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George Bernard Shaw slammed it as "despicable oratorio-mongering" and the "prostitution of Mendelssohn's great genius to this lust for threatening and vengeance, doom and wrath".

Sharleen Spiteri and her cohorts wear their influences on their sleeves, so a tie-up with Richard Hawley, with whom they worked with on much of this album, makes a lot of sense.

Texas, who unveiled tracks from their first album in eight years, The Conversation, at Glasgow's King Tut's on Friday, will be promoting it on a major tour later in the year.

Music theatre star Ruthie Henshall brings her solo show to Scotland.

Performing tracks from their new album, The Conversation, Texas made a welcome comeback to their home crowd following an eight-year hiatus and marking the band's 25th anniversary year.

IN the years I've followed the career of Paul Rissmann, presenter extraordinaire, I've seen him tackle everything from James MacMillan and John Adams to Edgard Varese and Erik Satie.

For all that the Wainwright family history is littered with fairly well-publicised spats, when two of them get together and sing they can't half harmonise.

Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris/Philippe Jordan

A couple of years ago, you knew exactly where you stood with Scottish indie-folk bands.

Well folks, it's almost here.

IF the players in the Michelangelo String Quartet made a single strategic miscalculation in their six-concert cycle of Beethoven's String Quartets, which concluded on Wednesday night in Perth, then it was in that final concert and occurred in their performance of the sixth and last of Beethoven's early opus 18 set.

THE14th instalment of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award is looking for young traditional musicians and singers who would like to follow in the footsteps of previous winners including Emily Smith, Stuart Cassells and Ewan Robertson, all of whom have gone on to successful careers.

It's somehow reassuring to learn that Pink Martini were once capable of slip-ups because their performances these days are almost too good to be true.

Over the past few decades, with his career set to cruise control as album after album of rock'n'soul covers and American Songbook standards filled the supermarket racks, how often did Rod Stewart glance up from his bank statements and consider winning back credibility with a twilight-years set of original songs?