Review of Make or Break 2 Nov 2019

5 November 2019 | News, Review

Blog ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE Despite going to every rehearsal and really enjoying the repertoire, when I was felled by a throat lurgie it was clear that I would be unable to sing in the latest Bath Camerata concert, Make or Break at the Wiltshire Music Centre....

Easter Weekend 2019

27 July 2019 | Review, Reviews, Uncategorized

It’s not often we have the opportunity to perform the same programme twice on consecutive days, but that’s what we did on Good Friday and Holy Saturday this year.  Our Good Friday recital was Bath Camerata’s 32ndannual performance at Wells Cathedral and the following...

CD Reviews

19 May 2019 | Review

We’ve had more reviews of the Songs of renewal CD. Here are some excerpts:Radio:[About Will Todd’s Songs of Renewal] “Cleverly written for maximum impact, with challenges well within this fine choral group’s means” – Andrew McGregor, BBC Radio 3’s Record...

Dixit, Dixit

30 April 2016 | Review, Uncategorised

Two performances of Handel’s “Dixit Dominus” in March and April made for an exciting spring for Bath Camerata.  The Good Friday concert at Wells Cathedral was the first of these traditional concerts to be conducted by Benjamin Goodson, who was at...

Camerata at St Martin, 30 Jan 2016

5 February 2016 | Review

The mild winter weather held for us as we went up to London for the choir’s first ever — surprisingly — concert in St Martin-in-the-Fields. The Brandenburg Choral festival, now in its seventh year, is the brainchild of Bob Porter, London orchestral player...

Spirit of America – Review

7 July 2015 | Review

Bath’s prestigious chamber choir chose to celebrate American Independence Day this Saturday with an all-American programme, and where more appropriate than the splendours of Bath’s Guildhall, built at precisely the same moment as our cousins across The Pond were...