Concert Reviews
2024/25 season 4th concert at St. John’s, Saturday February 1st 2025, the Korros Ensemble
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The Kosmos Ensemble Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton, on viola, wore a large red rose in her hair. The violinist, Harriet Mackenzie, swathed in a red dress, had her hair secured by one…
2024/25 season 4th concert at St. John’s, Saturday February 1st 2025, the Korros Ensemble
The Korros Ensemble The Korros ensemble are a trio with a very special musical sound – the sympathetic but contrasting timbres of the flute and clarinet with the etherial sound…
Review of Keswick Music Society concert at St John’s Church, Keswick, Saturday October 5th 2024 – The Da Vinci Piano Trio
For the first concert of Keswick Music Society’s new season the Da Vinci Trio presented us with three number ones: Beethoven’s Opus 1 no. 1 in E flat; Shostakovich’s No….
Review 4th concert: The Pirasti Piano Trio, Nicholas Miller (violin), Alison Wells (cello), Jeffrey Sharkey (piano) St John’s Church
Programme Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio, Paul Schoenfield: Cafe Music, Brahms: Trio no 1 in B Major, Op.8 ( Revised version) The Piano Trio by Rebecca Clarke trio was a revelation. Here…
4th Concert – Charlotte Spruitt, violin, and Angus Webster, piano, St.John’s Church
Keswick Music Society Concert 24th February 2024: Review Last Saturday Keswick Music Society treated its audience to another outstanding musical evening at St. John’s Church. The Society’s previous concert featured the…
3rd concert – Dame Imogen Cooper, piano St. John’s Church
Imogen Cooper’s concert was attended by one of the largest audiences of recent years, and she lived magnificently up to all expectations as one of the most distinguished and cherished…
2023/24 Season 2nd concert – Lara Melda, piano, St. John’s Church
Lara Melda is a young and brilliant pianist currently delighting audiences around Britain, Europe and the antipodes: her career, launched when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year…
1st concert – The Alkyona String Quartet, St. John’s Church Saturday October 28th 2023
On Saturday evening Keswick Music Society started its 23/24 season with a superb concert featuring a young London-based string ensemble, The Alkyona Quartet, in the Society’s new venue at St….
Season 2022-23 Final Concert: Tuesday June 6th 2023 Theatre by the Lake – Review by Steve Matthews of Measure for Measure – the Music of Shakespeare’s Time performed by PIVA, The Renaissance Collective.
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!” cries King Lear in the storm on the heath, and the wind players of PIVA certainly blew with very swollen cheeks to…
Theatre by the Lake – Review by Steve Matthews of Brompton Quartet playing Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovich
“The Haydn’s bonkers,” said Edward Keenan, the viola player in The Brompton Quartet. And he was right. The playful, agitated, quizzical, quirky questioning of the opening phrases of Haydn’s String…