Bournemouth Echo | Reviews

That'll Be The Day, Lighthouse, Poole

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:15:52 +0000

NOTHING succeeds like success, as they say. And 25 years on the road with an ever-changing programme of popular music from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies most definitely qualifies as success for this talented team.

BSO, One Enchanted Evening, Lighthouse, Poole

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:27:45 +0000

A RODGERS and Hammerstein concert with enough songs to please everyone. Their genius-Richard Rodgers wrote the music, Oscar Hammerstein ll penned the lyrics-for musical plays are timeless.

BSO Celebrity Recital, Lighthouse, Poole

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:42:53 +0000

Barry Douglas was the celebrity pianist engaged to fill the BSO’s Wednesday slot; a challenge that did not fill the hall and possibly occasioned the anvil-like resonance of Beethoven’s mighty Hammerklavier Sonata.

Snow Patrol, BIC, February 8

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:34:07 +0000

IT’S fair to say that Snow Patrol have ebbed and flowed a little bit since they were catapulted to fame in 2003 with their third album and first major label release, Final Straw.

Omid Djalili, Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:37:49 +0000

IT may have been freezing outside, but those packed inside the Pavilion on Sunday were completely oblivious as Omid Djalili warmed us right up with his cheerful, good-natured and thought-provoking humour.

Celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:38:57 +0000

A COUPLE of months ago, Bournemouth enjoyed the presence of TV newsreader, Angela Rippon.

Bournemouth Chamber Music Society, Bournemouth University

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:38:11 +0000

A generous and poignant tribute, by cellist Guy Johnston, of the Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite No1, was given in memory of Dr Peter Lowe, BCMS Chairman, whose sudden death was recently announced.

Macbeth, Lighthouse, Poole

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:24:46 +0000

This is an impressive attempt to make much of the magical qualities of Shakespeare’s cautionary tale of ambition, treachery and guilt.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Lighthouse, Poole

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:10:45 +0000

As a masterpiece of variation form Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody has it all; demanding a fiendish piano technique that can illuminate is melodic integrity, and brilliant orchestration.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra French Fancies, Pavilion, Bournemouth

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:41:19 +0000

MAKING his debut with the BSO in a delicious confection of French musical beaux-arts, Parisian-born conductor Fabien Gabel conveyed many alluringly perceptive and idiomatic performances.