BBC Radio 3 Broadcasts
As part of their Summer Festival series, BBC Radio 3 are broadcasting an exclusive selection of concerts from the 2007 Edinburgh International Festival. The highlights of the festival will be broadcast across several Radio 3 programmes between Sunday 26 August and Saturday 22 September.
Details are as follows:
Concerto Italiano directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini performing a selection from book 6 of Monteverdi’s Madrigals. Broadcast on the Early Music Show on Sunday 26 August at 1pm
Hebrides Ensemble with Jane Irwin performing Janáček: Mládí, Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (arr Edward Harper), Osborne: Balkan Dances and Laments, Berio: Folksongs (1964). Broadcast as part of the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert series on Tuesday 28 August at 1pm
Mark Padmore and Walking to Lübeck performing Bach: Cantata BWV 55 ‘Ich armer Mensch’; Cantata BWV 82 ‘Ich habe genug’, Recitative and Aria from Cantata, BWV161 ‘Komm, du süsse Todesstunde’, Buxtehude: Klaglied. Broadcast as part of the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert series on Wednesday 29 August at 1pm
Nachtmusique led by Eric Hoeprich performing Mozart: Selections from ‘Die Zauberflöte’ (arr J Stumpf), Selected Duos and Trios from K487, K292 and K410, Haydn: Divertimento in F Hob 11:15, Mozart: Serenade in E flat K375. Broadcast as part of the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert series on Thursday 30 August at 1pm
Olli Mustonen performs Schumann: Album für die Jugen Op 68 (selection), Bach:15 Three part Inventions BWV 787-801, Schumann: Fünf Gesänge der Frühe Op 133, Mustonen: Jehkin livana, Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 6. Broadcast on the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert on Friday 31 August at 1pm.
Paradise Lost performed by Montserrat Figueras, Arianna Savall and Hespèrion XXI and directed by Jordi Savall. Broadcast as the Early Music Show on Saturday 1 September at 1pm.
Chiara Banchini and Ensemble 415 performing work of the Italian baroque period including works by Corelli, Locatelli and Vivaldi’s Trio Sonata La Follia. Broadcast on the Early Music Show on Sunday 2 September at 1pm.
Kate Royal, Christine Rice and Roger Vignoles perform a programme which includes Brahms’ Gypsy Songs, Dvořák’s Moravian Duets and duets by Schumann, Mendelssohn and Gounod. Broadcast on the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert on Tuesday 4 September at 1pm.
Tokyo String Quartet perform Beethoven: String Quartet Op 18 No 1, Auerbach: String Quartet No 2 ‘Primordial Light’, Schumann: String Quartet Op 41 No 3. Broadcast on the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert on Wednesday 5 September at 1pm.
David Pyatt and Leon McCawley perform a programme including works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Poulenc, Hindemith, Glière and Dukas. Broadcast as the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert on Thursday 6 September at 1pm
Cantus Cölln perform Bach motets. Broadcast as the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert on Friday 7 September at 1pm.
The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips with a programme of seventeenth century music from the Iberian peninsula. Broadcast on the Early Music Show on Saturday 8 September at 1pm.
Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Toby Spence, conducted by Thomas Adès performing Rameau: Les Indes galantes: Overture, Adès: Three Studies after Couprein, Berlioz: Les nuits d’été, Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, Bizet: Symphony in C. Broadcast as part of Performance on 3 on Monday 10 September 7pm.
Monteverdi’s Vespers conducted by Jordi Savall and performed by Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Broadcast as the Performance on 3 on Tuesday 11 September at 7pm.
Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, conducted by Sussana Mälkki. Broadcast as the Performance on 3 on Wednesday 12 September at 7pm.
Stabat Mater by Antonio Vivaldi, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andreas Schnoll and directed by Chiara Banchini. Programme includes Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 4 in D, Geminiani: Concerto Grosso Op 7 No2 in D minor, Vivaldi: Concerto Ripieno in C RV 114, Vivaldi: Cantata ‘Cessate, omai cessate’, Scarlatti: Concerto Grosso No1 in F minor, Vivaldi: Stabat Mater. Broadcast as the Performance on 3 on Thursday 13 September at 7pm.
A Celebration of Francis Poulenc performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Dame Gillian Weir and Christine Brewer and conducted by Stéphane Denève. The programme includes Poulenc: Stabat Mater, Organ Concerto, Excerpts from Dialogues des Carmélites. Broadcast as the Performance on 3 on Friday 14 September at 7pm.
Candide by Leonard Bernstein, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Festival Chorus and soloists from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, conducted by Robert Spano. Broadcast as part of Opera on 3 on Saturday 15 September at 6.30pm.
