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Edinburgh International Festival

on BBC Two England

Opening Concert
BBC2 joins with Radio 3 to relay live in stereo the whole of tonight's opening concert from the 33rd Edinburgh Festival.
Two colourful ballet scores inspired by Diaghilev, who died 50 years ago today, are played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY under its principal conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
The programme is introduced by TOM FLEMING
In Part 1, a rare complete performance of Chout (' Buffoon ') by Prokofiev including narration spoken by Andrew Cruickshank

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