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Belarus previously competed in the Eurovision Song Contest but since 2021 has been expelled from the European Broadcasting Union for a period of three years.

This year’s program is dedicated to composers who, throughout history, emigrated, or traveled between cultures, speaking the universal language of music. 

This year’s theme is migrant composers, which, it must be said, offered festival founder Elena Bashkirova – a celebrated pianist – plenty of room for programmatic maneuver.

Five supreme pianists, two top string quartets and so much more on the Fife coast. Classical music review by David Nice

Mairéad Hickey. Photo: Santiago Cañón Valencia This showcase for current stars of the Kronberg Academy was recorded live and unedited – there is a distracting trail for another TV programme – and sometimes rougher than ready. Both Mairéad Hickey and Santiago Cañón Valencia seemed to struggle against Christoph Eschenbach’s inclination towards expansive tempos, which produced a slightly lumpen accompaniment to the first movements of the Bruch G minor and Haydn C major concertos respectively and allowed their slow movements to drift. There was certainly no excess sugar or fat in Hick...