Classical
The Arditti Quartet – led by Irvene Arditti who formed the quartet at the Royal Academy of Music in 1974 –…
There is an old saying “from the sublime to the ridiculous” but at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, for this…
Chopin was on his way from Warsaw to London but stopped off in Paris and loved it so much that he stayed.…
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment make you listen again to Haydn.
Under Sir Roger Norrington they put…
Cheeky chappies Steven Worbey and Kevin Farrell whisked us on a rapid rollercoaster-ride of pianistic…
Ivo Pogorelich excites debate and controversy today as much as he did in 1980 at the Fryderyk…
The nineteen strong choir of St Andrew’s and St George’s under its director, Brigitte Harris, included four…
The large Cleveland Orchestra – more than 100 musicians – filled the concert platform to bursting point but…
The three young soloists made this a delightful evening of French sacred music at St Andrew's and St George's.
Every morning throughout the Edinburgh International Festival there is a chamber concert at the Queen's Hall.
Jean-Guihen Queyras is an extraordinarily versatile French cellist who played the three large scale movements…
Thunderous applause and prolonged cheers from a packed Usher Hall marked the end of the scintillating…
Hervé Niquet conducted his five choirs, forty voices in all, accompanied by cornett, dulcians, sackbutts,…
The Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig is one of the most established orchestras in Germany (it was the first…
Variously described as a dramatic psalm or an oratorio, this powerful exposition of the life of the biblical…
An extraordinarily calm and personable Ben Baker introduced us to what he was about to play.
Peter Bream is one of Edinburgh's celebrated pianists and full-time piano teachers. For several years now he…
Alasdair Cameron’s first two sonatas, both by Scarlatti seemed to get off to an uncertain start and he never…
The Sixteen have gained a worldwide reputation since establishment by Harry Christophers in 1979.
The programme changes every day at the Queens Hall during the International Festival period, but all concerts…