Royal Ballet (HD broadcast). 11/04/2017

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Bolshoi Ballet (HD broadcast), 09/04/2017

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Scottish Opera, 08/04/2017

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Bolshoi Opera, 15/03/2017

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Moving home

Subsequent to my comment about being spammed, in December, I have now opened the new blog.  Please go to my Twitter feed to find the address (the user name is the same as here).  I am leaving this blog up to hold my older posts, at least for a while, and to keep the annoying little spambot busy! Apologies for the inconvenience.

Scottish Opera : 26/02/2017

Debussy : Pelléas et Mélisande

Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Stuart Stratford

BBCSSO, 23/02/2017

Finnis : The Air, Turning (World première)
Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 2 (Steven Osborne, piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov : Scheherazade (Laura Samuel, violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov

BBCSSO, 09/02/2017

Haydn : Symphony No. 8 "Le Soir"
Ravel : Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano)
Tippett : Symphony No. 2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

Royal Ballet (HD broadcast), 08/02/2017

Max Richter : Woolf Works

Artists of The Royal Ballet
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Koen Kessels

Scottish Opera, 05/02/2017

Debussy : Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune
Sibelius : Pelleas and Melisande - Suite
Debussy : L'enfant prodigue

Claire Rutter, soprano
Luis Gomes, tenor
Ashley Holland, baritone
Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Stuart Stratford

RSNO, 04/02/2017

Vaughan Williams (arr. Bryan) : The Lark Ascending
Suckling : The White Road (Katherine Bryan, flute)
Ravel : Daphnis et Chloé - Suites Nos. 1 & 2

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Arild Remmereit

NT Live (HD broadcast), 02/02/2017

Peter Shaffer : Amadeus

National Theatre
Southbank Sinfonia
Simon Slater, music director
Directed by Michael Longhurst

The Attic Collective, 28/01/2017

Aristophanes : Lysistrata

Directed by Susan Worsfold

SCO, 27/01/2017

Dvorák : Legends
Mozart : Piano Concerto No. 23, KV. 488
Mozart : Piano Concerto No. 27, KV. 595 (Maria João Pires, piano)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Robin Ticciati

BBCSSO, 26/01/2017

Dvorák : Cello Concerto (Steven Isserlis, cello)
Elgar : Symphony No. 1

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard

Scottish Opera, 24/01/2017

Glass : The Trial

Soloists from the Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Derek Clark

Bolshoi Ballet (HD broadcast), 22/01/2016

Tchaikovsky : The Sleeping Beauty

Artists of the Bolshoi Ballet
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Pavel Sorokin

SCO, 20/01/2017

Beethoven : Leonore Overture No. 1
Beethoven : Symphony No. 4
Beethoven : Violin Concerto (Nicola Benedetti, violin)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Joseph Swensen

SCO, 13/01/2016

Mozart : La Clemenza di Tito - Overture
Mozart : Violin Concerto No. 4 (Alexander Janiczek, violin)
Berg : Three Pieces from Lyric Suite
Beethoven : Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" (Llyr Williams, piano)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Alexander Janiczek / Llyr Williams

Metropolitan Opera (HD broadcast), 07/01/2017

Verdi : Nabucco

Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
James Levine