Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-Möst: Edinburgh festival review

Usher HallIt's the downside of oversaturated Edinburgh in August that a guest orchestra the calibre of Cleveland can play to so many empty seats. Maybe they lack the flash muscle of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who visited the festival last year, but Cleveland is the classier band. The first of two concerts under their Austrian music director Franz Welser-Möst was a joy for its plain-speaking expressivity. There's a straightforwardness – maybe it's a mid-western openness – to this orchestra ...

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