Theatre Royal, Glasgow Where Puccini envisioned “mythical ancient times” in imperialist Peking as the setting for his final opera Turandot, Sir David McVicar’s new production for Scottish Opera of ...

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Even with its enforced content change, this RSNO all-American programme had a certain completeness about it. There was the razzmatazz of hard-hitting Broadway in Leonard ...

The Dunedin Consort has been a unique part of the Scottish musical landscape for three decades now, not always in its current format as a flexible, all-encompassing Baroque ensemble capable of mixing ...

Maybe it was too much to ask of the Scottish weather that the scorcher we’d enjoyed throughout June remain firmly in place for the 2023 East Neuk Festival. In the event, the close of the month, ...

ENCORES from the catalogues of jazz piano masters, often in his own transcriptions, have long been a feature of the practice of Linlithgow’s international classical piano star, Steven Osborne. In this ...

If few complain that Beethoven wrote only one opera, Debussy’s singular contribution to the canon is a frustration. Pelleas et Melisande may be a musical masterpiece, but by way of comparison it would ...

The first noise of Friday night’s performance of Beethoven’s Fifth by the RSNO and Elim Chan was not those famous four notes, but the stomp of the diminutive Principal Guest Conductor’s boot on the ...

It’s over 25 years since the BBC SSO performed William Wallace’s “Creation” Symphony in C sharp minor. It was a studio session in Glasgow recorded for BBC Radio 3 and a Hyperion CD. So it’s not before ...

All credit to British composer Arthur Keegan, not least for accepting an Olympian challenge to conceive a partner piece to Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. The latter, as iconic for its ...

It’s astonishing to think that Handel’s Messiah – a work the composer dashed off in only 24 days when his operatic megastardom was on the wane, and whose first performances were almost stymied by ...

It’s just over two years since Polish conductor Marta Gardolínska made her impressive debut with the the RSNO. It wasn’t an ideal first appearance, given that lingering Covid restrictions had required ...

Was there a single soul in Saturday’s packed Perth Concert Hall who did not feel an anticipatory sense of goodwill and encouragement towards the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine? Cut down to ...