Lights in dark places
Edmund Rubbra’s Nine Tenebrae Motets and David Lang’s Little Matchgirl Passion performed by Durham University Chamber Choir, directed by Matthew McCullough.
Dunelm Consort: The Italian Job
A small, concentrated dose of steamy Italian passion is beautifully sung by the Dunelm Consort in this nicely constructed programme.
DUCC Descend to Earth
Earthy folk songs and heavenly rapture in Durham University Chamber choir’s summer concert.
A road trip with the Frankland Quartet
From Austria to America, by way of a Scottish motorway – quartets by Haydn, Meredith and Dvořák, played by the Frankland Quartet
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
Despite what Moscow propaganda claims, Russian culture isn’t cancelled in the West, but The Golden Cockerel, currently touring with ETO, may not be entirely to Putin’s taste.
End of term champagne with DUOS
DUOS Chamber serve up a delightful musical equivalent of pre-dinner drinks, but their concert showed why Durham so desperately needs a concert hall.
Chichester Psalms and Mozart Requiem
Durham University Choral and Orchestral Societies deliver a moving and powerfully sung programme, conducted by John Forsyth MBE
DUOS: Stanford, Smyth, Coleridge-Taylor
Stylish playing by DUOS Symphony Orchestra in a richly romantic programme of British rarities.
Hidden symphonic gems
DUOS President Matthew Madeley shares some thoughts about their upcoming concert unveiling hidden gems of British symphonic music.