Classical

Mendelssohn, a Christian convert, spent nine years contemplating a work based around the miracles performed…
Onto the stage comes Stéphane Denève and, in his inimitable way, with the orchestra behind him ready to play…
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performed this Sunday Classics concert at the Usher Hall and it was…
The U.K. premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Deus ex Machina was cannily placed between two firm favourites,…
In the week in which the McEwan Hall's fine organ is back in use after a significant restoration Tom Poulson…
In this 16 November 2007 concert, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was under the baton of the 26 year…
It is not often we in Edinburgh get the chance to hear the scholars of the Royal Conservatoire’s in full…
This was a particularly pleasing recital of some of the best piano music by well known composers: Schubert,…
Sitting behind the Orchestra were one hundred and fifteen or so members of the Junior Chorus - ranging in age…
Peter Oundjian's opening remarks set the scene. Two works about the sea but very different from one another.
There was a large audience for Tuesday’s Concerts at the University series keen to hear some serious clarinet…
In his introductory remarks Tristan Gurney told us that they had not played the first piece before.
The theme of this Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert was the Romantic Age, a period in history when Europe…
This was the concert to celebrate the end of Thomas Søndergård's first season as Music Director. It filled…
The Creation was composed at the end of the eighteenth century.
The two violins, viola and cello of one of the United Kingdom's foremost chamber ensembles, founded almost…
The Children’s Christmas Swingalong incorporated music spanning 200 years, played swing-style and with a lot…
There was a full house for the loudest of this season’s concerts and with the largest orchestra.
Just about two thousand two hundred concert goers were in our seats in the Usher Hall for this season’s final…
Wagner's rousing Overture to his opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg opened the Royal Scottish National…