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Edinburgh

A technically flawless War Requiem in Edinburgh

By Simon Thompson, 24 August 2019

The performance was technically flawless, but left our reviewer unmoved.

***11

***11

Edinburgh

24 Aug 2019

A technically flawless War Requiem in Edinburgh

By Simon Thompson

Edinburgh

Dudamel and the LA Phil: a magnificent Mahler to open the 2019 Edinburgh Festival

By David Smythe, 03 August 2019

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic in a magnificent Mahler’s Second raising the roof to open the 2019 Edinburgh Festival, with soloists Anna Larsson and Miah Persson and Edinburgh Festival Chorus.

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****1

Edinburgh

05 Aug 2019

A magnificent Mahler to open the 2019 Edinburgh Festival

By David Smythe

Glasgow

The Ultimate Romantic: BBCSSO uncovers Lélio, a Berlioz rarity

By David Smythe, 17 February 2019

BBCSSO’s contributes to Berlioz – The Ultimate Romantic with a swaggering Waverley Overture, Dramatic Death of Cleopatra and an intriguing performance of Lélio, or what happened after Symphonie Fantastique.

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****1

Glasgow

18 Feb 2019

The Ultimate Romantic: BBCSSO uncovers Lélio, a Berlioz rarity

By David Smythe

Edinburgh

Wonderful choral singing makes for a stirring Mahler 8 in Edinburgh

By David Karlin, 26 August 2018

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.

***11

***11

Edinburgh

27 Aug 2018

Wonderful choral singing in Edinburgh's Mahler 8

By David Karlin

Edinburgh

Hrůša's clarity of vision focuses Dvořák’s Requiem in Edinburgh

By Simon Thompson, 21 August 2018

Jakub Hrůša leads a brilliant performace of Dvořák’s Requiem, but it doesn't completely dispel doubts about the work.

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****1

Edinburgh

21 Aug 2018

Hrůša's clarity of vision focuses Dvořák’s Requiem in Edinburgh

By Simon Thompson

Edinburgh

Two contrasting seascapes make a pair of satisfying voyages at Edinburgh International Festival

By Simon Thompson, 09 August 2018

Thea Musgrave’s pictorial writing sits well next to an exhilarating Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony.

*****

*****

Edinburgh

10 Aug 2018

A pair of satisfying voyages at Edinburgh International Festival

By Simon Thompson

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Manchester

A shattering Gurre-Lieder from the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Sir Mark Elder

By Rohan Shotton, 04 June 2017

Sir Mark Elder's 70th birthday Gurre-Lieder threatens to dislodge the roof in Manchester with the combined forces of the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic

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*****

Manchester

06 Jun 2017

A shattering Gurre-Lieder from the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Sir Mark Elder

By Rohan Shotton

Edinburgh

Runnicles bids farewell to BBCSSO with a colossal Gurrelieder at the Edinburgh Festival

By David Smythe, 28 August 2016

Donald Runnicles ends the 2016 Edinburgh Festival with Gurrelieder.

*****

*****

Edinburgh

29 Aug 2016

A colossal Gurrelieder in Edinburgh

By David Smythe

Edinburgh

An epic Shostakovich 5 as Marin Alsop introduces the São Paulo Symphony to the EIF

By David Smythe, 22 August 2016

Marin Alsop nods to her mentor in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, challenges the Edinburgh Festival Chorus with Villa-Lobos' Chôros 10 and astonishes in a passionate enduring performance of Shostakovich's Fifth.

****1

****1

Edinburgh

23 Aug 2016

Epic Shostakovich 5 from Alsop and the São Paulo SO

By David Smythe

Edinburgh

Janáček's Glagolitic Mass crowns Edinburgh International Festival

By Alan Coady, 30 August 2014

The BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov close EIF 2014's contemplations on 'Conflict and Culture' with dark Mills and dramatic Janáček.

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****1

Edinburgh

31 Aug 2014

Janáček's Glagolitic Mass crowns Edinburgh International Festival

By Alan Coady

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival: The Opening Concert

By Alan Coady, 08 August 2014

Oliver Knussen, the RSNO and Edinburgh Festival Chorus offer rarely heard titanic works in a packed Usher Hall.

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****1

Edinburgh

10 Aug 2014

Edinburgh International Festival: The Opening Concert

By Alan Coady

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival: World-class Mahler from Mariss Jansons and the BRSO

By David Smythe, 12 August 2013

It is on record that Mariss Jansons adores the Usher Hall in Edinburgh and wishes there was a concert hall with as good an acoustic in Munich. His quite astonishing performance of Mahler’s vast “Resurrection” Symphony, taking us as it does on a journey from darkness and despair to blazing light with orchestra and choir going flat out, demonstrated just what an exciting venue this is.

*****

*****

Edinburgh

14 Aug 2013

Edinburgh International Festival: World-class Mahler from Mariss Jansons and the BRSO

By David Smythe

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival: Opening concert with the RSNO, Gergiev and Daniil Trifonov

By Alan Coady, 09 August 2013

The opening concert of the 2013 Edinburgh International Festival was a Scottish-Russian collaboration. The RSNO, the home team on home turf, featured two Russian soloists, all under the baton (or, more accurately, the open hands) of Valery Gergiev at Usher Hall.

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****1

Edinburgh

12 Aug 2013

Edinburgh International Festival: Opening concert with the RSNO, Gergiev and Daniil Trifonov

By Alan Coady

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival: RSNO play Ives, Feldman and Walton with David Robertson

By Alan Coady, 01 September 2012

This, the final indoor concert of the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival (the closing Fireworks Concert takes place under the Castle Rock in Princes Street Gardens), was bookended by possibly the loudest and quietest sounds in the festival.Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question opens with a delicate mist of pianissimo strings.

*****

*****

Edinburgh

04 Sep 2012

Edinburgh International Festival: RSNO play Ives, Feldman and Walton with David Robertson

By Alan Coady

Edinburgh

A time to dance

By Alan Coady, 02 September 2011

It's about time. Certainly Chronochromie is about the colour of time, but grasping the essence of much of Messiaen's music depends on being in synchrony with his take on time in music – specifically intimations of the eternal.

Edinburgh

05 Sep 2011

A time to dance

By Alan Coady

London

Prom 26: Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel

By Kay Kempin, 03 August 2011

An evening of French music, the notes from Debussy, Ravel and Dutilleux lingered in the sticky summer air long after the concert finished.Making their BBC Proms debut, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, conducted by Donald Runnicles with chorus-master Christopher Bell, took command of the stage.

London

06 Aug 2011

Prom 26: Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel

By Kay Kempin

London

Prom 24: The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Mahler 3

By Simon Birch, 04 August 2010

If there would be one piece to show someone asking “who is Mahler?” the third symphony would undoubtedly be my first choice. Though it does not perhaps reach the heights of expressionism of some of his later symphonies, it perfectly exemplifies everything Mahler’s music is about: contrast between emotional extremes, ingenuitive orchestration, and a juxtaposition of the sublime and trivial.

London

30 Aug 2010

Prom 24: The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Mahler 3

By Simon Birch