St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh

Kyle Hutchings at St Mary’s Perivale – review
Kyle Hutchings ‘A pied piper casts his spell in Perivale’ I have heard Kyle play quite a few times and each time I remain struck by his selfless humility and total concentration as music just pours from his almost stationary fingers without any showmanship or physical exertion. More Eusebius than Florestan, that is for sure,…
April 17, 2025
Gabrielė Sutkutė at St Mary’s Perivale – review
Gabrielė Sutkutė at St Mary’s Perivale ‘A star shining ever more brightly’ Beethoven full of extraordinary self identification . Sumptuous passionate Brahms. A kaleidoscope of colours in Debussy and an astonishing technical mastery of Ravel’s La Valse to make your hair stand on end. Rameau of crystalline clarity with ornaments like finely wound springs bursting…
April 16, 2025
Simone Tavoni at St Mary’s Perivale – review
Simone Tavoni in Perivale ‘A musician of poetic insight and curiosity’ A fascinating and varied programme of ‘something old and something new’. The works of Mendelssohn have been unjustly neglected these days and I remember Murray Perahia playing the Sonata op 106 as part of the programme that brought him to victory and world wide…
April 15, 2025