United Kingdom Mozart, Bruckner: Imogen Cooper (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 25.9.2016 (SRT)
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Setting Brings Special Atmosphere to Lammermuir Music Festival
United Kingdom Lammermuir Festival [1] 2016 – MacMillan, Whitacre, Vivaldi: National Youth Choir of Scotland /Christopher Bell (conductor), St Michael’s Church, Inveresk, 17.9.2016
Lammermuir Festival [2] 2016 – Debussy & Mussorgsky: Steven Osborne (piano), Chalmers Memorial Church, Port Seton, 17.9.2016 (SRT)
Runnicles Crowns Edinburgh Festival with Overwhelming yet Delicate Gurrelieder Finale
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2016 (15) – Schoenberg, Gurrelieder: Edinburgh Festival Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor), Usher Hall, 28.8.2016. (SRT)
Blomstedt and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Live Up to Expectations in Bach and Bruckner
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2016 (13) – Bach, Bruckner: Julian Rachin (violin), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Usher Hall, 26.8.2016. (SRT)
EIF’s Così fan tutte Explores the Opera’s Darker Side in an Unsettling Sexual Manner
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2016 (12) – Mozart: Così fan tutte, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Jérémie Rhorer (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 25.8.2016. (SRT)
Diverse and Exciting Music – and an Excellent Breakfast – on the Fringe
United Kingdom Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 (4) – Music Roundup – Week 3: ROSL, Edinburgh, 25.8.2016 (SRT)
Plenty of High Quality Music on the Festival Fringe
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 (3) – Music Roundup – Week 2. 22.8.2016 (SRT)
When most music lovers think of the Edinburgh Festival they think of big touring opera productions, visiting orchestras at the Usher Hall or superstar recitalists at the Queen’s Hall; but if you look beyond the confines of the EIF and into the Fringe, then you’ll often find a lot of very high quality music out there too.
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Brings Brazilian Flavour to Edinburgh Festival
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2016 (11) – Bernstein, Villa-Lobos, Shostakovich: Taylor Torkington (treble), São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor), Usher Hall, 22.8.2016. (SRT)