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Venue: Usher Hall, Edinburgh

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AddressEdinburgh
Scotland
EH1 2EA
United Kingdom
Google maps55° 56' 49.766" N 3° 12' 17.859" W
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EdinburghVerdi Requiem

© Mate Steirer
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Patrick Hahn; Jennifer Davis; Deniz Uzun; Mario Lerchenberger; Edwin Crossley-Mercer

EdinburghTchaikovsky's Symphony No.5 in Edinburgh

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Lyadov, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Ryan Wigglesworth; Sophie Bevan

EdinburghSheku Kanneh-Mason plays Haydn

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Capperauld, Haydn, Beethoven
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Andrew Manze; Sheku Kanneh-Mason; Unknown

EdinburghSchumann’s Piano Concerto

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Howell, Schumann, Elgar
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Thomas Søndergård; Anna Vinnitskaya

EdinburghThe Magic of Mendelssohn

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev; Sir Stephen Hough; Carolyn Sampson; Emma Morwood; Thomas Walker

EdinburghPictures at an Exhibition

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Bacewicz, Chopin, Musgrave, Mussorgsky
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Anna Sułkowska-Migoń; Rafał Blechacz

EdinburghChildren’s Classic Concerts: Elf Academy

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Celia Llácer; Unknown; RSNO Children's Chorus; Patrick Barrett

EdinburghRSNO Christmas Concert featuring The Snowman

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Karen Ní Bhroin; Unknown; RSNO Chorus; RSNO Chorus Academy
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RSNO presents Lera Auerbach alongside powerful Shostakovich 7

Bassem Akiki rehearses the RSNO © Courtesy of the RSNO

Making his debut with the RSNO, Bassem Akiki conducts the UK premiere of Auerbach's Violin Concerto no. 1, played by its dedicatee, Philippe Quint.

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Pure cold water: Hoving conducts a very fine Sibelius 6 in Edinburgh

Emilia Hoving and Maya Iwabuchi in rehearsal with the RSNO © RSNO | Clara Cowen
Emilia Hoving conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in the music of her leading countryman, after leader Maya Iwabuchi plays Brahms. 
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Lawrence Power brings Schnittke’s intriguing Viola Concerto to life

Lawrence Power, Patrick Hahn and the RSNO in rehearsal © RSNO | Clara Cowen

In Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, Schnittke’s Viola Concerto is bookended by elegiac Bach and memorable Shostakovich, conducted by Patrick Hahn. 

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Emelyanychev leads the SCO in Bach’s St Matthew Passion

Maxim Emelyanychev © Christopher Bowen
An autumn St Matthew Passion in Edinburgh underplays the drama and wallows in the reverence.
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Søndergård’s final RSNO season opens with majestic Mahler

Thomas Søndergård © Martin Shields
The RSNO season launches with Mahler's Sixth Symphony, while Alexander Malofeev joins them for Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto. 
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Scriabin and Beethoven from the Berlin Phil in Edinburgh

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker © Courtesy of the Edinburgh International Festival
The Berliner Philharmoniker closes the Edinburgh International Festival in the classiest way imaginable with Beethoven and Scriabin.
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BBCSSO in Edinburgh: Mahlerian melodrama, Schubertian shadow

Donald Runnicles © Bettina Stoess
The Edinburgh International Festival roll out their A-team for Mahler's early Das Klagende Lied, with shadowy textures and quivering darkness in Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.
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Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha reappraised in Edinburgh

Nicky Spence © André Godinho

Rafael Payare conducts the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with soloists Francesca Chiejina, Nicky Spence and Christopher Maltman at the Usher Hall.

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