Classical
It was a privilege to be invited once again to the annual Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert which is the show…
Alexander Janiczek was the guest conductor at this Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert.
Just as we judge their age when we look at buildings so it is in music. The concert started with late…
Vibrato was forbidden and the orchestra repositioned because, for this concert, Sir Roger Norrington was very…
Gardner's Question Time was how Principal Double Bass, Ana Cordova, introduced the pre-concert talk with…
A concert devoted to Remembrancetide and the outbreak of the Great War could well have been a sad and…
There was a full house for the loudest of this season’s concerts and with the largest orchestra.
Neeme Järvi was the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Principal Conductor from 1984 to 1988 when he was in…
The RSNO has previously given over the whole programme to the mighty Mahler work, but on this occasion the…
The unifying theme in this Scottish Chamber Orchestra's concert was dignified, haunting ethereal string…
This was an evening of French music and the full house included our bejewelled Lord Provost and his entourage.
His Excellency Mr Anton Thalmann, the Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom, introduced the concert…
Steven Osborne was asked by William Chandler in the talk beforehand whether it was usual for a solo pianist…
As part of their fortieth anniversary celebrations, last night Robin Ticciati concluded his ambitious…
In his introduction Declan Zapala asked how many of the sizeable audience had been at his previous Fringe…
With Peter Oundjian on his rostrum and Christian Blackshaw at the piano we heard the pompous opening of…
There’s always that fear when there’s only one piece on the programme, and so no interval, that you are…
Tonight’s outstanding performance of Schutz’s ‘Resurrection History’ fell within St Vincent’s ‘Festival of…
There was a large audience for Tuesday’s Concerts at the University series keen to hear some serious clarinet…
The Queen’s Hall concert was devoted to Benjamin Britten to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth.