Hallé and Martyn Brabbins
The Hallé return with one of Elgar’s greatest, and most neglected, achievements: The Kingdom.
18 August 2019
Returning from a six-year hiatus the Danish indie rock group make their International Festival debut at Leith Theatre
23 August 2019
with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Unforgettable orchestral classics and 400,000 fireworks launched from Edinburgh’s iconic Castle make this one of the biggest fireworks concerts in the world.
26 August 2019
Berlioz and Beethoven
Berlioz’s colourful, Byron-inspired tour of Italy and Beethoven’s radiant musical tribute to the natural world.
23 August 2019
Britten's War Requiem
A profoundly moving plea for peace, Daniel Harding conducts Britten’s soul-searching pacifist masterpiece.
24 August 2019
Dvořák and Shostakovich
China’s premier classical ensemble are joined by the captivating US cellist.
19 August 2019
Donald Runnicles conducts Deutsche Oper Berlin
The powerhouse Scottish conductor brings his company, with an exceptional cast of international soloists, for this vivid concert performance.
22 August 2019
Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis
The fourth and final opera in the Ring cycle is its grandest, as the gods themselves face their doom.
25 August 2019
Emotionally raw harmonic melodies abound as the American songwriter comes to Leith Theatre.
21 August 2019
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Adams and Rachmaninov
A pair of deeply stirring, richly coloured works, a love song to the late Romantic full of surreal imagery, sensual ecstasy and explosive energy.
21 August 2019
The iconic frontman returns to the International Festival with his new project JARV IS...
22 August 2019
The Queen’s Hall series comes to a gloriously theatrical close, in two larger-than-life secular cantatas, some of Bach’s most opulent, joyfully inventive music.
24 August 2019
A special collaboration between former BBC New Generation Artists to perform two iconic chamber works by Franck and Dvořák.
23 August 2019
The International Festival’s six-concert survey of J S Bach’s complete keyboard concertos comes to a spectacular conclusion in The Queen’s Hall.
22 August 2019
The fast-rising international star of Covent Garden, La Scala and Glyndebourne, performs an all-Schubert programme.
21 August 2019
The first European performance of Brett Dean’s String Quartet No. 3 "Hidden Agendas" and the soaring melodies of Brahms’ powerful Second String Quintet.
20 August 2019
Lars Vogt replaces Jeremy Denk for a programme of Brahms, Janacek and Beethoven.
19 August 2019
MacMillan Scottish Premieres
The Scottish composer’s tumultuous Woman of the Apocalypse and the sonic spectacle and riotous fun of A Scotch Bestiary.
17 August 2019
The first in a major, six-part International Festival concert series, exploring the complete keyboard concertos by J S Bach performed here by Aapo Häkkinen and Mahan Esfahani.
13 August 2019
The second in a major, six-part International Festival concert series, exploring the complete keyboard concertos by J S Bach performed here by Mahan Esfahani.
15 August 2019
The third in a major, six-part International Festival concert series, exploring the complete keyboard concertos by J S Bach performed here by Masato Suzuki.
16 August 2019
The fourth in a major, six-part International Festival concert series, exploring the complete keyboard concertos by J S Bach performed here by Christine Schornsheim and Andreas Staier.
19 August 2019
The fifth in a major, six-part International Festival concert series, exploring the complete keyboard concertos by J S Bach performed here by Richard Egarr and Diego Ares.
20 August 2019
Komische Oper Berlin / Barrie Kosky
Yiddish operetta songs from Warsaw to Broadway
16 August 2019
Programme to include lieder by Strauss, a Song selection by Barber and Bellini, and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.
14 August 2019
The Joyful Mysteries
One of the most extraordinary collections of music ever composed, full of fearsome virtuosity and dazzling expressiveness. The first of three concerts.
6 August 2019
The Sorrowful Mysteries
One of the most extraordinary collections of music ever composed, full of fearsome virtuosity and dazzling expressiveness. The second of three concerts.
8 August 2019
The Glorious Mysteries
One of the most extraordinary collections of music ever composed, full of fearsome virtuosity and dazzling expressiveness. The final of three concerts.
9 August 2019
An exceptional songwriter and gifted storyteller, This Is The Kit is the much-beloved musical project of Kate Stables.
13 August 2019
The Finnish string quartet makes its International Festival debut, with a recital of surging emotion.
13 August 2019
MacMillan's Symphony No 5 world premiere
Harry Christophers conducts The Sixteen and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in the first performance of Sir James MacMillan’s Fifth Symphony.
17 August 2019
The English Concert and Bernard Labadie
World-renowned British countertenor Iestyn Davies performs one of the most powerful love stories in all of opera.
15 August 2019