Classical
John Whitener gives a very good pre-concert talk. He is the RSNO's Principal Tuba player.
Just as we judge their age when we look at buildings so it is in music. The concert started with late…
Haydn's oratorio The Seasons came three years after his particularly well received The Creation.
Within the first four minutes we had heard Glasgow born Oliver Knussen's sparkling and intricate Flourish…
The audience was so delighted with Ingrid Fliter’s performance that she returned to the keyboard and gave us…
The Edinburgh International Festival morning chamber concerts and recitals at the Queens Hall are always a…
Last night’s SCO concert at the Usher Hall was conducted by the distinguished French conductor, Emmanuel…
We were treated to the first performance of Savourna Stevenson’s three-movement Concerto for Harp.
Richard Egarr, Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, was the guest conductor of this performance of…
It looked as if the conductor was drunk and the orchestra played badly. Twenty two year old Rachmaninov hid…
On arrival at the Usher Hall, the audience has to get its bearings.
We are used to Stéphane Denève wishing us a good evening and then telling us a thing or two about the evening…
It was a perfectly normal concert for the first five minutes - under the baton of Christian Kluxen, the Royal…
The concert at the Usher Hall was devoted to composers in the nineteenth century and it began with an…
For the final concert in their 2010/2011 season the Scottish Chamber Orchestra chose to not only devote the…
With this concert Elim Chan began her reign as the RSNO's Principal Guest Conductor, succeeding Thomas…
The Queen's Hall was full to capacity, and the performance commenced on time at 11.00am.
The concert began with the overture to Mozart’s well known opera Don Giovanni. Then the orchestra had a…
As a tribute to Holocaust Memorial Day, the first part of the concert was dedicated to two composers who were…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra was in superb form at last night's concert at the Usher Hall. Under the…