The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
The large Cleveland Orchestra – more than 100 musicians – filled the concert platform to bursting point but…
“Requiem” is a rather misleading title for this massive orchestral and choral work: “Sacred Concert”, the…
There were doubts almost to the last moment as to whether the renowned Argentine pianist Martha Argerich…
Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is a tale of the obsessive need to remain youthful and…
It was a subtle programming idea for the four LSO Festival concerts to offer in apposition symphonies by two…
We needed to cast our minds back to pre reformation times, to the fifteenth century, when music in church was…
In 1897, three years prior to completing his renowned Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Rachmaninov…
The Deborah Colker Dance Company's Tatyana is a stunning event. Based on Pushkin's poem Onegin, it…
Iestyn Davies was a choir boy in the chapel of St John’s College Cambridge, went on to be a countertenor at…
“Everybody is rushing, running, trying to escape almost certain death in this hail of enemy shells. Today I…
The long wait on our feet was worth it.
That was a dazzling performance from one of the world’s greatest orchestras.
It is no surprise that Cold Heat, a new work by Swedish composer Anders Hilberg, opened the Tonhalle…
Midori astonished me in Hong Kong nearly a quarter of a century ago by her assurance, as a girl barely in her…
Situated in Old College, the Playfair Library is the most sumptuous environment for Rudolf Buchbinder to have…
Robert Lepage and his creative team, collectively known as Ex Machina, reconstruct memories from his past in…
Every morning throughout the Edinburgh International Festival there is a chamber concert at the Queen's Hall.
At the EIF 2010, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch performed Agua, a vibrant, vivacious vision of Brazilian…
The Sixteen have gained a worldwide reputation since establishment by Harry Christophers in 1979.
Performer and musicologist Jordi Savall has almost ten years on this reviewer.