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    Radio 3 at Edinburgh Festival
    8 - 31 August

    Edinburgh Castle

    This year's festival theme is 'artists without borders' - reflected in music ranging from Gypsy folk to Corsican polyphony. Classical repertoire includes Szymanowski under Valery Gergiev.

    Watch interviews with Ivan Fischer, Gabriela Montero, Leonidas Kavakos and Corina Belcea from the Edinburgh Festival

      Radio 3 Afternoon on 3 at 1pm

      Ilan Volkov
      For later broadcast (date tba)

      BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
      Ilan Volkov       - conductor

      Music by Ades and Messiaen

      Concert:       10 August, Usher Hall

        Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts at 1pm

        Queens Hall concerts
        Tuesday 26 August

        Ysaye Quartet

        Music by Haydn, Szymanowski, Stravinsky and Debussy

        Concert:         9 August, Queen’s Hall

          Paul Meyer
          Wednesday 27 August

          Paul Meyer - clarinet
          Eric Le Sage - piano

          Music by Brahms, Martinu, Lutoslawski and Berg

          Concert:           11 August, Queen’s Hall

            Gabriela Montero
            Thursday 28 August

            Gabriela Montero - piano

            Music by Bach/Busoni, Chopin, Debussy, Schumann and Liszt

            Concert:             12 August, Queen’s Hall

              Melvyn Tan
              Friday 29 August

              Keith Lewis - tenor
              Melvyn Tan - piano

              Songs by Beethoven, Liszt, Janacek and Hahn

              Concert:               14 August, Queen’s Hall

                Belcea Quartet credit Sheila Rock, EMI
                Tuesday 2 September

                Belcea Quartet

                Music by Bartok

                Concert:                 15 August, Queen’s Hall

                  Belcea quartet
                  Wednesday 3 September

                  Belcea Quartet

                  Music by Bartok

                  Concert:                   16 August, Queen’s Hall

                    Leonidas Kavakos
                    Thursday 4 September

                    Leonidas Kavakos - violin
                    Enrico Pace - piano

                    Music by Schnittke, Shostakovich and Strauss

                    Concert:                     18 August, Queen’s Hall

                      Mischa Maisky
                      Friday 5 September

                      Mischa Maisky - cello
                      Lily Maisky - piano

                      Music by Glinka,Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, Glazunov, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich

                      Concert:                       21 August, Queen’s Hall

                        Brahms
                        Tuesday 9 September

                        Christine Schäfer - soprano
                        Graham Johnson - piano

                        Songs by Schumann, Brahms and Wolf

                        Concert: 23 August , Queen’s Hall

                          Budapest at night
                          Wednesday 10 September

                          Members of Budapest Festival Orchestra
                          Tünde Csoba                           - piano
                          Jenõ Jandó - piano

                          Music by Hummel and Bartok

                          Concert: 24 August, Queen’s Hall

                            piano keys
                            Thursday 11 September

                            Ivan Moravec - piano

                            Music by Chopin, Janacek and Debussy

                            Concert: 28 August, Queen’s Hall

                              Jerusalem Quartet
                              Friday 12 September

                              Jerusalem Quartet

                              Music by Haydn, Smetana and Brahms

                              Concert: 29 August, Queen’s Hall

                                Radio 3 Opera on 3, Saturdays from 6.30pm

                                Kurt Weill
                                Saturday 20 September

                                Edinburgh Festival Chorus
                                Christopher Bell chorus master
                                Royal Scottish National Orchestra
                                HK Gruber                                 - conductor
                                Susan Bickley
                                Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
                                Sir Willard White
                                Giselle Allen
                                Anthony Dean Griffey
                                Peter Hoare
                                Stephan Loges
                                Brindley Sherratt
                                Ladies of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

                                Weill - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (words by Bertolt Brecht)

                                Concert: 8 August, Usher Hall

                                  Valery Gergiev
                                  Saturday 27 September

                                  Mariinsky Opera Company
                                  Valery Gergiev                                   - conductor
                                  Andrzej Dobber
                                  Elzbieta Szmytka
                                  Siergiej Semiszkur
                                  Pavlo Tolstoy
                                  Mariusz Trelinski                                   - director

                                  Szymanowski - Król Roger

                                  Concert: 25 and 27 August, Edinburgh Festival Theatre

                                    Radio 3 Performance on 3 at 7pm

                                    Dmitri Hvorostovsky
                                    Monday 15 September

                                    Dmitri Hvorostovsky - baritone
                                    Ivari Ilja - piano

                                    Songs by Tchaikovsky, Medtner and Rachmaninov

                                    Concert: 9 August, Usher Hall

                                      Emmanuelle Haim
                                      Tuesday 16 September

                                      Scottish Chamber Orchestra
                                      Emmanuelle Haïm                                       - conductor
                                      Edinburgh Festival Chorus
                                      Lucy Crowe                                       - soprano
                                      Claire Debono - soprano
                                      Robin Blaze - counter tenor
                                      Mark Tucker - tenor
                                      Matthew Brook - bass
                                      Henry Waddington - bass-baritone

                                      Handel - Israel in Egypt

                                      Concert: 13 August, Usher Hall

                                        Anne Sofie von Otter (Photo credit: Denise Grünstein/DG)
                                        Wednesday 17 September

                                        Les Arts Florissants
                                        William Christie                                         -- conductor
                                        Anne Sofie von Otter - mezzo-soprano

                                        Music by Rameau, Charpentier and Lambert

                                        Concert: 22 August, Usher Hall

                                          Ivan Fischer
                                          Monday 22 September

                                          Budapest Festival Orchestra
                                          Iván Fischer                                           - conductor
                                          Josef Lendvay Jr - violin
                                          Jósef Lendvay Sr - gypsy violin
                                          Oszkár Ökrös - cimbalom

                                          Gypsy folk music for violin and cimbalom

                                          Music by Liszt, Brahms, Sarasate and Brahms orch. Schoenberg

                                          Concert: 23 August, Usher Hall

                                            Bartok
                                            Tuesday 23 September

                                            Budapest Festival Orchestra
                                            Iván Fischer                                             - conductor
                                            Dutch National Youth Choir

                                            Music by Dvorak and Bartok

                                            Concert: 25 August, Usher Hall

                                              Richard Strauss
                                              Wednesday 24 September

                                              Staatskapelle Dresden
                                              Fabio Luisi                                               - conductor
                                              Jan Vogler - cello

                                              Music by Bernhard Lang and Strauss

                                              Concert: 27 August, Usher Hall

                                                Oliver Knussen
                                                Thursday 25 September

                                                Scottish Chamber Orchestra
                                                Oliver Knussen                                                 - conductor

                                                Music by Scriabin arr. Knussen, Janacek arr. David Matthews and Stravinsky

                                                Concert: 29 August, Usher Hall

                                                  Nicole Cabell
                                                  Monday 29 September

                                                  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
                                                  Gennadi Rozhdestvensky                                                   - conductor
                                                  Edinburgh Festival Chorus
                                                  Nicole Cabell                                                   - soprano
                                                  Jane Irwin - mezzo-soprano
                                                  John Mark Ainsley - tenor
                                                  John Tomlinson - bass

                                                  Tippett - A Child of Our Time

                                                  Concert: 30 August, Usher Hall

                                                    Radio 3 The Early Music Show, Saturdays and Sundays at 1pm

                                                    Edinburgh Castle
                                                    Saturday 23 August

                                                    Dialogos, Sequentia

                                                    Concert: 13 August, Greyfriars Kirk

                                                      View over Edinburgh
                                                      Sunday 24 August

                                                      A Cumpagnia

                                                      Concert:                                                       14 August, Greyfriars Kirk

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