Music

Live Music in Edinburgh

From the outset a sacred, heavenly sound was heard throughout the Usher Hall auditorium as three motets,…
Yet again an enthusiastic audience of nearly two hundred organ music lovers were in the Usher Hall for a…
A former Scottish church may seem like an odd venue to re -create a Weimar style cabaret, but the phenomenal…
It’s a hundred years since the phizz-whizzing Roald Dahl was born and Owen & Olly’s Beastly Bash…
That glorious venue for music, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, with its wonderful, warm-toned organ* was the…
Buddy rides high on the crest of a giant nostalgia wave. Now in its 25th year, this highly successful show…
Sitting behind the Orchestra were one hundred and fifteen or so members of the Junior Chorus - ranging in age…
Anne Trulove and Tom Rakewell are lovers but her father thinks Tom is a wastrel and finds a job for him in…
There are positive signs that ‘Sweeney Todd -The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ will be another stunning…
Last night's opening concert at the Usher Hall of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's new season consisted of…
It was an interesting choice of music on this Scottish Chamber Orchestra programme: all three pieces are…
The concert began with the overture to Mozart’s well known opera Don Giovanni.  Then the orchestra had a…
Rossini’s little known opera The Silken Ladder had just twelve performances in 1812 and was quietly dropped.
This is a production every opera buff and every devotee of Debussy should see. Directed by Sir David McVicar…
Immigration and emigration are words heard a lot these days. This show from Haderslev in Denmark tells a…
The Shoogle Project is a collaboration between ‘acid croft’ Ceilidh band Shooglenifty and the contemporary…
We welcomed to the podium Sir Andrew Davis who, for the past nine years, has been the Music Director and…
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was commissioned to write a work to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the…
“Legally Blonde The Musical” is based on the 2001 movie starring Reese Witherspoon, the delightful chick…
When Lindsay Lou sings its like listening to a very versatile musical instrument with universal pitch.