This event is available to Young Musician’s Pass members. Booking opens at 12noon on 19 May and closes 5pm on 30 June. Tickets are likely to sell fast so don't wait.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra and polymath founder-conductor Iván Fischer make a welcome return to Edinburgh after their popular 2023 performances. This programme pulses with the vibrant contrasts of dance – from the elegance of Baroque to the raw energy of modern ballet.  

Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No.4 is an irresistibly lively take on a standard courtly form. Fischer echoes that sense of experiment in his own 21st-century Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, a Bach tribute that dances from bossa nova to ragtime, tango to boogie-woogie.

Béla Bartók's dramatic music for the 'pantomime grotesque' ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin was banned for 'moral filth' on its premiere in 1926. Based on the Hungarian writer Melchior Lengyel's shocking 1916 short story, the score lived on in an orchestral suite, shorn of its most controversial sections.

What to expect at Usher Hall

Usher Hall is home to our series of world-class orchestras, soloists and operas in concert.

Sit back in the beautiful auditorium, turn off your phone and let the sounds of the symphony wash over you.

Supported by James and Morag Anderson