Festival Updates, Artist Insights & Press Coverage
The JKL Duo, Jacopo Lazzaretti on classical guitar and Kerry Lynch on flute, bodhran and whistle, performed on Sunday June 1st to an enthusiastic and well pleased audience at this free “taster event” for Paxton’s July festival of chamber music in that lovely venue with a good acoustic, the Picture Gallery in Paxton House.
The JKL Duo, Jacopo Lazzaretti on classical guitar and Kerry Lynch on flute, bodhran and whistle, performed on Sunday June 1st to an enthusiastic and well pleased audience at this free “taster event” for Paxton’s July festival of chamber music in that lovely venue with a good acoustic, the Picture Gallery in Paxton House.
The JKL Duo, Jacopo Lazzaretti on classical guitar and Kerry Lynch on flute, bodhran and whistle, performed on Sunday June 1st to an enthusiastic and well pleased audience at this free “taster event” for Paxton’s July festival of chamber music in that lovely venue with a good acoustic, the Picture Gallery in Paxton House.
A music festival has announced its “dazzling programme” of “world-class” performances taking place this summer in the Scottish Borders. Music at Paxton is set to treat music lovers at Paxton House on the banks of the River Tweed from July 18 to 27. People will be able to enjoy different musical styles, including Western classical, opera, contemporary, Indian, folk, jazz, and Gaelic.
The festival will also feature family events, talks, workshops, and songs.
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen was spellbinding at Duns Parish Church, the first external event for the festival, while the Kosmos Ensemble dazzled back at Paxton House
In the splendour of the Picture Gallery of Paxton House, the recital duo of Viktoria Mullova (violin) and Alasdair Beatson (piano) selected a mature and robust programme of three core works from two great Austro-German masters Schubert and Beethoven.
The Consone Quartet are in their second year as Music at Paxton’s Associate Ensemble, and my Edinburgh Music Review colleague Brian Bannatyne-Scott was very impressed last year with the distinctive sound of their period instruments with gut strings, and the lovely way they worked together.
Music at Paxton: The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, Paxton House, Berwickshire, written by Ken Walton If it appeared ironic for the British-based Piatti Quartet to call off Friday’s programme due to the train strikes and be replaced by the Netherlands-based Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, but the latter nonetheless provided their own brand of refreshing opener to this year’s […]
With its Palladian grandeur and Georgian interiors, Paxton House always carries the air of a pleasure palace of a bygone era. That feeling of refined enjoyment was cleverly mined by the soprano Rowan Pierce and the pianist Christopher Glynn in their programme at this years Music at Paxton festival.
An exciting summer of music at the Music at Paxton Festival Friday 21 – Sunday 30 July 2023 Festival Highlights▪ New Music at Paxton Associate Ensemble, Consone Quartet, multiple award-winners(Royal Over-Seas League, Borletti-Buitoni Trust, and more) and current members of theprestigious BBC New Generation Artists scheme.▪ Song recitals presented by exceptional young artists with superb […]
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