Music

Live Music in Edinburgh

Tightlaced steps loosely round a pivotal piece of history. Susanna Mulvihill has again undertaken an…
Theatre Company NIE (New International Encounter) has, for sixteen years, co-created performances with venues…
Opening her tribute to singer Billie Holiday with the popular standard Summertime Ingrid Lucia emulated the…
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
About a month ago I was handed a white label promo cd of the debut album by Rossco Galloway and the Chans…
The age old fight between music for music’s sake, that benches for political standing and belief,…
From midday to midnight on the day before Scotland’s Referendum on Independence, The National Theatre of…
Beethoven wrote five piano concertos. Recently Jonathan Biss, an American pianist, asked five composers to…
The hurricane twists and howls as the Kansas farmgirl cowers with her little dog, Toto. It’s a moment…
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is the unique South African acappella group who gained worldwide recognition after…
The concert's conductor, indeed the Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor, Elim Chan came on stage with…
The dignified and grandfatherly presence of Neeme Järvi was at once welcomed in the applause for him as he…
Hans Gál was born near Vienna in 1890 and, as a respected composer, became Director of Mainz Conservatoire in…
If you’ve got country music in your soul then this is the show for you – it has all the hand-clapping and…
There was a full house for the loudest of this season’s concerts and with the largest orchestra.
In front of St Cuthbert’s altar there were nine tiers of red seats for the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union with…
‘Buddy’ leaves Edinburgh Playhouse rocking and a reeling!
The Orchestra's Danish Principal Guest Conductor, Thomas Søndergård, told us at the outset that he had really…
The concert began with the overture to Mozart’s well known opera Don Giovanni.  Then the orchestra had a…
This was an evening of French music and the full house included our bejewelled Lord Provost and his entourage.