Listings: Music

Dupré’s Le Chemin de la Croix (12) with organist Duncan Ferguson and Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres (19) with sopranos Susan Hamilton and Emma Versteeg. End your festival day in the still beauty of the candlelit Cathedral.

CD launch by charismatic singer with firepower quartet - Graeme Stephen (g), Paul Harrison (keys), Mario Caribe (b) and Stu Ritchie (d).

This is Ceilidh. Scotland's most famous shindig as you've never seen it before. A riotous assembly of spellbinding tunes, prodigious piping and outrageous dancing, hosted by award-winning New Art Club aka Roden and Shenton. Irreverent, invigorating and in town for one night only. Come prepared to party. Anything could…

A programme of music from the Scottish Highlands featuring the great Highland bagpipe, fiddle, clarsach (ancient wire-strung harp) and traditional singing. The range of repertoire from marches and dance music, light music and competition songs, to elaborate variations and soulful laments will be presented…

Orkney Islands award-winning, barnstorming, dance floor filling, whirlwind of a band. Blending the traditional music of their native islands with a myriad of other influences including rock, jazz, zydeco and klezmer (to name but four). Guaranteed to have you out of your seats at a very early stage of any gig, leaving you…

Drawn from the finest players across the continent, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is widely considered to be one of the world’s greatest orchestras. Its two Festival concerts are directed by the young French-Canadian Yannick Nézet Séguin, who is famed for the inspirational energy of his performances. In his…

The celebrated Chamber Orchestra of Europe delves further into the richly contrasting musical worlds of Strauss and Beethoven in the second of its two Festival concerts under fiery young conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Wagner famously called Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony ‘the apotheosis of the dance’, and its infectious…

The charismatic New York singer and pianist is the talk of Manhattan. Still in her mid-20s she’s got the lived in voice that gives authority to all the classic show songs, and invites comparisons with everyone from Billlie Holiday to Carmen McRae, and she plays great piano. She’d have Errol Garner checking her out. No one…

Zahida AKA Dr.2. Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu … and many other great names of La Chanson Française will be interpreted by Zahida (aka Dr 2). Some of the songs will send shivers through you, some will make you want to dance. But above all, you will not regret having attended the show as it closes with…

Formed in London in 2005, the young Chiaroscuro Quartet has already garnered widespread praise for its invigorating, sharply focused performances. Led by acclaimed violin soloist Alina Ibragimova, the Quartet specialises in music from the string quartet’s early years, using period instruments in subtle yet incisive…

Beijing Students Golden Sail Art Troupe. Formed in 1996, this young group - dance corps, wind band, chorus - comprising the most talented students and teachers in Beijing, has a commanding reputation in China. They are 49-time winners in student arts competitions and have been awarded the Advanced Unit in National Arts…

Welcome to our annual celebration of Chinese music and song! Enjoy Fong Liu's entrancing voice, Chinese traditional instruments (including Hooi Ling Eng's Chinese percussion and zheng, Xian Shan's accordion, Yulu Wang's zheng and Eddie McGuire's bamboo flute) and special guests Edinburgh Chinese Community…

Arbroath musicians Chloe Foston(soprano) and Mark Spalding (piano) present a programme of songs by Stephen Sondheim, with piano interludes by Leonard Bernstein and Philip Glass.

The professional chapel choir sings at the weekly interdenominational choral service in this extraordinary late Arts and Crafts building: truly one of Edinburgh's hidden gems. Guided tours after services. Music list and further details: www.robinchapel.org.uk.

A new super-group project for Mario Caribe - singing and playing double bass and guitar in a new Brazilian partnership with multi-instumentalist Gaio de Lima. Together with, Stuart Brown (drums and percussion) and David Milligan (piano) they play Brazilian and Scottish folk tunes. Light quick lines and great grooves merge…

A late night comedy magic show with a twist from the Fringe's favourite showman! Chris Cross returns for his eighth Festival Fringe with his unique comedic blend of off-the-wall magic, contortion and escapology. Cross has travelled worldwide with his show and he's even performed for the British monarchy! Expect some new…

The 2013 Queen’s Hall concerts open in style with one of the finest Lieder singers of his generation. German baritone Christian Gerhaher has been widely celebrated for the remarkable sincerity and glorious naturalness of his singing, which holds emotional truth and intellectual rigour in perfect balance. Joined by regular…

Christine Bovill / The Famous Spiegeltent. 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of Edith Piaf's death. Sell-out sensation 2011 and 2012, Christine Bovill returns to the Fringe in a very special 11- show performance. Last year saw Bovill duet with the composer of No Regrets, Mr Charles Dumont, leading to a live performance…

Renowned American soprano Christine Brewer is accompanied by pianist Roger Vignoles.

World-renowned harpsichord virtuoso Christophe Rousset explores the remarkable richness of Baroque harpsichord music in two special concerts that showcase the magnificent instruments preserved in Edinburgh’s own St Cecilia’s Hall Museum. Selecting outstanding instruments from the splendours of the museum’s collection…

World-renowned harpsichord virtuoso Christophe Rousset explores the remarkable richness of Baroque harpsichord music in two special concerts that showcase the magnificent instruments preserved in Edinburgh’s own St Cecilia’s Hall Museum. Selecting outstanding instruments from the splendours of the museum’s collection…

The French harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset has long made the Baroque music of France his speciality, in ravishing performances that mix poise with expressive intensity, and which have attracted worldwide acclaim. He performs one of François Couperin’s books of short pieces for solo harpsichord, in which…