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This new festival in Latvia will feature four weekends of concerts from the likes of London Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. A new music festival is launching in Latvia ...

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On November 5-6, the first ever Riga Music Week festival and conference takes place in the Latvian capital. Plenty of Estonian artists are on the bill with a special section also dedicated to Tallinn ...

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Described by the UK's Daily Telegraph as one of the Top Ten Music Festivals, the Riga Jurmala Music Festival 2022 comprises four weekends each presenting a major international orchestra: the Mariinsky ...

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