Joshua Bell: Sunday Classics at the Usher Hall

Academy of St Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell

Sunday Classics at the Usher Hall

19 January 2020, 3.00pm

Passion, precision, spellbinding virtuosity: international violin soloist Joshua Bell is quite simply one of the world’s most accomplished, revered musicians. Continue reading Joshua Bell: Sunday Classics at the Usher Hall

The Prague Symphony Orchestra brings an electrifying celebration of Nature to Edinburgh’s Usher Hall

Sunday Classics: Prague Symphony Orchestra with Ester Pavlů

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

3:00pm, Sunday 10 November 2019

‘A symphony must be like the world,’ said Gustav Mahler. ‘It must contain everything!’

None of the composer’s magnificent music better embodies Mahler’s famous maxim than his epic Third Symphony. This is music on a grand, cosmic scale, with an electrifying power to match, and brings together a spectacular stage-full of musicians: an enormous orchestra, choir, children’s choir and mezzo-soprano soloist. Continue reading The Prague Symphony Orchestra brings an electrifying celebration of Nature to Edinburgh’s Usher Hall

Usher Hall to welcome the world’s finest orchestras this autumn

2019 at the Usher Hall sees the return of its Sunday Classics season, a highlight in the classical music calendar every year. The venue will host orchestras from all over the world as part of the concert series, kicking off in October with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yuri Simonov and featuring soloist Alexandra Dariescu on piano. Continue reading Usher Hall to welcome the world’s finest orchestras this autumn