Tag Archives: Bath International Music Festival

2014 and 2015’s resolutions

Posted on January 9, 2015 by vhk10

2014 certainly had some very high points – comparable to if not better than the annus mirabilis of 2007. These include, in approximately chronological order: singing Messiah in Bombay and Goa with the South West Festival Chorus performing the Glagolitic … Continue reading →

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The Oxford Lieder Festival

Posted on October 31, 2014 by vhk10

This has been going on during the last 3 weeks of October. It seems to be bucking the current trend and flourishing, with a large number of concerts, talks, masterclasses and other events. What are they doing right? What could … Continue reading →

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after the 2014 Festival

Posted on June 5, 2014 by vhk10

@KirstenTElliott The Bath International Music Festival has been and gone, Alasdair Nicolson’s second and last as Artistic Director. I have been told a fair amount about the last couple of festivals by several people closely involved, but should not repeat … Continue reading →

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inside the Masonic Hall

Posted on May 28, 2014 by vhk10

I’d never been in a Masonic hall before, but Bath’s was used for a series of late-night concerts in the Festival. These were informal, in that you could take your drink into the concert hall and the seats were unreserved. … Continue reading →

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Shopping songs

Posted on May 27, 2014 by vhk10

I was very proud to see my youngest child performing along with others in his class in the Bath Festival in a free lunchtime concert of music written for children by Peter Maxwell Davies and Alasdair Nicolson, the Festival’s director. … Continue reading →

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scanning the Bath Festival programme

Posted on March 16, 2014 by vhk10

We’ve just received the Bath Festival programme for 2014’s festival, and I looked through to see which concerts I might want to go to. But I was struck by three things: the shortness of the programme, the relative absence of … Continue reading →

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Bath Festival 2013: Berlioz at the Forum

Posted on July 1, 2013 by vhk10

I went to only one Bath Festival concert this year because most of the other interesting ones were around the first weekend of the Festival when I was away or busy. There were certainly some other concerts I’d have gone … Continue reading →

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The sword of Damocles

Posted on June 12, 2012 by vhk10

I missed most of the Bath Festival this year, but caught towards the end the Belcea Quartet’s Beethoven programme at the Assembly Rooms. After hearing an efficient performance of the fifth of the ‘Haydn’ quartets, I managed to track down … Continue reading →

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an open letter to Alasdair Nicolson, future artistic director of the Bath Festival

Posted on March 8, 2012 by vhk10

Dear Alasdair, I await your arrival next year as new director of the Bath International Music Festival with interest. I know that you will have already started planning your first Festival, but as a Festival-goer of some fifteen years standing, … Continue reading →

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in the Pump Room

Posted on February 27, 2012 by vhk10

My husband and elder son went to a concert in the Pump Room, promoted by the Bath Recital Artists’ Trust. The performers were two school-age pianists from the RCM. The BRAT (if they will forgive my abbreviating it so) seem … Continue reading →

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