Classical
Alexander Janiczek was the guest conductor at this Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert.
With the first few rows of the stalls removed to make way for tables and chairs, and the sight of concert…
This was an evening of Russian music to start off a new season. There were no introductories from the new…
Mendelssohn, a Christian convert, spent nine years contemplating a work based around the miracles performed…
The audience was so delighted with Ingrid Fliter’s performance that she returned to the keyboard and gave us…
The Opening Concert set a very high standard with a particularly impressive Haydn’s The Creation.
Haydn’s ‘The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross’ was originally written for the Cathedral in Cadiz…
This was an interesting concert because of the contrast between the two works played.
The unifying theme in this Scottish Chamber Orchestra's concert was dignified, haunting ethereal string…
There’s always that fear when there’s only one piece on the programme, and so no interval, that you are…
Before the main piece, the programme was introduced by Mozart’s Laudate Dominum, followed by the Sub Tuum…
Typical of Russian orchestras they come on together, and leading them on to the stage is their concertmaster…
The winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006 was the soloist for the second of Brahms' two…
St Mary’s Cathedral provided us with some excellent music for this celebration of the Assumption, or the ‘…
Just over 700 years ago there began the oldest military treaty in the world, the Auld Alliance - between…
There are parts of northern Europe where the sun never sets in mid-summer and these are called White Nights.
The soloists performing this morning at the Queen’s Hall chamber recital were the French Canadian cellist…
David Chivers pre-concert talk, given on the top floor of the Usher Hall, gave us an intelligent and…
It was a perfectly normal concert for the first five minutes - under the baton of Christian Kluxen, the Royal…
Playing the 'Gabriel' Stradivarius violin (1717), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds, Nicola Benedetti captivated a…