The Journal of the British Flute Society

Concert Reviews

Catherine Coulter-Young and Richard Shaw St Mary Magdalene's, Munster Square 19th June 2010 Review by Helen Manente (Click image to see review)

Clare Southworth with the Chelmsford Sinfonietta Chelmsford Cathedral May the 8th 2010 Review by Richard Stagg (Click image to see review)

Trio Anima St Martin-in-the-Fields 16th of November 2009 Review by Richard Stagg (Click image to see review)

Emily Andrews with the Cambridge Graduate Orchestra West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge 13 November 2009 Review by Brenda Dykes (Click image to see review)

Wissam Boustany and Aleksander Szram St. John’s, Smith Square, London 22 May 2008 Review by Richard Stagg (Click image to see review)

BFS Website Concert Reviews: The small print

This venture by the BFS, concert reviews on the website, exists to fill a gap in flute —The Journal of the BFS, where we have chosen to concentrate on CD reviews rather than live concerts. Why? Because we don’t have unlimited space in the magazine, and because reviews sometimes can’t be published until five or six months after the concert, by which time the concert is history. A CD, on the other hand, continues to be available, so a CD review is always useful—you can go out and buy the CD at any time. On this website, however, we have unlimited space, and we can publish a concert review immediately.

Similar rules apply for website reviews as for printed reviews:

(1) Reviews are published for the benefit of readers, not simply to provide artists with publicity.
(2) We cannot necessarily guarantee to publish a review of every item sent to us or of every concert to which we are invited.
(3) The editorial team chooses reviews for flute. The concert reviews editor chooses concert reviewers from amongst BFS members. Requests to publish unsolicited reviews cannot be accepted.
(4) A concert reviewer has the liberty to praise or criticise the performance as well as items on the programme. A favourable review cannot be guaranteed.
(5) The reviews editor welcomes requests for concert reviews, which should be made to him at the address shown below. You should be a BFS member when you apply for a concert review. If you are not a member please click here to apply for a One-year BFS Membership before submitting your application.

If you would like your concert reviewed, please let the Website Reviews Editor know well in advance. We must be invited to review a concert.

Richard Stagg BFS Website Concert Reviews Editor (concertreviews@bfs.org.uk)

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To contact the Website Concert Reviews Editor, Richard Stagg, please e-mail concertreviews@bfs.org.uk

For CD Reviews in flute - The Journal of the BFS, please contact Robert Bigio on cdreviews@bfs.org.uk

For all other correspondence on flute - The Journal of the BFS Editor, Robert Bigio, please e-mail editor@bfs.org.uk