We’ve Got A Gig!

We’ve Got A Gig!

So, New Year’s Eve is definitely happening! “Yes”, we hear you say “of course New Year’s Eve is happening – it might be virus-coated but the world hasn’t actually stopped spinning has it?” No, what we mean is that Rainer Hersch’s New Year’s Eve Bash is definitely...
Trump: The Opera

Trump: The Opera

You really mean ‘Trump: The Opera!?” Some kind of joke, surely? Well, yes and no.  Composers of opera have often chosen real people as the focus for the drama – Julius Caesar (Handel), Nixon in China (John Adams), even the celebrated La Traviata by...
Champagne and Stained Glass

Champagne and Stained Glass

Every good concert has to have a decent bar, especially for a New Year’s Eve Bash, and London’s Cadogan Hall really is quite exceptional… This is the venue for Rainer Hersch and his very own orchestra of madcap virtuosos as they welcome in the New Year with an...
Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights

As he gets ready for another delightful dollop of his Christmas No.1 Singalong in Holborn, Rainer Hersch reminisces about another festival ritual.  It’s bonkers, of course – well, it’s Rainer, what do you expect? – but as traditional as brandy...
A recorder virtuoso?

A recorder virtuoso?

A recorder virtuoso!  You have got to be kidding. Forget London’s Burning, when Piers Adams gets his chops round a descant recorder, sparks really start to fly because he is one of the world’s greatest recorder players. What…! You mean there’s more...

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