One of the features of a successful Festival is having people to stay. We were chatting to neighbours at the Usher Hall Concert last night, Philharmonia under conductor Sanntu-Matias Rouvali playing Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto with the stunningly talented, Seong-Jin Cho and then Shostakovitch’s Ten Symphony, and discovered they have at least one brother booked in.
Our own first visitor arrives later today via dinner with one of her friends and a show (it’s the Festival) and we have others later in the month.
I don’t consider myself qualified to comment on classical music, but my companion certainly is and he was bowled over. Everyone was intrigued by the delightful encore Seong-Jin Cho treated us to before the interval. If any of you identified it, please say in the comments.
For Edinburgh Festival tickets go here.
For the Royal Military Tattoo go here
Anne (Who is writing a fresh Edinburgh based Regency that bears little resemblance to the synopsis which was mentioned in an earlier post)
Courting the Countess Will Melissa discover a hero in Harry? A regency romance from Anne Stenhouse
City of Discoveries free to read here. Can Jennet keep the family afloat until William finds work? A nineteenth century Dundee story from Anne Stenhouse (edited Alan Spink)