Live Music
It may have been that some in the audience had come for The Planet's and knew they had to put up with the…
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.
It was the title of the concert which intrigued me - Scottish composers for the violin. And we were off the…
Expectations of the Russian National Orchestra performance at this year's EIF were high and its…
Adrian Sims returned for the third year of four in his series of Chopin piano recitals with poise and…
Spectacular singing and an upbeat comedic narrative make for a high-energy, uplifting theatrical experience.
William Alexander was delighted with his audience of over a hundred Chopin enthusiasts for a lunchtime…
Callum Bicknell and Emily Stanghan are 16 year-olds from Norfolk with the talent and ambition to come to the…
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote thirty six operas, all within nineteen years. Semiramide is not one of…
At 9.50pm on a Sunday night, I join the queue snaking from the archway of the Assembly Hall, round the…
It would have been so easy to have more players with just one piece each to play.
What does a pianist do when he loses the use of his right arm, be it from wartime or illness?
If you’ve ever played dominoes, you’ll know that while the first number has to match with the next, the last…
Wistful is the one word that probably best describes a series of songs about a love affair. The show is based…
The Queen's Hall may seem like an unlikely venue to get hot and sweaty in, but on a very dreich and damp…
There are some things that you can rely on with the Edinburgh Tattoo: marching bands, fireworks and big bangs…
Everything was as it should be for Elgar's The Apostles.
After having seen the glamorous trio that is Fascinating Aïda, I have to wonder how it has taken me so long…
We needed to cast our minds back to pre reformation times, to the fifteenth century, when music in church was…
Every year the Edinburgh Fringe is full of improvisation.