Live Music

Purcell’s best known opera was given a radical new twist by Frankfurt Opera, who contracted three acts into…
I never thought I would see three of Edinburgh’s well known organists playing The Stars and Stripes Together…
Kristin Hersh cuts a slight but forbidding onstage figure.
On a Saturday night the Russian Orthodox Church might well be singing the All-Night Vigil in preparation for…
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
Choral Classics was the first of 19 late night classical music concerts to be held in August in a really…
The Edinburgh Bach Choir of about 50 voices moved to their places betwixt the pulpit and font from where they…
Robert Dick conducted his symphony orchestra of over ninety players in just one work which lasted 95 minutes…
Declan Zapala is a busy concert guitarist who has recently completed a Master's degree in Performance from…
William Alexander was delighted with his audience of over a hundred Chopin enthusiasts for a lunchtime…
Midori astonished me in Hong Kong nearly a quarter of a century ago by her assurance, as a girl barely in her…
We were left in no doubt that the eight guys around the twenty age mark were thoroughly enjoying themselves…
Thunderous applause and prolonged cheers from a packed Usher Hall marked the end of the scintillating…
Everything was as it should be for Elgar's The Apostles.
It would have been so easy to have more players with just one piece each to play.
“It’s a kind of furtiveness, a weariness with all the conventions of the world so I guess you might say we’re…
This was the first of ten breakfast concerts, with coffee and muffins at the end, held in the Princes Room on…
The concept of "35MM: A Musical Exhibition" is to build on the visual impact of works in a gallery by…
After her recent brush with fame as a finalist on The Voice, Sally Barker is back to her roots as lead…