Classical
An extraordinarily calm and personable Ben Baker introduced us to what he was about to play.
The choice of last night's opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival was thought by many to be…
How fortunate to have such experienced musicians. Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto has a quiet piano introit…
This sole Festival appearance by one of the world’s great orchestras, playing a massive symphony by a great…
The large Cleveland Orchestra – more than 100 musicians – filled the concert platform to bursting point but…
The Budapest Festival Orchestra won well-deserved vociferous applause from a full Usher Hall for a sparkling…
Klaus-Dieter Holzberger, Director of Music at St Laurentius Church in Ahrweiler, returned after a gap of…
Thunderous applause and prolonged cheers from a packed Usher Hall marked the end of the scintillating…
For someone lured into appreciation of classical music by the voice of Kathleen Ferrier this concert was a “…
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment make you listen again to Haydn.
Under Sir Roger Norrington they put…
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra gave a capacity Festival audience an evening to remember with a programme…
This was the second of Stefan Warzycki’s piano recitals for this Fringe.
There were doubts almost to the last moment as to whether the renowned Argentine pianist Martha Argerich…
With the double basses raised and along the back of the orchestra, and with twelve violas at the front to the…
Laura Cioffi and Clara Galea gave us a very entertaining hour of flute duets. They have been performing…
Israel in Egypt, the fifth of the nineteen oratorios which George Frideric Handel composed in England, was…
This massive work, far too big for any liturgical purpose is generally regarded as Bach’s greatest…
The Edinburgh Bach Choir of about 50 voices moved to their places betwixt the pulpit and font from where they…
Full marks to the solo violinist, Baiba Skride, who worked her way through the forty minutes of Sofia…
Samuel Barber’s Music for a Scene from Shelley was his first orchestral work to be performed publicly.