The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
One of a series of talks aimed at re-examining aspects of the First World War and of other conflicts, Dr.
Hocus Pocus tends to bring witches, cauldrons and rhyming incantations to the forefront of the mind, but in…
The Philadelphia Orchestra was the first major orchestra I heard live.
In the Locked Room Stylishly conducted by Michael Rafferty and with a dazzling array of orchestral colours…
Walking down to my seat in the front stalls, I quickly see that the Playhouse is packed up to the…
Festival
Director Jonathan Mills made a bold choice in opening his second festival with
this bitter satire on…
Mozart is believed to have visited Prague three times. His Symphony No 38 was first performed there on his…
I've been a regular at the end-of-festival Fireworks for some years and this year's was the best yet.
We needed to cast our minds back to pre reformation times, to the fifteenth century, when music in church was…
William Alexander was delighted with his audience of over a hundred Chopin enthusiasts for a lunchtime…
The opening night of an inspirational four day dance festival by Scottish Ballet was a double bill: Kenneth…
Everything was as it should be for Elgar's The Apostles.
"All children, except one, grow up. Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you…
Sounding brass and clashing cymbals!
Camille O’Sullivan is a beguiling, unassuming tour de force.
Samuel Barber’s Music for a Scene from Shelley was his first orchestral work to be performed publicly.
Jean-Guihen Queyras is an extraordinarily versatile French cellist who played the three large scale movements…
Film Noir meets modern technology and the consequences are both thought provoking and impressive.
Traditional Gaelic song and contemporary music are performed against a backdrop of vintage and modern film.
Geoff Sobelle is making a house, and a home.