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The Little Match Girl Passion

The Little Match Girl Passion

Movements surplus to requirements in David Lang's fragmented, overlapping score

(3 stars)15 Nov 2011

Amid Victorian clutter – ram’s skull, case of butterflies, mangy toy dog on wheels – four comfortable-looking individuals in deconstructed versions of period dress sing the story of a barefoot lass selling matches on a freezing night. Above them, the…

Jacques Loussier Trio

Jacques Loussier Trio bring their pioneering crossover sound to Glasgow

City Halls, Glasgow, Sun 21 Mar 2010

10 Mar 2010

Nestling among the classical superstar line-up of pianist Joanna MacGregor, Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey and violinist James Ehnes, who appear in Glasgow’s International Classical Season to celebrate the music of JS Bach, there’s a name that doesn’t…

Mark Morris Dance Group

Mark Morris Dance Group

29 Oct 2009

For many choreographers, the work is never finished. Each time they watch a performance, another note is taken, another tweak made. Not so Mark Morris. For him, when the job’s done, it’s done. Making a welcome return to Edinburgh with works…

Actus tragicus

Actus tragicus

Bach in a dolls house

(4 stars)11 Sep 2009

'I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.' Virginia Woolf's sentiment is one the characters in Actus tragicus might well understand - though her black humour would probably be lost on them. Filling the stage is an impressive…

Bach at Greyfriars

Bach at Greyfriars

Europe’s finest converge for Johann Sebastian

10 Aug 2009

In Jonathan Mills’ third Edinburgh International Festival programme, the highly successful early evening slots he has established at Greyfriars Kirk are focused this time round on the music of one composer – JS Bach. Across eight hand-picked top…

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