OPERA, MUSIC, THEATRE & THE ARTS | SCOTLAND
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A single spotlight falls on a pianist. He begins to play. Classical Glass – moody, repetitive arpeggios. The audience settled – some sitting in the balcony, some standing about or reclining against a wall and some sitting on the yoga mats they had been encouraged to bring along. And as the piano continued to play,…
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PRESUMABLY programming decisions were made long before Brexit but this oratorio of intra-European conflict sits a little oddly with the emphasis on the Edinburgh Festival being a consolidating post-war force for good. It is an odd piece too. The best of the music is over after the first 10 minutes and some slightly lacklustre solo…
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MAHLER’S Adagio, the first movement of his unfinished Tenth Symphony, is a strange piece to build a concert around, not least because it is Mahler’s valediction to the world. Music director Thomas Sondergard’s programme introduction asked the audience to decide whether this was a haunting farewell to life or a great cry of love and…