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More is Less: Balletic Realisation of Casanova’s Life Fails To Grip

29/03/201727/03/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Northern Ballet’s Casanova: Dancers of Northern Ballet, Northern Ballet Sinfonia / Nathan Fifield (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 25.3.2017. (SRT)

Giuliano Contadini as Casanova and Dreda Blow as Bellino in Casanova. Photo Caroline Holden — Giuliano Contadini (Casanova) and Dreda Blow (Bellino)
in *Casanova* (c) Caroline Holden

Scottish Opera are on their Finest Form for David McVicar’s Pelléas et Melisande

18/03/201712/03/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Debussy, Pelléas et Melisande: Soloists and Chorus of Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 11.3.2017. (SRT)

Carolyn Sampson as Mélisande in Pelléas and Mélisande. Scottish Opera 2017. Credit Richard Campbell. (3) — Carolyn Sampson (Mélisande) in SO’s *Pelléas and Mélisande* (c) Richard Campbell

Benedetti’s Bruch Concerto has Blissful Serenity and Great Peace

18/03/201712/03/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Debussy, Bruch, Beethoven: Nicola Benedetti (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 10.3.2017. (SRT)

Parisian Élan in Baroque and Classical Guises from the SCO

13/03/201710/03/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom ‘The Paris Concert’: Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Laurence Cummings (conductor), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 9.3.2017. (SRT)

Idiosyncrasies and Ragged Edges from Sado and the Vienna Tonkünstler

11/03/201706/03/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Mozart, Brahms: Emma Johnson (clarinet), Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra / Yutaka Sado (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 5.3.2017. (SRT)

Big-Boned Russian Beasts in Riveting Performances from the BBC SSO

03/03/201727/02/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Finnis, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: Vadym Kholodenko (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 26.2.2017. (SRT)

Hollywood Film Scores Delivered with Aplomb by the RSNO

03/03/201725/02/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom John Williams and Friends: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Richard Kaufmann (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 24.2.2017. (SRT)

Vigour and Zing: Egarr and the SCO bring New Life to Beethoven and Mozart

03/03/201725/02/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Beethoven, Mozart: Rowan Pierce (soprano), Daniela Lehner (mezzo), James Gilchrist (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-bar), SCO Chorus, Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Richard Egarr (conductor), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 23.2.2017. (SRT)

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