| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 14-Nov-2011 Perth Concert Hall (Horsecross) | The Whole of Mahler's 7th Symphony for Lunch |
 We were welcomed to one of the “more improbable lunchtime concerts ever” by James Waters, director of classical music at Horsecross: over 100 musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (rebranded from RSAMD) playing Mahler’s colossal Symphony no. 7 straight through with no interval.
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| 16-Mar-2011 Younger Hall | Words and Music with the SCO |
.jpg) The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s concerts in St Andrews are usually full-house events in the University’s Younger Hall, with recent repertoire covering Mozart piano concertos and Haydn symphonies at some length. This evening’s programme promised something quite different: four works celebrating ‘words and music’, as part of the StAnza poetry festival. The first thing noticeable on arrival was the lack of audience, with the hall perhaps only two thirds full.Read full review... | |
| 20-Nov-2010 The London Coliseum | Raskatov's A Dog's Heart: new opera at the ENO |
 Last night saw the UK première of Alexander Raskatov's new opera A Dog's Heart, performed by ENO together with theatre company Complicite. The opera, based on a 1925 novella by Russian satirist Mikhail Bulgakov, tells the tale of Sharik, a stray dog who is given the testicles and pituitary gland of a human by an eminent surgeon, the Professor. The transplant is intended as an experiment in rejuvenation, but to everyone's astonishment, the treatment has a different effect: the good dog Sharik turns into a dreadful human, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov.
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