Festivals

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his Edinburgh International Festival debut with the Bergen Philharmonic

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2022 [5] – Ravel, R. Schumann, Rachmaninov: Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Usher Hall, 15.8.2022. (SRT)

Víkingur Ólafsson, Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic © Ryan Buchanan

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Musical energy flowed out of the Takács Quartet who are a class act in Edinburgh

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2022 [4] – Haydn, Coleridge-Taylor, Ravel: Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes [violins], Richard O’Neill [viola], András Fejér [cello]). Queen’s Hall, 15.8.2022. (SRT)

Takács Quartet

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Strikingly tender Liszt from Yuja Wang, slow-burn Sibelius and sumptuous Strauss from the Oslo Phil

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2022 [15], Prom 35 – Sibelius, Liszt, R. Strauss: Yuja Wang (piano), Oslo Philharmonic / Klaus Mäkelä (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 12.8.2022. (MBr)

Klaus Mäkelä © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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Götterdämmerung proves an inconclusive end to Valentin Schwarz’s new Bayreuth Ring cycle

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2022 – Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Cornelius Meister (conductor). Recorded (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Bayreuther Festspielhaus on 5.8.2022 and now available on STAGE+ until 14.11.2047. (JPr)

Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Gunther) with the chorus (Vassals) © Enrico Nawrath

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BBC Singers in an Edinburgh concert with a wide range of music that was as appealing as it was varied

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2022 [3] – Mendelssohn, Martin, Ešenvalds, Harris, Vaughan Williams, Ore, Byss-Kalle: Laura Samuel (violin), BBC Singers / Sofi Jeannin (conductor). Queen’s Hall, 9.8.2022 (SRT)

The BBC Singers © Ryan Buchanan

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