Kendal – Seen and Heard International

Porgy and Bess Reimagined: outstanding Gershwin at the Cumbria Opera Festival

30/08/2025 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 [3] – Gershwin, Porgy and Bess Reimagined: Venetia Iga (alto), Michael Muoneke (tenor), Kezia Abouma (piano), Nathan Dawkins (double bass), Noah Ojumu (drums), Joe Davies, Alistair Burton (arrangers). Kendal Town Hall, 27.8.2025. (CK)

Venetia Iga rehearsing for *Porgy and Bess Reimagined* © Chris Tribble

Kendal Sees and Hears Raphael Wallfisch as Still ‘a Master at Work’

28/08/201910/08/2019 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Lake District Summer Music [2] – Barrière, Beethoven, Martinů, Clarke, Mendelssohn: Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John York (piano), Kristiana Ignatjeva (second cello). St. Thomas’s Church, Kendal, Cumbria, 8.8.2019. (MC)

John York & Raphael Wallfisch (c) Benjamin Ealovega

Marmen Quartet at the 2019 Lake District Summer Music

28/08/201907/08/2019 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Lake District Summer Music [1] – Haydn, Ligeti, Brahms: Marmen Quartet (Johannes Marmen [violin], Ricky Gore [violin], Bryony Gibson-Cornish [viola], Steffan Morris [cello]), Hélène Clément [viola], Bartholomew LaFollette [cello]. St. Thomas’s Church, Kendal, Cumbria, 5.8.2019. (MC)

Porgy and Bess Reimagined: outstanding Gershwin at the Cumbria Opera Festival

Kendal Sees and Hears Raphael Wallfisch as Still ‘a Master at Work’

Marmen Quartet at the 2019 Lake District Summer Music

Cultured and Technically Adept Chamber Music from the Navarra Quartet

Vital and Exuberant Playing from the Hallé

EU Chamber Orchestra Create Satisfying Glow

Expressive and Vital Playing from Guzzo and Manchester Camerata