Review Some of us at Inverurie Music’s concert on Saturday last were recalling words from John Newton’s hymn during Haydn’s Emperor Quartet, the source of the hymn-tune. “Grace which, like the Lord, the giver, never fails from age to age”. The splendid Sinopia Quartet, replete with violist Elaine Koene originally from Turriff, played a delicious […]
Review: Primrose Piano Quartet
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL On Saturday, 17th March at the Kemnay Church Centre, an attentive and appreciative audience that included two young piano students braved the cold weather to listen to the Primrose Piano Quartet. As well as two full-scale works by Mozart and Brahms, two romantic English composers, Elgar and Alwyn, provided an interesting contrast […]
Review: AB24 Aberdeen Baroque Ensemble
BAROQUE ENSEMBLE GETS A FULL HOUSE AT ST MARY’S In a recreation of the spirit of music from Eighteenth Century Europe, AB24 or the Aberdeen Baroque Ensemble, performed in front of a capacity audience at St Mary’s Episcopal Church on Saturday. AB24 are made up of sisters Amanda and Claire Babington and David Smith, Professor […]
Review: Sasha Savaloni
On a wet Sunday afternoon an audience of over 60 people enjoyed a stunning concert given by Scotland-based guitarist Sasha Savaloni at the Acorn Centre, Inverurie. The short recital was the first collaboration between Inverurie Music and the North East Scotland Classical Guitar Society. Sasha played a varied repertoire commencing with a guitar transcription of […]