Tag Archives: Bath International Music Festival

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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Bath MusicFest 2011

Posted on June 30, 2011 by vhk10

The Festival is shorter now and largely coincided with half-term, so there was less opportunity to go to concerts, but we managed two. Some in the family went to hear the Scholtes and Janssens Piano Duo perform in the Assembly … Continue reading →

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behind the Royal Crescent

Posted on June 2, 2011 by vhk10

The now annual ‘Party in the City’ which opens the Bath ‘MusicFest’ (as it is currently styled) booked the Chandos Singers to perform in the garden behind the Royal Crescent Hotel. We were the last performers at this venue and … Continue reading →

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a shortened Festival

Posted on June 7, 2010 by vhk10

The Navarra quartet was in the end the only Bath Festival concert I got to. (For most of the rest of the Festival we were away from Bath.) I considered going to hear Exaudi perform a programme that mixed Tudor … Continue reading →

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the Navarra quartet in Chew Magna

Posted on May 30, 2010 by vhk10

The late Miles Kington once passed an observation made to him that many Somerset village names could be those of lawyers from American TV mini-series. I can’t however imagine a lawyer called Chew Magna, one of my favourites, where I … Continue reading →

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