At the Heart of the Hundred Years' War. An exploration of the music heard during the period of the Hundred Year War – spanning from Burgundy, the Flemish region and England. Programme includes music by Guillaume de Machaut, Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Dufay and more.
Be transported to 17th century Venice, Naples... baroque into the 20th century. Packed delighted audiences in 2024. Exciting new programme with beautiful music by the greats – Monteverdi, Caccini, Ferrari, Lundi, Velasquez, Falvo and more. Weep and laugh – the wonder of love. Elspeth McVeigh, accompanied by superb musicians: Sean Heath, historic harpsichord (courtesy museum) …
Be transported to 17th century Venice, Naples... baroque into the 20th century. Packed delighted audiences in 2024. Exciting new programme with beautiful music by the greats – Monteverdi, Caccini, Ferrari, Lundi, Velasquez, Falvo and more. Weep and laugh – the wonder of love. Elspeth McVeigh, accompanied by superb musicians: Sean Heath, historic harpsichord (courtesy museum) …
Back by popular demand, the self-taught and self-proclaimed David Munrow of punk brings his Early Music Show to the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia's Hall for the fourth time. He explains how his fascination with early music came about, inspired by his first encounter with the humble recorder aged six. He'll demonstrate the crumhorn, cornamuse, …
The critically acclaimed team of McDonald and Kitchen perform virtuoso works for recorder with continuo and obbligato harpsichord by Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Corelli, which also exist in alternative versions. Ever commercially astute, Telemann often specified idiomatic alternative instrumentation for his works. Arranging Italian violin sonatas for recorder was almost a cottage industry, and Bach's …
Join Claire to learn all about some of the oldest keyed instruments in our collection.
Join us on Thursday, 4th September at St Cecilia's Hall for one of our informal talk series lectures with historian Jayme Kurland. In 1946, the electric guitar company Fender began its operations in southern California and relied on a small group of Mexican American women to wire amplifiers, wind pickups, and assemble their products, among other tasks. In …
Join Jim to learn about the development of instruments over time.
Join David to learn about all things keyboard to bagpipes.
Experience the mesmerising sounds of gongs resonating in the unique setting in St Cecilia's Concert Hall, Edinburgh. Take some time out from the busy lives we live and simply 'be' with therapeutic sound. Typically, you lay down to receive the sound which enables your mind, body and senses to subtly release, inviting a sense of relaxation. …