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Classical reviews
Classic review: BBC SSO: Glass Premiere, City Halls, Glasgow
IT has taken ten years for Philip Glass’s Sixth Symphony Plutonium Ode to reach a British concert hall. Written originally to mark his 65th birthday, it finally received a UK premiere last night as part of this year’s ongoing celebrations of the American composer’s 75th birthday.
Classical review: Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Perth Concert Hall
BEING a child of the former East Berlin, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra is a band we are perhaps less familiar with than its famous West German counterpart, the Berlin Philharmonic.
Classical review: English Touring Opera: The Barber of Seville
ENGLISH Touring Opera’s new production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville has been doing the rounds since it opened in London a couple of months ago.
Classical review: Idil Biret, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
IT’S over 65 years since Idil Biret first started playing.
1 commentClassical review: RSNO: Au Revoir Stephane, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
IT WAS inevitable that Stéphane Denève would make a lasting statement at his final Edinburgh concert as musical director of the RSNO. He did it with a kilt, which, together with his wild, tousled reddish hair, marked him out as the honorary Scot he has become during his seven years in charge of the orchestra.
Dance review: Trisha Brown Dance Company, Glasgow Tramway
When your career spans five decades, you’re allowed to change your mind a few times.
Classical review: Tunnell Trust 500th Concert, Linlithgow Academy
WITH the experience of 499 concerts under its belt, it was fairly safe to assume that the 500th concert of the Tunnell Trust was unlikely to disappoint.
Classical review: SCO: Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
FROM the concert’s opening note, a gruff, throaty bark expelled by the double basses to kick off the overture to Beethoven’s seldom-heard Ruins of Athens, it was clear that Finnish conductor John Storgårds’ performance would be vivid and alive with detail.
Gig reviews: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, City Halls, Glasgow
WAS the May holiday weekend a wise time to schedule a series of concerts focussing on BBC SSO maestro Donald Runnicles? The mediocre attendance at last night’s final orchestral programme probably speaks for itself.
Classical review: RSNO, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
THE RSNO pulled out all the stops for the penultimate programme of Stéphane Denève’s tenure as musical director.
Classical review: SCO/Jonathan Biss, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
IT’S quite something when a conductor can make a fairly lightweight work sound like a masterpiece.
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Classical review: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, City Halls, Glasgow
RICHARD Ayres’s musical output might sound like a menu from a Chinese takeaway – on Saturday we had No.9, No.36 and No.46 – but it has a visceral quality that raises it beyond mere numbers.
Classical review: Phil Bancroft’s Home, Small As The World, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
SAXOPHONIST Phil Bancroft first unveiled this still developing project at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival in 2009, and if it has inevitably lost some of the surprise elements of that first night, it has gained both new ideas and a greater sense of assurance and direction.
Classical review: SCO/Nicola Benedetti, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
FROM the rasping natural trumpets and the crisp, hard-edged timpani strokes in the opening item – excerpts from Gluck’s opera Orfeo et Euridice – this was clearly going to be a concert high on period detail.
Classical review: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Queen’s hall, Edinburgh
WHILE it’s surely doubtful that any of its eight members ever envisaged as children that they would end up playing the “bonsai guitar” for a living, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is the musical joke that keeps on giving – as their now 27-year career and a nigh-on full house here attest.
Classical review: Plug - The Return of Volkov, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
YOU expect to find prototypes in a lab: some unlikely to make it to production; others possessing enough inspiration to mark them out as truly promising.
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