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Highlights from the Edinburgh Festival 2021 - Part 2

Jamie shares a second instalment of highlights from the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival, with performances by American soprano Renee Fleming and the Chineke! Ensemble.

Jamie continues to celebrate the return of the Edinburgh International Festival 2021 with a second instalment of highlights. We'll hear performances from American superstar soprano Renee Fleming singing Joni Mitchell, the exciting Chineke! Chamber Ensemble play Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Nonet and 20 year old Dutch violinist sensation Noa Wildschut explores the dark side of Saint-Saens.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 5 Sep 2021 19:00

Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Sunday Morning)

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Britten: Cello Symphony.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Richard Strauss

    Alpine Symphony Op.64 On Flowering Meadows & On the Alpine Pasture

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 109.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Reve d'amour Op 5

    Performer: Hartmut Höll. Singer: Renée Fleming.
  • Joni Mitchell

    Both Sides Now

    Performer: Hartmut Höll. Singer: Renée Fleming.
  • Philip Wilby

    A Breathless Alleluia

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Philip Wilby. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • A Breathless Alleluia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.
  • Nitin Sawhney

    Breathing Light

    Performer: Hélène Grimaud.
    • Hélène Grimaud: Water.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Richard Strauss

    Alpine Symphony - On the Summit

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 113.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 974: II. Adagio

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet Op 2, last movement

    Ensemble: Chineke! Chamber Ensemble.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    September (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel: Das Jahr.
    • SONY.
    • 9.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Farrenc: Symphony Nos. 1 & 3.
    • Erato.
    • 7.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Danse Macabre

    Performer: Noa Wildschut. Performer: Lauma Skride.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits

    Performer: Noa Wildschut. Performer: Lauma Skride.
  • Richard Strauss

    Alpine Symphony - The Sun Gradually Becomes Obscured & Elegy

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 116.
  • Franz Liszt

    Valse de bravoure

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
  • Richard Strauss

    Four Last Songs - September

    Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: George Szell.
    • Strauss - Four Last Songs & Orchestral Songs.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
    • Leonard Bernstein plays and conducts Beethoven/Mozart/Schumann etc.
    • Sony Music.
    • 4.
  • Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Alpine Symphony - Quiet Settles

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 121.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Dvorak: String Quartet No 13 - last movement

    Ensemble: Gringolts Quartet.
  • Kurt Weill

    September Song

    Performer: Stephen Higgins. Author: Maxwell Anderson. Singer: Thomas Allen.
    • Thomas Allen & Stephen Higgins - September Songs.
    • Champs Hill Records.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Sep 2021 19:00