With great regret and sadness, the Trustees have taken the decision to cancel all concerts in the 2020 Concerts at Cratfield Season. This reflects Trustees’ concerns for the safety of the audience and musicians in current circumstances. The Trustees are looking at ways of making some gesture of support for […]
Concert Reviews
1 July – – Leonore Piano Trio 15 July – – Jack Liebeck (violin) Katya Apekisheva (piano) 29 July – – Allegri String Quartet 12 August – – Maxwell String Quartet 26 August – – Kathyrn Stott (piano) 9 September – – Carducci String Quartet with Craig Ogden (guitar)
An experienced concert-goer and lover of Brahms’s music gave his thoughts on the recent recital by the Aronowitz concert on Sunday 13 August 2017 My first ever LP was the Brahms Piano Quintet, my second was the first Symphony, and one of the next after that was the two cello sonatas on […]
Visit our new archive section to see programmes from last season’s concerts and Roger Parker’s talks on Haydn and Beethoven.
At the 2016 AGM in December 2016, Members & Patrons heard reports on the season’s concerts and finances, as well as a preview of the 2017 season. At the same time, the meeting approved the Trustees’ proposal to convert the charitable trust which has run Concerts at Cratfield since 1993 […]
I always get a little anxious about writing reviews. Not least is the problem of attempting to present something in a creative and engaging way, and it occurs to me that it mildly echoes the challenge faced by all musicians performing ‘core repertoire’ as part of their programmes: how to […]
As the newspaper report below shows, there has been some effective police work in tracking down one of those who stole lead from the roof of St Mary’s in December 2015. Click on the image to increase its size.
A ‘pop-up’ quartet, when it has been chosen as thoughtfully as this, can play very well and somehow with an extra charge. When it became clear that the London Haydn Quartet were unable to play on 31 July, tickets had already been sold and Philip Britton had to find a […]
Concerts at Cratfield: the Heath Quartet, Sunday 17 July 2016 After the season got off to such a brilliant start two weeks ago with the excitement of Nicholas Daniel performing the specially-commissioned Fanfare for a New Roof and the Carducci Quartet in predictably fine form, the bar might seem to […]
Concerts at Cratfield: Carducci String Quartet with Nicholas Daniel (oboe and cor anglais): Sunday 3 July 2016 However dank and gloomy our summer may be, there is always the consolation of looking forward every other Sunday for six weeks to a concert at St Mary’s Cratfield. The standard kept up […]