Music

Live Music in Edinburgh

Magnificent music takes centre stage in this 50th anniversary production of the classic musical West Side…
The concert began with the first ever performance of a bright and cheerful twenty minute work commissioned by…
Immigration and emigration are words heard a lot these days. This show from Haderslev in Denmark tells a…
It’s some 18 years since the film version of ‘Brassed Off’ first appeared, and, as recent reconsiderations…
Sonsie Music’s adaptation of A Moose in the Hoose adds up to some finely tuned children’s storytelling.
Opening her tribute to singer Billie Holiday with the popular standard Summertime Ingrid Lucia emulated the…
This year's Valentine's concert opened with trumpets resembling the bugle call Tchaikovsky had heard every…
Owen & Olly’s Christmas Stocking is a cracker of a concert that gives adults the excuse to let their hair…
That glorious venue for music, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, with its wonderful, warm-toned organ* was the…
"Generations of Bach" began with a composition by the best-known Bach, Johann Sebastian, the prolific Baroque…
George Frideric Handel was one of the most prolific Baroque composers of the eighteenth century. Of German…
Following the much admired Leader of the Orchestra, Maya Iwabuchi, on to the stage was 27-year-old Lava Shani…
It is hard to believe that when one of the most famous of all operas was first performed in Paris in 1875…
This concert was pure Russian. The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra playing Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and…
For the final concert in their 2010/2011 season the Scottish Chamber Orchestra chose to not only devote the…
Punk Rock ‘American Idiot’ is like Trainspotting USA - without the wit and local ‘charm’.
It is always a pleasure to be invited to a Hans Gál Society concert and discover more of his music.
This new production is set in the Victorian era and opens with a large and old-fashioned box camera pointing…
The abiding memory of the concert will be twofold. It gave us a very small opportunity in our applause to say…
In 1746, when Samuel Johnson set out on creating the compilation of what was to be his renowned Dictionary…