Music

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra  has announced details of its proposed move to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

On arrival at the Usher Hall, the audience has to get its bearings.

Coming in to a concert from a busy and wintery world outside takes a mental adjustment, and so what better than a thoughtful opening overture.

One of the animation components in the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival, running at The Traverse, was Chico & Rita, a certificate 15, fea

“1-2-3, it’s so easy, it’s like taking candy off a baby”.

As a tribute to Holocaust Memorial Day, the first part of the concert was dedicated to two composers who were victims of the Holocaust.

In her pre-concert talk the violinist Ursula Heidecker Allen demonstrated very effectively just how softly she and her violin colleagues would be playing the first of the three movements of Debussy

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra was in superb form at last night's concert at the Usher Hall. Under the baton of their Principal Conductor, Robin Ticciati, the versatility they displayed in controlling the dynamics in the first composition of the evening - Haydn's 'Philosopher' Symphony No 22 in E flat major - was excellent. In the second movement, which begins with a flurry, they enhanced the delightful nuances with aplomb.

There’s one musical instrument that is permanently at the back of the stage of the Usher Hall - its organ. It cost £4,000 when it was built specially for the Usher Hall in 1914 and was restored in 2003. At its restoration the console was moved from the side of the stage up and in front of the organ pipes.

Zoltán Kodály used a collection of traditional tunes from Galánta in Slovakia that had originally been published in about 1800.

Annual grass roots festival of traditional music and the arts taking place at venues across the city (only a few are listed above). More than 30 organisations come together to put on foot-stomping ceilidhs, late night concerts, folk clubs, storytelling and workshops by local and international performers.

A hotly tipped singer/songwriter in her own right, she’s opened for Keane in the US, been working as a backing singer for the Killers’ Brandon Flowers and supported James Vincent McMo

David Chivers pre-concert talk, given on the top floor of the Usher Hall, gave us an intelligent and enthusiastic insight into the way that the night’s conductor, Sir Roger Norrington, had fo

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 in Vienna.

Glasgow cancelled.  Other Scottish cities such as Stirling and Aberdeen held low-key events with a few free firework displays thrown in.  Edinburgh, of course, would rather announce a sys

Conductor Nicholas McGegan and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra gave their usual rousing programme of Viennese music on New Year's Day evening in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Charity.

Based on Sheridan’s libretto for The Duenna, this wacky but very human comedy celebrates all that is young love.

Lovers of live performances are wonderful!  They breast the wayward rain and brace the gales to appreciate their chosen art form and on Wednesday 29 December, the elements were fierce enough t