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Edinburgh International Festival

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Karina Canellakis

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Aidan Oliver

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Olga Kulchynska

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David Butt Philip

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Alexander Vinogradov

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Edinburgh International Festival: Closing Concert

Edinburgh

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Usher Hall

Edinburgh International Festival: Closing Concert: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel Wagner,Richard (+2 More)

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Tristan and Isolde, Prelude

Symphony No. 4, op. 54 ("The Poem of Ecstasy")

The Bells

English

Approved

Conductor Karina Canellakis, renowned for delivering emotionally charged performances, takes on feats of musical storytelling in this narrative programme. Excerpts from Richard Wagner’s influential opera Tristan und Isolde capture two lovers at the beginning and end of their doomed love affair. Alexander Scriabin’s symphonic Poème de l’extase, or Poem of Ecstasy, is an immersive experience of delicately layered melodic motifs.

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s choral symphony The Bells, inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s poem of the same name, was one of the composer’s personal favourites. This monumental choral symphony recalls the ‘gladly chiming and mournfully tolling’ bells of Rachmaninoff ’s childhood, which filled his head as he wrote.

Edinburgh International Festival: Closing Concert by Wagner, Richard, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, From (2023/2023), Conductor Karina Canellakis, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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