MUSIC LIST/CLASSICAL

Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £6/£7 (£3.50—£4.50). Ride Over Lake Constance by Scottish composer Judith Weir. Beethoven‘s Triple Concerto and Peacock Variations by Kodaly. all conducted by Gunther Bauer-Schenk.

Edinburgh

I Organ Recital Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Free at door. 1 . 10pm. Lunchtime concert by Stephen Farr. Royal College of

Organists Performer ofthe Year in 1988. who plays works by Bach. Sweelinck. Walther and Buxtehude.

I 8N0 Usher llall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 20, Glasgow. £2.95—£12.70 (standby £2.50). John Lill is tonight‘s soloist in Beethoven‘s Emperor Concerto. Judith llowarth (soprano) and Anthony Michacls-Moore (baritone) are appearing too in Nielsen's Sirrfonia lispansiva. Beethoven's Leonore Overture No 3 is for starters and it's all conducted by Bryden Thomson.

SATURDAY 20 Glasgow

I 8N0 City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 551 1. 7.30pm. £3.50—£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Friday 1‘). Edinburgh. for full description.

I Doric Trio Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. 943 0312. 8pm. £4.50. Music in a Scottish vein from Ron Gonella (fiddle) and Roger Crook (tenor).

Edinburgh

I 800 Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. See Friday 19, Glasgow, for full description.

SUNDAY 21 Glasgow I Morley String Ouanal Merchant's Hall. 7

West George Street. Tickets: 2218272. 7.30pm. First of five concerts entitled The Russian Series featuring works by Soviet composers.

Edinburgh

I RSAMD Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £4 (free). See Thursday 18. Glasgow. for full description.

MONDAY 22 Glasgow

I Stakis Masterclass Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. Free at door. Leon Spierer givesa violin masterclass.

TUESDAY 23 Glasgow 1

I Music in Architecture Merchants' House, 1 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 7.30pm. £12.50 (inc supper and wine). Inaugural concert of new series is given to pianist Anthony Goldstone and the Merehants‘ House new Steinway. There‘s Mussorgsky's original version of Pictures at an Exhibition. Beethoven‘s Moonlight Sonata. Chopin's Heroic Polonaise and the Italian Concerto in F by Bach.

I Glasgow Harpsichord Society Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. Further information: 882 6127. 7.30pm. £2. Janetta and Morton Gould give an informal recital.

Edinburgh

I Lunchtime Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Free at door. 1.10pm. Mezzo soprano Adele Paxton teams up with pianist Caroline Dowdle for a recital of songs by John Ireland. Brahms, Ravel and Guridi.

WEDNESDAY 24

Glasgow

I Bluebeard‘s Castle/Oedipus Rex Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 331 1234832 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Saturday 27 January. Wednesday 14 February. Thursday 1 Match (all Glasgow); Thursday 15 March (Edinburgh). £3—£25 (various concessions available). Exciting double bill with Scottish Opera‘s first new production for 1990. Stefanos Lazaridisis director and designer of both and ifhis new Bluebeard's Castle is anything like last year‘s Oedipus. this should be one of the highlights of Glasgow‘s yearof culture.

I 8C0 City llall.Cand1eriggs.227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Thursday 25. Edinburgh. £2.20—£9.20 (£1 ). Handel‘s oratorio Solomon with a pretty impressive line-up of soloists (including Scottish soprano Lorna Anderson. counter-tenor Michael Chance and bass Michael George) and the Scottish Philharmonic Singers. Nicholas Kraemer conducts.

THURSDAY 25

Glasgow

I Harpsichord Recital Concert Hall. Glasgow University. Free at door. 1.15pm. A programme ofScottish keyboard music by Kinloch. Burnett. Kenneth Leighton and David Dorward performed by Kenneth Elliott.

I Princes Square Concert Princes Square. Buchanan Street. Free. 5.30pm. Students of the RSAMD in an informal concert series. Full details to be posted in the Square a few days prior to performance.

I 3N0 City Hall. Candleriggs, 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Friday 26, Edinburgh and Saturday 27. Glasgow. £3.50—£12.70(standby £2.50). All

Beethoven programme conducted by Jane Glover with the Pastoral Symphony in the first half and the Mass in C in the second. The SNO Chorus is joined by soloists Eiddwen llarrhy. Penelope Walker. Maldwyn Davies and Alastair Miles.

I International Celebrity Concert Stevenson llall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street.332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£7.50). Violinist Leon Spierer with Jack Keaney. piano. gives a recital of Schubert. Franck. Schoenberg. Suk and Edward Staempfli’s homage to Bartok.

Edinburgh .

I Lunchtime Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Free at door. 1 . 10pm. Horn Trios by Berkeley and Duvernoy played by Alison Rushworth. violin. Neil Mantle. horn and Stuart Montgomery. piano.

I 800 Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street.668 2019. 7.45pm. See Wednesday 24. Glasgow. for full description.

Restaurant

'Best vegetarian restaurant in Scot/and' THESCOTSMAN Opening Hours: Mon—Fri 12-2pm, 530—1 1 pm; Sat 5.30—1 1 pm

2—3 St Patrick Square, Edinburgh EH8 9E2 Telephone: 031 667 9890

If your favourite artists aren‘t sounding themselves, you're listening to them on the wrong system. Come in and hear one of ours. m Hl-FI. ea GEORGE STREET. EDINBURGH. TELEPHONE 031-225 8854.WE srocx KEF, MISSION cvnus. MERIDIAN. OED. MUSICAL FIDELITY. HEYBROOK. ETC.

Scratehmo, Lissssszt, Shaky Stevens

and Fuzzy Osbourne.

If you don’t have a system from In Hi’fi,what are you listening to?

IN HI-FI

44 The List 12 25 January 1990