Concert Reviews

Saturday 17 March 2018

Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Festival Chorus started the celebrations for their 25^th anniversary in style in Exeter Cathedral last night.

Saturday 9 December 2017

Buckfast Abbey

Planning a Christmas Concert programme with any degree of originality is a tough call for a choir director,

Saturday 18 November 2017

Exeter Cathedral

The twinned cities of Exeter and Bad Homburg came together on Saturday evening for an excellent choral concert, given by the Exeter Festival Chorus and the Erlöserkirche Bachchor, directed by Nigel Perrin.

Sunday 25 June 2017
Exeter Phoenix

Africa can mean bright colours, and insistent drum beats with complex cross-rhythms.

Saturday 1 April 2017
St Peter's Parish Church, Budleigh Salterton

“Beautiful”, “stunning phrasing” and “amazing” were just some of the comments that my fellow audience members uttered at the end of this memorable concert.

Saturday 3 December 2016
Exeter Cathedral

BACH'S CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS

J S Bach's six cantatas composed to celebrate Christmas in Leipzig in 1734 make a surprisingly satisfactory whole when presented as his Christmas Oratorio, the work the Exeter Festival Chorus chose to perform on 3 December in Exeter Cathedral as its contribution to the city's festive celebrations.

Saturday 12 November 2016
Crediton Parish Church

Gathering in Crediton Parish Church on the eve of Remembrance Sunday, Exeter Festival Chorus could not have presented a more poignant and appropriate evening of music.

Sunday 3 July, 2016.
Dartington Great Hall

How exciting and refreshing to hear rarely performed music sung with panache and assurance by the fine voices of the Exeter Festival Chorus, under the direction of Nigel Perrin.

Saturday 5 March 2016
Exeter Cathedral

LITURGY AND THEATRE MIX IN MUSIC

The smell of incense welcomed the audience to Exeter Cathedral

Saturday 5 December 2015
Great Hall, University of Exeter

Gershwin’s music inhabits a fluid space between classical and pop.