Salle: St Giles Cathedral, Edimbourg

NYCOS showcase at The Edinburgh Fringe:  The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins was a moving performance, and a thrillingly muscular take on Mozart’s Requiem let the young voices gloriously soar.

St Giles’ Cathedral, at the top of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, boasts a wonderful acoustic. From the chancel of this magnificent building a string quartet, drawn from the Red Note Ensemble’s flexible and varied forces, presented a late-evening, candlelit programme of meditative music entitled, Hymn of Thanks (Transcendence).