United Kingdom MacMillan, Szymanowski, Berlioz: Nicola Benedetti (violin), RSNO Junior Chorus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 18.3.2016. (SRT)
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Persuasion and Silky Swagger from Ibragimova in Schumann Concerto
United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 10.03.2016 (SRT)
Llŷr Williams Brings a Sense Of Poetry to Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto
United Kingdom C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven: Llŷr Williams (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Janiczek (violin/director), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 03.03.2016 (SRT)
Good Cast and Excellent Period Band in Scottish Opera’s Ariodante
United Kingdom Handel, Ariodante: Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Chorus of Ariodante, Nicholas Kraemer (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 27.2.2016. (SRT)
Giltburg Pulls Out All the Stops in Rachmaninov’s Third
United Kingdom Shchedrin, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich: Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 26.2.2016. (SRT)
Powerful, Intensely Focused Shostakovich from Brovtsyn
United Kingdom Glinka, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky: Boris Brovtsyn (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 14.2.2016. (SRT)
Giltburg Enchants Scottish Lovers with Rachmaninov’s Second
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Mahler, R Strauss – RSNO Valentine’s Concert: Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jean-Claude Picard (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 12.02.2016. (SRT)
Exciting Piemontesi Plays a Brace of Mozart Concertos with SCO
United Kingdom Beethoven, Mozart: Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 04.02.2016 (SRT)