's Bristol | The divine and the worldly: Exultate Singers at St George's Bristol |
 Choral concerts often have programmes that read like compilation CDs. I don’t mean this negatively: there are countless reasons why a greater number of contrasting pieces is required – timbral, textual, temporal, contextual, historical, and so on. The programme of motets and madrigals, old and new, for Exultate Singers’ A Sense of the Divine concert would entice many a CD collector and concert-goer alike. Exultate are a rising star in the choral world and the choir’s brilliance in this concert sang of its continued ascension.Read full review... | |
| 8-Feb-2013 Cadogan Hall | Insalata I Fagiolini at Cadogan Hall |
 I Fagiolini is a vocal group I have been trying to see live for quite a while now, so I was extremely excited to be attending the London offering of Insalata I Fagiolini at Cadogan Hall. Performing early repertoire in a fresh and exciting way is their niche (within a niche, within a niche, as we were informed by director Robert Hollingworth) and tonight we were to be treated to an evening of madrigals, some of which were inventively staged to illustrate the narrative of the text.Read full review... | |
| 30-Jan-2013 Cleveland Museum of Art: Atrium | The siren's call: Chanticleer inaugurates new space at Cleveland Museum of Art |
 As part of the official opening of the new Ames Family Atrium, the Cleveland Museum of Art presented the brilliant twelve-man choral ensemble Chanticleer in a sold-out late evening concert on 30 January. The new 39,000 square foot atrium, designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly is a striking public space, part of the museum’s major expansion project which will be completed at the end of 2013 after more than a decade of planning and construction.Read full review... | |
| 16-Jan-2013 All Souls Church | Valletta International Baroque Festival: Italian sacred polyphony in 17th-century Malta |
 My second course of the sumptuous feast under the title of the Valletta International Baroque Festival arrived on 16 January. The fare was a Maltese delicacy with Italian overtones. The concert was performed by the Cappella Sanctae Catharinae at the church dedicated to all souls in Valletta.
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