Special affair
Thursday, 14th September 2006
Brian McMaster’s 15-year period directing the Edinburgh International Festival came to an entirely appropriate end with a concert performance in the Usher Hall of Wagner’s great comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, with a starry cast, the Festival Chorus and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, much enlarged for the occasion, under the baton of David Robertson. It was a thrilling affair, and it was greeted with even greater enthusiasm, bordering on wildness, than that for Die Zauberflöte two evenings previously. Either the audience is getting more unbuttoned — surprising considering the extreme seniority of at least a large proportion of it — or these two performances were really something very special.
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