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Lammermuir Festival 2026, Part 2 review - Haydn on the whole (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Could there be a more amiable composer with whom to spend a few days than Josef Haydn? At this year’s Lammermuir Festival, period instrument superstars Concerto Copenhagen (but you can call them CoCo), have a whole “Haydn Project” which they’re exploring over three conc
Kleio Quartet, Kanneh-Mason, Ozone / Paul Lewis, Edinburgh International Festival 2026 review - special guests and a poetic tribute (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. It has taken until halfway through this year’s Edinburgh International Festival before we got to the first string quartet in the Queen’s Hall’s chamber music series, but when it came, the venue was packed to the gills. Maybe that’s the Sheku effect. Mr Kanneh-Mason (pic
Taylor, Brown / Wang, JLCO, Marsalis, Edinburgh International Festival 2026 review - vocal drama and sensual swing (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Several years ago, after a Queen’s Hall song morning, a fellow reviewer told me it was time we rethought the song recital, and that the old format of someone standing still while singing songs in German to an uncomprehending audience was way past its sell-by date. He sh
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