This year’s offerings include
CANDIDE
ORLANDO FURIOSO
L’ORFEO
ORPHEUS & OEDIPUS REX
DIDO AND AENEAS & PRIMA LA MUSICA, POI LE PAROLE
CAPRICCIO
BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting these after the Festival ends… see here for schedule of all broadcasts from the Festival.
Some other goodies:
Friday 14 September at 7pm – Performance on 3
A CELEBRATION OF FRANCIS POULENC
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
David Jones Chorus Master
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève Conductor
Dame Gillian Weir Organ
Christine Brewer Soprano
Poulenc Stabat Mater
Poulenc Organ Concerto
Poulenc Excerpts from Dialogues des Carmélites
Wednesday 29th August at 1pm – Lunchtime Concert
Mark Padmore – tenor
WALKING TO LÜBECK
Bach Cantata BWV 55 ‘Ich armer Mensch’
Bach Cantata BWV 82 ‘Ich habe genug’
Bach Recitative and Aria from Cantata
Bach BWV 161 ‘Komm, du süsse Todesstunde’
Buxtehude Klaglied