Classical
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…
This was the first of three consecutive concerts of Bach's Gamben Sonatas and Brahms' cello sonatas in the…
Ann Liebeck, the widely acclaimed opera soprano, gave us an hour of delightful songs, all in Spanish, from…
Outgoing Festival Director Sir Jonathan Mills kicked off this year’s programme with a lucid account of its…
Edinburgh based Scottish Chamber Orchestra was conducted by its own Robin Ticciati.
It may have been that some in the audience had come for The Planet's and knew they had to put up with the…
It would be hard to find a piano recital in this year's Festivals better than this afternoon's with Akiko…
The first of the two sonatas was composed in 1800-01 but never received the popularity of the Spring Sonata…
What a lovely way to spend your 80th birthday!
Francis Taylor is a mandolinist of the highest calibre in the United Kingdom. Having said that, it was an…
Bored with a career in banking Paul Chamberlain tried to learn the classical accordion at the Royal…
It's always good when performers enjoy giving us a brief introduction to what they are about to play.
We had a fascinating romp around some very familiar classical music played on a Bosendorfer piano with the…
After an awkward flurry of Smetana - Dance of the Comedians - Garry Walker and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra…
This sole Festival appearance by one of the world’s great orchestras, playing a massive symphony by a great…
An utterly pack-out Queen’s Hall (again, as before, with some of the audience forced unnecessarily to be…
On a Saturday night the Russian Orthodox Church might well be singing the All-Night Vigil in preparation for…
After rustling with anticipation, an excitedly packed-out Usher Hall suddenly exploded with elation to…
The Arditti Quartet – led by Irvene Arditti who formed the quartet at the Royal Academy of Music in 1974 –…