Tag: Classical
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – our first recommendations
EIF unveiled its 70th Anniversary programme from the august Church Of Scotland Assembly Hall on The Mound earlier today.
To an accompanying sleek and chic audio-visual platform, Director, Fergus Linehan, extended the city's welcome to...
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at St Mary’s Cathedral
Join London Concertante, one of the UK’s leading chamber ensembles, at the stunning St. Mary’s Cathedral on Palmerston Place for a fabulous night of Mozart, Vivaldi, and more!
Praised for making concerts exciting no matter...
Nicola Benedetti ‘Italy & The Four Seasons’ at The Usher Hall ****
Nicola Benedetti is undoubtedly the most famous violinist of her generation. What her fame does not always account for is the development of this player over the eleven years since she won BBC Young...
Gig review: Mr McFall’s Chamber – Freak Out (****)
There was a good chance that very few of the audience had ever been in an underground Edinburgh rock venue before – as, I’m ashamed to admit, was the case with me. But the...
Nicola Benedetti brings The Silver Violin to Edinburgh
Stopping off as part of a nine-venue Scottish tour, violinist Nicola Benedetti brings the glamour of the silver screen to the Usher Hall on Thursday in a live concert based around her best-selling album...
Review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Emmanuelle Haïm (*****)
It’s no surprise that the young French harpsichordist and conductor Emmanuelle Haïm has been dubbed ‘Ms Dynamite’ by certain critics. Her fiery interpretations, brimming over with energy and enthusiasm, were much in evidence in...
Review: RSNO Naked Classics: Sibelius 5 (****)
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Naked Classics series has a laudable aim: to pick apart a well-known classical piece and explain its inspiration and construction, and then to present a performance of the piece...
Review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Ticciati, Usher Hall, 6 October (****)
Leonard Bernstein described Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique as the first example of psychedelia in music. He might have had a point: there’s a suggestion that the composer wrote the 1832 piece while under the influence...
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