'Gripping listening': Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Glasgow City Halls review
CONDUCTOR Andrew Manze’s programme with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra last week was of music first heard in Vienna
Review: Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
"A few souls voted with their feet before its end."
'A masterclass in conducting': RSNO/Sondergard at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
RSNO/Sondergard at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall reviewed by Keith Bruce
'Not the Mozart people are champing at the bit to hear': SCO/Emelyanychev, City Halls
In what way, it seems fair to ask, was the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s second season concert a “Mozart Gala”?
Cumnock Tryst This was surely the concert we have been waiting for at acclaimed classical festival
Cumnock Tryst: Steven Osborne, Trinity Church, Cumnock, five stars: Although it would have been stretching a point to bill it as such, the opening recital of the 10th birthday programme of Sir James MacMillan’s hometown festival, the Cumnock Tryst, was fundamentally a premiere.
review 'A mesmerising performance' - BBC SSO/Wigglesworth City Halls Glasgow
Prefacing Mahler’s epic, complex Fifth Symphony with the premiere of a big new piece for soprano and orchestra was a bold way to begin its new season, but the BBC Scottish and chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth were rewarded with a well-filled home venue and an attentive and appreciative audience.
'Heart-felt simplicity' - SCO/Emelyanychev at the Perth Concert Hall
Starting its new season with a box office double-header, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Mozart Gala next weekend is very much a home fixture in repertoire terms, while this first all-Dvorak concert programme looked more like an away tie, even if Perth Concert Hall, where the SCO filmed lockdown recitals during the pandemic, must feel like home ground.
'Brilliant' James MacMillan creates a work which is almost unbearably haunting
Lammermuir Festival, Dunedin Consort with Alexander Chance/Joshua Ellicott with Anna Tilbrook Crichton Collegiate Church/Holy Trinity Church, Haddington A VISIT to the perfect acoustic of Crichton Collegiate Church near Pathhead is off the beaten track even on the Lammermuir Festival’s own terms, and feels a little like a pilgrimage. That was appropriate for the Dunedin Consort’s contribution to this year’s festival with its liturgical music for Holy Week.
REVIEW There are few performances as precise in every detail of rhythm and dynamics as this
A RETURN visit by American pianist Jeremy Denk was the star turn of the opening weekend of the 15th Lammermuir Festival in East Lothian.
Review: Dido and Aeneas at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Keith Bruce reviews Dido and Aeneas at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre
