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Wednesday, 29 June 2016, 12.15pm Here was a recital that would have hacked it in the Wigmore Hall, London, or in any other suitably-sized venue, for that matter. It was good to have a programme (mainly) of duets – so rarely heard these…
L’Alliance Française Women’s Choir: Voix de femmes , Janey MacKenzie (piano and voice), Madeleine Dean (poetry reading), Brigid O’Meeghan (cello), Julie Coulson (piano and choir), Marie Brown (conductor)
Sunday 9th September 2012 A glance at the programme and the list of performers at the head of this review will give the reader an idea of the range and scope of this undertaking – a fascinating, and, as it turned out, extremely rewarding…
Sunday, 20 June 2010 A new venture by the Alliance Française Wellington, but intended to be annual, this was a competition for singers in two categories of French song: modern songs in the syles of Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf and others, and…
Wednesday, 9 June 2010 The performers were brave to tackle a difficult and unusual work such as this cycle of nine songs, and perhaps it was not only the recent bad weather that deterred some from attending the lunch-time concert.
Wednesday 21 April 12.15pm The concert title might have celebrated the season but there was little in the programme, other than the last of Poulenc’s songs, that seemed specific to April either in the northern or southern hemispheres.