Welcome to a world of music
Wed 11 Sep Article 1mins
With orchestras visiting Edinburgh’s Usher Hall from three continents, and music from jazz to opera, from tango to iconic symphonies – there’s something to inspire every musical taste in the 2024:25 Sunday Classics season.
From the comfort of the Scottish capital’s historic concert hall, travel to Budapest and Berlin, Buenos Aires and Istanbul in the company of some of the world’s most accomplished musicians – and gain a rare authentic perspective on the music of their homelands from the performers who know it best.
The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra offers distinctively Magyar perspectives on dazzling classics by Liszt and Kodály with its vibrant Chief Conductor Riccardo Frizza. Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason – one of Nottingham’s remarkable seven Kanneh-Mason musical siblings – brings poetry and poise with Chopin’s tender Second Piano Concerto.
The outstanding German National Orchestra assembles the country’s most exceptional young players, many of whom go on to illustrious careers in the Berlin Philharmonic. The Orchestra’s vivid concert focuses not on Germany, however, but on Britain and America, with the cosmic explorations of Holst’s The Planets and the jazzy exuberance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, with British jazz master Wayne Marshall as soloist.
There’s a rare chance to experience Turkey’s vibrant classical music performers courtesy of the country’s finest orchestra, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Under Principal Conductor Carlo Tenan, it performs powerful symphonies by Schubert and Beethoven, with exceptional Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández as soloist in Saint-Saëns’s romantic First Cello Concerto.
To close the season, travel to the seductive sights and sounds of Argentina, from where the Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra of Colón Opera transports you into the vibrant worlds of opera and ballet.
