Composer Raymond Dodd talks to us about his experience with the Lammermuir Festival and his new arrangement of the Fantasy String Quartet. You can listen to his work on Monday the 15th of September at 7.30 pm at Winton House, Pencaitland. Where his work will be perfomerd by the Maxwell String Quartet. Music featured in this Podcast: "Prelude Air Sc…

Oboist François Leleux talks to us about coming back to be the artist in residence at the festival this year. He tells us about the 4 concerts he is going to play at and about the variety of this year’s program. You can see François Lelux at: The Opening Concert on Friday the 12th of September at 8.00 pm in St Mary's Church in Haddington François L…

Lammermuir Festival presents opera for the first time this year in collaboration with Ryedale Festival Opera. We talk to Christopher Glynn, Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival about this new production and new translation of Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea: a gripping tale of lust, power, ambition and betrayal in imperial Rome. The opera wi…

Welcome to Lammermuir Festival 2014 which runs from Friday 12 to Sunday 21 September 2014. One of the two Artistic Directors of the Festival, Hugh Macdonald gives us a flavour of what's to come during the ten days of music throughout East Lothian this autumn.

Soprano Christine Brewer is widely regarded as one of the finest performers of Richard Strauss' achingly beautiful Four Last Songs - his farewell to the world. She talks to us here about her journey with this work from hearing it for the first time to what will be her 96th performance at The Lammermuir Festival in September. She performs at The Lam…

On this week’s podcast we talk to Ruth Plowden, owner of Johnstounburn House and the lady behind Festival Gardens, a new addition to the Lammermuir programme that see some of the country’s finest private gardens open to the public exclusively for the Festival.

On this week’s podcast, composer Bill Sweeney, joined by some of the musicians involved in Tantallon, tells us why he was drawn to this project and what the audience can expect to see and hear.

This week we talk to Aonghas MacNeacail, the writer and librettist for Tantallon! These Lands This Wall, taking place at the Lammermuir Festival on the 17th September.

Festival Director James Waters talks about the inspiration behind the Master and Commander concert, featuring Robert Hardy and the Raeburn Quartet at Inveresk Church on Sunday 16 September.

Nicola from Mercat Tours tells us about the very special historical walking tour that she has created for this year's Lammermuir Festival. Discover Haddington's secret past of wicked witches, plague, murky murders, Jacobites and daring escapes on a family friendly tour from St Mary’s kirkyard to Lady Kitty’s garden.…

This week we talk to Sarah Burgess, the manager of Glenkinchie Distillery, to discover how whisky and music will combine to create a very special evening on the 17th September for Lammermuir's "Music at Glenkinchie" concert.

19 July: East Lothian offers a wonderful range of food and drink and we hope you'll enjoy some during the 2012 Lammermuir Festival. Richard Bath, editor of Scottish Field Magazine and restaurant critic for Scotland on Sunday gives us his thoughts on eating in East Lothian. www.scottishfield.co.uk

Making their debut at this year's Festival, Ensemble Marsyas launch their new CD of Zelenka Sonatas at their concert on Sunday 16 September. We talk to Peter Whelan, founder member and bassoonist with the Ensemble, and give our listeners a taste of some of the beautiful music by Zelenka featured in advance of the concert and CD release, by kind per…

05/07/12 - We meet young guitar phenomenon Sean Shibe and hear some of the music he will be performing as this year's Young Artist in Residence at Lammermuir Festival.

Provost Ludovic Broun-Lindsay and Angela Leitch, Chief Executive of East Lothian Council tell us why East Lothian is the perfect setting for the Lammermuir Festival.

Chair of Lammermuir Festival, James Stretton, talks about The Lamp of Lothian and its significance in the Lammermuir Festival.

This week we talk to Sir Francis Ogilvy who takes us round his beautiful stately home, Winton House, the setting for the afternoon tea concert on Sunday 16 September.

Follow our weekly podcasts as we go behind the scenes at the 2012 Lammermuir Festival. We’ll be chatting to the artists, visiting venues and giving you a flavour of some of the beautiful music you can hear at this year’s festival. Lammermuir Festival 2012 is launched. In our first podcast we talk to Festival Artistic Directors Hugh MacDonald and Ja…