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EdinburghInternationalFestival9 August 1 September 2013

Contents

02 Welcome to the Festival

03 A Festival for EveryoneOpportunities to join in

04 Festival 2013 SupportersThose who help to makethe Festival happen

06 Opera

Spaceships, castles and jazz clubs

12 Dance Odysseys

Festival within the Festival experience dance differently

16 Dance

From the west coast of Americato Korea with a stop off whereJacques Tati meets urban dance

21 Theatre

Technical wizardry human andcinematic, stories both dark anduplifting and a journey to ournext world

30 Beckett at the Festival

A feast of works by SamuelBeckett on stage and on film

34 The Opening Concert

Valery Gergiev conducts Prokofiev

35 Music

Orchestras, ensembles and soloists

45 Virgin Money

Fireworks ConcertThrilling Festival finale

46 Contemporary Music / Opera

Jean Cocteau, Philip Glass,Patti Smith, Frank Zappaand more

52 The Queens Hall Series

Ravishing recitals andchamber music

61 Harpsichord Recitals

On heritage instruments

62 Cafe Concerts

Informal and intimate withyoung international musicians

63 Conversations with Artists

Up close and personal

64 Interfaces

Debates and intriguesin a digital age

66 Movements

Matters musical and artisticwith Brian Eno and many others

67 Events

With Edinburgh College of Artand University of Edinburgh

68 Visual Arts

Artists with technological flair Leonardo da Vinci, Nam JunePaik and Hyung Su Kim

74 How to Book

75 Ticket Discounts

and Special Offers

76 Information for Visitors

78 Festival DiaryPlan your Festival easily


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Welcome to the Festival

Artists think differently; theirs is an inspiring contrast and essentialprovocation to habit, comfort, orthodoxy and progress.

They exist in a fragile relationship with the world; somehow everythingseen and heard, smelt, tasted and touched is transformed intomoments of heightened intensity and sensuousness.

Great artists absorb the circumstances of their surroundings, theprevailing shifts and shapes of our world, in weird and wonderful ways.

The pounding chords of the Hammerklavier Sonata are a result ofa collaboration of genius; between the ingenuity of piano makerssuch as John Broadwood and their fascination with materialsand machinery; perceiving that the technological processes of anindustrial revolution contained immense potential for the design ofmusical instruments; exciting the rebellious zeal of a composer likeBeethoven who grabbed such an alignment of forces with immensepassion to reveal new ways of thinking about sound and music.

Or the wireless imagination of a poet cum playwright, intriguedby the disembodied challenges of a compact electronic inventioncalled radio; where conventions of characterisation and narrative areturned on their heads, a writer like Samuel Beckett, uniquely, seesopportunities to invent a new language of dreams and drama.

Or the multimedia musings of a subversive spirit like Nam June Paik,determined to fashion out of an assemblage of abandoned objectsa critique of consumerism and, simultaneously, an eloquent elegy foran electronic era.

2013 Edinburgh International Festival invites you to embark upona journey inspired by the way technology seizes and shifts ourperceptions of a world, translated by such visionaries as J S Bach,Samuel Beckett or Richard Burton, John Cage, Jean Cocteau orFranois Couperin, Leonardo da Vinci or Allen Ginsberg, SergeiProkofiev or Nam June Paik, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakisor Frank Zappa.

If it is the role of the artist to convert a strand of silver nitrate into a

portrait, a sound wave into a memory, or an LED into a provocation,then we encourage you to come to Edinburgh in August for a veryspecial occasion filled with pre-recorded mischief, virtual mystery andvivid make-believe.

Jonathan Mills

Festival Director

Welcometo Festival2013

They said, You have a blue guitar,You do not play things as they are.

The man replied, Things as they areAre changed upon the blue guitar.

FROM THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITARBYWALLACE STEVENSPUBLISHED BY FABER AND FABER

A Festival

A Festivalfor Everyone

As official broadcast partner, BBC Radio 3 brings the Festival to thosewho would not otherwise be able to take part. Through live and futurebroadcasts many Edinburgh International Festival concerts can beenjoyed throughout the whole nation and across the world thanks tothis visionary partnership. Full details at bbc.co.uk/radio3

An Accessible Festival for All

Look out for these Festival logos in the brochure and see page 75 fordetails of discounts.

Audio Described Touch Tour

British Sign Language Speech-to-Text Reported

Festival Chorus

Are you an enthusiastic and talented singer? Would you like to performsome of the most exhilarating choral repertoire with internationallycelebrated conductors, orchestras and soloists? Then audition tobecome a member of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Please contactus on 0131 473 2027 or email [email protected]

Festival Merchandise

Check out our exclusive range of Festival merchandise and buy onlinenow. Inspired by this years Festival theme, light up the world with ourlightbulb t-shirts, bags and other lovely shiny things.

eif.co.uk/shop

Festival Online

Connect with us! Tweet your stories with #EdintFest or like ourFacebook page and post your photos and comments. Head toour website for exclusive content including trailers, podcasts andinterviews and buy your tickets online easily and quickly. Plan yourFestival with our online diary and keep on top of whats happeningthrough Festival 2013 by signing up to our newsletter and following#EdintFest on your mobile device.

Visit us at eif.co.uk/interact

Edinburgh: Festival CityHelp to create a unique pieceof music for Festival 2013

American composer Tod Machover will compocalled Festival Cityto reflect the city of Edinburtransformation through the Edinburgh Internationeed you to contribute! Machover is creating thorchestral work, to be premiered at the Festivawith sounds and impressions of the city and Fepeople from around the world.

You are invited to share original sonic materialsand add to the composers own. Web-based mdesigned at the famed MIT Media Lab (Cambripossible for anyone, from anywhere in the worlEdinburgh and its Festival to contribute to this

Visit eif.co.uk/festivalcitymusic

See page 43 for the Royal Scottish National Oron 27 August. See page 66 for the lecture demcreative process.


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Festival 2013 Supporters

Thank you to all our Festival 2013 supporters

e core investment that the Edinburgh Internationalstival receives from the City of Edinburgh Council andeative Scotland plays a critical role in ensuring our stabilityd success.

ucial support from other public sector bodies, charitablends, the corporate sector, international partners and agencies,sts and foundations and our individual benefactors, patronsd friends is also vitally important in enabling us to maintaine Festivals scale and quality. We are grateful to all theseganisations and individuals, who make the Festival possible.

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Festival Partners

oject Grants

incipal Supporters

Official Retail Partner

Hotel Partner

Production Sponsor

Production Sponsor

DocumentSolutions Partner

Production Supporter

University Partner

Production Sponsor

Dunard FundHarold Mitchell Esq, ACLan Scully EIF Fund

inburgh International Festival Society is registered as a company in

otland (No SC024766) and as a Scottish Charity (No SC004694)

egistered Address: The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NE

Automotive Partner

City Dressing Partner

Hosting & Network Services

Hotel Partner

Festival Partner

Fireworks Concert Partner

Production Supporter

MAGAZINE

Big Screen Partner

upported through thecottish Governmentsdinburgh Festivalspo Fund

Production Sponsor

Festival 201

Corporate Friends

BP

The Caledonian, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel

HEINEKEN

Macdonald Holyrood Hotel

Maclay Murray & Spens LLP

Planet Flowers

Prestige Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland

Shell UK Limited

Principal Donors

American Friends of the Edinburgh

International Festival

The Directors Circle

Edinburgh International FestivalBenefactors

Edinburgh International Festival

Endowment Fund

Edinburgh International Festival

Friends and Patrons

Corporate Associates

Alba Water

Cullen Property

Dimensions (Scotland) Ltd

The Glasshouse

Hotel du Vin, Edinburgh

Johnston Press plc

Justerini & Brooks

Omni Centre Edinburgh

The Rutland Hotel

Scottish Beverage Services

Springbank Distillers Ltd

STRATHMORE SPRING WATER

International Partners

and Agencies

Australian High Commission, London

Consulate General of the Federal

Republic of Germany, Edinburgh

Consulate General of

Ireland to Scotland

Consulate of the Kingdom of The

Netherlands, Edinburgh

Consulate General of the Peoples

Republic of China in Edinburgh

Consulate General of Switzerland,

Edinburgh

Culture Ireland

Embassy of the Kingdom of The

Netherlands, London

Embassy of Switzerland, London

Embassy of the United States of

America, London

Institut franais

The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh

Korea Arts Management Service

Korea Creative Content Agency

Korean Cultural Centre UK

Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and

Tourism

The Ministry of Culture, Peoples

Republic of China

Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain SCFB

The Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Taipei Representative Office in the UK

Taipei Representative Office in the UK,

Edinburgh Office

United States Consulate General,

Edinburgh

Trusts and Foundations

The Binks Trust

Cruden Foundation Limited

The Peter Diamand Trust

The Evelyn Drysdale Charitable Trust

The Ellem Foundation

Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust

The Inches Carr Trust

Eda, Lady Jardine Charitable Trust

The Morton Charitable Trust

The Negaunee Foundation

The Pirie Rankin Charitable Trust

Risk Charitable Fund

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

The Stevenston Charitable Trust

The Sym Charitable Trust

Wellcome Trust

The KT Wong Foundation

Benefactors and Patrons

Thank you to the following individuals

for their support of Festival 2013.

Benefactor

James and Morag Anderson

Geoff and Mary Ball

Ewan and Christine Brown

Roxane Clayton

Joscelyn Fox

Gavin and Kate Gemmell

Frank Hitchman

John and Angela Kessler

Donald and Louise MacDonald

Jean and Roger Miller

Mairi RankinMichael Shipley and Philip Rudge

Keith and Andrea Skeoch

Jim and Isobel Stretton

Dr and Mrs George Sypert

John-Paul and Joanna Temperley

Susie Thomson

Claire and Mark Urquhart

Mr Hedley G Wright

Zachs-Adam Family

Platinum Reserve

Richard Burns

Aileen and Stephen Nesbitt

Platinum Supporter

Roger and Angela Allen

J Attias

William and Elizabeth Berry

Neil and Karin Bowman

Katie Bradford

Carola Bronte-Stewart

Chris Carter and Stuart Donachie

The Rt Hon Lord Clarke

Lord and Lady Coulsfield

Tom and Alison Cunningham

Sue and Andy Doig

Jo and Alison Elliot

Claire Enders

Mr and Mrs Ted W Frison

Raymond and Anita Green

George and Ann Gwilt

David and J

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Lady Potter

Fiona Reith

Donald and

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Opra de Lyon

Sung in German with English supertitles

Leonore Erika SunnegrdhFlorestan Nikolai SchukoffRocco Michael EderDon Pizarro Pavlo Hunka

Don Fernando Andrew SchroederMarzelline Karen VourchJacquino Christian Baumgrtel

Kazushi Ono ConductorGary Hill Director, video and lighting designerAlan Woodbridge Chorus master

FidelioUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENBRETTO BYJOSEPH SONNLEITHNERFTER JEAN-NICOLAS BOUILLY

Opra de LyonsPorgy and Bess,Festival 2010:

Theatrically,its riveting andquite impeccablyplayed.

THE GUARDIAN

Opera

Saturday 10 August &

Monday 12 August 7.15pm

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Tickets

68 60 52 42 30 20 16

2 hours 45 minutes approximately

eif.co.uk/fidelio

Supported by

John and Angela Kessler

Opra de

Porgy anFestival 2

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THE SCOT

Imprisoned and tortured for threatening to exposethe barbarity of a brutal regime, political prisonerFlorestan has little hope left. Only a daring feat ofheroism by his loyal wife Leonore can offer him achance of escape and of justice.

Beethovens only opera is a cry of defiance againstoppression and an ode to liberty and truth, withmusic of enormous power and great tenderness.

In his first opera production, pioneeringcontemporary media artist Gary Hill reimaginesBeethovens work in the present and future, thestory unfolding on board the doomed spacecraftAniara as it hurtles towards infinity.

Hills arresting staging highlights the universalrelevance of Beethovens themes with compellingvideo projections and striking costumes. Theesteemed international cast is led by celebratedJapanese conductor Kazushi Ono.


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Dido andAeneas

BluebeardsCastle

Opera

Oper Frankfurt

onstantinos Carydis Conductorarrie Kosky Directoratrin Lea Tag Stage and costume designeroachim Klein Lighting designeratthias Khler Chorus master (Dido and Aeneas)solt Horpcsy Dramaturge

Dido and Ae

HENRY PURCELLLIBRETTO BYNAHUM

AFTERVIRGILSung in English with Engli

Dido Paula MurrihyBelinda Kateryna KasperSecond woman Elizabeth Sorceress Martin WlfelFirst Witch Roland SchneidSecond Witch Dmitry EgorSpirit Peter MarshAeneas Sebastian GeyerSailor Peter Marsh

Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 August7.15pm

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Tickets68 60 52 42 30 20 16

2 hours 45 minutes approximately

eif.co.uk/dido-bluebeard

Sunday 25 August

7.15pm

Interpreter: Paul Whittaker OBEof Music and the Deaf

Desire, obsession and doomed love: Oper Frankf urts striking double bill bringstogether two one-act operas separated by more than 200 years of musicalhistory, yet united in their searing explorations of human relationships.

Purcells Dido and Aeneas is a poignant masterpiece of early English opera thatfeatures some of the composers most heartfelt music. After reluctantly falling in

love with the warrior Aeneas as he travels home from the Trojan Wars, Dido isbrutally rejected when he is later deceived into leaving her.

Bartks hugely powerful opera Bluebeards Castle depicts the tragic Judithobsessively opening a series of mysterious doors in her recently betrotheds castleto discover the fate of his former wives. In a sumptuous score, Bartk paintsvivid musical pictures of the castles sinister rooms, while also conveying thepsychological subtleties of his two protagonists.

The daring, visually arresting productions by Australian director Barrie Koskycombine intimacy and grandeur, and conductor Constantinos Carydis leads anexceptional cast of acclaimed soloists.

Bluebeards

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Bluebeard Robert HaywarJudith Tanja Ariane Baum

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Consulate General ofthe Federal Republic ofGermany, Edinburgh

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enchantinglypoetic imageryand beautifulsoundSWR 2 / JOURNAL AM MITTAG


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cottish Opera and The Opera Group

ung in English

lu Angel Blue

eanor Jacqui DankworthBloom Donald Maxwell

arence Robert Winslade Andersonmmy Jonathan Stoughtonainter Paul Curievicihlete Simon Wildingofessor/Banker/Commissioner Paul Reeves

erry Cornelius Conductorohn Fulljames Directoragda Willi Designernn Ross Video designeruy Hoare Lighting designer

eductress, victim, manipulator: Lulu lives off men as both tortured and torturer, purveyorecstasy and angel of death.

aught up in greedy games and seedy schemes, and surrounded by lovers driven tospair, Lulu makes an inexorable rise to the highest levels of power, money and fame.

ut her descent is just as swift. Twenty years on, as the scarred Lulu looks back on here, she faces a squalid history of sex, murder and violence.

ward-winning Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has radically reworked Alban Bergsfinished 1934 opera for the 21st century, setting it against the backdrop of the US

vil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s and transporting audiences to the smokyzz clubs of the Deep South. Neuwirth re-interprets Bergs score for a jazz-inspiredas Vegas-style ensemble while also integrating her own distinctive voice to make aund world that casts new light on the whole opera.

is new production is conducted by leading contemporary music specialist Gerryornelius and staged by the acclaimed British director John Fulljames, with Thechestra of Scottish Opera.

co-production with The Opera Group, Scottish Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele andoung Vic in association with the London Sinfonietta.

o-commissioned by The Opera Group and Komische Oper Berlin.

AmericanLulu

VERALL CONCEPT AND INTERPRETATION OFLBAN BERGSOPERALULUBYOLGA NEUWIRTH

Friday 30 August &

Saturday 31 August 7.15pm

Kings Theatre, Edinburgh

Tickets

35 28 25 20 15

1 hour 40 minutes approximately

eif.co.uk/americanlulu

Opera

Neuwirth is ashrewd composerwith a boldimagination.FINANCIAL TIMES


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Scottish Ballet presents Dance Odysseys

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Scottish Dance Theatre

Gelabert Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa

Scottish Ballet, Scotlands National Dance Company, takes you on ajourney into the curious, the conceptual and the most creative world ofdance, focusing on work from classic to contemporary and engagingwith a spectrum of makers, both established and new, at the forefrontof dance innovation.

Featuring world premieres, historical genre-changers, celluloid classicsand some of the worlds newest and most exciting dance voices, thisunique festival-within-a-festival invites you to explore dance in a brandnew way.

Choose from just one performance, spend a morning, an afternoon orevening or immerse yourself in dance and stay for the whole day.

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Scottish Ballet presents Dan

douard Lock:World Premiere (2013)Performed by Scottish Ballet

Scottish Ballet presents a World Premiere from La La La Human StepsFounder, Artistic Director and Choreographer douard Lock.

Lock is renowned for his extreme, incandescent style of dance and hisprecise technique. His boldly challenging style has always attractedinternational attention. His creations are an arresting f usion of speed,complex combinations of gestures and footwork, and bodies propelledthrough the air at astonishing angles. Past collaborations includeprojects with David Bowie, Frank Zappa and Bette Midler, and he hascreated work for the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montral, theDutch National Ballet and Paris Opra Ballet.

Friday 16 August 8.00pm

Main Theatre Tickets 18 15 12 10

eif.co.uk/edouardlock

Pierrot Lunaire (1962)Performed by Scottish BalletChoreography Glen TetleyMusic Arnold Schoenberg

This seminal work from American dancer and choreographer GlenTetley was also the starting point of his now iconic choreographic style combining modern dance with the elongated line and aerial bravuraof ballet. It is a style he perfected through his professional career

performing leading roles in the Martha Graham Dance Company aswell as with American Ballet Theatre.

Inspired by the three principal characters from the commedia dellarte,it is a poetic, humorous and dramatic interpretation of composerArnold Schoenbergs revolutionary work of the same name.



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The Rite of Spring (2Performed by Scottish BalletChoreography Christopher HampsonMusic Igor Stravinsky

Intense and visceral, Christopher Hampsons vSpring, created originally for Atlanta Ballet, is pr

the original production revolutionised the worldSet to Stravinskys exhilaratingly influential scordancers two men and a woman to reinventstory of remorseless human sacrifice with brutaenergy in this challenging work that examines tobedience and domination.

Sunday 18 August 8.00pm


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Im (Goldenen) Schn(reconstruction 1996)

Performed by Gelabert Azzopardi CompanyChoreography Gerhard BohnerSculptor Vera RhmMusic Johann Sebastian Bach

Moving through constellations of wood and Plein sculptor Vera Rhms space Cesc Gelabert r

Bohners original concept highlighting elementsand music while allowing them to remain auton

Bachs Well-Tempered Clavier, interpreted by Kemusic for this reconstruction of Bohners solo Imwhich Gelabert brings his inimitable style and ind



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Scottish Ballet presents Dance Odysseys

New Voices

ve inspiring world premieres performed bycottish Ballet and Scottish Dance Theatrehoreographers Helen Pickett, James Cousins,artin Lawrance, Kristen McNally, Henri Oguike

alifornias Helen Pickett a former dancer for William Forsythe and now

esident Choreographer at Atlanta Ballet is renowned for energetic yetetic creations. James Cousinss contemplative and gripping style hason him the inaugural New Adventures Choreographer Award. Martinwrance shares the intense musicality of his mentor Richard Alstond is his talented heir apparent. Royal Ballet Soloist Kristen McNally isexciting, cutting-edge choreographer for whom the term indie ballet

uld have been coined. Henri Oguike, one of the brightest voices oftish contemporary dance, takes on a new commission with Scottish

ance Theatre, promising fierce precision in this world premiere.

day 16 August 12 noon

nday 18 & Monday 19 August 5.00pm

n Stage Studio Tickets 12

.co.uk/newvoices

Contemporary Classics

erformed by Scottish Ballethoreographers Christopher Bruce, Ji Kylin, Twyla Tharp

citing contemporary classics from established choreographers eachwhom challenged their own genre of dance. Featuring Christopheruces Shift, an energetic study of 1940s factory workers during thear; Ji Kylins 1420 a sensual duet of feral beauty and humantanglement taken from the choreographers2752for NDT2s 50thniversary, with music by Dirk Haubrich; and Twyla TharpsThegue, set to the percussive beat of the dancers own feet as theyiral, twist and stomp in stack-heeled boots on an amplified stage.

day 16 August 5.00pm

turday 17 & Monday 19 August 12 noon

n Stage Studio Tickets 12

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Duets

Performed by Scottish BalletChoreographers Peter Darrell, James Cousins, Helen Pickett

Relationships come into focus in extracts from the canon of ScottishBallets Founding Artistic Director Peter Darrell, and new collaboratorsJames Cousins and Helen Pickett.

Darrells poignant Five Rckert Songs embodies the feelings inFriedrich Rckerts poetry on love, loss and loneliness with lingeringsteps and sweeping choreography. His Chriis based closely on thefamous novel by Colette, and traces the story of a passionate andultimately tragic affair between young lovers.


Sunday 18 August 12 noon

On Stage Studio Tickets 12

eif.co.uk/duets

SisGO

Performed by Scottish Dance TheatreChoreographer Fleur Darkin

SisGOs territory is minds, organs, nervous systems. Join an intimatejourney into the night. Fleur Darkin merges this company of powerfuldancers with the audience to create a riot of choreography. Experiencenew proximities to the performers in this futuristic love letter to RudolfLaban. Soundscore includes Plastikman, Four Tet and Mortitz vonOswald. Why dont you put your hands up for Berlin DetroitEdinburgh? A promenade performance in the special On StageStudio theatre.

Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 August 9.45pm

On Stage Studio Tickets 12

eif.co.uk/sisgo

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Friday 16 August Saturday 17 August Sunday 18 August Monda

12 noon (75 mins approx.)

New Voices (see p14)On Stage Studio

2.30pm 3.50pm

Forgotten Memories:documentary on Ji Kylinslife, way of thinking and mostsignificant creations. Shot in 2011in The Hague, Prague, MonteCarlo and Paris with SabineKupferberg dancing as Kylinrehearses some of his works. Film

4.00pm 4.30pmNew Voices Discussion: a panelof emerging choreographersdiscusses the New Voicesprogramme, hosted by DanceBase Artistic Director MoragDeyes. Foyer

5.00pm (75 mins approx.)

Contemporary Classics(see p14) On Stage Studio

7.00pm 7.30pm

Dance Odysseys Discussion:

an overview of this uniqueweekend of dance, chaired byScottish Ballets Artistic DirectorChristopher Hampson. Foyer

8.00pm 8.45pm

douard Lock: World Premiere(see p13) with post-showdiscussion with choreographer.Main Theatre

Dance Odysseys Diary


Duets (see p14)On Stage Studio

2.30pm 3.30pm

The Green Table /Portrait ofMary Wigman, See Saturday 17August. Film

4.00pm 4.30pm

Cesc Gelabert Conversation:choreographer and solo performeron the making ofIm (Goldenen)Schnitt I. Foyer


New Voices (see p14)On Stage Studio

7.00pm 7.30pm

The Rite of Spring Talk:with choreographer ChristopherHampson. Foyer

8.00pm 8.45pm

The Rite of Spring (see p13)Main Theatre

9.45pm 10.45pm

SisGO (see p14) On Stage Studio

12 noon (7

Contemp(see p14).

2.30pm

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Contemporary Classics(see p14) On Stage Studio

2.30pm 3.30pm

The Green Table:choreographedin 1932, The Green Table is knownas Kurt Joosss masterpiece.In this film of a performance inthe 1960s by Folkwang Ballet,the dancers include a youngPina Bausch. Portrait of MaryWigman: at the end of the roaringtwenties Mary Wigman provokeda real revolution in the world ofdance. Film

4.00pm 4.30pm

Contemporary ClassicsConversation: ChristopherHampson and Jane Pritchard,Curator of Dance at the V&A,in conversation. Foyer


Duets (see p14) On Stage Studio

7.00pm 7.30pm

Pierrot Lunaire Talk: ChristopherHampson and Jane Pritcharddiscuss this seminal work. Foyer

8.00pm 8.45pm

Pierrot Lunaire (see p13)Main Theatre

9.45pm 10.45pm

SisGO (see p14) On Stage Studio

TicketsOn Stage Studio 12

Main Theatre 10 18

Films 4

Talks Ticketed but free

Day Ticket (2 On Stage Studio performances,

Special OfferBuy a Main Theatre ticket and get a Day ticket f

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William Forsythe Choreography (in collaboration withDana Caspersen, Stephen Galloway, Jacopo Godani,Thomas McManus and Jone San Martin)Stephen Galloway Costume designer

William Forsythe Lighting designer

Forsythes seminal work, set to Gavin Bryarss emotional and elegiacJesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet, is a moving final love letter to hiswife before she died.

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The eclecticism is admirable. Allhree works look remarkably now.he dancers tackle their diversehallenges with skill.

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Dance

brilliant programme of modern masterworks from one of thettest names in dance. Benjamin Millepied brings his newmpany to the UK for the first time, following his huge success

choreographer and star of Darren Aronofskys award-winningm Black Swan.

A. Dance Project is an artist collective founded by Millepied,mposer Nico Muhly, art consultant Matthieu Humery, producer

harles Fabius and film producer Dimitri Chamblas. At the peakhis career, after starring with New York City Ballet, Millepied

mbarks on a new adventure.

ENJAMIN MILLEPIEDOUNDING DIRECTOR

L.A.DanceProject

Monday 26 August

6.15pm 7.15pm

Winterbranch

Merce Cunningham ChoreographerLa Monte Young Music (2 Sounds)Robert Rauschenberg Dcor and costume designerBeverly Emmons Lighting designer (based on concepts

by Robert Rauschenberg)Jennifer Goggans Staging (assisted by Robert Swinston)

This dramatic work features costumes by Robert Rauschenberg anda score,2 Sounds, by La Monte Young. Merce Cunningham talkedabout two facts of dancing the act of falling, and unless one stayson the ground, the subsequent act of rising. The dancers engage ina series of falls, in both slow and fast motion, eventually clusteringtogether to fall and rise united as a cohesive group.

Moving Parts

Benjamin Millepied ChoreographyNico Muhly Music compositionChristopher Wool Visual installationKate and Laura Mulleavy (of Rodarte) Cost

Roderick Murray Lighting designer

A new work by the groups founding choreogra

Benjamin Millepied:The biggest dancerto cross over into popculture since MikhailBaryshnikov.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Don Quichottedu TrocadroDon Quixote of the Trocadero

Dance

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Jos Montalvo

Jos Montalvo Choreographer,set and video designerPatrice Thibaud Artistic participationPascal Minet and Sylvain DecayArtistic partners to video

Jos Montalvo combines farce, burlesque andcommedia dellarte for the 21st century with urbanand modern dance, film and slapstick comedy inhis brilliant new show.

Don Quixote, in his fifties, decides to achievegreat things and finds himself in the dance halls,or Trocaderos, of Europe traditional meeting andsocialising spaces. Featuring acclaimed comicactor Patrice Thibaud and a spellbinding interplayof live dance and film projections, Montalvoslatest work makes for an unexpected, surreal andintriguing take on Cervantess iconic novel.

As with his last Festival appearance withOn Dansein 2007, in which dancers appeared to carry anelephant on a flying carpet and an army of tinyhorses flew across the audience, in Montalvoscreative universe, expect the unexpected.

Thursday

31 August

Festival Th

Tickets

30 27

1 hour 10

eif.co.uk/m


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YMAP (Your Media Arts Project)

Hyo Jin Kim Choreographer and directorHyung Su Kim Art directorSooyoung Moon Music directorTaesup Lee Set designer

Hyo Jin Kim DancerHeung Nam Kim Dancer

A two-dimensional, cinematic black-and-white woman of yesteryearstruggles to break free of the social, economic and political straitjacketof the time, while a three-dimensional woman of here and nowstruggles to what? Break free? Of what? When the unfulfilledsoul of a fictional woman surges down through the years to infuse aliving and breathing woman with longing what happens, and, truly, howfree is free?

A stunning and stirring fusion of live performance, fantastical filmedimagery and innovative digital technology, Madame Freedom danceswith the classic Korean film of the 1950s of the same name, as wellas with themes of identity, myth, and a sense of being trapped bythe past. It tells the story of an ordinary woman and her dreams ofdifferent lives, of different selves and the choices that she can orcannot make.

MadameFreedomEuropean Premiere

esday 20 & Wednesday

August 8.00pm

ngs Theatre, Edinburgh

ckets

0 24 16 12

hour approximately

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Dance

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Analogue body danceswith digital video.

THE HANKYOREH

Supported by

MetamorphosisADAPTED FROMTHE METAMORPHOSISBYFRANZ KAFKA

Saturday 10 and




Tickets

30 24 16 12


eif.co.uk/metamorphosis

Contemporary Legend Theatres

King Lear, Festival 2011:

Taiwanese answer to Orson Welles...there is no denying the actorsextraordinary virtuosic powerHe is quite brilliant.

THE GUARDIAN

World Premiere

Supported by

Taipei RepresentativeOffice in the UK

Contemporary Legend Theatre

Performed in Mandarin with English supertitles

Cast Wu Hsing-kuo

Travelling salesman and sole breadwinner for his family, Gregor

Samsa awakes one day to discover that he has been transformedinto a giant insect. Unable to communicate and shocking toanyone who sees him, he is forced into a solitary existenceconfined to his room. As he becomes insufferable to himself anda burden to his family, when death finally comes it is a relief, freeinghim from the anxieties of everyday life.

Following his acclaimed one-man production of ShakespearesKing Learduring Festival 2011, Contemporary Legend TheatresWu Hsing-kuo returns with a mesmerising deconstruction ofFranz Kafkas seminal novella. Through poetry, music and liveinterplay with video projections, Wu showcases the spectaculartechniques, colour and flair of traditional Peking Opera to transportKafkas early 20th-century tale of disaffection, anxiety, solitude andloneliness from industrial Europe to a fantasy world laced with thebeauty of ancient Eastern cultures.


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Theatre

The Wooster Group

Performed in English

Hamlet Scott ShepherdClaudius/Marcellus/Ghost/GravediggerAri FliakosGertrude/Ophelia Kate ValkPolonius/Priest Greg MehrtenLaertes/Rosencrantz/Guildenstern/Player King Casey SpoonerHoratio/Rosencrantz/Guildenstern/Player Queen Daniel PettrowNurse Koosil-jaBernardo/VoltemandAlessandro Magania

Elizabeth LeCompte DirectorRuud van den Akker SetJennifer Tipton LightingBobby McElver, Matt Schloss and Omar Zubair Sound

Andrew SchneiderandAron Deyo Video

HamletWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

turday 10 Tuesday

August 7.30pm

oyal Lyceum Theatre

ckets

0 24 20 16 10

hours 45 minutes approximately

.co.uk/hamlet

Supported by

Edinburgh InternationalFestival Friendsand Patrons

saucy assault uponShakespeare andtheatre history.

THE GUARDIAN

Tuesday 13 August

6.00pm 7.15pm

In 1964 Richard Burton performed on Broadway in John Gielgudsacclaimed production ofHamlet. Recorded in live performance from17 camera angles, the resulting film was shown for only two days in2,000 cinemas across the United States. The idea of bringing a livetheatre experience to thousands of viewers in different cities wastrumpeted as a new form called Theatrofilm, made possible throughthe miracle of Electronovision.

New Yorks groundbreaking theatre company The Wooster Groupre-imagines Shakespeares classic tragedy for the 21st century. Byremixing footage of the 1964 production, it attempts to reverse theprocess, reconstructing a hypothetical theatre piece for a live audience.In doing so it channels the ghost of that legendary performance, byintentionally replacing its own spirit with the spirit of another.

New Media Scotland

Tickets 4

eif.co.uk/woosterarchive

Selections fromWooster Group

Rumstick Road

A video reconstruction of thelandmark 1977 productionRumstick Roadwhichcombined audio tapedconversations, family letters,dance, 35mm slides and thewriting of Mary Baker Eddyto construct a responseto the suicide of SpaldingGrays mother.

A brilliant and engrossingwork; one whose abstractionand complexity are at the

service of genuine emotion.The New York Times

Saturday 10 August 12 noon

1 hour 15 minutes

House/Lights

A video of a completeperformance of the 1999OBIE-winning collision ofGertrude Steins DoctorFaustus Lights the Lights withJoseph Mawras B-movieclassic, Olgas Houseof Shame.

Bedazzling theres nothingelse like it around; it turnsdisorientation into a primarysensual pleasure, even as itraises terrifying thoughts aboutthe deeply mixed blessings oftechnological progress.The New York Times

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Grid Iron are surely now onef the most sophisticatedite-specific theatre

makers in Europe.HE TIMES

Grid Iron


Catrin Evans and Lewis HetheringtonCo-writers and directorsPaul Claydon Lighting designerPhilip Pinsky Composer and sound designerBecs Andrews and Dave Lynch Set and video designersKat Smith Costume designer

Old Earth has nothing left for us, and so it is time for a newbeginning. Cross galaxies, traverse light years and find yourselfin a world where you can be the centre of your own universe.Welcome to New Earth. Never look back.

Vela, the revered and celebrated architect of this new society,has recently been avoiding her public duties in favour of visitingthe Old Earth Museum and the company of its Security Guard.As the final migrants arrive, she is becoming increasinglyobsessed by her memories, and questions are growing abouther sanity.

Award-winning theatre company Grid Iron fuses liveinteractive performance with innovative digital and newmedia technologies. Leaving Planet Earth is a site-responsivepromenade production on an epic scale. Tracing the story

of humanitys first migration into space, it asks fundamentalquestions about our connection to this planet. Should we leavethis world, and if so, who will endure and at what cost?

Please note: the journey to New Earth begins at 8.00pm at theEdinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC). Buses willthen transport travellers to New Earth (and back).

Data on the inhabitants of New Earth is an important part ofthe experience. Grid Iron will contact ticket holders in advanceto discuss traveller information and preferences and ask abouttheir memories of Old Earth.

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Theatre

HistoiredamourA love story

Please note this performancecontains adult themes and is notsuitable for children.

A co-production between ScneNationale de Ste, FITAM andConsejo Nacional de la Culturas ylas Artes-Fondart.

ursday 15 aturday 17 August 8.00pmaturday 17 August 2.00pm

ngs Theatre, Edinburgh

ckets0 24 16 12

hour 35 minutes approximately

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Teatrocinema

Performed in Spanish with English supertitles

Juan Carlos Zagal Director and musicLaura Pizarro Art directorLuis Alcaide Designer and lighting designerMontserrat Antequerra Multimedia director

Cast Bernardita Monteroand Julin Marras

An English teacher sees a woman on the underground and decidesshe will become his wife and the mother of his children. He takes overher life and when she tries to escape, all doors close before her. Oncere-captured he abuses her again, over and over.

Histoire damourexplores a world where guilt and responsibilitydisappear under the shadows of impunity and silence. In a blackand white universe, this is a love story overwhelmed by asphyxia,perversion, alienation and obsession told intimately from within atortured mind.

Through a seamless blend of live action and cinematic projection,Chiles Teatrocinema returns to the Festival with a chilling and brutaltale that marks the third in a trilogy utilising techniques of theatre, films,comics, animation, photography and music.

RIGINAL NOVEL BYRGIS JAUFFRETRANSLATED BYCARLOS GONZLEZDAPTED BYJUAN CARLOS ZAGAL,ONTSERRAT ANTEQUERRA

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European Premiere

Meredith Monk and Voca

Meredith Monk Music and directionElaine Buckholtz LightingJody Elff Sound

Yoshio Yabara Scenography and costume deMeredith Monk and Michael Grenadier Vide

Sidney Chen, Ellen Fisher, Katie GeissingeBruce Rameker andAllison Sniffin VoicesBohdan Hilash Woodwind, John Hollenbec

Allison Sniffin Keyboard, Violin and French H

After receiving a 2010 Herald Angel Award for Scomposer, singer, filmmaker and theatre artist Mto the Festival with her latest music-theatre wo

A poetic meditation on the environment, On Bethe Buddhist notion of different realm categorieearth by way of human beings. Drawing furtherwho have sounded the alarm on the state of ouMonk and her acclaimed Vocal Ensemble creathuman, natural and spiritual elements are woveilluminating the interconnection and interdepen

a rapturous new work some of the finest muwritten. Los Angeles Times

Friday 16 & Saturday

17 August 8.00pm


Royal Lyceum Theatre

Tickets

30 24 20 16 10


eif.co.uk/meredithmonk

Supported by

American Friendsof the EdinburghInternational Festival

BYMEREDITH MONK

European Premiere

On Behalfof Nature


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YWILLIAM SHAKESPEARERANSLATED BYYING RUOCHENG

Beijing PeoplesArt Theatre

Performed in Mandarin with English supertitles

Lin Zhaohua Director and lighting designerYi Liming Director, lighting and set designer

Cast includes Pu Cunxin, Jing Hao, Li Zhen, Fu Jia

European Premiere

Supported

The MinPeoples

Tuesday 2

21 August

The Edinb

Tickets

30 27

2 hours 50

eif.co.uk/c

Brilliant General Caius Martius returns to Rome a hero. Havingconquered the city of Corioles he is named Coriolanus andpersuaded to run for Consul. However, when he is rejected bythe common people Coriolanus vows to destroy Rome and joinsforces with his enemy Aufidius to mount an attack.

With live music by two of Chinas leading heavy metal bands Miserable Faith and Suffocated innovative Chinese directorLin Zhaohua creates an epic night of theatre that re-interpretsShakespeares tragedy for the 21st century. Pu Cunxin, one ofChinas most famous actors, brings the rebel General vividly to life.

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Beckett at the Festival

Beckett atthe Festival

V, RADIO AND FICTION WORKSDAPTED FOR THE STAGE

BYSAMUEL BECKETT

Gate Theatre DublinPerformed in English

Featuring the voice ofPenelope WiltonAtom Egoyan DirectorEileen Diss Set designerJames McConnell Lighting designer

The whisper in your head . Me whispering at you in your head .Things you cant catch . On and off . Till you join us . Eh, Joe?

An old man in his dressing gown moves around his bedroom, checkingbehind the door, under the bed, out of the window. Satisfied there are nointruders, he sits on the bed. Then he hears a womans ghostly voice

Becketts first play written specifically for television, Eh Joe exploreshow one man is forced to face up to his past and the lovers he hasabused and driven to destruction. Tormented by inner demons, he ismade to relive everything he has tried to forget.

In this acclaimed production from the Gate Theatre, as thedisembodied voice speaks out, a camera projects the face of Joe ontoa large screen intensifying every flicker of fear, anger and shame. Asthe emotional tension heightens, we are all forced to admit that wecant escape our past.

Friday 23 August &Tuesday 27 August 9.00pmThursday 29 August 7.00pmSaturday 31 August 5.00pm


Tickets 20 15 10 8

30 minutes approximately

eif.co.uk/ehjoe

Supported by

Harold MitchellEsq, AC

Beckett a

FROM MOLLOY, MALONE DIESANDTHE UNNAMABLEBYSAMUEL BECK

Gate Theatre Dublin


Cast Barry McGovern

Colm Briain DirectorRobert Ballagh Set and costume designerJames McConnell Lighting designer

Based on Becketts trilogy of novels Molloy, MUnnamable this one-man show performed byinterpreter Barry McGovern brings together threunify the central characters of each novel, reveadeepening layers of reflection and emotion. Firswho tells of how he came to occupy his motheis Malone, alone and dying, telling himself storieinevitable. And finally the Unnamable, desperatwords that will permit him to utter his real self a

An outright triumph arrestingly funny Time M

Stunning exhilarating The New York Times

Sunday 25, Monday 26,Wednesday 28 & Saturday31 August 9.00pm


Tickets 20 15 10 8


eif.co.uk/igoon

Supported

Harold MEsq, AC

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Eh Joe Ill Go On


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Beckett at the Festival

BYSAMUEL BECKETT

Pan Pan Theatre


Gavin Quinn DirectorAndrew ClancySculptorAedin Cosgrove Lighting designerJimmy Eadie Sound designer

silence in the house, not a sound, only the fire, no flames now,embers. Embers.

Henry sits on a beach, remembering and imagining stories andincidents from his life, tormented by his fathers suicide, his owndisfunctional family history and his failure as a writer. Hallucinations andreality merge as he attempts to stoke the fire of his creativity.

First broadcast on radio in 1959, Embers takes us on a journey intothe haphazard world of Henrys imagination, a world of ever-shiftingmental leaps, ruminations and ambiguities where creative storytellingand unfinished memories both real and unreal coalesce into one. WasHenrys father washed out to sea while taking his evening swim, or didhe commit suicide?

We never found your body, you know

Supported by

Lan Scully EIF Fund

Saturday 24 &




Tickets 20 15 10


eif.co.uk/embers

YSAMUEL BECKETT

Gate Theatre Dublin

erformed in English

chael Colgan Directoreen Diss Set designermes McConnell Lighting designer

ter the death of his father, a man finds himself homeless, sharingcanal-side bench in Dublin with a prostitute. As she pursues himstfully he unwillingly falls in love. In the ensuing relationship, hethlessly refuses to engage emotionally with her, except when,spite his reluctance, she arouses his desires.

ritten in 1946, Becketts novella First Love is full of his rich, lyricalose. This darkly comic story explores how love fails us and how we love.

ne of the most wholly satisfying nightse spent at the theatre this yearThe New York Times

egantly profane language and mordant humor New York Post

ednesday 28 &

turday 31 August 7.00pm

ursday 29 & Friday 30 August

00pm

oyal Lyceum Theatre

ckets 20 15 10 8

hour approximately

.co.uk/firstlove

Supported by

Harold MitchellEsq, AC

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First Love Embers

Supported by

Lan Scully EIF Fund

Beckett a

All That FallBYSAMUEL BECKETT

Pan Pan TheatrePerformed in English

Gavin Quinn DirectorAedin Cosgrove DesignerJimmy Eadie Sound designer

Cast of voicesAndrew Bennett, Phelim Drew, John Kavanagh,Nell Klemeni,ine N Mhuiri, Robbie OConnor, JoeyOSullivan, David Pearse, Daniel Reardon, Judith Roddy

A life of unending misery in a world devoid of God, now thats funny.

Maddy Rooney is in her seventies unsightly, ungainly and unwell laboriously to-ing and fro-ing between her home and Boghill Station.This is a landscape whose details are drawn from the suburbs ofFoxrock and Leopardstown from Becketts youth, but which may nowexist solely in Maddys mind.

Performed in Pan Pans atmospheric, theatrically tuned listeningchamber, this multi-layered composition of voices is at once a blackcomedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle and a quasi-musical score.

Sunday 25 & Monday 26 August11.00am, 2.30pm, 5.00pm &7.30pm

The Hub

Tickets 15


eif.co.uk/allthatfall

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CatastropheDirected byDavid Mamet and starringHarold Pinter, RebeccaPidgeon and John GielgudRough for Theatre II Directedby Katie Mitchell and starringJim Norton, Timothy Spall andHugh B OBrienBreath Directed byDamien Hirst

10.00am 10.40am

Happy Days Directed byPatricia Rozema and starring

Rosaleen Linehan andRichard Johnson

11.00am 12.20pm

RockabyDirected byRichard Eyre and starringPenelope Wilton

Act Without Words IDirectedby Karel Reisz and starringSean Foley with music byMichael NymanThat TimeDirected by CharlesGarrad and starring Niall Buggy

12.40 1.30pm

EndgameDirected by ConorMcPherson and starringMichael Gambon, DavidThewlis, Charles Simon andJean Anderson

1.50pm 3.15pm

Act Without Words IIDirected by Enda Hughes and

starring Pat Kinevane andMarcello Magni

A Piece of MonologueDirected by Robin Lefevre andstarring Stephen BrennanPlayDirected by AnthonyMinghella and starring AlanRickman, Kristin Scott Thomasand Juliet Stephenson

3.40pm 4.30pm

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Valery Gergiev Conductor

Yulia Matochkina Mezzo sopranoDaniil Trifonov Piano

Edinburgh Festival ChorusChristopher Bell Chorus Master

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3Alexander Nevsky

The 2013 Festival opens in thrilling fashion as three great Russianmusicians join the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a pair ofseminal masterpieces by Prokofiev.

Conductor Valery Gergiev is world-renowned for his searing, powerfulinterpretations, and young, multi-award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonovastonished listeners at his Queens Hall recital last year with his brilliant

technique and profound musicality. The two men come together withthe RSNO to perform Prokofievs glittering Piano Concerto No 3, whichholds expressive lyricism and sparkling wit in exquisite balance.

After the interval, the orchestra is joined by the massed voices of theEdinburgh Festival Chorus and mezzo soprano Yulia Matochkina forthe dramatic cantataAlexander Nevsky, whose exhilarating musicvividly celebrates the battles and victories of medieval Russia.

The performance of Daniil Trifonov is supported by The Inches Carr Trust.

AlexanderNevsky

The Opening Concert

ERGEI PROKOFIEV

day 9 August 7.30pm

her Hall

ckets

6 39 32 26 20 12


.co.uk/opening

The Opening Concert

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20th Century Classics

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov Conductor

Synergy Vocals

Varse Intgrales AmriquesBerio Sinfonia

An evening of thrilling 20th-century classics from the BBC ScottishSymphony Orchestra under its chief guest conductor, Ilan Volkov, whois widely renowned for the passion and intensity of his music making.

Sinfonia by Luciano Berio is a virtuoso work full of colour and humourthat poses profound questions about what a symphony can be. Itsfamous third movement brings together the musical universe withquotations from Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Berlioz and otherscollected around the framework of Mahlers Resurrection Symphony(which can be heard in its original form on 12 August).

Beforehand, VarsesAmriques is a gripping musical depiction ofNew York, complete with firetrucks, foghorns and police sirens. It isan unforgettable piece of enormous power written for a gargantuanorchestra. In his smaller Intgrales, which opens the concert, Varsesends sounds whizzing about musical space.

Volkov lavished a degree of sophistication that brought an entirelyfresh perspective to the music.The Herald

This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date.


Usher Hall

Tickets

42 35 26 24 17 12


eif.co.uk/bbcsso1

Supported

Joscely

Supported by

Mitsuko Uchida Pian

Bach Prelude and Fugue No 1 in C BWV870Prelude and Fugue No 14 in F sharp min

Schoenberg Six Little Piano Pieces Op 19Schumann Waldszenen Op 82

Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor Op

Gesnge der Frhe Op 133

A poet of the piano, Mitsuko Uchida is famed felegance and poise with mercurial excitement.

Her Festival recital combines gentle lyricism andTo begin, she contrasts two luminous Preludessecond book of Bachs Well-Tempered Clavierstartling set of expressionist miniatures, the Six

Schumanns tender yet powerful music is the idcaptivating playing. His Waldszenen (Forest ScRomantic view of the natural world, and his Secis a tempestuous, virtuosic piece. Uchida ends spiritual beauty of the touching Gesnge der Fr

among the most respected artists of our time

Tuesday 13 August 8.00pm

Usher Hall

Tickets

34 26 22 19 16 14 12


eif.co.uk/uchida

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Music

TchaikovskySymphony No 6

tsuko Uchida Piano

eethoven Piano Concerto No 4chaikovsky Symphony No 6 Pathtique

e internationally renowned Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestraakes a two-concert visit to the Festival under chief conductor Marissnsons, acclaimed for his blistering performances and for his culturederpretations that shine fresh light on major classical works.

haikovskys Pathtique Symphony is one of the composersst-loved creations, a moving piece on the theme of forbidden love

hose grand, sweeping melodies are full of emotional turbulence andpassioned suffering.

y way of contrast, before the interval Beethovens Fourth Pianooncerto shows the composer at his most luminous and lyrical, and itsmosphere of serene contemplation is the ideal setting for the poised grace of Mitsuko Uchidas exquisite pianism.

ne of the most cultivated orchestral sounds in Europe The Guardian

BavarianRadioSymphonyOrchestraConducted by Mariss Jansons


Usher Hall

Tickets

42 35 26 24 17 12


eif.co.uk/mahler2

nday 11 August 7.30pm

her Hall

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2 35 26 24 17 12


.co.uk/tchaikovsky6

MahlerSymphony No 2

Genia Khmeier SopranoAnna Larsson Mezzo soprano


Mahler Symphony No 2 Resurrection

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performs one of thegrandest and most moving pieces in the entire orchestral repertoire:Mahlers Second Symphony.

Tracing a journey from funereal despair to the blazing light of rebirth,the Symphony combines moments of hair-raising terror with passagesof poignant intimacy. The spiritual exaltation of its thunderousconclusion, complete with chorus, crashing tam tams and tolling bells,is unforgettable.

Jansons is joined by the renowned Austrian soprano Genia Khmeier,acclaimed for her immaculate delivery, and the great Swedish mezzosoprano Anna Larsson, as well as the massed forces of the EdinburghFestival Chorus.

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Les Musiciensdu Louvre Grenoble 01

Marc Minkowski Conductor

Schubert Symphony No 1

Symphony No 5Symphony No 7 Unfinished

Regarded as one of the worlds great period-instrument orchestras,and acclaimed for its pristine playing and the emotional depth of itsperformances, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble brings two concertsof Schubert symphonies some little-known, others rightly celebrated to the Festival under its founder, French conductor Marc Minkowski.

Schubert wrote his lively First Symphony at the remarkable age of 16,and his intimate Fifth Symphony, imbued with elegance and poise,sparkles with the influence of Mozart.

To end the concert, Minkowski directs what is probably Schubertsmost famous orchestral work, the Unfinished Symphony. Althoughthe composer completed only two of its four movements, it is one ofhis most beautiful creations, combining searing emotion with gloriouslylyrical melodies.

one of the most breathtakingly beautiful concerts to be heard in thiscountry for some timeThe Guardian

Wednesday 14 August 7.30pm

Usher Hall

Tickets

42 35 26 24 17 12


eif.co.uk/louvre1

Les Musiciensdu Louvre Grenoble

Marc Minkowski Conductor

Schubert Symphony No 3

Symphony No 8 Great

Using instruments and playing styles that the cohave known, Marc Minkowski and Les Musicieconclude their survey of Schubert symphonies grandest and most ambitious contribution to or

Schuberts Great C major Symphony is considgreatest 19th-century symphony after Beethovbecause of its sheer majesty and grandeur, andfrom the noble horn melody that opens the wourgent, restless momentum of its finale.

Before it, Minkowski conducts the charmingly lya graceful, humorous piece that Schubert wrot

Thursday 15 August 7.30pm

Usher Hall

Tickets

42 35 26 24 17 12


eif.co.uk/louvre2

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ChamberOrchestraof EuropeConducted byYannick Nzet-Sguin

01

ai Frmbgen Oboeatthew Wilkie Bassoonorenza Borrani Violinilliam Conway Cello

rauss Metamorphosenaydn Sinfonia concertante in B flateethoven Symphony No 3 Eroica

awn from the finest players across the continent, the Chamberchestra of Europe is widely considered to be one of the worldseatest orchestras. Its two Festival concerts are directed by theung French-Canadian Yannick Nzet-Sguin, who is famed for thespirational energy of his performances.

his revolutionary Eroica Symphony, Beethoven reacted to hopesr freedom and democracy in Europe with stirring themes and musicimmense emotional depth. Strausss Metamorphosen, which beginse concert, is an intensely personal reflection on the destructionGerman culture in the Second World War that quotes from

eethovens symphonic masterpiece.

between, Haydns joyful Sinfonia concertante for violin, cello, oboe,ssoon and orchestra showcases the talents of the COE soloists inarkling music full of wit and virtuosity.

is concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date.


her Hall

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2 35 26 24 17 12

hours approximately

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Supported by

The Pirie RankinCharitable Trust

Supported by

The EllemFoundation

02

Romain Guyot ClarinetMatthew Wilkie BassoonLorenza Borrani ViolinPascal Siffert Viola

Strauss Duet-ConcertinoMozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K364Beethoven Symphony No 7

The celebrated Chamber Orchestra of Europe delves further intothe richly contrasting musical worlds of Strauss and Beethoven inthe second of its two Festival concerts under fiery young conductorYannick Nzet-Sguin.

Wagner famously called Beethovens Seventh Symphony theapotheosis of the dance, and its infectious rhythms and bubblingmelodies are indeed full of optimism and energy.

Before the interval, soloists step out from the orchestra to perform twodouble concertos of rare lyricism. Strausss Duet-Concertino is writtenfor the striking combination of clarinet, bassoon and strings and itsnostalgic, affectionate music looks back to the charm of Mozart. Thatearlier composers inspirational Sinfonia concertante for violin and violabrims over with effortless melodic invention.



Usher Hall

Tickets

42 35 26 24 17 12


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MarcoBorggreve

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Donald and LouiseMacDonald

Faur Requiem

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Robin Ticciati Conductor

Sir Thomas Allen Baritone

Isaac Waddington Treble

National Youth Choir of Scotland

Christopher Bell Chorus Master

Debussy Prlude laprs-midi dun faune(arr. Sachs under the supervision of Schoenberg)

Schoenberg Verklrte NachtWebern Five Pieces Op 10Faur Requiem

A concert of warmth and lyricism that draws on the refined playingfor which the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is renowned. Principalconductor Robin Ticciati is joined by the remarkable National YouthChoir of Scotland and two exceptional solo vocal talents.

Sir Thomas Allen is one of Britains best-loved singers, celebrated forhis glorious lyric baritone and his intense characterisation, and youngIsaac Waddington recently won the BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister ofthe Year award.

They come together in Faurs serene Requiem, a poignant butpeaceful reflection on mortality.

Ticciati opens the concert with Debussys languorous Prlude laprs-midi dun faune and Schoenbergs opulent Verklrte Nacht(TransfiguredNight), written long before the composer began his explorations ofatonality. Five miniatures by Webern provide a spicy interlude.


Usher Hall

Tickets

42 35 26 24 17 12


eif.co.uk/faurerequiem

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The Sixteen

Harry Christophers Conductor

James MacMillan MiserereO bone Jesu

Carver Credo from Missa Dum sacrum myste

O bone JesuWylkynson Jesus autem transiens / Credo in Tallis Tunes for Archbishop Parkers Psalter

MiserereSpem in alium

The Sixteen is one of Britains most accomplishwide-ranging concert contrasts the glories of Evocal music old and new, from the RenaissancTallis to the powerful contemporary sounds of

Talliss grand Spem in alium, which gives the coending, is a hugely moving piece for 40 individumelodies spin through space between the singof sound. The same composers vivid Tunes foPsalterserved as the basis for Vaughan Williama Theme by Thomas Tallis.

MacMillans intensely expressive Miserere and Oglowing music from Renaissance monk and fello

Nobody sings this repertoire better.The Guar

Wednesday 21 August 7.30pm

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Nikolai Lugansky PianoSvetlana Sozdateleva SopranoMaxim Paster Tenor


Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3Scriabin Symphony No 1

Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky, widely acclaimed for hisperformances of Rachmaninovs piano music, brings the passionate,fiery Third Concerto to the Russian National Orchestras secondFestival concert.

It is considered one of the most technically challenging concertosin the repertoire, combining astonishing virtuosity with passages ofluminous lyricism. Luganskys previous performances and recordings ofthe Concerto have earnt him widespread admiration for his immaculatetechnique and glittering pianistic brilliance.

Mikhail Pletnev brings his powerful Russian-themed concerts to aresounding conclusion with the First Symphony by Russian composerand visionary Alexander Scriabin, a transcendental piece whose lush,colourful music and grand, choral finale form a visionary hymn to thepower of art.

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kolai Lugansky Piano

achmaninov Piano Concerto No 2azunov The Seasons

est known from David Leans 1945 film Brief Encounter,achmaninovs Second Piano Concerto is one of the most belovedorks in the orchestral repertoire, a masterpiece of poignant nostalgiad glittering bravura, brimming over with unforgettable melodies.

aunches the Russian National Orchestras two concerts celebratingussian music at this years Festival, under the conductor whounded the ensemble in 1990, Mikhail Pletnev. Soloist Nikolaigansky returns after last years spectacular recital with violinistonidas Kavakos, his fizzing technique and suave elegance an idealatch for the Concertos dazzling demands.

etnev concludes the concert with Glazunovs opulent ballet scoree Seasons, a lush evocation of the passing of the Russian year,th vivid depictions of frost, spring winds, ripening corn and fallingtumn leaves.

letnev evokes music with the RNO which satisfies the appetite and

aves you breathless. Klnische Rundschau

RussianNationalOrchestraConducted by Mikhail Pletnev


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Ian BostridgeTenorLars Vogt Piano

Ives MemoriesFeldeinsamkeitRemembrance

1, 2, 3Thoreau

Brahms Songs Op 32Schumann Kerner Lieder Op 35

Quite simply one of the worlds most respected and admired tenors,Ian Bostridge is famed for the delicate expression and powerfulcharacterisation of his elegant yet probing performances. He is joined bythe esteemed German pianist Lars Vogt, well known as an internationalconcert soloist but also a highly renowned chamber musician.

In their wide-ranging recital, they explore touching songs of love andnostalgia, by turns witty and introspective. Beginning with five briefsongs by Charles Ives, from the humorous Memories to the evocativeThoreau, they continue with Brahmss characterful Lieder Op 32, ninelyrical songs celebrating the joys of love and lamenting its loss.

Bostridge ends his recital with Schumanns passionate Kerner LiederOp 35, sensitive settings of 12 Romantic love poems.

There was an inward intensity to his singing that held the audiencerapt Chicago Tribune


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Beethoven Prometh

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Ren Jacobs Conductor

Haydn Symphony No 104 London

Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus

Celebrated Belgian early-music conductor Renacademic coolness of some period performanccolours, dramatic energy and a sometimes unc

While remaining faithful to his musics historicalemphasises emotion and meaning, finding fresknown pieces an ideal match for the Scottishrespected reputation in this repertoire.

Together they perform the last of Haydns Londof splendour and grandeur whose final movemethe capitals street hawkers that the composer f

Beethoven based his ballet score The CreatureGreek fire-stealing myth, and its story is conveydrama and verve.


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42 35 26 24 17 12


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Conducted by David Zinman

Brahms Requiem

Rachel Harnisch SopranoFlorian Bsch Baritone

Edinburgh Festival Chorus


Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem

David Zinman concludes his Festival concerts at the helm of theTonhalle Orchestra with one of Brahmss most magnificent creations:the German Requiem.

A profoundly humanistic work that offers a vision of comfort and hoperather than grief and anger, its superbly crafted music and soaringvocal melodies encompass drama, serenity and intense expressivity.

Joining the Edinburgh Festival Chorus for this visionary piece are thecelebrated Swiss soprano Rachel Harnisch, noted for her powerful yetintimate performances, and Austrian baritone Florian Bsch, whoseintense interpretations have earnt him worldwide acclaim.

Brahms Violin Concerto

ank Peter Zimmermann Violin

ahms Violin Concertouckner Symphony No 3

e rich, Romantic music of Brahms is the focus for the Tonhallechestras two Festival concerts under its artistic director David Zinman.

dely considered one of the worlds finest violinists, German Franketer Zimmermann is the soloist in Brahmss beautifully melodic Violinoncerto. He brings his commanding yet spontaneous playing to bear

the warm, lilting tunes and violinistic fireworks of the challenginglo part.

espected for his depth of feeling and the fresh perspectives he bringsfamiliar music, Zinman ends the concert with Bruckners heroic Third

ymphony, a majestic piece of nobility and affirmation in which themposer pays homage to his idol, Richard Wagner.

nman and his orchestra phrase so intelligently really breathing withe music International Record Review

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City Noir

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Peter Oundjian Conductor

Pinchas Zukerman Violin

Verdi Overture, The Force of DestinyBruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minorChristopher Rouse The Infernal MachineTod Machover Festival City (World Premiere, EIF commission)John Adams City Noir

Inspired by film noir, big-band jazz and the movies of David Lynch,City Noiris a spectacular symphonic showpiece by US composer JohnAdams that paints a gripping yet sensual portrait of Californias urbanlandscape and culture.

It forms the culmination of the all-American second half of the RoyalScottish National Orchestras concert under music director PeterOundjian, which also features the world premiere ofFestival City,a Festival commission from composer and music technologist TodMachover who invites us all to contribute to the pieces creation. Seepage 3 for more information on how you can take part.

Before the interval, world-renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman joinsthe RSNO for one of the best-loved pieces in the classical repertoire:Bruchs First Violin Concerto. Brimming with lyrical melody and dazzlingvirtuosity, it is a work that combines a touching open-heartedness withhigh romance a bold contrast with the concerts imposing opener,Verdis powerful Force of DestinyOverture.

City Noir: this score is in fact a wonderously strange and complex

symphony. The New York Times


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42 35 26 24 17 12


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Estonian PhilharmoChamber Choir

Daniel Reuss Conductor

Prt Two Slavonic Psalms

Schnittke Three Sacred HymnsKreek Psalm of David 22

Psalm of David 104Blessed is the Man

Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil

Ambassadors for one of the most exciting choEurope, the singers of the Estonian Philharmonrenowned for the warmth, depth and intense spperformances. Making a rare trip to Britain andthe Festival, they present music from their hominfluenced by the profound passions of Orthod

Rachmaninovs All-Night Vigil, also known simpthe composers vivid reinterpretation of a traditicelebrating the eternal light of Christ. This hugemoving music is considered one of his finest ac

In the first half, the Choir performs a selection othe distinctively clear, ringing Two Slavonic PsaSchnittkes richly scored Three Sacred Hymns;Romantic works by Estonian composer Cyrillus

Pure and impassioned, astounding choral artisThe Wall Street Journal


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Music

Royal ConcertgebouwOrchestra

aniele Gatti Conductor

ahler Symphony No 9

msterdams Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is one of the worldsly great ensembles, famed for the nobility and sophistication oforchestral sound, its velvety strings, golden brass and gleaming

oodwind.

e orchestra performs one of the greatest symphonic achievementsthe repertoire. Gustav Mahler never lived to hear his sombre yetionary Ninth Symphony performed, and it is often considered

s farewell to the world, with music of great tenderness as well aslcanic climaxes.

onductor Daniele Gatti is a renowned Mahlerian and widely respectedr his searching, dramatic performances that balance incisive detailth emotional resonance.

n experience that will stay with me for years to come.The Guardian


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Embassy of the Kingdom ofThe Netherlands, London

Verdi Requiem

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles Conductor

Erin Wall Soprano

Luciana DIntino Mezzo sopranoAleksandrs AntonenkoTenorEric Owens Bass

Edinburgh Festival Chorus


Verdi Requiem

The Festivals Usher Hall concerts come to an epic conclusion withVerdis powerful Requiem, its theatricality and gripping emotions makingit as suited to the opera house or concert hall as to any church.

From music of hushed restraint and transcendent hope through tothe thunderclap-like drums that depict the day of judgement in theterrifying Dies irae, it is a magnificent work full of operatic grandeur anddramatic contrasts.

Conductor Donald Runnicles is famed for his resplendent performancesof large-scale late-Romantic music, and joining him and the BBCScottish Symphony Orchestra are four fine international soloists as wellas the massed voices of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.



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Scottish Chamber Orche

Garry Walker Conductor

Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Rave

Join the city of Edinburgh in a celebration of suinspirational music and breathtaking pyrotechnFireworks Concert brings the Edinburgh Internaresplendent conclusion.

Set against the magnificent backdrop of Edinbevening brings together the stirring playing of thOrchestra with a thrilling concert-long fireworkschoreographed to enhance the musical experie

This years centrepiece is Musorgskys dazzling

Pictures at an Exhibition. Its vivid musical depicpaintings, conveyed in virtuoso playing and barfanfares, are the perfect match for an astonishipyrotechnics.

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Please note that there are special ticket sales aevent. See page 74 for further details.

Sunday 1 September 9.00pm

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Contemporary Music

La Belleet la BteBeauty and the Beast

Saturday 10 &


The Edinburgh Playhouse

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Philip Glass Ensemble

m by Jean Cocteau (1946)usic by Philip Glassonducted by Michael Riesman

arie Mascari Sopranoai-Ting Chinn Mezzo sopranoregory Purnhagen Baritoneeter Stewart Baritone

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Imageleemage/LebrechtMusic&Arts

Minimalist composer Philip Glasss magicalreimagining of Jean Cocteaus 1946 La Belle etla Bte combines the classic black and white filmwith live performance in a sophisticated work thatis at once a touching fairy tale and a meditationon creativity.

Removing the films original dialogue track andscore by Georges Auric, Glass replaces them withhis own scintillating music, played live by the PhilipGlass Ensemble, the dialogue sung by vocalistssynchonised live with the screen.

The result boldly harnesses movie technologyto create a stunning synthesis of opera and film,as Cocteaus bewitching storytelling is matchedby some of Glasss most evocative music in anunforgettable tale of love triumphing over greed.

Contemporary Music / Opera Contem


The Edinburgh Playhouse

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Homage to Allen Ginsber

Two of the pillars of contemporary music comeevening of poetry, music and song in tribute to Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg.

Punk poet and provocateur Patti Smith performGinsbergs poetry, with accompaniment and sofounding father of minimalism Philip Glass.

Renowned as one of the originators of the Beattirelessly championed the work of his friends JaBurroughs. His raw, visceral poems, including HWichita Vortex Sutra, range from forceful fury to

As a backdrop to the evenings event, Smith ancollage of images, paintings and photographs,that reveals the richness of Ginsbergs achieve

The PoetSpeaksPERFORMED BYPATTI SMITH

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Contemporary Music

ield Recordings

usic by Laurie Andersonorld Premiere, EIF co-commission),dd Reynolds (UK premiere),

nna Clyne (UK premiere),ondai Braxton, Florent Ghys,ra Calix, Michael Gordon,

avid Lang, Julia Wolfe,ck Zammuto and Christianarclay

Friday 23 August 8.00pm

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34 26 22 15 12


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Contemporary Music

Bang on aCan All-Stars

Ghosts of the past and present collide through video and soundtechnology in this evening-long project from the internationallyrenowned Brooklyn-based Bang on a Can All-Stars, an electricchamber ensemble that brings together some of the worlds mostadventurous musical thinkers.

The Field Recordings project looks back at a century of recordedsound and images, with specially commissioned new music thatdraws on melodies, pictures, ideas or voices that already exist toshine new light on the world around us.

This special event features the world premiere of a new work by USexperimental performance artist Laurie Anderson, co-commissionedby the Festival, as well as an appearance by composer Mira Calix,who performs with the ensemble as a guest artist.

Straddling contemporary classical, electronica, folk, indie pop andlive art, the evenings wide-ranging music embraces Bang on aCan All-Starss trademark rhythmic intensity alongside subtlety andlyricism, and also features film and video projections.

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Wednesda

Usher Hall

Tickets

34 26

1 hour 45

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EnsemblemusikFabrikA tribute to Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa Big SwiftytMershi Duween

The Black PageBlack Page #1The Black Page #2

RDNZLEchidnas Arf (Of You)Dont You Ever Wash That Thing?

John Cage Credo in UsSeven

Varse Ionisation (Conducted by Carl Rosman)

Ensemmusikhave itakenat themusic

SDDEUT

A concert of blazing energy, infectious rhythmsand big sounds as Cologne-based contemporarymusic group Ensemble musikFabrik celebratesthe sometimes outrageous music of US maverickFrank Zappa.

Led from the drumkit by superstar percussionistDirk Rothbrust, the ensemble explores connectionsbetween Zappas wild creations, from the vibrant

funk ofDont You Ever Wash That Thing? to theatmospheric tMershi Duween, and the classicalmusic that he so admired.

Ensemble musikFabrik also performs theremarkable Ionisation for 13 percussionists byZappas lifelong hero Edgard Varse, a celebrationof the sounds of modern city life. John Cagesclassic Credo in Us, written in response to theJapanese attack on Pearl Harbour, supplementsthe percussion ensemble with turntable andradio receiver.


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To Dream Again WORLD PREMIERE

eter Gregson

ew Media Scotland

ark Daniels Producer

ellist Peter Gregsons new workTo Dream Again unfolds after a seriesinteractions between the audience and bespoke data systems.eated especially for this world premiere, these audience interactionsean that each performance develops in an entirely different way ine laboratory venue and subsequently online, where it decays untilally it can no longer be heard. Quite the matter of life and data.

eter Gregson is equally at home collaborating with some of the mostciting musicians working today (including Gabriel Prokofiev, Danelarnason and Max Richter) as he is with world-leading technologists,nging from the Media Lab at MIT, Microsoft Labs and his ownoogle-funded incubator, The Electric Creative Colab. CommissionedNew Media Scotland, To Dream Again was developed during a six-

onth residency.

ushing the classical performance envelope Classical Music

upported by the Alt-w Fund with investmentom the Centre for Design Informatics

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ursday 22 Saturday 24

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Cybraphon

FOUND

Ziggy Campbell, Tommy Perman and Simon Kirby

We fully expect the emotion meter of Cybraphon, the autonomousemotional robot band in a box, to go off the scale this August.Cybraphon obsessively googles itself every 15 seconds to see howpopular it is. The results affect its emotional state which in turn affects itsplaying style. Twenty-five antique instruments and 60 robotic actuatorsthen play music that FOUND has composed for each emotion.

Cybraphon is desperate for your attention. To cheer it up, like it onFacebook, follow it on Twitter, write about it on your blog, post a photoof it online, or mention it in a tweet.

The artist collective FOUND, which created this veritable diva of avitrine, has gifted Cybraphon to the nation. To mark the EdinburghInternational Festival it joins the permanent collection of the NationalMuseum of Scotland and goes on display by the Millennium Clock inthe Grand Gallery.

The BAFTA-winning automaton was commissioned by NewMedia Scotland.

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