5. Deep Listening
Nicola Benedetti, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, explores its history and some of the people and performances that have made it what it is today.
Nicola Benedetti, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, explores the past and present of this annual occasion, now in its 77th year.
Today she focusses on the unparalleled opportunity it offers for a deep listening experience, particularly in the elegant Georgian surroundings of The Queen's Hall, a venue well-known to many ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 listeners for the broadcasts of concerts from the Queen's Hall Series. Nicola celebrates the incredible roll call of instrumentalists and singers whose international careers brought them to Edinburgh, from Kathleen Ferrier and Anne Sofie Von Otter to Jonas Kaufmann and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, before reflecting on what it means to really listen deeply. With contributions from opera singer Danielle de Niese, conductor Ivan Fischer and jazz bassist Endea Owens.
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Franz Schubert
Trio for piano and strings No 1 in B flat, D898. III Scherzo
Performer: Artur Schnabel. Performer: Joseph Szigeti. Performer: Pierre Fournier. -
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Heitor VillaβLobos
Schottish-Choro
Performer: Julian Bream. -
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Johannes Brahms
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, Op. 105 No. 2
Performer: Bruno Walter. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. -
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Franz Schubert
Rast (from Winterreise)
Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. -
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Carlo Sigmund Taube
Ein Judisches Kind
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Marriage of Figaro - Act 3 Final
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti. -
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 5 in C Sharp Minor IGM 11: IV Adagietto
Orchestra: SimΓ³n BolΓvar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. -
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Nigel Kennedy
Lullaby for Kamila
Performer: Sheku KannehβMason. Performer: Harry Baker.
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