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Amicus Orchestra brings summer sunshine to Glasgow’s West End Festival

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“...the Amicus strings surging like a summer whirlwind across a flowery meadow”
Reviewed at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow on 15 June 2019
Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel: Overture
Bruch, Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op.26
Dvořák, Symphony no. 8 in G major, Op.88
Robert Baxter, Conductor
Tobias Ringborg, Violin
Amicus Orchestra
Romantic Tchaikovsky and a chilling Shostakovich 10
****1
Magnificent 10th birthday: Amicus plays Strauss and Mahler
****1
Scottish Ballet's A Streetcar Named Desire: sensual but tragic
*****
A beautiful, relevant Madama Butterfly arrives in Adelaide
*****
Scottish Opera’s steampunk Magic Flute returns
****1
Talented young cast shines in New Zealand Opera's La bohème
****1
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