Live Music
It is no surprise that Cold Heat, a new work by Swedish composer Anders Hilberg, opened the Tonhalle…
The Philadelphia Orchestra was the first major orchestra I heard live.
That was a dazzling performance from one of the world’s greatest orchestras.
It is the day after the Edinburgh Fringe has ended. The streets are deserted and quiet.
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…
Had Warpaint played Edinburgh twelve months ago, they would most likely have checked in at Sneaky Pete’s or…
New York City based the TEAM are this year's recipients of the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize…
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote thirty six operas, all within nineteen years. Semiramide is not one of…
The small Back Room at St Brides was the venue for the three-strong Edinburgh women’s a-cappella group,…
After having seen the glamorous trio that is Fascinating Aïda, I have to wonder how it has taken me so long…
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…