Thaxted – Seen and Heard International

In Eugene Onegin Wild Arts’s greatest strength is that it acts as a collective not a collection of starry individuals

16/08/202515/07/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin (arr. Orlando Jopling, sung in English translation by Siofra Dromgoole): Soloists, The Wild Arts Ensemble / Otis Lineham (conductor). (conductor). Thaxted Parish Church, Essex, 12.7.2025. (CC)

Xavier Hetherington (Lensky) and Timothy Nelson (Onegin) © Allan Titmuss

Unforgettable Thaxted recital: place, music, Chance and Carr in perfect congruence

27/06/202525/06/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2025 [2] – Love and Loss: Music for Countertenor & Lute: Songs by Dowland, Danyel, Rosseter, Campion, Purcell, Blow and Cynthia Harper. Alexander Chance (countertenor), Toby Carr (lute). Thaxted Parish Church, 22.6.2025. (CC)

Toby Carr (lute) and Alexander Chance (countertenor)

Thaxted programming at the highest level: Nicky Spence and Dylan Perez’s My Father’s Son

27/06/202525/06/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Thaxted Music Festival 2025 [1] – My Father’s Son: Nicky Spence (tenor), Dylan Perez (piano). Thaxted Parish Church, Essex, 22.6.2025. (CC)

Nicky Spence (tenor) and Dylan Perez (piano)

A delightful performance of The Fairy Queen by the Armonico Consort and Players in Thaxted

03/08/202408/07/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2024 [3] – Purcell, The Fairy Queen, Z 629: Oz Clarke (narrator), Eloise Irving, Hannah Fraser Mackenzie, Laura Moretto (sopranos), William Towers (alto), Matthew Pochin (tenor), Robert Davies (bass), Armonico Consort & Baroque Players / Christopher Monks (harpsichord / director). Thaxted Parish Church, 6.7.2024. (CC)

Purcell’s *The Fairy Queen* at the Thaxted Festival 2024

An entertaining and stimulating The Magic Flute from Wild Arts at Thaxted

03/08/202402/07/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2024 [2] – Mozart Die Zauberflöte (sung in English, translated by Jeremy Sams, abridged): Soloists, Orchestra / Orlando Jopling (conductor). Thaxted Parish Church, 30.6.2024. (CC)

Nadine Benjamin and Jan Karl Rautio make perfect musical partners at the Thaxted Festival

03/08/202425/06/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2024 [1] – Liszt, Hall, Verdi, Puccini: Nadine Benjamin (soprano), Jan Karl Rautio (piano). Thaxted Parish Church, Essex, 22.6.2024. (CC)

Nadine Benjamin and Jan Karl Rautio after their recital at Thaxted © Bertille Cascio

The Tippett Quartet premiere Noah Max’s Quartet No.2 at the Thaxted Festival

02/07/202302/07/2023 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Noah Max, Holst, Schumann: Tippett Quartet (John Mills & Jeremy Isaac [violins], Lydia Lowndes-Northcott [viola], Bosidar Vukotic [cello]), Emma Abbate (piano). The Church of Saint John the Baptist with Our Lady and Saint Laurence, Thaxted, 1.7.2023. (CS)