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Audience Numbers
Last year, the Fireworks Concert attracted over 250,000 people to various vantage points throughout the city.
Bank of Scotland
The Bank of Scotland has sponsored the Fireworks Concert since 1995 and has supported the Edinburgh International Festival since its inception in 1947.
Pyrotechnics
Wilf Scott & Keith Webb, international fireworks artists, are designing the pyrotechnic display. It takes the team of 15 individuals six days to lay out all the fireworks including the famous "waterfall".
Hear Wilf and Keith talk about Pyrovision's work on the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert
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Biggest and best
The Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert is the biggest event of its kind in Europe featuring four tonnes of explosives and over 100,000 fireworks are set off from the Castle.
Fireworks Concert repertoire over the years
1995
- CONDUCTOR: Max Pommer
- Choir: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus
- ORFF O Fortuna from Carmina Buran
- HANDEL Zadok the Priest
- BACH Allegro Assai from Brandenburg Concerto No 2
- DVÒRÁK Slavonic Dances No8 Op46 No7 Op72
- MUSSOURGSKY The Great Gate of Kiev
- BEETHOVEN symphony No 5 - last movement Allegro
- HANDEL Alleluja from "The King shall Rejoice" (encore)
1996
- CONDUCTOR Gareth Jones
- Choir: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus
- St Mary's Cathedral Choir
- HANDEL Zadok the Priest
- BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture
- HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks
- HANDEL Hallelujah Chorus (encore)
1997
- CONDUCTOR Brad Cohen
- HANDEL La Rejouissance (from Music for the Royal Fireworks)
- SHOSTAKOVICH Festival Overture
- J STRAUSS Eljen a Magyar
- SIBELIUS Finlandia
- CHABRIER Espanna
- J STRAUSS Radetzky March
- J STRAUSS Thunder and Lightening Polka (encore)
1998
- CONDUCTOR Andrea Quinn
- PROKOFIEV Montagues & Capulets from Romeo & Juliet
- TCHAIKOVSKY Grand Waltz from Swan Lake
- KHACHATURIAN Sabre Dance form Gayaneh
- KHACHATURIAN Adagio from Spartacus
- DELIBES Mazurka from Coppelia
- SULLIVAN Grand Finale from Pineapple Poll
- J STRAUSS Tritsch Tratsch Polka
1999
- CONDUCTOR Nicholas Kok
- GLINKA Overture, Russlan & Ludmilla
- DVÒRÁK Slavonic Dance No8 Op46
- TCHAIKOVSKY Waltz, Sleeping Beauty
- MUSSOURGSKY/RAVEL The Great Gate of Kiev
- DVÒRÁK Slavonic Dance No7 Op72
- STRAVINSKY The Firebird; Finale
- STRAUSS Eljen a Magyar (encore)
2000
- CONDUCTOR Nicolae Moldoveanu
- TCHAIKOVSKY Russian Dance (Nutcracker)
- Grand Waltz from Act 1, Swan Lake
- Scene from Act II, Swan Lake
- Mazurka (Swan Lake)
- Dance of the Reed Flutes (Nutcracker)
- Symphony No.4: Finale
- Pas de deux, Swan Lake (encore)
2001
- CONDUCTOR Garry Walker
- COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
- GERSHWIN Overture, Girl Crazy
- BARBER Adagio for strings
- COPLAND Hoe Down from Rodeo
- BERNSTEIN Overture, Candide
- SOUSA Stars and Stripes Forever!
2002
- CONDUCTOR: Garry Walker
- MUSSOURGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
2003
- CONDUCTOR: Nicholas Kraemer
- HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks
- HANDEL Water Music
- HANDEL Zadok the Priest
2004
- CONDUCTOR: Alexander Briger
- GRIEG Peer Gynt (extracts)
2005
- CONDUCTOR: Garry Walker
- BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7
2006
- CONDUCTOR: Garry Walker
- PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet
2007
- CONDUCTOR: Clark Rundell
- BERNSTEIN Overture "Candide"
- GERSHWIN Overture "Strike up the Band"
- BARBER Adagio for Strings
- IVES Three Places in New England
- COPLAND Rodeo "Buckaroo Holiday"
- SOUSA Liberty Bell
