Edinburgh International Festival’s At Home digital programme is a sequence of free unique music classes and performances for audiences worldwide.
The full program and launch dates may be seen right here.
You will see right here how EIF commissioned Glasgow-based manufacturing firm Forest of Black to supply Edinburgh is a Story, 5 quick movies which come collectively to create an exquisite journey via the town. Each is filmed in an iconic Edinburgh location and creates an intimate portrait of an artist featured on this yr’s Festival. There are highly effective performances from poet Hannah Lavery, Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska and the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, British pianist and conductor Wayne Marshall, Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton and a brand new Scottish Ballet fee choreographed by Nicholas Shoesmith. Locations vary from the traditional winding metropolis streets to the Scottish Parliament Building and the wild Salisbury Crags to the historic Palace of Holyroodhouse.
A sequence of unique music classes captured backstage all through the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival characteristic: a vivid and passionate efficiency from the Takács Quartet, pioneering early music performer Jordi Savall with members of his Hespèrion XXI ensemble, Gaelic vocal trio Sian performing as a part of Niteworks: Comann, award-winning Scottish piper Brìghde Chaimbeul and Iranian musician Aref Ghorbani. The classes open with the Scottish indie rock duo Arab Strap.
During this yr’s Festival, three live shows have been captured, together with the joyfully epic Closing Concert. For this, Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius from the Usher Hall, that includes the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the National Youth Choir of Scotland. Neal Davies takes the title position in Handel’s Saul, becoming a member of Iestyn Davies and interval instrument orchestra The English Concert underneath conductor John Butt for one of many true masterpieces of Baroque vocal music. British harpsichordist and conductor Richard Egarr leads a hand-picked ensemble of excellent interval musicians to carry out Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, every with its personal distinctive character and sound.