Classical
The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra is well-remembered from its five-concert residency at the 2003 Edinburgh…
The Philadelphia Orchestra was the first major orchestra I heard live.
That was a dazzling performance from one of the world’s greatest orchestras.
Jean-Guihen Queyras is an extraordinarily versatile French cellist who played the three large scale movements…
The final allocation of tickets for the annual Edinburgh Festival Fireworks Concert - this year dubbed the…
Valery Gergiev has been made the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh International Festival, it was…
Haydn is not a name that cones readily to mind at the mention of Opera, yet he composed a large number. The…
Donald Runnicles has instilled new life into the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as Chief Conductor, along…
The Philharmonia, regarded by many as Britain’s leading orchestra, was in cracking form on its only…
This was the second of Stefan Warzycki’s piano recitals for this Fringe.
This was the first visit of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra to the Edinburgh Festival and they came in full…
The dark studio in Brown Street has tiered seating on three of its sides and on the fourth was sitting the…
It would have been so easy to have more players with just one piece each to play.
Last year’s performance in the same impressive Symposium Hall was fun and fairly obviously a first for an…
Ravi Shankar has spent decades crossing boundaries, both geographical and musical, whilst remaining among the…
Simon Keenlyside’s acclaimed Queens Hall success in the 2010 festival did not replicate readily in the vaster…
It is easy to tell that a group of players are entirely comfortable and practised with one another. This…
Jayson Gilham was born in Queensland in Australia and initially studied at the Queensland Conservatorium…
For a Canadian orchestra lauded as one of the best French orchestras in the world, it seems a little odd that…
The concert at the Usher Hall with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra opened with Ravel's composition Le Tombeau…