Classical
The concert began with Beethoven’s rousing Overture, Coriolan, which musically charts the raging emotions of…
This was a concert of four sets of songs from composers who were fascinated by the life and woes of Mary,…
In what can be known as Music Director's Pride, his Principal string players with Aleksei Kiseliov in front…
The concert at the Queen's Hall began with Brahms orchestral Variations on a theme of Haydn, Opus 56a, St…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert began with a Hadyn Symphony.
Guillaume Connesson wrote his Aleph to try to describe in music the Big Bang theory of how the universe…
This year in Vienna their Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated the New Year under the baton of a distinguished…
Almost 120 players between the ages of 13 and 21 sat patiently on stage without a single fidget to be…
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a conductor in Vienna, Prague and then Berlin and whilst not a prolific…
John Kitchen told us that the lunchtime recital was titled 'To absent friends: Music for Remembrance in the…
When a young Richard Strauss showed his playful scherzo to the conductor Hans von Bülow, for whom he was…
Red lighting and a suspended Union Jack set the scene for the second Concert of Remembrance in The Usher Hall…
Berlioz' parents were determined he was going to be a doctor but instead Berlioz pursued his passion for…
Richard Strauss’ Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon and string orchestra (in three movements) was the…
The concert began with the world premiere of storm, rose, tiger composed by Glasgow born Martin Suckling and…
As the picture shows there was a full audience on Sunday evening at Greyfriars Kirk - cheek-by-jowl with the…
This was the second of the two introductory concerts for Peter Oundjian, the new Music Director of the Royal…
For the final concert in their 2010/2011 season the Scottish Chamber Orchestra chose to not only devote the…
We were treated to the first performance of Savourna Stevenson’s three-movement Concerto for Harp.
For the Edinburgh Bach Choir’s final performance in their centenary year they performed in German the much…