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Steve Reich at 90 and Festival Highlights

Performances from Wynton Marsalis, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Edinburgh Festival chorus at this year's EIF, music from the Bozzini Quartet ahead of concerts at Sound Festival in Aberdeen, and Vikingur Ólafsson performs Bach from his latest album, CONTINUUM II.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air on the G String (Arr. for Piano)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • CONTINUUM II.
    • Deutsch Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Major: II. Larghetto

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • CONTINUUM II.
    • Deutsch Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto in F Minor: II. Largo

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • CONTINUUM II.
    • Deutsche Gramaphone.
    • 13.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio Espagnol

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Delyana Lazarova.

  • Cassandra Miller

    Leaving

    Ensemble: Quatuor Bozzini.
    • Another Timbre.

  • Eric Whitacre

    October

    Ensemble: Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Band. Conductor: Stephen Gage.
    • Naxos.

  • Peaks

    Beach Comber

    Performer: Peaks.
    • Chamber Music Scotland.

  • Peaks

    The Tongue-Tied Suitor

    Performer: Peaks.
    • Chamber Music Scotland.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69

    Performer: Paul Watkins. Performer: Alessio Bax.

  • Steve Reich

    Quartet: III. Fast

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Pulse/Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.

  • Steve Reich

    Duet for Two Violins and Strings

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin.
    • DG.
    • 5.

  • Wynton Marsalis

    All Rise: El 'Gran' Baile de la Reina (Live at EIF 2026)

    Orchestra: Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ensemble: Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. Ensemble: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Director: James Grossmith. Conductor: James Gaffigan.

  • Wynton Marsalis

    All Rise: Expressbrown Local (Live at EIF 2026)

    Orchestra: Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ensemble: Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. Ensemble: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Director: James Grossmith. Conductor: James Gaffigan.

  • Wynton Marsalis

    All Rise: Saturday Night Slow Drag (Live at EIF 2026)

    Orchestra: Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ensemble: Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. Ensemble: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Director: James Grossmith. Conductor: James Gaffigan.

  • Wynton Marsalis

    All Rise: I am (Don't You Run From Me) (Live at EIF 2026)

    Orchestra: Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ensemble: Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. Ensemble: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Director: James Grossmith. Conductor: James Gaffigan.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday19:00
    BBC Radio Scotland