United Kingdom Clandeboye Festival [3] – Beethoven, Schubert: Barry Douglas (piano) and chamber musicians. Clandeboye Estate, County Down, 28.8.2026. (RB)
Highly enjoyable accounts of two chamber music masterpieces at the Clandeboye Festival
Festivals
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra arrives in Edinburgh to close the International Festival in style
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2026 [8]: (SRT)
Torvind proves worth exploring whilst Kopatchinskaja and Prokofiev’s score shine at the Proms
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2026 [23] – Torvund, Stravinsky, Prokofiev: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, 29.8.2026. (CC)
Quartets and Trios: the directly communicative power of chamber music at Presteigne
United Kingdom Day Two of the Presteigne Festival 2026 [2]: St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 28.8.2026. (PC)
Enterprising programming and top-flight musicianship at the Presteigne Festival
United Kingdom Day One of the Presteigne Festival 2026 [1]: St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 27.8.2026. (PC)
The intensity of Deutsch’s Intensity steals the show during Welser-Möst’s return to Cleveland
United States Summers at Severance [4] – Various: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 27.8.2026. (MSJ)
Revelatory concert of Schubert and a tribute to Kurtág in his centenary year from the Gringolts Quartet
United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2026 [7] – Kurtág, Schubert: Gringolts Quartet (Ilya Gringolts, Anahit Kurtikyan [violins], Silvia Simionescu [viola], Claudius Hermann [cello]). Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 24.8.2026. (GT)
Wonderful recital of Russian music by Barry Douglas at the Clandeboye Festival
United Kingdom Clandeboye Festival [2] – Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev Mussorgsky: Barry Douglas (piano). Clandeboye Estate, County Down, Northern Ireland, 26.8.2026. (RB)
