Music

Live Music in Edinburgh

The first four minutes set us in the mood for some fine Russian music with the seldom heard March from…
Dame Mitsuko Uchida must be one of the International Festival's favourite pianists and this concert was…
Beethoven wrote five piano concertos. Recently Jonathan Biss, an American pianist, asked five composers to…
Sitting behind the Orchestra were one hundred and fifteen or so members of the Junior Chorus - ranging in age…
This was the night that the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's Principal Flute of many years, Katherine…
Simon Smith was born in Northumberland in 1983. He learned to play the piano at St Mary's Music School before…
This year's Edinburgh International Festival finished with a concert in Princes Street Gardens - a concert in…
The Lion King takes the theatrical experience to a higher level. It's visually stunning. 
A tale about story telling and memory. As we get older we don’t stop learning, but what if we stop…
Hairspray lifts and holds a crowded Playhouse audience in a full-bodied production that is full of bounce.
In 1746, when Samuel Johnson set out on creating the compilation of what was to be his renowned Dictionary…
Not everybody will have realised that the conductor for the night, Thomas Søndergård, was appointed the…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra are celebrating their fortieth anniversary and they have indeed come a long…
Mendelssohn, a Christian convert, spent nine years contemplating a work based around the miracles performed…
Boxing may not be the sport of kings, but it is the sport of artists, writers and great leaders.
Lovers of live performances are wonderful!  They breast the wayward rain and brace the gales to…
The premiere of Midsummer – a play with songs in Autumn 2008 at the Traverse Theatre was a magical, romantic…
The Opening Concert set a very high standard with a particularly impressive Haydn’s The Creation.
The UOGB has landed – and not a shiny space suit in sight, only their own singular brand of elegant musical…
Almost one hundred and forty singers from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus joined a full…