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Conductor stepping down from Scottish Symphony Orchestra

19 Sep 2007

The chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will step down from the post in September 2009. Ilan Volkov, who was chosen to head the company aged just 26, will pursue a freelance career with the likes of the Washington Symphony and…

Public to vote for RSNO performance

7 Sep 2007

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra will allow the public to vote for a concert programme for the first time, as the company looks to broaden its appeal. One of the five concerts for Scotland’s national orchestra upcoming Classic Bites season will…

Benedetti: Cult of reality TV ‘disturbing’

3 Sep 2007

Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti has lashed out at the ‘reality’ culture responsible for spawning pointless celebrities, such as footballers’ wives and socialite Paris Hilton. The 20-year-old from Ayrshire also directed her criticisms at fellow…

Beethoven’s doctor ‘accidentally killed’ composer

30 Aug 2007

After months of forensic-style examinations, a Viennese pathologist claims the doctor treating Beethoven up to his death in 1827 inadvertently killed the composer. Christian Reiter has completed painstaking research examining strands of Beethoven’s…

Christine Brewer

Christine Brewer

23 Aug 2007

As comfortable chatting about American Idol as she is arias, Christine Brewer is swift to dispel any notion of the opera diva. Indeed, from the moment she burst onto the stage as a teenager with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Brewer knew she had…

Gürzenich Orchestra

Gürzenich Orchestra

Carol Main

23 Aug 2007

Of all the orchestras appearing at the Festival, there is none with a more impressive pedigree than the Gürzenich from Germany. Mahler, Berlioz, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms and Stravinsky all wrote for and conducted this orchestra, whose Cologne roots stretch…

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

23 Aug 2007

On stage at the start of this year’s Edinburgh Festival and back at the Usher Hall for its penultimate night, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra have three Glasgow dates that are equally unmissable before returning to Edinburgh with their winter…

Tschaikowsky (And Other Russians)

Tschaikowsky (And Other Russians)

(4 stars)23 Aug 2007

Armed with a truckload of sheet music, some forgotten musical gems and a biting Jewish wit, Mark Nadler is like a male Barbra Streisand on speed. Opening with the Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin song ‘Tschaikowsky’, featuring the unpronounceable names of 49…

Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610

Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610

16 Aug 2007

While Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo occupies Festival pole position, there is plenty more on the programme from the great Renaissance-Baroque transitionalist Italian. Five concerts of madrigals make up what EIF director Jonathan Mills calls ‘the sketch book’. As…

Second Life to host first online symphonic concert

14 Aug 2007

The virtual world Second Life has added another string to its bow of real-life pursuits, with plans to stage a full scale symphonic concert on the site. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has created a virtual version of its concert hall in which it will…

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