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Follow our weekly podcasts as we go behind the scenes at the 2012 Lammermuir Festival. We’ll be chatting to the artists, visiting venues and giving you a flavour of some of the beautiful music you can hear at this year’s festival. http://www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk/

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    Composer Raymond Dodd talks to us about his new arrangement of the Fantasy String Quartet

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2014 5:56


    Composer Raymond Dodd talks to us about his experience with the Lammermuir Festival and his new arrangement of the Fantasy String Quartet. You can listen to his work on Monday the 15th of September at 7.30 pm at Winton House, Pencaitland. Where his work will be perfomerd by the Maxwell String Quartet. Music featured in this Podcast: "Prelude Air Scherzo" by Raymond Dodd

    Oboist François Leleux on being the artist in residence

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2014 5:15


    Oboist François Leleux talks to us about coming back to be the artist in residence at the festival this year. He tells us about the 4 concerts he is going to play at and about the variety of this year’s program. You can see François Lelux at: The Opening Concert on Friday the 12th of September at 8.00 pm in St Mary's Church in Haddington François Leleux in recital on Sunday the 14th of September at 2.30pm in Lennoxlove House, Haddington François Leleux and Friends on Friday the 19th of September at 7.30pm in Prestonkirk Parish Church, East Linton Mozart Gran Partita on Sunday the 21st of September at 3.00pm in Stenton Church, Stenton. Visit www.lammermuirfestival.co.cuk for more details and tickets. Music featured in this podcast: Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto I. Allegro moderato with François Leleux, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding III. Vivace - Allegro with François Leleux, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding

    Christopher Glynn on Ryedale's Festival Opera "The Coronation of Poppea"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2014 4:35


    Lammermuir Festival presents opera for the first time this year in collaboration with Ryedale Festival Opera. We talk to Christopher Glynn, Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival about this new production and new translation of Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea: a gripping tale of lust, power, ambition and betrayal in imperial Rome. The opera will be performed at The Lammermuir Festival this year on Saturday 13 September at 7.00 pm at the Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh with the Ryedale Festival Opera, Eboracum Baroque and conductor Christopher Glynn. Visit www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk for more details and tickets. Music featured in this podcast: "Pur ti miro" with Sylvia McNair, Dana Hanchard, and English Baroque Solosit and John Eliot Gardiner "Prologue: Sinfonia" with City of London Baroque Sinfonia and Richard Hickox Coronation of Poppea photo from Ryedale Festival Opera: Emma Lambe

    Welcome To Lammermuir Festival 2014

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2014 8:29


    Welcome to Lammermuir Festival 2014 which runs from Friday 12 to Sunday 21 September 2014. One of the two Artistic Directors of the Festival, Hugh Macdonald gives us a flavour of what's to come during the ten days of music throughout East Lothian this autumn.

    Christine Brewer and The Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss: Lammermuir Festival 2014

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2014 7:21


    Soprano Christine Brewer is widely regarded as one of the finest performers of Richard Strauss' achingly beautiful Four Last Songs - his farewell to the world. She talks to us here about her journey with this work from hearing it for the first time to what will be her 96th performance at The Lammermuir Festival in September. She performs at The Lammermuir Festival this year on Saturday 20 September at 7.00pm in St Mary's Haddington with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marytn Brabbins. www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk for more details and tickets The concert will be recorded live by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast Music featured in this podcast: Christine Brewer, soprano and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Donald Runnicles (Telarc) Strauss: Four Last Songs Excerpts from: no 1: Frühling no 2: September no 3: Beim Schlafengehen Christine Brewer photo: Christian Steiner

    Festival Gardens

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2012 4:20


    On this week’s podcast we talk to Ruth Plowden, owner of Johnstounburn House and the lady behind Festival Gardens, a new addition to the Lammermuir programme that see some of the country’s finest private gardens open to the public exclusively for the Festival.

    Tantallon Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2012 6:22


    On this week’s podcast, composer Bill Sweeney, joined by some of the musicians involved in Tantallon, tells us why he was drawn to this project and what the audience can expect to see and hear.

    Tantallon Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2012 4:16


    This week we talk to Aonghas MacNeacail, the writer and librettist for Tantallon! These Lands This Wall, taking place at the Lammermuir Festival on the 17th September.

    Master and Commander

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2012 4:41


    Festival Director James Waters talks about the inspiration behind the Master and Commander concert, featuring Robert Hardy and the Raeburn Quartet at Inveresk Church on Sunday 16 September.

    Mercat Tours

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 5:17


    Nicola from Mercat Tours tells us about the very special historical walking tour that she has created for this year's Lammermuir Festival. Discover Haddington's secret past of wicked witches, plague, murky murders, Jacobites and daring escapes on a family friendly tour from St Mary’s kirkyard to Lady Kitty’s garden.

    Music at Glenkinchie

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2012 4:58


    This week we talk to Sarah Burgess, the manager of Glenkinchie Distillery, to discover how whisky and music will combine to create a very special evening on the 17th September for Lammermuir's "Music at Glenkinchie" concert.

    Richard Bath: Food and Drink in East Lothian

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2012 3:59


    19 July: East Lothian offers a wonderful range of food and drink and we hope you'll enjoy some during the 2012 Lammermuir Festival. Richard Bath, editor of Scottish Field Magazine and restaurant critic for Scotland on Sunday gives us his thoughts on eating in East Lothian. www.scottishfield.co.uk

    Peter Whelan of Ensemble Marsyas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2012 5:22


    Making their debut at this year's Festival, Ensemble Marsyas launch their new CD of Zelenka Sonatas at their concert on Sunday 16 September. We talk to Peter Whelan, founder member and bassoonist with the Ensemble, and give our listeners a taste of some of the beautiful music by Zelenka featured in advance of the concert and CD release, by kind permission of Linn Records. www.linnrecords.com www.ensemblemarsyas.com

    Sean Shibe

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 4:53


    05/07/12 - We meet young guitar phenomenon Sean Shibe and hear some of the music he will be performing as this year's Young Artist in Residence at Lammermuir Festival.

    East Lothian: the beautiful place

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2012 4:24


    Provost Ludovic Broun-Lindsay and Angela Leitch, Chief Executive of East Lothian Council tell us why East Lothian is the perfect setting for the Lammermuir Festival.

    The Lamp of Lothian and the Lammermuir Festival

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2012 7:06


    Chair of Lammermuir Festival, James Stretton, talks about The Lamp of Lothian and its significance in the Lammermuir Festival.

    Sir Francis Ogilvy and Winton House

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2012 5:55


    This week we talk to Sir Francis Ogilvy who takes us round his beautiful stately home, Winton House, the setting for the afternoon tea concert on Sunday 16 September.

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    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2012 8:37


    Follow our weekly podcasts as we go behind the scenes at the 2012 Lammermuir Festival. We’ll be chatting to the artists, visiting venues and giving you a flavour of some of the beautiful music you can hear at this year’s festival. Lammermuir Festival 2012 is launched. In our first podcast we talk to Festival Artistic Directors Hugh MacDonald and James Waters.

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