After 5pm, Music, Classical

• Directed by: Takuo Yuasa (cond)
• Written by: Modest Mussorgsky

Takuo Yuasa conducts Judith Bingham's Celticity, Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition and Shostakovich's Symphony No 12 In D Minor.

Beatson, Janiczek and Higham play Schubert's Piano Trio D929.

Military band concerts featuring a variety of styles, from big band to classical pieces. Also a chance to see the famed Royal Marines Corps of Drums.

• Directed by: cond)
• Written by: Mahler

Timothy Redmond conducts Mozart's Piano Concerto In D Minor and Mahler's Symphony No 4. With pianist Martin Roscoe and soprano Prudence Sanders.

The ERCU collaborates with members of Dublin's Tallaght Choral Society in Brahms' great Requiem, plus selected choral works of Britten. For the Edinburgh performance, accompaniment is provided by Edinburgh Pro Music Orchestra. Michael Bawtree conducts, with Emily Mitchell and Trevor Bowes as guest soloists.

• Written by: Ernest Chausson

The violinist and pianist duo performs Chausson's Poeme, Beethoven's Violin Sonata In A, Wieniawski's Theme Originale And Variations, Bach's Partita In D Minor and music by Paganini.

• Directed by: Hugh Brunt (cond)
• Written by: John Cage

Hugh Brunt conducts Vivier's Glaubst Du An Die Unsterblichkeit Der Seele ('Do You Believe in the Immortality of the Soul?') as well as works by Harvey, Cage, Manoury, Feldman, Riddell and Stockhausen.

European Premiere: After receiving a 2010 Herald Angel Award for Songs of Ascension, US composer, singer, filmmaker and theatre artist Meredith Monk returns to the Festival with her latest music-theatre work, On Behalf of Nature. A poetic meditation on the environment, On Behalf of Nature evokes the Buddhist notion of…

With songs from the Great American Songbook, the vocalist performs mainstream jazz, classic swing and jazz standards alongside classical melodies.

From Coates to Ellis and from Wood to Sullivan, light music is enduringly popular and the Edinburgh Light Orchestra gives regular concerts celebrating this evocative repertoire.

The legendary, multiple Oscar-winning film scorer conducts a concert of his works, including selections from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso and The Untouchables.

• Directed by: Dane Lam (cond)
• Written by: Mussorgsky

Dane Lam conducts Mussorgsky's Night On A Bare Mountain, Vaughan Williams's Prologue, Spring, Summer And Autumn from Folk Songs Of The Four Seasons and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5.

The organist performs a classical recital.

Christopher Seaman conducts Dvořák's Carnival Overture, Bingham's Celticity, Glazunov's Violin Concerto and Shostakovich's Symphony No 10. Alina Pogostkina is the soloist.

Antonin Dvořák's Cello Concerto is one of the great concertos, odd since its composer claimed not to like the cello as a concerto instrument and always swore he'd never write one (and when he did, he promised the solo part to his cellist friend Hanus Wihan but then gave it to somebody else). Here, the soloist is Norwegian…

• Directed by: Darrell Davidson (con)
• Written by: Copland

Darrell Davidson conducts Copland's Appalachian Spring, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1, Barber's Adagio and Shostakovich's Symphony No 1.

The SCO Chorus, when not performing with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, gives infrequent performances of the classics of the choral repertoire.

Richard Egarr may be an expert in period styles of performance, but it's all in the service of making the performances themselves sound as fresh as possible. Here he conducts from the piano in performances of Schubert's Symphony No 2, Haydn's Keyboard Concerto in D and Mozart's last and most expansive symphony, No 41…

St Giles' Cathedral's regular 6pm concerts of rush hour music are always free.

Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila-symphonie Messiaen's great symphonic work, first presented after the Second World War, shocked audiences with its ecstatic music and opulent orchestrations. Inspired by the Tristan myth, it channels intense feelings of ecstasy and erotic love using a culmination of all the techniques…

The Aberdeen Sinfonietta is one of the leading musical ensembles in the North East, giving regular concerts and also providing orchestral support to choral societies in the area.