Reviews are in for Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024

13 Jun 2024

It’s wonderful to look back on nine days of fabulous concerts, family performances, screenings, a symposium, panel discussions and, above all, beautiful music from our 40th anniversary Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

Read more about it in the reviews online:

The Arts Desk *****
“one of the most vibrant chamber music festivals anywhere.”

The Spectator: Friday Night in Paris
“the atmosphere [the Playhouse] generates – with audience closely packed on all four sides of the performance space – is wonderfully immediate, especially when (as on this occasion) it’s filled to capacity.”

Bachtrack
An evening with Steven Isserlis *****
“Works by Robert Schumann and Gabriel Fauré – “my best friends in music” – provided a packed Crucible Playhouse with works of deep anguish and passionate affirmation, played with rapturous devotion by Isserlis himself, a state readily transmitted to his younger associates, Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano) and Irène Duval (violin).”

Bachtrack
Saint-Saëns: The Renaissance Man ****
“It was, truthfully, a remarkable concert that will live long in the memory, notably for the performance of the film score Saint-Saëns wrote for L’assassinat du duc de Guise, played to accompany a screening.”

Thoroughly Good
Celebrating the Lindsays
“The appreciation amongst the audience was palpable hinting at the rich bond the quartet’s reputation had formed. It is an achievement readily identified on the faces of fans, and symbolised in the presence of the chamber music festival to this day.”

Classical Explorer
Saint-Saëns: The Renaissance Man
“Delights and discoveries abounded at every turn.”

French Gems
“A fabulous performance of a fabulous piece.”

Romantic Piano
“Momen’s exquisite recital included music from Rameau to Ravel.”