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 ...

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 ...

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.

St Mary’s, Haddington/St Mary’s, Whitekirk If he didn’t invent those two pillars of classical music – the string quartet in chamber music and the symphony for the orchestral repertoire – the ...