Live Music

There are elements to the 2013 EIF programme which are forever 1970s’s America, with performances by Philip…
We needed to cast our minds back to pre reformation times, to the fifteenth century, when music in church was…
An extraordinarily calm and personable Ben Baker introduced us to what he was about to play.
The Edinburgh-based Barony Ensemble performed their unusual, colourful and virtuosic programme in St Andrew's…
In 1897, three years prior to completing his renowned Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Rachmaninov suffered…
The Hub – home of the Edinburgh International Festival – is hosting a variety of eclectic Café Concerts in…
Everyone who performed was extraordinarily talented - the Royal Over-Seas League through its international…
Thunderous applause and prolonged cheers from a packed Usher Hall marked the end of the scintillating…
As a wonderful innovation - what goes on in the organ loft is now screened to the walls either side of the…
“It’s a kind of furtiveness, a weariness with all the conventions of the world so I guess you might say we’re…
The programme at the Usher Hall consisted of four compositions all written at the turn of the twentieth…
Declan Zapala is a busy concert guitarist who has recently completed a Master's degree in Performance from…
From Haefliger's timely deportment at the piano and placement of opening chord one could tell this was to be…
St Andrew's and St George's West Church is one of those special places in the life of the Fringe where there'…
It was a delight to watch the oboe, bassoon, violin and cello soloists for Haydn’s Sinfonia concertante in a…
A discerning audience enjoyed performances this evening of two most notable symphonies composed by Franz…
This was the first of two concerts where the instruments played correspond to those in use at the time the…
William Alexander was delighted with his audience of over a hundred Chopin enthusiasts for a lunchtime…
The sectarian divide in Northern Ireland is an evocative relocation for Shakespeare’s plot of Romeo and…
How fortunate to have such experienced musicians. Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto has a quiet piano introit…