Classical
Hervé Niquet conducted his five choirs, forty voices in all, accompanied by cornett, dulcians, sackbutts,…
After the fun of the night before when the lit-up and musical Usher Hall was the focal point of the…
CONSTANT LAMBERT: The Rio Grande
NEY ROSAURO: Marimba Concerto
RODRIGO: Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios
HAYDN…
I've been a regular at the end-of-festival Fireworks for some years and this year's was the best yet.
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra waited until the last minute before all the players came on to the stage.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra gave a capacity Festival audience an evening to remember with a programme…
The ensemble this morning consisted of the Swedish mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, the violinist Daniel…
Vadim Gluzman was the violin soloist in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto composed in 1942 when Barber was with…
With the double basses raised and along the back of the orchestra, and with twelve violas at the front to the…
Haydn's Nelson Mass is full of surprises not least in its flamboyant soprano opening. Are we really listening…
A full-strength LPO, crammed onto the Usher Hall stage, did full justice to its opening piece by resident…
In a programme of Chopin's piano music Wasa Hasegawa gave us two nocturnes, four Mazurkas, a Scherzo and a…
This massive work, far too big for any liturgical purpose is generally regarded as Bach’s greatest…
A orchestra of young people that was founded as recently as 2011 has done well to be invited to the Edinburgh…
Andrew Davis actively marshalled the large forces required for Britten’s War Requiem into a reasoned,…
Laura Cioffi and Clara Galea gave us a very entertaining hour of flute duets. They have been performing…
The programme changes every day at the Queen's Hall during the International Festival period, but all…
Like most of the large audience I did not know what was on offer from this unusual grouping.
This is the sixth successive year that The Sixteen has appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival.
In years gone by the organ recital audience sat on the dais and looked up to the organ loft and saw not much…