Classical
Sir Roger Norrington is of the firm belief that the 1920s are to blame for the introduction of larger…
This was a concert of four sets of songs from composers who were fascinated by the life and woes of Mary,…
This was the first concert of the 65th season for The Edinburgh Singers and Vaughan Williams' O Clap Your…
'Will you dance, dear?' one bishop said to another is what Sir Roger Norrington thought might have happened…
In his introduction Declan Zapala asked how many of the sizeable audience had been at his previous Fringe…
There is an ever increasing interest in the music of Hans Gál - heightened last month when BBC Radio 3 chose…
The composers in this programme are interlinked by friendship. Brahms visited Robert and Clara Schumann…
This year's Valentine's concert opened with trumpets resembling the bugle call Tchaikovsky had heard every…
Entering into the festive mood, the concert last night was J S Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
Last night’s concert at the Usher Hall was with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Founded in 1765 it is one…
The Manfred Overture which started the Schumann Jubilee Concert by the Orchestra of the Canongait was a…
This concert was pure Russian. The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra playing Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and…
The concert at the Queen's Hall began with Brahms orchestral Variations on a theme of Haydn, Opus 56a, St…
Handel's Messiah, written in 1741 (in only three and half weeks) is one of the most popular choral works ever…
Edinburgh born and educated conductor, Donald Runnicles gave us a great concert on Sunday evening in the…
All three ingredients of the concert, overture, concerto and symphony were Beethoven, and all were labelled…
Beethoven wrote five piano concertos. Recently Jonathan Biss, an American pianist, asked five composers to…
It was a perfectly normal concert for the first five minutes - under the baton of Christian Kluxen, the Royal…
There’s one musical instrument that is permanently at the back of the stage of the Usher Hall - its organ. It…