THERE'S an old fashioned view, to which I subscribe, that festivals should go out in a blaze of glory.
THERE'S an old fashioned view, to which I subscribe, that festivals should go out in a blaze of glory.
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Michael Tumelty
And that, precisely, is how this year's Edinburgh International Festival climaxed on Saturday night, with an incandescent performance of William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, with playing by the RSNO and all its offstage augmentations, conducted by David Robertson with all the acuity required to unleash this fantastic explosion of sound and colour from the page; and with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, at the peak of its form, lashing the piece into place with singing of such power and purity that it pinned you to your seat.
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