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Festival at St Mary's: Recitals
This year, the Cathedral is holding four recital series:
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Lunchtime Recitals - (almost) every day at 1pm, with a wide variety of classical music.
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Piano Afternoons - Thurs 13th-Sat 22nd at 3:30pm, featuring some of the best pianists from across the UK and Europe.
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Afternoon Originals - Tues 25th-Sat 29th at 3:30pm: original music of all kinds, from album launches to electronics.
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Organ Recitals - on Sundays 9th, 16th and 23rd at 5pm, with Duncan Ferguson, William Fox and Imogen Morgan.
Lunchtime Recitals: 1pm
Multiple Dates
Thu 20 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are the Aquillos Ensemble (wind ensemble).
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Fri 21 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are Eva Smeddle and Anna Michels (mezzo-soprano and piano).
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Sat 22 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are Laurentum (viol, viola and harp).
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Mon 24 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performer is Adam Brown (guitar).
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Tue 25 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performer is Charles Wooler (organ).
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Wed 26 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are the Findhorn Piano Trio.
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Thu 27 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are the Kosonen Ranieri Duo (viola and piano).
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Fri 28 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performer is Finn McLean (guitar).
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Sat 29 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are David Johnston and Samuel Howley (tenor and piano).
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Mon 31 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are Hannah Wasson and Lina Chi (oboe and piano).
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Tue 18 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are Phoebe Jones & Elina Purina (flute and piano).
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Mon 17 Aug
Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic. Today's performers are Peter Coleman and Adam Heron (bass-baritone and piano).
Piano Afternoons: 3.30pm
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Thu 20 Aug
Pianists from across Europe play a series of free piano recitals on the Cathedral’s magnificent Steinway, in one of the city’s finest acoustics. Today's performer is Karolína Kubalkova.
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Fri 21 Aug
Pianists from across Europe play a series of free piano recitals on the Cathedral’s magnificent Steinway, in one of the city’s finest acoustics. Today's performer is Georgina Duncan.
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Sat 22 Aug
Pianists from across Europe play a series of free piano recitals on the Cathedral’s magnificent Steinway, in one of the city’s finest acoustics. Today's performer is Tom Wilkinson.
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Tue 18 Aug
Pianists from across Europe play a series of free piano recitals on the Cathedral’s magnificent Steinway, in one of the city’s finest acoustics. Today's performer is Susan Tomes.
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Mon 17 Aug
Pianists from across Europe play a series of free piano recitals on the Cathedral’s magnificent Steinway, in one of the city’s finest acoustics. Today's performer is Ivan Hovorun.
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Sat 15 Aug
Pianists from across Europe play a series of free piano recitals on the Cathedral’s magnificent Steinway, in one of the city’s finest acoustics. Today's performer is Ana Šostar.
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Fri 14 Aug
Pianists from across Europe play a series of free piano recitals on the Cathedral’s magnificent Steinway, in one of the city’s finest acoustics. Today's performer is Chiara Lordi.
Afternoon Originals: 3.30pm
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Tue 25 Aug
Come and hear original music of all kinds, from album launches to electronics, in the amazing surroundings of St Mary’s Cathedral. Today, Cat Evison performs from the album 'Lost Along the Way'.
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Wed 26 Aug
Come and hear original music of all kinds, from album launches to electronics, in the amazing surroundings of St Mary’s Cathedral. Today, Catriona Kane plays new and traditional tunes for the clàrsach.
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Thu 27 Aug
Come and hear original music of all kinds, from album launches to electronics, in the amazing surroundings of St Mary’s Cathedral. Today, Simon Kempston plays a programme of original compositions from his four most recent albums.
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Fri 28 Aug
Come and hear original music of all kinds, from album launches to electronics, in the amazing surroundings of St Mary’s Cathedral. Today, Ivan Varchenko performs his new solo piano album.
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Sat 29 Aug
Come and hear original music of all kinds, from album launches to electronics, in the amazing surroundings of St Mary’s Cathedral. Today, string quartet the November Group performs Paul Mackie’s new suite, 'Fragments of Time'.
Organ Recitals: 5pm
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Sun 23 Aug
Three of the UK's finest organists play recitals of popular organ music on the spectacular Father Willis organ of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Today's recital is given by Imogen Morgan (Assistant Director of Music, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral)
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Sun 16 Aug
Three of the UK's finest organists play recitals of popular organ music on the spectacular Father Willis organ of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Today's recital is given by William Fox (Director of Music, St Alban’s Cathedral).
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