Edinburgh International Festival 2019 - Queen's Hall Series
As the official broadcast partner of the Edinburgh International Festival, BBC Radio 3 brings the best of the festival to audiences at home. Throughout August, Radio 3 will broadcast a series of live concerts from 11am - 1pm on weekdays from the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, presented by Donald Macleod.
Monday - Beatrice Rana
The young award-winning Italian pianist and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Beatrice Rana in a programme of Chopin, Ravel and Stravinsky.
Programme
Chopin: Etudes
Ravel: Miroirs
Stravinsky: Three fragments from 'Petrushka'
Beatrice Rana, piano
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Tuesday - Cuarteto Casals
The Barcelona-based string quartet Cuarteto Casals perform three highly contrasting quartets.
Programme
Haydn: Quartet in C major No.3
Bartók: Quartet No.3
Beethoven: Quartet in F major No.1 ''Razumovsky'
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Wednesday - Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason
Siblings Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason return to the Edinburgh International Festival with a recital of two great cello sonatas; Mendelssohn’s passionate second sonata written for his cellist brother Paul, and Debussy’s forward-looking sonata in D written at speed during the First World War. Beethoven variations on a Mozart theme open the recital with Polish composer Lutoslawki’s single-movement work before the interval, written in memory of his close friend the musicologist Jarocinski.
Programme
Beethoven: Variations in F Major, Op.66
Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor
Lutoslawski: Grave for Cello and Piano
Fauré: Élégie, Op.24
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No.2 in D, Op. 58
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
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Thursday - Michael Volle and Helmut Deutsch
German singer Michael Volle presents Mahler's poignant Ruckert songs, Strauss and Schubert with pianist Helmut Deutsch live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.
Schubert: Der Taucher
Mahler: Rheinlegendchen
Mahler: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt [Anon]
Mahler: Lob des hohen Verstandes
Strauss: Vom künftigen Alter
Strauss: Und dann nicht mehr
Strauss: Im Sonnenschein
Mahler: Selection from Rückert-Lieder; Ich atmet' einen linden Duft, Liebst du um Schönheit, Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder; Um Mitternacht, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Michael Volle, baritone
Helmut Deutsch, piano
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Friday - Llyr Williams
Pianist Llŷr Williams evokes the fairytale world of Nordic folklore with a selection from Grieg's Lyric Pieces. He also performs arrangements of some of Wagner’s well-known opera repertoire.
Llŷr Williams, piano
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