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The Estonian Festival Orchestra reunites under its founder at the eleventh edition of the Pärnu Music Festival. 

Razor sharp precision from Nelsons and the BSO in Shostakovich and Stravinsky, with intensely expressive playing from Michael Zaretsky and Randall Hodgkinson in Eda Rapoport's Poem.

Petrenko and the RLPO produced a Rachmaninov symphony that ticked all the boxes, a scintillating world première from Emily Howard and a Shostakovich concerto with an impressive replacement soloist.

To celebrate their ten year partnership, Vasily Petrenko and the RLPO serve up a hearty Russian meal with a British-Italian hors d'oeuvre.  

This Anvil concert revealed a “two sides of the same coin” quality from an illustrious orchestra that left a mixed, but mostly favourable impression.

A programme steeped in the cultural experience of 20th-century Russia offered intrigue, thrills and a surprising dash of humour.