Live Music
A request from the producer and an audience of musical experts – what could possibly go wrong?
When we arrived there were, at the very front of the stage, four very large clear glass bowls filled with…
Tiger Lillies. The name sums up what they are - a sharp combination of danger and sweetness.
Comedy + August = Edinburgh seems an obvious equation, but it’s twelve years since Mitch Benn last performed…
The second concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival ended up…
Every musician appearing in the Music at 100 Princes Street series is a winner of awards or scholarships…
After an awkward flurry of Smetana - Dance of the Comedians - Garry Walker and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra…
I met a friend at the bus stop on the way to see Shooglenifty on Friday night.
A scintillating performance of Rachmaninov’s third Piano Concerto by Nikolai Lugansky made a thrilling…
There are elements to the 2013 EIF programme which are forever 1970s’s America, with performances by Philip…
At any other time of the year it would have looked an odd sight - a snake of folk in Thistle Street carrying…
It was a joy to watch Daniil Trifonov at the piano again. A few years ago his lurching towards the keyboard…
Georgian sacred and folk music is quite distinctive. Unlike European and other a cappella songs, their…
The concept of "35MM: A Musical Exhibition" is to build on the visual impact of works in a gallery by…
It is no surprise that Cold Heat, a new work by Swedish composer Anders Hilberg, opened the Tonhalle…
It was the title of the concert which intrigued me - Scottish composers for the violin. And we were off the…
The Philadelphia Orchestra was the first major orchestra I heard live.
This, or something like it, has existed since the Fifteenth Century, says Sarah while examining a world globe…
Iestyn Davies was a choir boy in the chapel of St John’s College Cambridge, went on to be a countertenor at…
One of the highlights for me in last year’s Fringe programme at St Andrew’s and St George’s West was Akiko…