Wonderful choral singing makes for a stirring Mahler 8 in Edinburgh

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

After hosting 18 months of concerts without audience, Berwaldhallen comes back to life with the Baltic Sea Festival and its phenomenal opening concert as intelligent as it is overwhelming.

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.