Choral, Opera and Song

Choral Music – Live Reviews

The Hallé Choir:

The Planets and Unsuk Chin

Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony and Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder

Kantos Chamber Choir:

Behold the Sea

The Witch Trials

Kantos x helios x victoria baths

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Manchester Chamber Choir with The BBC Philharmonic

SANSARA with Manchester Collective

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Southwell Music Festival 2024:

Cathedrals of Sound – Anton Bruckner

Tenth Anniversary Concert – Mozart and Frances Cheryl-Hoad

Southwell Music Festival 2025:

Festival Cabaret and Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert

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The Apex Singers:

At Waterside Arts Centre, Sale

Christmas with the Apex Singers

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The Bach Choir with The Philharmonia:

Roderick Williams and Elgar

Britten’s War Requiem

Mahler Symphony No. 8 (150th Anniversary concert)

The Bach Choir with Florilegium

Bach’s St Matthew Passion

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The Marian Consort with Manchester Collective

The Sixteen

Yale Schola Cantorum with Juilliard415

Choral Music – Album Reviews

The Seafarer by Tim Benjamin – Album Review

The Wanderer by Tim Benjamin – Album Review

Choral Music – Personal

My Father, John Charles Holmes

A Visit to Thomas Kirche (St Thomas’s Church) in Leipzig, Home of the Music of JS Bach – Music Across the Generations and Across the Centuries

Opera – Live Reviews

Britten – The Turn of the Screw – Opera North

Britten – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Garsington Opera and the Philharmonia

Britten – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Opera North

Britten – Albert Herring – English National Opera

Britten – Peter Grimes – Opera North

Martinů – The Greek Passion – Opera North

Mozart – Così fan tutte – English National Opera

Mozart – The Magic Flute – Opera North

Poulenc – Dialogues des Carmélites – RNCM soloists, chorus and orchestra

Wagner – The Flying Dutchman – Opera North

Song – Live Reviews

Mark Padmore and Libby Burgess – Southwell Music Festival 2004

Marcus Farnworth at Southwell Music Festival 2024:

Medieval Masters

Surround Sounds No. 3

Marcus Farnsworth at Southwell Music Festival 2025:

Mahler and Folksong