Review: The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare Live! Hazelbury Manor, Box

4:42pm Tuesday 7th July 2009

When Graham Paton, as Antonio, opened Shakespeare Live's production of The Merchant of Venice by declaiming “I know not why I am so sad,” he may have been being slightly economical with the truth.

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Review: City of Bath Bach Choir with the Will Todd Trio, Wiltshire Music Centre

12:01pm Monday 6th July 2009

It’s inevitable, emotionally, I suppose that most of the attention would focus on the first half of this programme because of the appearance of the Junior Choir but, musically and significantly, the second half, featuring Will Todd’s Mass in Blue, was monumental.

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Corsham Festival: Retorica Duo, Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo violins, St Bartholomew’s Church

2:25pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

Few could have expected this concert to have been so good. Dressed in matching white and white these two young, attractive violinists made a charming picture standing in front of a too-small audience; when they started to play it was a case of not just pretty faces… Mozart’s Duo for 2 violins, from the Piano Sonata in D major, K. 311, was a touch hurried causing a phrenetic, somewhat muddy final movement.

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Corsham Festival: Counterpoise: The Power of Love

2:28pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

Violin, saxophone, trumpet and piano produce a dramatic sound effect: Add a narrator with a voice that can coerce with her rich European timbre or instil foreboding with clipped crystalline consonants and there is a basis for high drama.

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Corsham Festival: Hannah Marcinowicz, saxophone, Daniel Swain, piano

2:06pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

Finely balanced playing with telling accenting showed how well saxophone and piano can blend.

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Corsham Festival: Barb Jungr: The Pound

11:19pm Sunday 28th June 2009

Corsham Festival: Barb Jungr: The Pound From her opening number, Walking In Memphis, I was hooked. And through almost all the first half of her show, the penultimate in the festival, I felt Barb Jungr had flicked through my personal music collection and plucked out the favourites.

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Corsham Festival: Vauxhall Pleasure Tuesday June 23: The Pound arts cntre

11:36pm Sunday 28th June 2009

Vauxhall Pleasure was something of an unknown quantity: it was hard to tell from the Corsham Festival programme exactly what might happen – except that film and music were involved.

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Corsham Festival: Zum Trio: Gypsy Tango Inferno Monday June 22: Pound arts centre

11:33pm Sunday 28th June 2009

Blending the fire of Eastern European gypsy fiddle music and the passion of Argentinian Tango, the Zum Trio took Corsham Festival by storm at a concert in the Pound Arts Centre on Monday night.

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Corsham Festival Review: Tracey Smith: The Book of Rubbish Ideas

11:27pm Sunday 28th June 2009

Corsham Festival: Tracy Smith: The Book of Rubbish Ideas Monday June 22: Pound Arts Centre Feisty, down to earth and burning with enthusiasm, writer and broadcaster Tracy Smith took the subject of sustainable living by the scruff of its neck to give out all sorts of useful advice on reducing waste and saving money.

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Corsham Festival: The Tin Forest: PuppetCraft

11:17pm Sunday 28th June 2009

This was a charming piece of theatre for children – of all ages.

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Corsham Festival: Black Hair

11:14pm Sunday 28th June 2009

This is the kind of off-the-wall performance for which festivals are the perfect ambience.

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