Forthcoming Concerts and Events
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Reviews
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James MacMillan St John Passion in Exeter Cathedral
Where better on the eve of Holy Week than Exeter Cathedral for this performance of James Macmillan’s St John Passion? Written in 2007 this music is fierce, tense and violent... -
James MacMillan’s St John Passion in Wells Cathedral
Americans would describe this as awesome. For once, they’d be right. Scotsman James MacMillan worked almost every emotion one can imagine into his setting of the Passion. It is brutal,... -
Carols by Candlelight 2012
19, 20 and 21 December 7.30pm The Pump Room, Bath A three-night carolling extravaganza, packing the Pump Room in Bath despite foul weather and a host of other attractions, had... -
Bath Abbey – November 3rd 2012
Bach, Copland and Britten Bach’s motet Komm, Jesu, komm got us off to a rather tentative start: perhaps it was the acoustic, but the ensemble was less than assured, and... -
Banuwa!
Saturday 14 July 2012 at 6 pm at the Wiltshire Music Centre Beauty lingers in the mind MOST concerts at the Wiltshire Music Centre are good; some are brilliant; and... -
Bach Mass in B minor – Saturday 17 March 2012
Bath Abbey Is Bach’s B Minor Mass the greatest work ever written? It’s a big claim. Or the St Matthew Passion? Every Bach lover will have a view. And many... -
The Pump Room, Bath – 14/15/16 December 2011
Carols by Candlelight This joyful annual event reminds us all that Christmas is now pretty close: time for present buying is short, so we better get busy. The music is... -
Bath Abbey – Saturday 5 November 2011
Eternal Light – offering hope for the future Howard Goodall’s setting of the Requiem, premiered in 2008, is a work of eloquent and moving contrasts, bring together Latin text: Biblical... -
Wiltshire Music Centre – Saturday 16 July 2011
Performance of near-perfection Apart from some rather laconic contrapuntal jazz there wasn’t much Bach about this splendid evening – but it served to show how flexible this choir can be.... -
Mendelssohn: Elijah Bath Abbey March 2011
Magnificent Mendelssohn in one of his most memorable and popular compositions, tells the story of an extraordinary unconventional Old Testament prophet in a unique musical portrait. And this performance reached...
