Understanding Music

The northernmost Baltic state is famous for revolting in song. But its musical traditions run deeper than twentieth-century politics. Andrew Mellor explores.

Ahead of our memorised performances of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings we caught up with Scottish Ensemble Artistic Director Jonathan Morton to ask him more about the project.

Ahead of Common Sound, Rosie Davies lends us her perspective on what makes live so special.

Ahead of Common Sound, we got Nemone, our guide, DJ and presenter, and Jonathan Morton, Artistic Director of Scottish Ensemble together to talk about the project, how it came about and what they hope it might explore and uncover.

Can learning more about music written 300 years ago help us to re-think and re-appreciate the modern concert experience? Ahead of Baroque: Take Two, we explore how the Baroque era changed our experience of classical music, and how we might

Eating a meal together and sharing music together: two familiar experiences with a surprising amount in common. Ahead of Sound Bites, we take a deeper look at the connection between these functional, sensory and emotional experiences.

Ahead of our collaboration together, Scottish Ensemble violinist Joanne Green catches up with acclaimed cellist and harpsichordist Jonathan Cohen about all things Baroque

Journalist Keith Bruce speaks to French-Iranian percussionist Keyvan Chemirani – zarb virtuoso and the lead collaborator on Scottish Ensemble’s Continental Drift – about a career spent exploring different musical cultures

Rosie Davies explores the myriad positive effects that music has on the brain, body and soul.

We explore the relationship between visual art and music through five diverse works from the early twentieth century to the present.