Classical
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra are developing into a very fine orchestra indeed. Last night, under the expert…
The theme of this Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert was the Romantic Age, a period in history when Europe…
Robin Ticciati (the Principal Conductor of the SCO) is an aficionado of Mozart and the Scottish Chamber…
The Manfred Overture which started the Schumann Jubilee Concert by the Orchestra of the Canongait was a…
Last night’s concert at the Usher Hall was Robin Ticciati’s final concert as Principal Conductor of the…
This was a concert of four sets of songs from composers who were fascinated by the life and woes of Mary,…
Vienna was the common theme of the three works performed. Two of them were crowd pullers whilst the opening…
Edinburgh born and educated conductor, Donald Runnicles gave us a great concert on Sunday evening in the…
In the centre of Ottawa sits the large building that houses Canada's National Arts Centre. Built in 1969…
The star of the evening was the young man from Novosibirsk, Russia’s third largest city.
Known for their love of shoes together with the hairs of a stringed instrument's bow, Alice Rickards and…
Rameau’s ‘Suite from the Boreades’ was the opening composition in this concert.
Moscow-born Alexander Scriabin's four minute Rêverie was the musically simple but enticing opening to a…
Peter Oundjian's sparkly introduction told us that the Orchestra was half way through its 125th anniversary,…
Haydn's oratorio The Seasons came three years after his particularly well received The Creation.
Hailed in the EIF brochure as an ‘epic choral masterpiece’, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony was the final Usher Hall…
It was an interesting choice of music on this Scottish Chamber Orchestra programme: all three pieces are…
Owen & Olly’s Christmas Stocking is a cracker of a concert that gives adults the excuse to let their hair…
The concert began with one of César Frank’s macabre symphonic poems, in English, The Accursed Huntsman. It…
Dvorak’s Notturno for strings was the first piece on the programme at the Queen’s Hall concert. It began life…