Sparkling Delight

SHIRLEY RATCLIFFE hears
I Fagiolini at the Holt Festival

Although only in its third year, Holt Festival in Norfolk has been able to welcome to this attractive market town a wide range of outstanding musicians. Robert Hollingworth's I Fagiolini lit up a packed St Andrew's Church on 28 July 2011 with a diverse twenty-fifth birthday cocktail. The programme, ranging from Renaissance music to Darius Milhaud, Duke Ellington and a new commission from Orlando Gough, provides a good snapshot of what the group has been about over the last twenty-five years...

DARIUS MILHAUD

ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI