Music between Fri 9 Aug and Sun 1 Sep
The 2013 Festival opens in thrilling fashion as three great Russian musicians join the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a pair of seminal masterpieces by Prokofiev.
An evening of thrilling 20th-century classics from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its chief guest conductor, Ilan Volkov, who is widely renowned for the passion and intensity of his music making.
The 2013 Queen’s Hall concerts open with one of the finest Lieder singers of his generation, German baritone Christian Gerhaher joined by regular collaborator Gerold Huber.
Philip Glass’s magical reimagining of Jean Cocteau’s 1946 La Belle et la Bête combines the classic black and white film with live performance.
Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony is a moving piece on the theme of forbidden love whose grand, sweeping melodies are full of emotional turbulence and impassioned suffering.
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performs one of the grandest and most moving pieces in the entire orchestral repertoire: Mahler’s Second Symphony.
Specialising in music from the string quartet’s early years, Chiaroscuro Quartet will use period instruments in subtle yet incisive readings of classical repertoire of Mozart and Schubert.
Bach to Berio, Lutoslawski to Puttin’ on the Ritz performed by Iain Archibald and Andrew Connell-Smith, Martin Murphy, Gordon Seith and Fraser Russell.
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