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This was the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s New Year concert - based on the tradition of the Musikverein…
St Mary’s Cathedral provided us with some excellent music for this celebration of the Assumption, or the ‘…
It was good to enjoy an opera that is seldom performed. Indeed on the night I came across only one other…
The few words from the Orchestra's Music Director at the start of the concert were again most welcome.
Madness. Madness, they call it, madness.They’re right. Princes Street at New Year is beyond madness, it is…
The RSNO Christmas Concert contains all the old favourites, but family-friendly, flamboyant conductor…
The new Music Director of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Fabien Gabel, born in Paris thirty six years ago,…
The Manfred Overture which started the Schumann Jubilee Concert by the Orchestra of the Canongait was a…
The programme began with Sibelius’ Valse Triste and Scene with Crandes (from incidental music to Kuolema)…
The composers in this programme are interlinked by friendship. Brahms visited Robert and Clara Schumann…
Red Note Ensemble is a Scottish-based professional music ensemble that made its debut in 2008. Based on…
An up close and personal dance with the devil.
Paul Dukas composed the nine minute piece The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in 1897 based upon Goethe’s ballad Der…
We were honoured to have Gerald Finley, the Canadian baritone, sing Peter Lieberson’s Songs of Love and…
The first half of the SCO programme was devoted to two Russian composers, Stravinsky and Shostakovich.
About a month ago I was handed a white label promo cd of the debut album by Rossco Galloway and the Chans…
Standing in a crowded Caves under an arching ceiling is somewhat akin to being in a church. A noisy,…
As part of their fortieth anniversary celebrations, last night Robin Ticciati concluded his ambitious…
The concept of a house concert was a new one to me but a check on the web site house-concerts-42.posterous.…
The Orchestra's Danish Principal Guest Conductor, Thomas Søndergård, told us at the outset that he had really…