Podcasts about lammermuir

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Today's episode will be centered around Opera Works & Songs from our classical collection. We have 4 pieces for you today, and we will end with a piece from our featured release, "Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor." Nicolai Ghiaurov, Sesto Bruscantini, Alfredo Kraus, Gundula Janowitz, Sena Jurinac, Walter Monachesi, Dimitri Petkov, Olivera Miliakovic "Don Giovanni" (mp3) from "Mozart: Don Giovanni" (Opera d'Oro) Buy at Napster Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Rhapsody Stream from Rhapsody Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This AlbumSteven Kimbrough, Wolfgang Schmid, Andreas Kreisel "Kommt wieder aus der finst'ren Gruft" (mp3) from "Geistliche Lieder - Sacred Songs of Bach (from the 1736 Songbook of Georg Schemelli)" (Arabesque Recordings) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This AlbumInessa Galante, Vladimir Choclov, Janis Bulvas "A idise mame" (mp3) from "Goldins: Jewish Folk Songs - Rachmaninov: Romantic Songs" (Campion) Buy at Napster Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This AlbumValery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Sergei Skorokhodov, Ilya Bannik, Vladislav Sulimsky, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra from "Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor" (Mariinsky) More On This AlbumThe Mariinsky label’s opera recordings have garnered acclaim and awards from around the world, most recently for Valery Gergiev’s recording of Parsifal released in 2010. For the label’s fifth opera, Gergiev conducts Donizetti’s masterpiece with a magnificent cast led by Natalie Dessay. Donizetti’s tragic opera in three acts depicts a family feud set in the Lammermuir hills of Scotland. The opera was premiered on 26 September 1835 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, with the coloratura soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, and a revised version in French followed suit in 1839. Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor, the central character of Lucia Ashton (Dessay) is in love with Edgardo di Ravenswood, her brother Enrico’s sworn enemy. With his fortune waning, Lord Enrico plots to force Lucia to marry Lord Arturo Bucklaw, in order to guarantee his continued power. Torn between her family and true love, Lucia submits to her brother’s desires but in turn loses her mind. Lucia’s delicate disposition is tested and results in the famous ‘mad scene’ where Lucia kills her new bridegroom Arturo. Natalie Dessay is one of the world’s most sought-after sopranos and an admired interpreter of lyric heroines. She is particularly renowned for her interpretation of the role of Lucia, which she has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House and the Mariinsky Theatre. Future engagements include Verdi’s La Traviata with the LSO at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July and at the Wiener Staatsoper in October. Piotr Beczala is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of today’s leading lyric tenors. He has recently sung Edgardo with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and on tour in Japan, and this summer will perform at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Salzburg Festival. Valery Gergiev recently won the Disc of the Year Award from BBC Music Magazine for his LSO Live recording of Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet. In July, Gergiev will conduct the Mariinsky Ballet at New York Metropolitan Opera and in August he conducts at the Edinburgh Festival and BBC Proms with the Mariinsky Orchestra before opening the LSO’s 2011-12 concert season. In October he embarks on a major tour of the USA and Canada with the Mariinsky Orchestra, including residencies at Carnegie Hall and Berkeley. Forthcoming releases include the final instalment in his Mahler cycle on LSO Live featuring Symphony No 9 and the Mariinsky label’s first DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs. Natalie Dessay appears courtesy of Virgin Classics.