Tag: Classical music
Temporary home for Brunton classical music programme
The Brunton’s programme of classical music has a temporary home in the beautiful and atmospheric Northesk Parish Church in Musselburgh.
The concerts are programmed by James Waters, also artistic director of Lammermuir Festival and the...
Scottish baroque ensemble ‘Laudonia’ launch a six concert tour
This exciting newcomer to the early music scene will celebrate the musical journey of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik on their Grand Tour, which comes to Edinburgh on September 2nd.
Scotland’s dynamic new baroque...
Review: Edinburgh Studio Opera “Hansel and Gretel”
This week, Edinburgh Studio Opera (ESO) made a triumphant return to the Edinburgh stage after a protracted exile due to the pandemic.
I won’t go into just how disastrous Covid-19 restrictions have been for...
EIF – back to classical music
Although it is not possible to bring large orchestras from overseas this year is regarded as an opportunity for Scottish and UK orchestras to take centre stage at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Some of...
Review: RSNO Digital Season – full orchestra season so far…
From April to June the Royal Scottish National Orchestra returns for their Spring/Summer 2021 digital season. Following the success of their 2020 season, which made the very best of the tricky situation Covid-19 has...
Review – RSNO Beethoven 1 and Violin Concerto
The RSNO performed Beethoven’s First Symphony and Violin Concerto as part of their streamed ‘Digital Season’, with solo violinist Midori, conducted by Thomas Søndergård.
The performance was shown on Friday 23 October 2020 as...
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra make their Edinburgh International Festival debut
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will be making its debut at this year's Edinburgh International Festival later today at the city's Usher Hall.
The orchestra will perform a varied and deeply personal programme of Bernstein’s ‘On the Waterfront’ Suite, Brahms’...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – “PRÉVERT: PIANO & POETRY”
Original one-man show by a young French concert pianist
Come along to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, at Palmerston Place Church (10 Palmerston Place), from 14 to 18 August at 6:00pm (see attached poster).
Entry is free but...
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...
Tuesday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Recitals for Wrigglers Christmas Concert: a free classical concert for babies, toddlers and their parents and carers. 10.30am, Drumbrae Library Hub, 81 Drumbrae Drive. Please ask a member of library staff to book your place(s),...
Wednesday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Sounds of Jazz: Interplay - guitarist Lachlan MacColl and guest. Lachlan is known in Edinburgh as 'the jazz musician's jazz guitarist' and plays a wide range of styles from Swing and Latin to BeBop; he has also...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2014
LGBT Spiritual Space: Conflicts of Sexuality and Faith. Explore conflicts that exist within these two aspects of identity; Maxwell Reay, NHS Mental Health Community Chaplain, offers a supportive space for LGBT...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 11TH AUGUST 2014
Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic. The National Galleries of Scotland are letting legendary stand-up, poet and roving sketchsmith Phill Jupitus loose in its rooms for three weeks during August. Each morning Phill...
Royal Scottish National Orchestra in China for Hogmanay
The Reporter's very own David Kettle accompanied the RSNO on their New Year trip to China.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and its music director Peter Oundjian have had a pretty hectic Hogmanay. It was...
Concert review: Kirsteen Davidson-Kelly (****)
Tuesday’s lunchtime concert at the Reid Concert Hall – just one of the series of free weekly concerts organised by the University of Edinburgh that runs throughout its term time – showed just how...
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