Classical

The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra is well-remembered from its five-concert residency at the 2003 Edinburgh International Festival.

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 of Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello as the centrepiece of a delightful morning concert as part of The Queen’s Hall series. He was playing a cello made in 1696 whilst the Hungarian composer’s Sonata was written in 1915 in the midst of the Great War and not performed for another three years.

The final allocation of tickets for the annual Edinburgh Festival Fireworks Concert - this year dubbed the Virgin Money Festival Fireworks after its new sponsor - go on sale on Saturday 3 September at 10.00am. They are only available over the counter at The Hub on Castlehill.

Valery Gergiev has been made the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh International Festival, it was announced tonight.

Haydn is not a name that cones readily to mind at the mention of Opera, yet he composed a large number. The precise number is not known, as some have disappeared without trace, but the titles and production of at least 18 is known and it is accepted that the total could be 25.

Donald Runnicles has instilled new life into the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as Chief Conductor, along the way carving out growing repute for himself as a Mahler specialist.

The Philharmonia, regarded by many as Britain’s leading orchestra, was in cracking form on its only appearance at this year’s International Festival, performing a balanced programme of

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 force and determined to please.

The dark studio in Brown Street has tiered seating on three of its sides and on the fourth was sitting the guitarist and vocalist. Out from the black curtain behind came the dancer.

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 adventurous pair.

Ravi Shankar has spent decades crossing boundaries, both geographical and musical, whilst remaining among the finest living exponents of Indian classical music.

Simon Keenlyside’s acclaimed Queens Hall success in the 2010 festival did not replicate readily in the vaster Usher hall, though a large - but not capacity - audience was vociferous at the baritone’s polished performance.

It is easy to tell that a group of players are entirely comfortable and practised with one another. This certainly was the case for the three young men of the Rhodes Trio.

Jayson Gilham was born in Queensland in Australia and initially studied at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University before recently completing at Masters Degree at the Royal Academy of Mus

For a Canadian orchestra lauded as one of the best French orchestras in the world, it seems a little odd that an International Festival concert should not have any French or Canadian content.

The concert at the Usher Hall with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra opened with Ravel's composition Le Tombeau de Couperin. Originally for piano, Ravel had started to write it in 1913, but war intervened and the composition - in six movements - wasn't completed until 1918.