The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) may be over for the year, but the performances live on in this encore video.

This performance features violinist and EIF director Nicola Benedetti, with fellow violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky alongside NFM Leopoldinum and the Festival’s Rising Stars.

In this encore, recorded live on 11 August 2025 in Usher Hall, they performed ’The Fiddler’s Farewell & Mr Menuhin’s Delight’, composed by Eddie McGuire in 1985 in Menuhin’s honour.

Photo credit: Andrew Perry

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