The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Georgian sacred and folk music is quite distinctive. Unlike European and other a cappella songs, their…
The Hub – home of the Edinburgh International Festival – is hosting a variety of eclectic Café Concerts in…
The theme of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's concert at the Usher Hall was Shakespeare's play A Midsummer…
Walking down to my seat in the front stalls, I quickly see that the Playhouse is packed up to the…
Owen Wingrave was the result of a commission by the BBC to write an opera for television. It took about five…
First Love, an hour-long soliloquy performed by a single character, was engagingly received by a sell-out…
Chinese traditional opera and King Lear may seem to some a strange juxtaposition, yet this production…
Mahler’s monumental “Symphony of a Thousand” is regarded as his finest composition but is rarely performed…
It was somewhat disappointing, for this reviewer at least, for what is in effect Finland’s national orchestra…
This was the first visit of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra to the Edinburgh Festival and they came in full…
Barry McGovern, internationally renowned for his interpretations and performances of Beckett, was born and…
This sole Festival appearance by one of the world’s great orchestras, playing a massive symphony by a great…
From Haefliger's timely deportment at the piano and placement of opening chord one could tell this was to be…
The long wait on our feet was worth it.
What should you do if two men walk on stage, then, for no apparent reason whatsoever, one of them suddenly…
Hervé Niquet conducted his five choirs, forty voices in all, accompanied by cornett, dulcians, sackbutts,…
The Edinburgh International concert at the Usher Hall last night should have included Schumann's Piano…
We have to be very brave to talk of death, or more truthfully, of what precedes death.
Film Noir meets modern technology and the consequences are both thought provoking and impressive.
William Alexander was delighted with his audience of over a hundred Chopin enthusiasts for a lunchtime…