Classical News

• Notes on a musical journey
  22 March 2012

  It is remarkable, but not more than a coincidence, that the new season announced today by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra contains a high proportion of relatively less known repertoire from the last century.

• Strategy for evolution
  21 March 2012

  THE seismic change at the top of the RSNO administration is, oddly, having little immediate impact on the orchestra's new winter season of concerts, announced today.

• Contemporary touch to SCO's approach to new season
  21 March 2012

  The Scottish Chamber Orchestra's 2012-13 season, announced today, looks a classy and fairly classic line-up, rooting the orchestra in home territory with a Mozart opera opener, major strands called Mozart at the Piano and The Age of Romanticism, and some seriously sophisticated guest soloists.

• Arts news
  15 March 2012

  The Hebrides Ensemble will be touring Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time to Perth, Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh later this month.