This opening concert of Spitalfields Festival 2021 was my first live music since March 2020. Approaching Christ Church Spitalfields, I felt a degree of apprehension: would I still be able to manage ...

After a preliminary lunchtime rampage by Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band, this year's Spitalfields Festival got underway with a jubilant peal of "London Surprise Major" by the Society of ...

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As cellist Tormod Dalen explained in a short address to the audience, the instruments were faithful to the period, bearing mostly naked gut strings, but with the odd steel-wound one thrown in, as ...

Some recorded concerts are just that: a concert with audience that happens to be captured via microphone and camera. Wednesday’s final concert of the Spitalfields Music Festival at Christchurch ...

"Spitalfields Festival is the best organised and most entertaining festival in the world," declared Andrew Carwood, director of The Cardinall's Musick. He might have added "friendliest". There is ...

This opening concert of Spitalfields Festival 2021 was my first live music since March 2020. Approaching Christ Church Spitalfields, I felt a degree of apprehension: would I still be able to manage ...

Leader Alice Piérot directed from the violin, but really the members of the group – standing apart from the cellos and theorbo – were in constant communication with each other, the beat of a baton ...