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Championing the UK premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, the
Festival Chorus also keeps faith with Elgar’s The Kingdom. Poulenc’s Figure humaine falls

to the BBC Singers, and the Three Cathedrals Choir gives the first performance of a new
piece by Paul Mealor.

Best UK classical music festivals: August 2024

Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh, 2-25 August

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Edinburgh 2023 asked, ‘Where do we go from here?’ Festival director Nicola Benedetti’s
latest edition supplies the answer: ‘The Rituals that unite us’. It’s a theme resonating

across a programme that includes a three-concerts residency by the Bamberg Symphony
Orchestra, who preface Hans Rott’s Symphony No. 1 with Bruckner and Mahler. And

bolstering the orchestral big guns are the Philharmonia, whom Marin Alsop conducts in the
UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my Mouth.

Among operatic stagings of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Komische Oper Berlin’s The
Marriage of Figaro there are concert performances of Strauss’s Capriccio as well as Mozart’s
Così fan tutte. And in the spirit of unity and ritual, Orquesta La Pasión and musicians from

the RSNO, the National Youth Choir of Scotland and Schola Cantorum de Venezuela come
together for the Scottish premiere of Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos.

Clandeboye Festival
Bangor, County Down, 17-24 August

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Established by pianist Barry Douglas in response to the Belfast Good Friday Agreement,

Camerata Ireland is celebrating its quarter-century this year – and celebrations are at the
heart of the County Down festival Douglas and the Camerata founded two years later at

aristocratic Clandeboye. The intimate Chapel and Banqueting Hall host some dozen
concerts and recitals as well as providing a stimulating backdrop to the integral Festival

Academy. Details of the 2024 edition are under wraps, but check the website for updates.

Machynlleth Festival

Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, 18-24 August
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In Y Tabernacl, a former chapel turned gallery and arts centre, there’s tragedy afoot as
Argentinian soprano Mercedes Gancedo is the sole protagonist in Poulenc’s piano-

accompanied one-act opera La voix humaine. At the keyboard is the festival’s co-director