Mariinsky & RSNO

Pick of the week has to be the teaming up of the RSNO and Mariinsky Orchestra for an epic Festival rendering of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony under the baton of Valery Gergiev (above). They warm up separately in the first half: the Russians in Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony; the Scots in Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations. Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 23 August, 0131-473 2000