ALDEBURGH

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10 August, 7.30pm Sonnerie play Mozart's two piano quartets and the Quintet for Piano and Wind, K452

13 August, 7.30pm Stephen Hough plays Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska

15 August, 7.30pm Peter Donohoe joins violinist Levon Chilingirian and horn-player David Pyatt for trios by Lennox Berkeley and Hugh Wood, and tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson in songs by Britten

21 August, 7.30pm Peter Donohoe joins clarinettist Michael Collins, violinist Isabelle van Keulen and cellist Jian Wang for trios by Beethoven (Op 11 and the Archduke) and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time

24 August, 7.30pm Artur Pizarro gives an all-Chopin recital, including the Third Sonata and Op 25 Etudes

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EDINBURGH

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25 August, 12.30pm Alison Luz plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the East Dunbartonshire Secondary Schools' Orchestra under George Kelly

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16 August, 11am Helmut Deutsch partners mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager for a recital of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, Wolf, Schoenberg and Richard Strauss

18 August, 11am Martin Katz partners counter-tenor David Daniels in songs by Handel, Britten, Ravel and Schubert

20 August, 11am Till Fellner plays Bach's Three-Part Inventions, Beethoven's Op 101 Sonata, Webern's Variations and Schoenberg's Six Little Pieces Op 19

20 August, 8pm Stephen Kovacevich gives an all-Beethoven recital, including the last two sonatas and the final sets of Bagatelles, Opp 119, 126

23 August, 11am Malcolm Martineau partners baritone Christopher Maltman for Hans Eisler's Hollywood Songbook

23 August, 10.30pm Andras Schiff plays Bach's Partitas Nos 1, 2 and 4

24 August, 11am Kathryn Stott joins clarinettist Michael Collins and violinist/violist Isabelle van Keulen for works by Kurtag, Schumann, Bartok (Contrasts) and Stravinsky (The Soldier's Tale Suite)

24 August, 10.30pm Andras Schiff plays Bach's Partitas Nos 3, 5 and 6

25 August, 11am Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Beethoven's Op 101 Sonata and joins his sister, cellist Valerie Aimard, for Beethoven's final two Cello Sonatas, Op 102

26 August, 11am Christian Zacharias joins violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann for Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Nos 1-4

26 August, 8pm Alfred Brendel brings his Royal Festival Hall and Aldeburgh Festival recital programme to Edinburgh: music by Haydn, Schubert (the late A major Sonata) and Mozart

27 August, 11am Christian Zacharias joins violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann for Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Nos 5-7

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LONDON

BBC Proms 99 105th Season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms 'As we near the end of the century, to affirm is to remember. To keep faith with ourselves is to remember those whose heroic remembering has tried at least to save the unnumbered dead from oblivion. This remembering, unblinking and unafraid, is what can save us from misanthropy, from the easy self-dislike of our species which currently passes for fashionable cynicism' Michael Ignatieff BBC Proms 99 Guide

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9 August, 7.30pm Pascal Roge and Jean-Philippe Collard play Poulenc's Double Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth

11 August, 7.30pm Leif Ove Andsnes plays Schumann's Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste

14 August, 7.30pm Straight from the Snape Maltings Proms, Stephen Hough repeats Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto (Emperor) with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska

15 August, 3pm making his Proms debut, Igor Uryash joins violinist Maxim Vengerov for sonatas by Brahms (No 2) and Prokofiev (No 1), and works by Ravel (Tzigane), Sarasate, Rachmaninov and Franz Waxman (Carmen Fantasy)

15 August, 7.30pm Yefim Bronfman plays Bartok's Second Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek

17 August, 7.30pm making his Proms debut, Alan Feinberg gives the UK premiere of David G Porter's reconstruction of Ives's Emerson Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnanyi

19 August, 10pm Wayne Marshall appears with the BBC Big Band under Barry Fogie in Duke Ellington: A Centenary Celebration

20 August, 7.30pm Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Bartok's Third Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Peter Eotvos

22 August, 7.30pm Maria-Joao Pires plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Myung-Whun Chung

Lunchtime Proms Chamber Music

Victoria & Albert Museum 0171 589 8212

9 August, 1pm John Toll, harpsichord, joins baritone David Wilson-Johnson and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Soloists for a programme of French baroque music by Rameau, Marais, La Barre and Couperin

16 August, 1pm Catherine Edwards and the Composers Ensemble give a programme of American music by Ives, Ruggles, Cowell, Cage and Copland, and the world premiere of a new work by Martin Butler

23 August, 1pm Helen Crayford and the Britten Sinfonia Soloists give a 20th century French programme, including Poulenc's Sextet for piano and wind

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Lunchtime recitals

12 August, 1pm Christine Blair

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MACHYNLLETH

27 August, 7.30pm Julian Milford partners bass-baritone Neal Davies in a song recital including music by Shostakovich, Glinka and Medtner

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WORCESTER

24 August, 11am the Florestan Trio play Schubert's B flat Piano Trio and Rachmaninov's Trio elegiaque Op 9

25 August, 2.30pm David Owen Norris appears with the English String Orchestra under William Boughton

26 August, 11am Charles Owen plays works by Schubert, Chopin, Poulenc and Debussy

26 August, 7.45pm Nicola & Alexandra Bibby plays Poulenc's Double Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Adrian Lucas