Classical
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra 2015/2016 season features many of Brahms compositions and the opening concert…
Playing the 'Gabriel' Stradivarius violin (1717), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds, Nicola Benedetti captivated a…
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performed this Sunday Classics concert at the Usher Hall and it was…
Paul Dukas composed the nine minute piece The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in 1897 based upon Goethe’s ballad Der…
The programme began with Sibelius’ Valse Triste and Scene with Crandes (from incidental music to Kuolema)…
A German Requiem is the longest work that Brahms composed and calls for a large choir and orchestra together…
This was the second in a series of lunchtime recitals in the Georgian setting of St Andrew’s and St George’s…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert began with a Hadyn Symphony.
Almost 120 players between the ages of 13 and 21 sat patiently on stage without a single fidget to be…
This was a particularly pleasing recital of some of the best piano music by well known composers: Schubert,…
The Arnold Singers from Rugby School were in the choir stalls under the direction of Rugby’s Director of…
The concert began with the overture to Mozart’s well known opera Don Giovanni. Then the orchestra had a…
To celebrate the forthcoming 500th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris the Edinburgh Singers plan a concert…
The final concert of the 2016/17 had just one work. Mahler's Symphony No 3 is considered the longest symphony…
Every morning during the Edinburgh International three week festival, chamber concerts are held in the Queens…
They called it Postcard from Paris.
Even the best of singing seems bare in a concert without some human interest and Alistair Digges knew this.
This year's winner of the prestigious Swiss Ambassador's Award began his four-concert tour of the United…
Handel's Messiah, written in 1741 (in only three and half weeks) is one of the most popular choral works ever…
It looked as if the conductor was drunk and the orchestra played badly. Twenty two year old Rachmaninov hid…