Live Music in Edinburgh
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Khachaturian's Waltz from Masquerade with its oompah start was an inspired choice to open a concert of…
Songs For An Airless Room styles itself as somewhere between theatre and a piece of music to be performed. If…
Fifty years in the business is no mean feat. The Hollies, at least the two original members, Tony Hicks and…
With the autumn leaves falling we quickly gathered that Violetta had not been well but was now able to throw…
A night of magic and fantasy at The Manipulate festival integrating film, animation, puppetry, and…
This was an evening of French music and the full house included our bejewelled Lord Provost and his entourage.
The stage is empty and dark for several minutes, a low blue light glinting off the front-of-stage keyboard…
They called it Postcard from Paris.
“1-2-3, it’s so easy, it’s like taking candy off a baby”.
Sir Roger Norrington returned to complete his promise to conduct all four Schumann symphonies with the Royal…
Beethoven wrote five piano concertos. Recently Jonathan Biss, an American pianist, asked five composers to…
The concert opened with the bright and cheerful Suite from Les biches. Poulenc was 24 when he wrote the…
Robin Ticciati, the Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, chose an eclectic programme for…
The spirit of nineties rave is alive and kicking, if a little ragged at the seams and somewhat the worse for…
Known for his ability to spin satiric gold from the most unpromising of topical trivia on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The…
Last night the audience was privy to a thrilling performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor.
Every chair was taken in the historic Greyfriars Kirk. The audience was facing the organ loft and looked…
The first half of a Naked Classics concert is an exposition of the piece of music the Royal Scottish National…
The prospect of a rousing overture, the return of a brilliant young French violinist and a favourite symphony…
An unusual venue for an unusual performance. The Roxburgh Free Church was built soon after the Great…