Live Music

After having seen the glamorous trio that is Fascinating Aïda, I have to wonder how it has taken me so long…
For half an hour Sarah Connolly CBE entranced us as she sung six of Alma Mahler's lieder, German romantic…
The Edinburgh International Festival launched its 2011 eclectic programme last night in traditional fashion…
April Randall and Stephen Morrison are colleagues from Fife Council’s instrumental instruction service and…
It might be said that when traditional folk music is taken up by well known composers the outcome is art…
The programme at the Usher Hall consisted of four compositions all written at the turn of the twentieth…
At any other time of the year it would have looked an odd sight - a snake of folk in Thistle Street carrying…
Performer and musicologist Jordi Savall has almost ten years on this reviewer.
The quiet command and confidence that exuded from Leif Ove Andsnes’ playing was impressive.
Anne-Isabel Meyer, the cellist, was lucky enough to come into possession a rare edition from 1871 of Schumann…
With the renovation of their hall well under way, The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall brought a harpsichord to…
A friend and I caught the end of Kassidy’s set in King Tut’s on Saturday at this year's T in the Park.
Every year the Edinburgh Fringe is full of improvisation.
The long wait on our feet was worth it.
The Edinburgh-based Barony Ensemble performed their unusual, colourful and virtuosic programme in St Andrew's…
A feisty stride across Scotland’s history.
As we trudge through our muggy, too-hot-for-the-Scots-but-can’t-complain summer Morna Pearson’s new comedy…
This is a real treat of song and dance from two dozen boys and girls aged between 8 and 12 from villages in…
There are some things that you can rely on with the Edinburgh Tattoo: marching bands, fireworks and big bangs…