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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/

09/08/2014

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

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

6 min
09/08/2014

Oboist François Leleux on being the artist in residence

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

5 min
07/24/2014

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

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

5 min
07/16/2014

Welcome To Lammermuir Festival 2014

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.

1 hr
07/16/2014

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

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

7 min
09/01/2012

Festival Gardens

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.

4 min
08/24/2012

Tantallon Part 2

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.

6 min
08/16/2012

Tantallon Part 1

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.

4 min

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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Lammermuir Festival
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2012 - 2014
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