The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Arriving at the Festival Theatre, a man was standing outside making a general plea, “Does anyone have a spare…
The quiet command and confidence that exuded from Leif Ove Andsnes’ playing was impressive.
We needed to cast our minds back to pre reformation times, to the fifteenth century, when music in church was…
Lo Real is an intense and uncomfortable theatrical experience that apparently does not appeal to everyone.
Ibsen’s pioneering, modernist plays of the late 19th century are set in northern Norway, insular small town…
It was a subtle programming idea for the four LSO Festival concerts to offer in apposition symphonies by two…
This autobiographical play is set in a run-down boarding house at 722 Toulouse in the French Quarter,…
It's late and the lighting in The Hub theatre is so dim that it becomes impossible to read the free…
Israel in Egypt, the fifth of the nineteen oratorios which George Frideric Handel composed in England, was…
Anton Bruckner failed to finish his ninth symphony, despite working on it for nine years before his death in…
A seemingly nervous conductor squeezes himself along the front row of the auditorium before falling into the…
Sitting in the plush, gilded and chandeliered interior of the Royal Lyceum Theatre, a bevelled double mirror…
Full marks to the solo violinist, Baiba Skride, who worked her way through the forty minutes of Sofia…
Silviu Purcarete's freely adapted version of Goethe's Faust, held in an aircraft hangar sized hall at the…
For a Canadian orchestra lauded as one of the best French orchestras in the world, it seems a little odd that…
The stage looked a spectacular.
The Kronos Quartet received an ecstatic reception at the Usher Hall, their first appearance at the Edinburgh…
"There is something in the very name of St. Kilda, which excites expectation. Remote and solitary, the…
As part of the Dance programme of this year’s International Festival, L-E-V Dance Company bring sister…
The concert at the Usher Hall with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra opened with Ravel's composition Le Tombeau…