David Kettle
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Writer and editor, music and theatre, student, rarely here
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3 weeks ago |
thestrad.com | David Kettle
Committed performances celebrate a long-time musical friendship The Strad Issue: June 2025 Description: Committed performances celebrate a long-time musical friendship Musicians: Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) Kreutzer Quartet Works: Saxton: String Quartets: no.3, no.4; Sonata for solo violin ‘Reflections in Time’ Catalogue number: MÉTIER MEX77138 Now 71, Robert Saxton surely counts as one of Britain’s elder statesmen of composition, with a distinguished parallel career in academia.
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1 month ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
Scottish Opera: Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct!, Theatre Royal, Glasgow ★★★Gilbert and Sullivan’s hopelessly out-of-touch duffer of a judge as a Bruce Forsyth-esque MC in a 1980s trial-by-TV reality show? Well, it makes a lot of sense in director John Savournin’s bright, breezy new production of Trial by Jury for Scottish Opera. And, crucially, Savournin’s updating provides a plausible distancing device for some of the one-act operetta’s more, let’s say dated humour.
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1 month ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
Ahead of her performances of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Yeol Eum Son talks to David Kettle about the demands of international touring, the importance of building musical relationships, and why playing with the SCO is ‘bliss’South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is fast becoming a familiar face in Scotland.
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2 months ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
, writes David KettleRSNO & Patrick Hahn, Usher Hall, Edinburgh ★★★★Death might seem an unlikely concert theme to draw a capacity crowd to Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. When one of the evening’s works is Mozart’s lavish, legendary Requiem, however, that popularity is perhaps more understandable.
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2 months ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
BBC SSO, Anja Bihlmaier & Javier Perianes, City Halls, Glasgow ★★★★Four formidable women strode through the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s sometimes overwhelmingly powerful concert – well, five, if you also include conductor Anja Bihlmaier (and you really should), who was a fastidious but compelling presence throughout the evening’s three eclectic offerings.
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