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Live Music in Edinburgh
As a tribute to Holocaust Memorial Day, the first part of the concert was dedicated to two composers who were…
In her pre-concert talk the violinist Ursula Heidecker Allen demonstrated very effectively just how softly…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra was in superb form at last night's concert at the Usher Hall. Under the baton…
There’s one musical instrument that is permanently at the back of the stage of the Usher Hall - its organ. It…
Zoltán Kodály used a collection of traditional tunes from Galánta in Slovakia that had originally been…
A hotly tipped singer/songwriter in her own right, she’s opened for Keane in the US, been working as a…
David Chivers pre-concert talk, given on the top floor of the Usher Hall, gave us an intelligent and…
A live music event to celebrate Scotland is Alive with Music's first anniversary.
This was the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s New Year concert - based on the tradition of the Musikverein…
Glasgow cancelled. Other Scottish cities such as Stirling and Aberdeen held low-key events with a few free…
Conductor Nicholas McGegan and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra gave their usual rousing programme of Viennese…
Lovers of live performances are wonderful! They breast the wayward rain and brace the gales to appreciate…
Rossini’s little known opera The Silken Ladder had just twelve performances in 1812 and was quietly dropped.
Everyone loves a good panto, and it doesn’t get any better than the traditional Edinburgh panto at the…
Adding music by Purcell and Byrd to works by living composers from the Baltic States produced a fascinating…
The Children’s Christmas Swingalong incorporated music spanning 200 years, played swing-style and with a lot…
Steven Osborne was asked by William Chandler in the talk beforehand whether it was usual for a solo pianist…
Not just shaken, stirred but most definitely rocked!
J S Bach was a prolific composer, writing hundreds of compositions. A devout Lutheran he composed this choral…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) has announced the appointment as Associate Artists of two long-standing…