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Highlights from the Edinburgh Festival 2021 - Part 1

Join Jamie for specially recorded highlights of the Edinburgh International Festival 2021, including violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja.

Jamie celebrates the return of the Edinburgh International Festival 2021. Highlights include acclaimed violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja playing Beethoven barefoot, international pianist Steven Osborne sharing his thoughts on Beethoven’s last piano sonata and Nicola Benedetti plays Biber and Paganini as part of her ‘Story of the Violin’ recital. Other highlights include Norwegian soprano Mari Eriksmoen making her debut with romantic song and the doyenne of the piano Elisabeth Leonakaja playing Debussy. Plus Lorna Anderson shares the next in her Scots Song series, focussing this week on The Rowan Tree.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 29 Aug 2021 19:00

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg Suite)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Terje Tønnesen.
    • Nordic Spring.
    • SIMAX.
    • 5.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Messa da requiem: IIa. Sequence. Dies irae

    Conductor: Leif Segerstam. Choir: Vienna Radio Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Verdi: Messa da requiem.
    • Orfeo.
    • 102.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings Op.48 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Concertgebouw Kamerorkest. Conductor: Marco Boni.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings etc.: Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra/Boni.
    • Pentatone Classics.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Trio in G major Op.1 No.2

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op111 - 1st movement Maestoso

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni à 10, C178

    Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Conductor: Simon Wright.
    • Gabrieli and St.Marks: Venetian Brass Music: The Wallace Collection/Wallace/Wrig.
    • Nimbus.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice

    Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe and piano (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Juliette Bausor. Performer: Daniel Bates. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • Stone Records.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Messa da requiem: I. Introit - Kyrie

    Conductor: Leif Segerstam. Choir: Vienna Radio Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Verdi: Messa da requiem.
    • Orfeo.
    • 101.
  • Nicolò Paganini

    24 Caprices Op.1 (no. 24 in A minor; Theme and variations)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Messa da requiem: IIIb. Offertory. Hostias

    Conductor: Leif Segerstam. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Verdi: Messa da requiem.
    • Orfeo.
    • 202.
  • Trad.

    The Water of Tyne

    Composer: Elizabeth Poston. Choir: Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum.
    • 8.
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

    Mod kveld & Sov Saa Stille

    Performer: Daniel Heide. Singer: Mari Eriksmoen.
  • Edvard Grieg

    VÃ¥ren (Spring)

    Performer: Daniel Heide. Singer: Mari Eriksmoen.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op.30 No.2 'Eroica' - 4th mvt

    Performer: Joonas Ahonen. Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Messa da requiem: VI. Communion. Lux aeterna

    Conductor: Leif Segerstam. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Verdi: Messa da requiem.
    • Orfeo.
    • 205.
  • Ludwig Thuille

    Sextet in B flat major Op.6 (Gavotte)

    Performer: Maxim Emelyanychev. Performer: SCO Players.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Passacaglia

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti.

Broadcast

  • Sun 29 Aug 2021 19:00