Classical
A seven minute film score opened the concert. Bernard Herrmann's career was in the film industry and he…
There’s one musical instrument that is permanently at the back of the stage of the Usher Hall - its organ. It…
The world premier of Scottish Ballet’s The Nutcracker, choreographed by Ashley Page, took place at Edinburgh’…
There is an ever increasing interest in the music of Hans Gál - heightened last month when BBC Radio 3 chose…
Paul Rissmann, the presenter, had produced some really good graphics for the screen above the orchestra to…
We were honoured to have Gerald Finley, the Canadian baritone, sing Peter Lieberson’s Songs of Love and…
For the first time, the RSNO's Naked Classics series investigated music written in the past ten years - one…
Richard Wagner added themes from his opera Siegfried, the third in the Ring cycle, to his Siegfried Idyll in…
In his introductory remarks Tristan Gurney told us that they had not played the first piece before.
The two violins, viola and cello of one of the United Kingdom's foremost chamber ensembles, founded almost…
Most of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s programme at last night’s performance featured twentieth century…
The musicians in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra displayed their talented versatility at last night’s concert.
The Intermezzo that opened Sibelius's Karelia Suite began with a distant horn which before long brought on…
Robin Ticciati (the Principal Conductor of the SCO) is an aficionado of Mozart and the Scottish Chamber…
As a child I don’t suppose I was alone in pondering heaven and hell and wondering how it was decided which I…
The two composers featured in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert at the Queen’s Hall were Robert Schumann…
There was a full house for the loudest of this season’s concerts and with the largest orchestra.
A prolific composer, some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular compositions are his series of six…
The first four minutes set us in the mood for some fine Russian music with the seldom heard March from…
Coming in to a concert from a busy and wintery world outside takes a mental adjustment, and so what better…