Manchester Camerata and Jess Gillam on superb form in Buxton

By Peter Connors, 19 July 2022

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“Gillam's performance of this concerto should convert anyone who needed persuading”

Reviewed at St John's Church, Buxton on 19 July 2022

Feshareki, Venus / ZOHREH

Glazunov, Concerto in E flat major for alto saxophone and string orchestra, Op.109

Shaw, Entr'acte (version for string orchestra)

Elgar, Introduction and Allegro for strings, Op.47 (with the Brodsky Quartet)

Tchaikovsky, String Sextet in D minor, Op.70 "Souvenir de Florence" (version for string orchestra)

Jess Gillam, Saxophone

Brodsky Quartet

Manchester Camerata

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****1

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*****

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****1

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***11

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Peter Connors

Peter has been attending concerts and operas enthusiastically since his parents took him to see The Mikado in Liverpool when he was a boy of ten and to a “family concert” given by the RLPO a year or so later. Peter studied Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford and Law in Manchester. After spending twenty years as a pensions lawyer in Manchester, he retrained as a teacher of English as a foreign language, which took him to Germany and to Serbia. With the onset of the pandemic he returned to the UK and now works online and frequents concert halls and theatres in the North West of England.