Since 1708, Handel’s pastoral masterpiece — you can positively hear the sheep frolicking — has been heard in more versions than you could dunk in a vat of sheep dip. The most recently rediscovered, Mendelssohn’s 1829 version of Handel’s “definitive” 1743 score, graced the Usher Hall on Sunday night. Continue reading ››
Greyfriars Kirk is taking the festival’s Enlightenment theme with single-minded precision, focusing on Bach’s cantatas. Continue reading ››
If you’re wondering what a Neuk is, don’t ask a Dutchman – it’s apparently very rude. In Scotland, you’re on safer ground in Fife’s lovely string of harbour villages, decked with bunting, fishing boats and crow-stepped gables, sea views on one side and golf courses on the other. East Neuk also has a rather quirky music festival, which just celebrated its fifth year, a polished mix of top-notch chamber music and off-the-wall electronic, performed in unusual places. Continue reading ››
Northumbrian pipes, Norwegian folk music, Peter Maxwell Davies and the RSNO. It can only be the St Maagnus Festival. Continue reading ››
André Barbe’s gold-drenched set is the centre-piece in a production that implies sordidness without showing its knickers. Continue reading ››
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