What was on in 2024

The first of seven fabulous festival coffee concerts with Falko’s famously tasty cakes. Pianist and broadcaster Kenneth Hamilton follows Liszt’s 1841 tour of Scotland, vividly describing the triumphs and tribulations…

2016 Lammermuir Festival Artist in Residence Roman Rabinovich is joined by Diana Cohen and the Maxwell Quartet in a rare performance of Ernest Chausson’s ‘Concert’ – passionate, heroic music with…

Britten’s delightful comedy is set in a small Suffolk market town whose local worthies have failed to find a girl virtuous enough to be May Queen. Instead they decide to…

Distinguished Scottish pianist Susan Tomes celebrates the talent of nine remarkable women pianist/composers from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Based on her recent book Women and the Piano…

‘I love to play Ives because he’s after things that most composers don’t dare to attempt, and so he gets to emotional places and states that other composers can’t find.’…

Britten’s delightful comedy is set in a small Suffolk market town whose local worthies have failed to find a girl virtuous enough to be May Queen. Instead they decide to…

The Maxwell Quartet brings two Romantic masterpieces to Dirleton’s historic kirk. Brahms’s lovely sextet is one of his sunniest inspirations, a kind of extended love letter to the one woman…

By turns funny, surprising and deeply moving, the story of Private Jack Ellicott’s WW1, from signing up in 1915 until his death in 1916, is told by his great nephew…

In this typically adventurous and thought-provoking programme Jeremy Denk offers an eclectic mix of 19th century to present-day female composers, often unjustly neglected by history, showcasing a huge range of…

Scotland’s award-winning baroque ensemble returns to the idyllic surroundings of Crichton’s lovely mediaeval church with music from 18th century Bohemia framed by the endless brilliance and invention of Vivaldi. The…

Roman Rabinovich performs one of the pinnacles of the keyboard repertoire – a supreme technical and musical challenge. We can probably discount the charming story that Bach wrote this epic…

The last time Tenebrae brought Joby Talbot’s choral tour de force to the festival, the capacity audience stood and cheered them to the rafters. In our 15th year we couldn’t…

EXTRA PERFORMANCE! The last time Tenebrae brought Joby Talbot’s choral tour de force to the festival, the capacity audience stood and cheered them to the rafters. In our 15th year…

Taking their name from Van Baerle Straat, the address of Amsterdam’s famous Concertgebouw, this Dutch piano trio has emerged in recent years as one of the world’s finest. Acclaimed for…

Led by Maria Wloszczowska, the recently created Valo Quartet’s members – from Poland, the UK and Finland – are among Europe’s leading chamber music players. They join Jeremy Denk for…

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome one of the world’s leading baroque ensembles for a UK exclusive residency. They offer four wide-ranging programmes of beautiful baroque music including familiar composers…

Taking their name from Van Baerle Straat, the address of Amsterdam’s famous Concertgebouw, this Dutch piano trio has emerged in recent years as one of the world’s finest. Acclaimed for…

The Hebrides Ensemble mark Schoenberg’s 150th Anniversary with the two great nocturnal classics he gave to the 20th century: the aching beauty of his ‘Transfigured Night’ and his visionary expressionist…

Véronique Gens is one of today’s great singers. She dominated the field of Baroque music for years and is now one of the most renowned performers of Mozart and of…

Taking their name from Van Baerle Straat, the address of Amsterdam’s famous Concertgebouw, this Dutch piano trio has emerged in recent years as one of the world’s finest. Acclaimed for…

Jeremy Denk and the Valo String Quartet join forces for their second exploration of Gabriel Fauré’s music for piano and strings. The cliché about Fauré is that he was a…

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome one of the world’s leading baroque ensembles for a UK exclusive residency. They offer four wide-ranging programmes of beautiful baroque music including familiar composers…

Any performance of Stockhausen’s seminal 1968 work for 6 vocalists and 6 microphones is an important, nowadays rather rare, event. Sitting in a circle in a darkened room, the singers…

Taking their name from Van Baerle Straat, the address of Amsterdam’s famous Concertgebouw, this Dutch piano trio has emerged in recent years as one of the world’s finest. Acclaimed for…

Fretwork return to the festival following their triumph in ‘Secret Byrd’ last year. This extraordinary ensemble which over almost four decades as the world’s leading consort of viols, has performed…

A concert celebrating the music of Astor Piazzolla. Using the tango as his starting point Piazzolla created a unique musical stye – the Tango Nuevo. This concert includes some of…

Taking their name from Van Baerle Straat, the address of Amsterdam’s famous Concertgebouw, this Dutch piano trio has emerged in recent years as one of the world’s finest. Acclaimed for…

For their second programme, Fretwork brings their incomparable interpretation of The Art of Fugue. It is Bach’s unfinished summing-up of the art of counterpoint, a profound meditation on a theme…

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome one of the world’s leading baroque ensembles for a UK exclusive residency. They offer four wide-ranging programmes of beautiful baroque music including familiar composers…

ZRI is named after the famous Viennese café Zum Roten Igel (The Red Hedgehog) where musicians like Schubert and Brahms heard gypsy and folk music. Beginning with their radical re-scoring…

Brahms and the Gypsy features the complete Brahms Clarinet Quintet re-scored with santouri and accordion to bring out the gypsy and Hungarian qualities of this much-loved piece of chamber music….

Janácek – Love, Mania and Murder features Janácek’s radical first String Quartet, inspired by Tolstoy’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, re-imagined in a programme that takes the listener on a journey of passion…

Grief touches all of us at some point during our lives, affecting each person in different ways. Byrd and Skempton beautifully capture a sense of powerlessness in their works, asking…

Five of today’s finest baroque instrumentalists offer a sparkling programme of music for 3 violins and continuo ranging from Pachelbel’s famous canon to music by JS Bach, the master of…

A delectable programme of secular songs with the peerless Gesualdo Six. The popularity of early madrigals from Renaissance Italy inspired English composers to create their own, led by the hugely…

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome one of the world’s leading baroque ensembles for a UK exclusive residency. They offer four wide-ranging programmes of beautiful baroque music including familiar composers…

Two of the UK’s most internationally acclaimed solo pianists, Paul Lewis and our patron Steven Osborne, regularly join forces as one of the world’s finest piano duet teams. This sparkling…

The two most influential of early Romantic composers, Mendelssohn and Schumann, make a great pairing for our final concert. Schumann’s Violin Concerto, composed at the end of his life and…