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Die Welt des Kinos teilt sich in zwei Lager: die Menschen im einen Lager glauben, dass eine konstante Wiederbesetzung mit den Favoriten aus einer geschlossenen Gesellschaft von Schauspielern das bewusste Einlassen auf die Fiktion letztlich gefährde, die Menschen im anderen Lager sehen das nicht so.

Danny Driver thrills in an imaginatively conceived and wonderfully executed programme of Ligeti and Debussy. 

Phantasm in an intimate, late night Art of Fugue for consort of viols. 

Pianist Steven Osborne delights a packed Dunbar Parish Church in a recital of Schubert and Rachmaninov. 

John Butt's Dunedin Consort in an illustration and exploration of coffee house culture in Bach's 1730s Leipzig. 

Tender Sibelius, Mozart brimming with personality and heroic Beethoven in the opening concert of the sixth Lammermuir Fetival. 

Gergiev and the LSO in an explosive, primeval Rite of Spring.

Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony in reflective and raucous Ives, virtuosic Beethoven and dramatic Tchaikovsky. 

Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony electrify Edinburgh with Mahler 1. 

A morning of wonderful and varied chamber music from the Budapest Festival Orchestra Soloists in Edinburgh.

If we consider Domenico Scarlatti an honorary Spaniard, since half of his life was spent there, then this was an entirely Spanish programme. 

The Edinburgh Quartet in a programme of early works showing promise - then and now - and radical change of direction. 

Peter Oundjian and the RSNO perform an imaginative programme airing the varied moods and influences which make up modern America.

Thomas Søndergård and the RSNO in an evening of minor key late symphonies separated by a dazzling clarinet concerto.

The Edinburgh Quartet in a fine examination of Mendelssohn, Schumann, influence and originality.

Quatuor Ebène delight a Queen's Hall audience with Haydn, Dutilleux and Brahms.

Three concertos and a symphony; three soloists and an ever-expanding chamber orchestra; the SCO in Stravinsky, Mozart and Beethoven.

Peter Oundjian and the RSNO star in a celebration of orchestration, with guest Steven Osborne. 

Llŷr Williams, Alexander Janiczek and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a triple concerto evening.

The Scottish Chamber Orchesra, under John Storgårds, in a programme of story, stage and music.

The RSNO shine in Strauss' and Bartók's contrasting responses to war, dislocation and loss, Metamorphosen and the Concerto for Orchestra.

John Butt and Dunedin Consort delight Dunbar Parish Church with Acis and Galatea

Steven Osborne stuns a Lammermuir audience with Messiaen's Messianic contemplations.

A deeply moving evening of Russian choral treasures from Nigel Short's Tenebrae.

Red Note Ensemble's Sounding Brass in a unique afternoon of brass, percussion and electronics in an imaginatively scouted industrial setting.

National Youth Choir of Scotland Chamber Choir and Lammermuir Festival Players delight in an imaginative programme of French and Estonian sacred music.

The BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov close EIF 2014's contemplations on 'Conflict and Culture' with dark Mills and dramatic Janáček.

In a packed Usher Hall, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra still and thrill by turns with transcendental, colourful Ravel and innovative, cinematic young Shostakovich.

A gladiatorial setting of one man, one piano, two thousand spectators: the piano's slightly rakish angle was going to allow a few hundred more people to see András Schiff's hands in action. 

The Czech Philharmonic serve up a home brew which proves a heady mix in Edinburgh's Usher Hall

The Takács Quartet in an engaging programme of works referencing murderous marital strife, life-threatening illness and recovery – and less harrowing inspirations.

An imaginative and wonderfully performed programme of ecclesiastical works wrought in peril, alienation and exile.

Jurowski, Kopatchinskaja and the LPO entrance with a varied and imaginative programme.

The I, Culture Orchestra animate an Edinburgh Festival audience with elegy, irony and defiance.

Piotr Andersweski dazzles a Queen's Hall audience with a display of technical mastery and emotional commitment, before strolling from the stage with the ease of someone who has just read out a short housekeeping announcement.

Alban Gerhardt's and Steven Osborne's wonderful solo and duo skills unfold across a gritty programme.

Jordi Savall directs a multi-lingual, multi-cultural voyage through Europe's war-torn past.

A stellar quartet deliver Messiaen's time-stopping depiction of the eternal in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirk.

The Hebrides Ensemble delight a Queen's Hall audience with novel takes on Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat.

Oliver Knussen, the RSNO and Edinburgh Festival Chorus offer rarely heard titanic works in a packed Usher Hall.

Deft programming, fine arrangements and playing from Mr McFall's Chamber and guest soprano Susan Hamilton.

The Edinburgh Quartet and guests delight in the city where Hans Gál spent many productive years.

An imaginative RSNO programme sandwiching fusionist Gershwin between unbelievably contrasting Shostakovich, seasoned with a little re-titling.

An overview of how contemporary music fares in the new seasons of three of our Scottish orchestras.

The Edinburgh Quartet conclude their excellent mini-series of Late Session concerts at Edinburgh's 'Summerhall' featuring the music of James MacMillan.

RSNO, Søndergård and Frang perform a thoughtful programme of dislocation and migration: Dean, Britten and Dvořák.

Scottish Ensemble, Catriona McKay and Chris Stout in a programme mixing the classical and the Celtic; the composed and the improvised; the individually crafted and the collaboratively collaged.

RSNO, James Feddeck and Igor Levit offer an imaginatively interlinked, all-Russian programme - looking forwards and back.

Anoushka Shankar and the RSNO under Kristjan Järvi delight with complementary takes on 'the East' – Arvo Pärt and Ravi Shankar at Edinburgh's Usher Hall.

SCO musicians perform an engaging afternoon of Eastern European chamber music for wind, strings and piano.