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The concert opened with the bright and cheerful Suite from Les biches. Poulenc was 24 when he wrote the…
The programme spanned centuries and began with ‘Solfeggio’, an a cappella composition for a choir written in…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra are developing into a very fine orchestra indeed. Last night, under the expert…
Dame Mitsuko Uchida must be one of the International Festival's favourite pianists and this concert was…
As retailers say, if you love line-dancing and Country & Western music, then you will like ‘Rhinestone…
In her pre-concert talk the violinist Ursula Heidecker Allen demonstrated very effectively just how softly…
The concept of a house concert was a new one to me but a check on the web site house-concerts-42.posterous.…
The spirit of nineties rave is alive and kicking, if a little ragged at the seams and somewhat the worse for…
John Shuttleworth is the flawless fantasy creation of actor Graham Fellows who, back 1978, also created an…
Six tiers of choir, some seventy-four voices ready to sing in German, and an orchestra of twenty-three…
It’s some 18 years since the film version of ‘Brassed Off’ first appeared, and, as recent reconsiderations…
Zoltán Kodály used a collection of traditional tunes from Galánta in Slovakia that had originally been…
Simon Smith was born in Northumberland in 1983. He learned to play the piano at St Mary's Music School before…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra were in fine form last night, playing at their home base, the Queens Hall in…
This was the night that the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's Principal Flute of many years, Katherine…
Moscow-born Alexander Scriabin's four minute Rêverie was the musically simple but enticing opening to a…
Almost 120 players between the ages of 13 and 21 sat patiently on stage without a single fidget to be…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra's concert at the Queen's Hall, part of their regular autumn series, began with…
Every so often a musical comes along that captures the zeitgeist – West Side Story, Hair, and A Chorus Line.
This was a lunchtime concert to remind us that it is twenty five years since Han Gál died.