Rob Barnett
Purely Classical
“Conductor Nicholas Concannon Hodges and Todmorden Orchestra – a true community orchestra – have a reputation for exploring music realms seemingly undreamt of by the UK’s great professional orchestras.”
Rob Barnett
“Conductor Nicholas Concannon Hodges and Todmorden Orchestra – a true community orchestra – have a reputation for exploring music realms seemingly undreamt of by the UK’s great professional orchestras.”
Rob Barnett
“Energetic or delicate the orchestra moved with the complexity and variation of mode expressed across the music throughout the four movements and, as is noteworthy of all their public performances, did credit to themselves, their conductor, their audience and the town.”
Rob Barnett
“It spoke as a massive and ambitious climax to the evening. This was crucially aided by a most accomplished wind section and a gloriously fulsome brass section.”
Rob Barnett
“It ended with a glorious blaze from the whole orchestra before the final gentle gesture. All in all, quite an evening and the Dvorak was greeted, as it should be, with delight.”
Christopher Irvin Browne
“A fine year of first-class music-making can be anticipated, and I urge listeners of live music to continue supporting this remarkable orchestra.”
Rob Barnett
“The orchestra were well up to form and this was obvious from many a quiet detail as well as the moments of rapturous upheaval.”
Rob Barnett
“The orchestra’s leader is Andrew Rostron and he came under spotlight in one of the Strauss songs and more extensively in the Rachmaninov. In each instance his violin was burnished in tone and registered clearly.”
Tony Caffrey
“The orchestra handled the transition from the calm, pianissimo and flowing, to the bright, lively and forte peaks and troughs of the different movements with notable delicacy and technical control.”
Rob Barnett
“Tribute goes to conductor and orchestra for an object lesson in reviving a rarely heard work and doing so with nothing short of magnificence.”
Christopher Irvin Browne
“Once again Todmorden Orchestra has shown the wide range of its talents, and is unquestionably one of the best larger regional orchestras for voluntary music-making in the North.”