Live Music
A feisty stride across Scotland’s history.
Wistful is the one word that probably best describes a series of songs about a love affair. The show is based…
This is what the Edinburgh Fringe is all about.
It's always good when performers enjoy giving us a brief introduction to what they are about to play.
The latest in the National Museum of Scotland's series of hugely popular after-hours Friday evening…
After an awkward flurry of Smetana - Dance of the Comedians - Garry Walker and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra…
What should you do if two men walk on stage, then, for no apparent reason whatsoever, one of them suddenly…
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…
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
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 –…
Oper Frankfurt’s fantastical offering – supported by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany…
“Requiem” is a rather misleading title for this massive orchestral and choral work: “Sacred Concert”, the…
Purcell’s best known opera was given a radical new twist by Frankfurt Opera, who contracted three acts into…
Drum Struck is a rare opportunity for the whole family, from the very youngest to the oldest, to get stuck in…
Midori astonished me in Hong Kong nearly a quarter of a century ago by her assurance, as a girl barely in her…
Timing, in improvised music, is all-important.
A scintillating performance of Rachmaninov’s third Piano Concerto by Nikolai Lugansky made a thrilling…