2022 Queen's Hall Series [Edinburgh International Festival]

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Bruce Liu

20220822

Pianist Bruce Liu makes his debut live at the Queen's Hall following his win at the 2021 Chopin Piano Competition. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is the inspiration behind two pieces we hear today; a set of theme and variations by Chopin and a fantasy by Liszt. The recital opens with a selection of music by Rameau, from his Suites in D and G and Bruce Liu closes with Ravel's musical depictions of moths, birds, boats and church bells in his colourful five-movement suite.

Rameau: Les Tendres Plaintes

Rameau: Les Cyclopes

Rameau: Menuets 1 et 2

Rameau: Les Sauvages

Rameau: La Poule

Rameau: Gavotte et six doubles

Chopin Variations on 'La ci darem la mano' from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Op 2

11:45

Interval - a recording of Peter Maxwell Davies: Carolisima, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

12:05

Ravel: Miroirs

Liszt: Reminiscences de Don Juan, S 418

Bruce Liu - Pianist

Presenter: Kate Molleson

Producer: Laura Metcalfe

Pianist Bruce Liu plays Rameau, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt, live from the Queen's Hall.

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Dunedin Consort And Tenor Nicholas Mulroy

20220816

Exploring the 17th-century world of song and instrumental music in Italy and in Germany in the century before JS Bach and featuring the radiant voice of tenor Nicholas Mulroy and one of the world's leading Baroque ensembles.

Kapsberger: Toccata I in D minor

Monteverdi: Salve Regina 327

Monteverdi: Più Lieto Il Guardo

Frescobaldi: Toccata per Spinettina e Violino

Schütz: O Jesu nomen dulce SWV308

Schütz: O misericordissime Jesu SWV309

Buxtehude: Sonata for Two Violins, Viola da Gamba and Continuo in C

Buxtehude: Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab BUXWV38

11.45 INTERVAL Donald Macleod reflects on Richard Strauss's chilling opera Salome performed at the Festival over the weekend and highlights the glorious voice of Swedish soprano Malin Bystr怀m in orchestral songs by Duparc: Au pays où se fait la Guerre, Chanson Triste.

Caccini: Maria, dolce Maria

Frescobaldi: Capriccio sopra l'aria 'Or che noi rimena

Dalla Casa: Ancor che col partire

Grandi: O intemerata

Monteverdi: Et 耀 pur dunque vero

Monteverdi: Nigra Sum

Strozzi: Lagrime mie

Dunedin Consort

John Butt, director

Nicholas Mulroy, tenor

Presenter: Donald Macleod

Producer: Lindsay Pell

Songs and other music from the 17th century, from Monteverdi to Buxtehude.

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Florian Boesch And Malcolm Martineau

20220819

Schubert's lonely tale of lost love against the backdrop of a winter walk is without doubt one of his finest works. A critic of the time wrote 'none can sing or hear without being deeply moved.' The song cycle of 24 songs traces the journey by a broken-hearted young man whose love has deserted him, the wintry scenes of nature around him reflecting his sadness, defiance and resignation as he reaches a cemetery and finally encounters a hurdy-gurdy player in the street playing whose enigmatic drone paints a picture of complete desolation.

Schubert: Die Winterreise

Florian Boesch, baritone

Malcolm Martineau, piano

Presented by Donald Macleod

Produced by Lindsay Pell

Schubert's lonely of love and loss against the backdrop of a winter walk - Winterreise.

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Jordi Savall And Hesperion Xxi

20220818

Live from the Queen's Hall, international viol player and master of historical performance Jordi Savall takes us to 18th-century Istanbul and the height of the Ottoman Empire. Joining his early music ensemble Hesperion XXI are musicians from Greece, Morocco, Armenia, Turkey and Israel. Together they will bring to life the Sephardic, Armenian and Islamic music traditions of the time, when Istanbul stood at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.

Sephardic tradition (Turkey): Alef, mem, shin

Dervis Mehmed, Mss. D. Cantemir (209): Der makam Uzzall usules Darb-i feth

Sephardic tradition: La rosa enflorece - Maci瀀o de rosas

Mss. D. Cantemir (268): Der makam I Huseyni Semai Baba Mest

Sephardic tradition (Smirna): El Rey Nimrod

Greek: Ta xyla

Turkey: Cecen kizi

Traditional (Armenia): Alayna & Khnki tsar

Mss. D. Cantemir (324): Der makam I Uzzai Sakil 'Turna' Semai

Interval: The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta in a recording of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.

Sephardic tradition (Sarajevo): Paxarico tu te llamas

Turkish song. Tanburi Mustafa Cavus: Hisar Buselik Sarki

Mss. D. Cantemir: Der makam I Rast 'Murass'a' usules Duyek

Sephardic tradition: Hermoza muchachica (Taksim)

Turkish & Greek song & dance: Koniali

Armenian Fight song: Menk kadj tohmi

Sephardic tradition: Una pastora

Mss. D. Cantemir (89): Der makam-I Huseyni Sakil-i Aga Riza

Hesp耀rion XXI

Jordi Savall - Director, Rebec, Rebab, Treble Viol

International viol player Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI take us to 18th-century Istanbul.

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Magdalena Ko\u017een\u00e1 And Yefim Bronfman

20220826

Romance, satire and visions of childhood retold in song by distinguished Czech mezzo Magdalena Koenက and the acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman. Offering a generous selection of some of the 200 songs that Brahms wrote, these songs telling stories of joy, desire and despair in love. Mussorgsky was apparently fond of children and enjoyed speaking to them, and in his song cycle, The Nursery (Detskaya) he presents an unusual view of life from the child's perspective. Shostakovich's songs have an acerbic wit full of parody, reflecting his personal rather than his public persona of the time. And the recital is rounded off with the charming Slovak folk tunes arranged by Bartok into his set of songs known as Village Scenes including scenes of Haymaking, At the Brides, Wedding, Lullaby and Lad's Dance

Brahms: Meine Liebe ist grün Op63

Brahms: Nachtigall Op97

Brahms: Verzagen Op72

Brahms: Bei dir sind meine Gedanken Op95

Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe Op43

Brahms: Ankl䀀nge Op7

Brahms: Das M䀀dchen spricht Op107

Brahms: Meerfahrt Op96

Brahms: Der Schmied Op19

Brahms: Ach, wende diesen Blick Op57

Brahms: O wüsst' ich den Weg zurück Op63

Brahms: M䀀dchenlied Op107

Brahms: Unbewegte, laue Luft Op57

Brahms: Vergebliches St䀀ndchen Op84

INTERVAL at 11.35am approx

JS Bach Brandenberg Concerto No 1 in F performed by Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music

Mussorgsky: Detskaya

Shostakovich: Satires 109

Bart　k: Falun, Dedinsk退 sc退ny Sz78

Magdalena Kozenက, soprano

Yefim Bronfman, piano

Presented by Kate Molleson

Produced by Lindsay Pell

Romance, satire and visions of childhood from two distinguished soloists.

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Musicians Of The Philadelphia Orchestra And Yannick Nezet-seguin

20220825

Now in his tenth year as music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick N退zet-S退guin will be appearing with them on four occasions across the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival. For this performance, he is joined by musicians from the orchestra in an intimate, all-Mozart recital which starts with one of the earliest and best-known works written for the clarinet. The Clarinet Quintet in A K.581 was the only quintet for the instrument that Mozart wrote and its beautiful, lyrical melodies have ensured that it is enduringly popular.

After the interval, the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra are joined by their music director in Mozart's graceful Piano Concerto No 12, K.414. Though written for a sophisticated Viennese audience in 1872, it contains a heartfelt and personal quotation in the second movement to his former teacher, Johann Christian Bach, who died earlier in that year.

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A K 581

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A K 414

David Kim, violin

Juliette Kang, violin

Choong-Jin Chang, viola

Hai-Ye Ni, cello

Harold Robinson, double bass

Ricardo Morales, clarinet

Yannick N退zet-S退guin, piano

Presenter: Kate Molleson

Producer: Gavin McCollum

Live from the Queen's Hall, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A and Piano Concerto No 12.

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Pavel Haas Quartet

20220823

Named after the Czech composer, a brilliant pupil of Leo Janက?ek who was imprisoned by the Nazis in Terezin and died in Auschwitz, the revered Pavel Haas quartet celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. Live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, the Pavel Haas Quartet include the seventh and final quartet by Bohuslav Martin?, written in exile in the USA, a work full of optimism and joy for his Czech homeland to which he hoped to return.

Haydn: String Quartet in G major Op. 76/1

Martin?: String Quartet No 7 H314

INTERVAL at 11.55am

The Czech Philharmonic play Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk Slavonic Dances Op. 46 nos 1,2 7 & 8 recorded in Prague's renowned Rudolfinum and conducted by Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek

Schubert: String Quartet in G D.887

Presented by Kate Molleson

Produced by Lindsay Pell

The revered Czech quartet play Haydn, Martin\u016f and Schubert, live from the Queen's Hall.

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Richard Egarr And Friends

20220824

Inspirational conductor and harpsichord player Richard Egarr is joined by renowned Baroque soloists for a survey of European chamber music from the 1600s.

Italy is represented by Gabrieli's venetian church music, intimate settings from Lully and lesser known composers Fontana, Buonamente and Marini experimenting with form and musical effect. We hear from a 21-year-old Purcell, and later, music from Germany and Austria via giant of the keyboard Jacob Froberger and music for strings by Schmelzer.

Broadcast live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.

Gabrieli: Sonata 21 for 3 violins

Fontana: Sonata 16 for 3 violins

Rossi: Toccata Settima

Marini: Sonata in ecco

Purcell: Fantasia: Three Parts on a Ground Z.731

11:45

Interval: Copland: Billy the Kid - ballet suite in a recording performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy

12:05

Lully: Salve Regina 'Petit motet for 3 sopranos

Froberger: Lamentation faite sur la mort tr耀s doloureuse de Sa Majest退 Imperiale, Ferdinand le troisi耀me

Schmelzer: Sonata for 3 violins

Buonamente: Sonata secondo for 3 violins

Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue

Richard Egarr - Harpsichord

Bojan Cicic - Violin

Rachell Ellen Wong - Violin

Ruiqi Ren - Violin

Alex McCartney - Theorbo

Jonathan Rees - Viola da Gamba

Presenter: Kate Molleson

Producer: Laura Metcalfe

Chamber music from Italy, Germany and Austria from the 1600s.

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Episodes

Title	First Broadcast	Comments
Bruce Liu	20220822	Pianist Bruce Liu makes his debut live at the Queen's Hall following his win at the 2021 Chopin Piano Competition. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is the inspiration behind two pieces we hear today; a set of theme and variations by Chopin and a fantasy by Liszt. The recital opens with a selection of music by Rameau, from his Suites in D and G and Bruce Liu closes with Ravel's musical depictions of moths, birds, boats and church bells in his colourful five-movement suite. Rameau: Les Tendres Plaintes Rameau: Les Cyclopes Rameau: Menuets 1 et 2 Rameau: Les Sauvages Rameau: La Poule Rameau: Gavotte et six doubles Chopin Variations on 'La ci darem la mano' from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Op 2 11:45 Interval - a recording of Peter Maxwell Davies: Carolisima, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra 12:05 Ravel: Miroirs Liszt: Reminiscences de Don Juan, S 418 Bruce Liu - Pianist Presenter: Kate Molleson Producer: Laura Metcalfe Pianist Bruce Liu plays Rameau, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt, live from the Queen's Hall. Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival
Dunedin Consort And Tenor Nicholas Mulroy	20220816	Exploring the 17th-century world of song and instrumental music in Italy and in Germany in the century before JS Bach and featuring the radiant voice of tenor Nicholas Mulroy and one of the world's leading Baroque ensembles. Kapsberger: Toccata I in D minor Monteverdi: Salve Regina 327 Monteverdi: Più Lieto Il Guardo Frescobaldi: Toccata per Spinettina e Violino Schütz: O Jesu nomen dulce SWV308 Schütz: O misericordissime Jesu SWV309 Buxtehude: Sonata for Two Violins, Viola da Gamba and Continuo in C Buxtehude: Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab BUXWV38 11.45 INTERVAL Donald Macleod reflects on Richard Strauss's chilling opera Salome performed at the Festival over the weekend and highlights the glorious voice of Swedish soprano Malin Bystr怀m in orchestral songs by Duparc: Au pays où se fait la Guerre, Chanson Triste. Caccini: Maria, dolce Maria Frescobaldi: Capriccio sopra l'aria 'Or che noi rimena Dalla Casa: Ancor che col partire Grandi: O intemerata Monteverdi: Et 耀 pur dunque vero Monteverdi: Nigra Sum Strozzi: Lagrime mie Dunedin Consort John Butt, director Nicholas Mulroy, tenor Presenter: Donald Macleod Producer: Lindsay Pell Songs and other music from the 17th century, from Monteverdi to Buxtehude. Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival
Florian Boesch And Malcolm Martineau	20220819	Schubert's lonely tale of lost love against the backdrop of a winter walk is without doubt one of his finest works. A critic of the time wrote 'none can sing or hear without being deeply moved.' The song cycle of 24 songs traces the journey by a broken-hearted young man whose love has deserted him, the wintry scenes of nature around him reflecting his sadness, defiance and resignation as he reaches a cemetery and finally encounters a hurdy-gurdy player in the street playing whose enigmatic drone paints a picture of complete desolation. Schubert: Die Winterreise Florian Boesch, baritone Malcolm Martineau, piano Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Lindsay Pell Schubert's lonely of love and loss against the backdrop of a winter walk - Winterreise. Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival
Jordi Savall And Hesperion Xxi	20220818	Live from the Queen's Hall, international viol player and master of historical performance Jordi Savall takes us to 18th-century Istanbul and the height of the Ottoman Empire. Joining his early music ensemble Hesperion XXI are musicians from Greece, Morocco, Armenia, Turkey and Israel. Together they will bring to life the Sephardic, Armenian and Islamic music traditions of the time, when Istanbul stood at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Sephardic tradition (Turkey): Alef, mem, shin Dervis Mehmed, Mss. D. Cantemir (209): Der makam Uzzall usules Darb-i feth Sephardic tradition: La rosa enflorece - Maci瀀o de rosas Mss. D. Cantemir (268): Der makam I Huseyni Semai Baba Mest Sephardic tradition (Smirna): El Rey Nimrod Greek: Ta xyla Turkey: Cecen kizi Traditional (Armenia): Alayna & Khnki tsar Mss. D. Cantemir (324): Der makam I Uzzai Sakil 'Turna' Semai Interval: The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta in a recording of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Sephardic tradition (Sarajevo): Paxarico tu te llamas Turkish song. Tanburi Mustafa Cavus: Hisar Buselik Sarki Mss. D. Cantemir: Der makam I Rast 'Murass'a' usules Duyek Sephardic tradition: Hermoza muchachica (Taksim) Turkish & Greek song & dance: Koniali Armenian Fight song: Menk kadj tohmi Sephardic tradition: Una pastora Mss. D. Cantemir (89): Der makam-I Huseyni Sakil-i Aga Riza Hesp耀rion XXI Jordi Savall - Director, Rebec, Rebab, Treble Viol International viol player Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI take us to 18th-century Istanbul. Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival
Magdalena Ko\u017een\u00e1 And Yefim Bronfman	20220826	Romance, satire and visions of childhood retold in song by distinguished Czech mezzo Magdalena Koenက and the acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman. Offering a generous selection of some of the 200 songs that Brahms wrote, these songs telling stories of joy, desire and despair in love. Mussorgsky was apparently fond of children and enjoyed speaking to them, and in his song cycle, The Nursery (Detskaya) he presents an unusual view of life from the child's perspective. Shostakovich's songs have an acerbic wit full of parody, reflecting his personal rather than his public persona of the time. And the recital is rounded off with the charming Slovak folk tunes arranged by Bartok into his set of songs known as Village Scenes including scenes of Haymaking, At the Brides, Wedding, Lullaby and Lad's Dance Brahms: Meine Liebe ist grün Op63 Brahms: Nachtigall Op97 Brahms: Verzagen Op72 Brahms: Bei dir sind meine Gedanken Op95 Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe Op43 Brahms: Ankl䀀nge Op7 Brahms: Das M䀀dchen spricht Op107 Brahms: Meerfahrt Op96 Brahms: Der Schmied Op19 Brahms: Ach, wende diesen Blick Op57 Brahms: O wüsst' ich den Weg zurück Op63 Brahms: M䀀dchenlied Op107 Brahms: Unbewegte, laue Luft Op57 Brahms: Vergebliches St䀀ndchen Op84 INTERVAL at 11.35am approx JS Bach Brandenberg Concerto No 1 in F performed by Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music Mussorgsky: Detskaya Shostakovich: Satires 109 Bart　k: Falun, Dedinsk退 sc退ny Sz78 Magdalena Kozenက, soprano Yefim Bronfman, piano Presented by Kate Molleson Produced by Lindsay Pell Romance, satire and visions of childhood from two distinguished soloists. Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival
Musicians Of The Philadelphia Orchestra And Yannick Nezet-seguin	20220825	Now in his tenth year as music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick N退zet-S退guin will be appearing with them on four occasions across the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival. For this performance, he is joined by musicians from the orchestra in an intimate, all-Mozart recital which starts with one of the earliest and best-known works written for the clarinet. The Clarinet Quintet in A K.581 was the only quintet for the instrument that Mozart wrote and its beautiful, lyrical melodies have ensured that it is enduringly popular. After the interval, the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra are joined by their music director in Mozart's graceful Piano Concerto No 12, K.414. Though written for a sophisticated Viennese audience in 1872, it contains a heartfelt and personal quotation in the second movement to his former teacher, Johann Christian Bach, who died earlier in that year. Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A K 581 Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A K 414 David Kim, violin Juliette Kang, violin Choong-Jin Chang, viola Hai-Ye Ni, cello Harold Robinson, double bass Ricardo Morales, clarinet Yannick N退zet-S退guin, piano Presenter: Kate Molleson Producer: Gavin McCollum Live from the Queen's Hall, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A and Piano Concerto No 12. Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival
Pavel Haas Quartet	20220823	Named after the Czech composer, a brilliant pupil of Leo Janက?ek who was imprisoned by the Nazis in Terezin and died in Auschwitz, the revered Pavel Haas quartet celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. Live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, the Pavel Haas Quartet include the seventh and final quartet by Bohuslav Martin?, written in exile in the USA, a work full of optimism and joy for his Czech homeland to which he hoped to return. Haydn: String Quartet in G major Op. 76/1 Martin?: String Quartet No 7 H314 INTERVAL at 11.55am The Czech Philharmonic play Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk Slavonic Dances Op. 46 nos 1,2 7 & 8 recorded in Prague's renowned Rudolfinum and conducted by Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek Schubert: String Quartet in G D.887 Presented by Kate Molleson Produced by Lindsay Pell The revered Czech quartet play Haydn, Martin\u016f and Schubert, live from the Queen's Hall. Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival
Richard Egarr And Friends	20220824	Inspirational conductor and harpsichord player Richard Egarr is joined by renowned Baroque soloists for a survey of European chamber music from the 1600s. Italy is represented by Gabrieli's venetian church music, intimate settings from Lully and lesser known composers Fontana, Buonamente and Marini experimenting with form and musical effect. We hear from a 21-year-old Purcell, and later, music from Germany and Austria via giant of the keyboard Jacob Froberger and music for strings by Schmelzer. Broadcast live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh. Gabrieli: Sonata 21 for 3 violins Fontana: Sonata 16 for 3 violins Rossi: Toccata Settima Marini: Sonata in ecco Purcell: Fantasia: Three Parts on a Ground Z.731 11:45 Interval: Copland: Billy the Kid - ballet suite in a recording performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy 12:05 Lully: Salve Regina 'Petit motet for 3 sopranos Froberger: Lamentation faite sur la mort tr耀s doloureuse de Sa Majest退 Imperiale, Ferdinand le troisi耀me Schmelzer: Sonata for 3 violins Buonamente: Sonata secondo for 3 violins Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue Richard Egarr - Harpsichord Bojan Cicic - Violin Rachell Ellen Wong - Violin Ruiqi Ren - Violin Alex McCartney - Theorbo Jonathan Rees - Viola da Gamba Presenter: Kate Molleson Producer: Laura Metcalfe Chamber music from Italy, Germany and Austria from the 1600s. Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival