A Bleak Performance from Bostridge

           Edinburgh International Festival 2014 (7) – Mahler, Weill, Britten: IanBostridge & Julius Drake, Queen’s Hall, 12.8.2014 (SRT)   Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Weill: Four Walt Whitman Songs Britten: Who are these Children?   Ian Bostridge cut a remorselessly bleak figure on the platform today.  That’s appropriate enough, given some … Read more

Edinburgh Festival Opens with High Profile RSNO Concert

 

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Edinburgh International Festival 2014 (1) – Schönberg, Scriabin, Debussy – The Opening Concert:  Kirill Gerstein (piano), Claire Booth (soprano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Oliver Knussen (conductor).  Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 8.8.2014 (SRT)

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