Music

Live Music in Edinburgh

Even if you have never seen Cole Porter’s madcap musical, you are sure to know many of the songs:  the…
After the success of hit shows, Cats, Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar, the idea for Starlight Express…
This production of West Side Story - hailed by The Guardian as "the greatest dance musical of all time" -…
In a world with all its problems, not to mention the busy lives we lead, it was a pleasure to enjoy a…
As a tribute to Holocaust Memorial Day, the first part of the concert was dedicated to two composers who were…
The concert at the Queen's Hall began with Brahms orchestral Variations on a theme of Haydn, Opus 56a, St…
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra were in fine form last night, playing at their home base, the Queens Hall in…
It’s a hundred years since the phizz-whizzing Roald Dahl was born and Owen & Olly’s Beastly Bash…
An up close and personal dance with the devil.
This was an interesting concert because of the contrast between the two works played.
A tale about story telling and memory. As we get older we don’t stop learning, but what if we stop…
In the early 1960s, it was an inspired idea to adapt the stage play, ā€œI am a Cameraā€ based on Goodbye to…
Songs For An Airless Room styles itself as somewhere between theatre and a piece of music to be performed. If…
The Edinburgh Quartet were centre stage for a special work by Shostakovich.
It is through the combined talent of almost all the Strauss family that Vienna became the home of the waltz,…
A German Requiem is the longest work that Brahms composed and calls for a large choir and orchestra together…
When a young Richard Strauss showed his playful scherzo to the conductor Hans von Bülow, for whom he was…
The programme spanned centuries and began with ā€˜Solfeggio’, an a cappella composition for a choir written in…
Little boots, otherwise known as Victoria Christina Hesketh, far surpasses the metaphorical implications of…
Boxing may not be the sport of kings, but it is the sport of artists, writers and great leaders.