Music preview: Winterplay - a little chamber music festival to brighten the dark days

If you love classical music and the thought of dreary winter weekends in the house thinking desperately of things to do with the kids is getting you down, why not sign up for a family-friendly musical weekend at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall? It’s called Winterplay – as much a seasonally-convenient title as a play on words to denote the intimate “interplay” required in chamber music, which will dominate the weekend – and it’s the brainchild of local concert pianist Susan Tomes, whose belief, she says, is “that classical music is not an ‘elite’ activity, but a precious resource that should be open to everyone”.