Glasgow Royal Concert Hall The RSNO ends October with Shostakovich’s massive Seventh Symphony, the wartime ‘Leningrad’, and it began the month with the same composer’s Fifth, an ambiguous ...

Barony Hall, Cumnock The saxophone and the euphonium were invented in the same decade of the 19th century but the amount of repertoire created for each of them as solo instruments in the 180 years ...

Usher Hall, Edinburgh BARITONE Roderick Williams, making a swift return to Scotland after featuring at the Lammermuir Festival, was the best-known name on stage for the Scottish Chamber ...

City Halls, Glasgow Alexander von Zemlinsky cuts something of a phantom figure within the annals of musical history. Admired by Brahms, and as first teacher of Schoenberg, he was unquestionably ...

SCO / Emelyanychev Perth Concert Hall There are no apparent repertoire limitations for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra these days, but an all-Berlioz programme was nonetheless a bold choice by ...

Substantially occasioned by the passing of John Wallace, inspirational trumpeter and former principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 2026 has been a busy year for fans of music for brass.

In the first phase of the Covid pandemic in 2020, when all gatherings were prohibited, Scottish Opera set the pace with its response to the emergency, and its contribution to a necessarily online ...

A new symphony by James MacMillan sets the ball rolling on his new association with the Hallé Orchestra. It’ll be the same but different, he tells KEN WALTON Beethoven completed nine, as did Mahler.

Fundamental to this awesome Usher Hall performance of Mahler’s Symphony No 2 ‘Resurrection’ was the element of control: utter control, visceral and monumental. And the figure exercising it over a full ...