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Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra bring their own fireworks to the festival finale.

The inexhaustible maestro shared the stage with Johan Dalene, an exciting violinist seven decades his junior.

Mäkelä brought out the harmonic inventiveness and the unexpected lyrical character of the music. 

Andrew Staples creates an austere, monochrome semi-staging that's strangely appropriate to the times; Peter Mattei and John Lundgren lead an excellent cast.

Although filled with beauty and sweetly played, the fragmentation of the symphony felt too disruptive.

Bookending a concert with Die Seejungfrau and La Mer, Klaus Mäkelä and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra offered two very different musical depictions of water and the ocean.

Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in love with Pettersson and Berlioz, whereas Alina Ibragimova disappoints in Schumann.

Esa-Pekka Salonen brings the Baltic Sea Festival to an end in an eclectic, risk-taking programme of music by Biber, Beethoven and himself.

For all its ambition, the première of Jesper Nordin’s Emerging from Currents and Waves at the Baltic Sea Festival consisted of little more than slick surfaces and displays of overload

A superb choral performance and some memorable solo moments bring Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand" to life, even if the sheer energy of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra turns frantic at times.

A true audiovisual experience, Anders Hillborg's Aeterna, a collaboration with two Swedish film-makers, results in a compelling portrait of the fragility that underlies our relationship with our planet.

Bruckner's Symphony no. 7 is well played, but the overall picture lacks definition; Jonathan Biss gives an engaging performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto.

Esa-Pekka Salonen and Yuja Wang at the Baltic Sea Festival.

Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra gave an oddly-staged, at times erractic, performance of the “Resurrection” Symphony that failed to completely encapulsate Mahler's vision.