Gregor Tassie

Dudamel and the LA Phil’s Disappointing Tchaikovsky Closes their Edinburgh Residency

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2019 [2] – Barber, Adams, Tchaikovsky: Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 4.8.2019. (GT)

Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) (c) Ryan Buchanan

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Edinburgh Usher Hall 2019-2020 Orchestral Season

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Edinburgh Sunday Classics 2019-2020

Karl Chapman (Director of Edinburgh Concert Series) (c) Duncan McGlynn

For some years, the series of international orchestral concerts, traditionally held on Sunday afternoons, has been a highlight in Edinburgh musical life. The season follows the Edinburgh International Festival maintaining a cultural level emphasizing the status of Scotland’s capital as the center of Scottish arts and music.

The series allows an opportunity for Edinburgh music lovers to compare the standards of the nation’s national orchestras with the best international ensembles. In the season starting in October are several well-known ‘friends’ who have visited in past years, and several orchestras who offer something quite fresh for Edinburgh audiences.

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YOUNG RUSSIAN PIANIST ALEXANDRA DOVGAN TALKS TO GREGOR TASSIE

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Alexandra Dovgan in conversation with Gregor Tassie

Gregor Tassie with Alexandra Dovgan (c) Sergei Dovgan

The eleven-year-old Alexandra Dovgan was honoured by opening the Ninth Rakhlin International Music Festival in Kazan playing Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto together with Alexander Sladkovsky’s outstanding Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, an event (review click here) which I attended together with journalists from Israel, St Petersburg, and Moscow.

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