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Co-founder https://t.co/esnpsoqQ9x; retired arts editor; reviews also for https://t.co/5Ch2URStcz + https://t.co/XRxDkNEZDU
Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Joined November 2012
Tchaikovsky and Mahler vibrantly rethought by Lithuanian and Romanian guests with @RSNO
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Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Fashion statement or character statement? It was all that and much more with Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović, whose Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the RSNO on Satur…
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Pianist Paul Lewis plays Beethoven with @ConcertoBp @theusherhall on Sunday. He talks to @VoxCarnyx about ‘being yourself’ amid the noise of social media
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Pianist Paul Lewis returns to Edinburgh this weekend. He tells KEN WALTON why ‘just being yourself’ is the key to honest fulfilment amid the noise of social media Mention the name Paul Lewis, and t…
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Musician's encore was an emotional welcome for his new baby https://t.co/Jtcsip5wbk
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Music review: RSNO/Sondergard, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, four stars: First trumpet with the RSNO Christopher Hart has had a busy time of it…
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Impressive @LazarovaDelyana in her debut as principal guest conductor @BBCSSO
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City Halls, Glasgow This wasn’t Bulgarian-born Delyana Lazarova’s maiden encounter with the BBC SSO, but Thursday’s concert did represent her first official appearance as the orchestra’s new princi…
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The chorus of @SCOmusic delivered “some of the finest and most perfectly calibrated singing ever heard in this venerable venue.”
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City Halls, Glasgow Some members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus doubtless sang Hector Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ under the baton of Emmanuel Krivine when the SCO last performed the ora…
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REVIEW: Martyn Brabbins conducts the @BBCSSO in @jamesmacm Ian Whyte & Rachmaninov
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City Halls, Glasgow Thursday’s lengthy but well-balanced programme represented all that is good about the BBC SSO. It revived a James MacMillan classic – the work through which this orchestra…
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Scots composer/conductor Ian Whyte wrote his Violin Concerto for Max Rostal in the 1950s. Why has it taken till this Thursday @BBCSSO for its premiere to be given? Here’s why…… @scottishmusic
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Robin McEwan tells KEN WALTON why an unperformed 1950s concerto by Ian Whyte was worth resurrecting for a BBC SSO world premiere nearly 70 years on The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is cele…
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Review: Strauss dazzles and Hollywood dims in RSNO’s electrifying night with Shelley https://t.co/FX727Ymkss
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A radiant, masterfully led performance of Strauss shines brightest in a programme where Hollywood-inspired works struggle to match its power.
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Review: What did our reviewer make of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra take on Mozart? https://t.co/ErWu4AdYQf
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Mozart Piano Concertos from soloist Yeol Eum Son and @SCOmusic paired boldly with 12-tone Webern, introduced by conductor Andrew Manze
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City Halls, Glasgow It was hard not to be impressed by the chutzpah of the programming: two of the finest Mozart Piano Concertos, Nos 21 and 24, with one of the most admired soloists of our time, Y…
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“A very thoughtful programme, with no fewer than three featured soloists, in which everything spoke eloquently to everything else.” @BBCSSO, with Ben Glassberg on the podium, Lawrence Power on viola and soprano Claire Booth
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City Halls, Glasgow The fingerprints of the BBC SSO’s chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth were all over this Thursday matinee programme, but the man himself was not there, having called off unwell. T…
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Full steam ahead for Linlithgow String Orchestra’s world premiere of Engine Shed by composer Deborah Shaw (aka @AuroraEngine ) on Sun 9 Nov. We talk to conductor Bill Jones @MakingMusic_UK @LNER
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Far from having ideas above its station, a Scots amateur string orchestra is riding the high ground with a rail-themed world premiere, musical director Bill Jones tells KEN WALTON Bill Jones …
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“There could be much more to come from this ensemble”: @NickyBenedetti & Friends @GCHalls
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Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Some years ago I recall hearing violin showman Maxim Vengerov interviewed on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, and Sean Rafferty asking if he was ever irritated by audiences coming …
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Traditional tunes and radical revisions: Benedetti and friends strike a daring chord, says @keithjbruce
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This 'Evening with Nicola Benedetti' was the musician looking back to move forward, and – in parallel with her career on the orchestral platform…
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Violinist Alina Ibragimova fits dates with @SCOmusic into her remarkable concert schedule. Review
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City Halls, Glasgow ALINA Ibragimova’s schedule over the next few months is remarkable. She is on tour with Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto be…
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'It was as superbly executed as you would expect of the SCO’s wind soloists' https://t.co/Nvhxj8zAds
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Alina Ibragimova leads the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a spellbinding night of Strauss, Hartmann and Haydn’s “Drum Roll” Symphony at Glasgow…
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This breathtaking five-star opera is a feast for the eyes and ears https://t.co/VCLUAEnR3U
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Review: La boheme, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, five stars: It is a joy to see this gloriously-realised sumptuous staging of La boheme
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“The mission of taking proper singing to Crail and Nairn and Castle Douglas and Castlebay is admirably accomplished” @ScottishOpera hits the road
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Scottish Opera: Opera Highlights Gartmore Village Hall With its community-run pub, The Black Bull, next door, Gartmore Village Hall in the Trossachs has the atmosphere of some of the further-flung …
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Home territory tour by @NickyBenedetti leads up to launch of international small group @deccaclassics album, Violin Cafe. Exclusive interview with the violin star.
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Scotland’s violin star, Nicola Benedetti, talks to Keith Bruce as she goes out on the road with a small group from this weekend. Nicola Benedetti has hardly been idle, embracing motherhood and marr…
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