Music

  • RSNO: Elijah Glasgow Royal Concert hall
    20 May 2013

    WHAT a splendid weekend to be a music lover in Glasgow, with the complementary strands of the BBC SSO's shattering Rite Of Spring on Thursday followed by a wonderful RSNO performance on Saturday of Mendelssohn's Elijah, with a perfect cast and everyone in fantastic voice, the RSNO Choruses singing as though their collective life depended on it, and the magical catalyst of conductor Sir Andrew Davis finding in the piece warmth, pain and passion in a gloriously expansive performance which at once gave it teeth by singing it in German (we should call it Elias, not Elijah) while purging it of the accretions of Victoriana.

  • Glasgow Art Club Brass Jaw
    20 May 2013

    Brass Jaw may wish to consider playing on railway station concourses more often.

  • Handsome Family
    20 May 2013

    In an ideal world Brett Sparks of the Handsome Family would have a roadie – or a technician even – who would dutifully produce a capo for his guitar at the required moment.

  • Edinburgh Folk Club Tom Paley
    20 May 2013

    A LIFETIME'S enthusiasm for what wouldn't have been called American roots music when Tom Paley started out on his journey of discovery informed the folk songs, blues, banjo and fiddle tunes and reminiscences that the veteran performer shared on this rare Edinburgh appearance.

  • BBC SSO City Hall, Glasgow
    20 May 2013

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  • Arts news
    20 May 2013

    This summer's contemporary art at the Marquess of Bute's home, Mount Stuart, on Bute, is the work of Lucy Skaer (pictured) and her first solo project since her Turner Prize nomination and exhibition at Tate Britain in 2009.