Classical: SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / MOLDOVEANU/ BOTT Usher Hall EDINBURGH HH'Feel the emotion,' the programme exhorted, but it took until the second half, and a remarkably beautiful account of Johann Strauss's 'The Blue Danube', to feel that this was anything more than a routine run-...
Edinburgh International Festival (3) – Weber, Beethoven, Strauss, and Bernhard Lang:Hélène Grimaud (piano), Staatskapelle Dresden, Fabio Luisi (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 28.8.2008 (MB) Weber – Overture:Oberon Beethoven – Piano Concerto no.4 in G major, op.58 ...
Classical: Divine Confusion ; PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA / VON DOHNANYI Usher Hall ...DinburghHugh Macdonald, the authority on Berlioz, who wrote the programme note for the opening concert of the Edinburgh Festival, once described the French composer's music as "divine rather than human". It was ...