MUSIC LIST/CLASSICAL
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital McEwan Hall, Bristo Square. 1 . 10pm. Free at door. Herrick Bunney of St Giles‘ Cathedral playsAd nos. ad salutarem undam by Liszt.
I SNO Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 10, Glasgow. £2.95—£12.70 (standby £2.50). Andrei Gavrilov is soloist in Mozart‘s D minor Piano Concerto K466 in a programme which opens with the same composer’s Symphony No 21 and is completed by Dvorak‘s Symphony No 7. Raymond Leppard is conductor.
SATURDAY 10 Glasgow
I RSAMD Junior Dept Stevenson Hall. RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Admission free by ticket. Second orchestra and chamber music groups.
I SRO City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3.50-£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Friday 9, Edinburgh. for full description.
Edinburgh
I Family Choice Piccolo Paclt Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street. 668 2019. l lam. £1 (75p)/adu1ts £2. Saturday morning musical fun for 8—12 year olds with Oolie McDoolie and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
I 880 Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.20—£9.90(£3.50/standby £2.20). No doubt generating a somewhat different atmosphere from their activities this morning, J ukka Pekka Saraste conducts the SCO in Prokofiev‘s Violin Concerto No 2 with Raphael Oleg as soloist. Brahms’ Serenade No 2 and Schumann.
I Scottish Chamber Choir Old St Paul's Church. Jeffrey Street. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office) or 228 1155 (Usher Hall Box Office). 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). let Anniversary Concert of this polished Edinburgh~based choir celebrated with the first performance of a specially commissioned work. Cantos Sagrados. by one of Scotland‘s leading young composers. James MacMillan. Anthems by the choir‘s first two conductors. Brian Head and George McPhee along with music by Bach, Palestrina and Kenneth Leighton complete the programme.
SUNDAY 11 Glasgow
I Cantilena Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 1pm. £3.50. Relaxing Sunday lunchtime with music by Boyce. Purcell. Albinoni (Trumpet Concerto) and Haydn.
I Glasgow Grand Opera Society Concert Mitchell Theatre. Tickets: 552 5961. 7.30pm. Annual concert with popular arias and choruses from both grand and light operas.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Ensemble Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 2.30pm. Extra date: Monday 12. Glasgow. £5/£7.50 (£2/£3.50/£5). An all Bach programme featuring the works mainly of J .S. . but with C. P. E.‘s A major Cello Concerto too. with Caroline Dale as soloist. The Ensemble's Director. Jonathan Rees. appears as soloist in the G minor and E major Violin Concertos and is joined by Jane Murdoch for the Double.
I Open Rehearsal Boroughmuir St Oswald‘s Hall. Montpelier Park. 8pm. Free at door. Edinburgh Secondary Schools‘ Training Orchestra showing the results of a weekend course.
asgow I Organ Recital Art Gallery and Museum.
Kelvingrove. 357 3929. 7.30pm. £5 (£2.50). Organist Peter King from Bath Abbey.
I Scottish Ensemble Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6.50 (£3.50). See Sunday 11. Edinburgh. for full description.
Edinburgh
I Grand Operatic Concert Usher Hall. Lothian Road. Tickets: M.A. Robertson. 59 East Crosscauseway. Edinburgh EH8 9HG. £6—£20 (students £3). Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the Russian baritone who won last year‘s Cardiff Singer of the World competition. comes to Edinburgh to sing in aid of the National Art Collection‘s Scottish Fund in a programme of some of the most loved gems from the operatic repertoire. The Scottish Opera orchestra and soprano Fiona Cameron are there with him.
TUESDAY 13 Glasgow
I DRSAMD (Students' Perionnance) Recitals Stevenson Hall/Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Free. Recitals by final year students - on 13. 14. 15 and 16February.
I La Forza del Destino Theatre Royal. Hope Street, 331 1234 or 332 9000. 6.45pm. Extra dates: Saturday 17 (2.15pm). Tuesday 20. Thursday 22 February (Glasgow); Tuesday 13. Saturday 17 March (Edinburgh). £3—£25 (various concessions available). New production for Scottish Opera of Verdi’s giant and a rare chance to see it. Director is Elijah Moshinsky and John Mauceri conducts. International cast headed by Andrea Grubcr. with Della Jones, Stefano Algieri. Vladimir Chernov and Alexander Morosov. Sung in ltalian with Scottish Opera‘s first try at supertitles in English. See panel.
Edinburgh
I Reid Memorial Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1 . 10pm. Free at door. The McGibbon Ensemble (violin. cello and harpsichord) are joined by an extra fiddle and viola for a concert of music by the man their venue is named after- General John Reid — and other Scottish 18th-century composers.
WEDNESDAY 14 Glasgow
I DRSAMD (Perlorrnance) Recitals Stevenson Hall/Guinness Room. RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Free. Recitals by final year students — on 13. 14. 15 and 16February.
I 880 $80 Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. BBC, Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: Room 209, BBC. Queen Margaret Drive. 012 8DG (please enclose sac). 1pm. Free. Schumann‘s Rhenish Symphony and the Ritual Dances from Sir Michael Tippett’s opera The Midsummer Marriage.
I Glasgow University Orchestra Bute Hall. 7.30pm. £3 (£1.50). Programme to include the Piano Concerto No 3 by Beethoven with Hazel Ramsay as soloist. Stephen Arnold conducts.
THURSDAY 15
Glasgow
I DRSAMD (Performance) Recitals Stevenson Hall/Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. Free. Recitals by final year students - on 13.14.15and16February.
I Merchants' Music Merchants' Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £2 (£1 .50). Graeme McNaught. winner of the first Scottish international Piano
Competition , brings his first programme of works by Schumann and Chopin to this popular series. Next concert. Thursday 22.
I Piano Recital Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. Chopin‘s Barcarolle and B flat minor Sonata and Liszt’s Reminiscences de Don Juan performed by Kenneth Hamilton. I Guardian Royal Exchange Series Princes Square. Buchanan Street.
5.30pm-6. 15pm. Free. Students of the RSAMD letting the public have a chance to hear some of the results of their studies. I SRO City Hall. Candleriggs, 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Friday 16. Edinburgh and Saturday 17. Glasgow. £3.50—£12.70. Bryden Thomson is conductor of Berlioz‘s Overture Le Carna val Romain. Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony and the Violin Concerto No 2 by Prokofiev. with Cho-Liang Lin as soloist.
I lntemational Celebrity Recital Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£7.50). Soprano Elly Ameling with Rudolph J ansen. piano. sings Frauenliebe und Leben by Schumann and a selection of cabaret songs by Satie, Hahn. Poulen. Gershwin and Ellington. I Music in Architecture Pollok House. Pollok Country Park. Pollokshaws Road. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £12.50(included post-concert supper). The Van LeerTrio
. play Piano Trios by Mendelssohn, Mozart ' and Brahms.
I Royal Danish Brass Glasgow University Chapel. Further information: 031 225 7189 (Danish Cultural institute). 8pm. Varied selection for brass ensemble including works by Jeremiah Clarke, Bach, Byrd and Pachelbel, with Danish composers from this century at the other end of the scale and Grieg and Hindemith in between.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Early Music Consort Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. Extra date: Friday 16. Glasgow. £5/£6.50 (£3). Dutch ‘cellist Anner Byisma isthe guest director of SEMC‘s programme of 18th-century classical music. with Bocchcrini and Haydn being the featured composers.
FRIDAY 16 Glasgow
I DRSAMD (Performance) Recitals Stevenson Hall/Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. Free. Recitals by final year students - on 13.14.15and16February.
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. SCO
clarinettist Lewis Morrison teams up with pianist Hester Dickson for Lutoslawski's Dance Preludes. Hindemith‘s Clarinet Sonata of 1939. Sequenza IX by Berio and
Poulenc‘s Sonata of 1962.
I SCO City Hall. Candleriggs, 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 17. Edinburgh. £2.20-£9.20 (special £1 concession). Neat pairing of Wagner‘s Siegfried Idle and Schnebel‘s Wagner ldyll. Haydn’s Miracle Symphony and Mozart‘s Piano Concerto No 13 complete the programme.
I Piano Recital Milngavie Town Hall. Tickets: 956 15 72 (Milngavie Music Club). 7.30pm. Ronan O'Hara plays Haydn. Debussy. Chopin and Beethoven.
I Scottish Early Music Consort Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £5.50 (£3). See Thursday 15. Edinburgh. for full description.
Edinburgh
I Organ Duet Recital McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Music for two pairs of hands by Rutter. Wesley. Jon Laukvik and Kenneth Leighton performed by William McVicker and Jeremy Barham.
I SNO Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 17, Glasgow. £2.95—£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Thursday 15. Glasgow, for full description.
I Ronald Stevenson Concert St Cecilia‘s Hall, Cowgate. Tickets: 228 l 155 (Usher Hall Box Office) or National Library of Scotland, George [V Bridge (226 4531 ext 2204 - credit card sales). 7.45pm. £6.50 (including refreshments). A celebration of the music and poetry of Scotland with Stevenson at the piano and a variety of artists including Phillida Bannister. Carolyn Coxon. Anne Lorne Gillies and Ronald Morrison (singers), Alpin Smart (guitar), Norman MacCaig (poet) in aid of the Scottish Poetry Library on the occasion of its sixth anniversary.
SATURDAY 17 Glasgow
I La Forza del Destino Theatre Royal, Hope Street, 331 1234 or 332 9000. 2.15pm. Extra dates: Tuesday 20. Thursday 22 February (Glasgow); Tuesday 13, Saturday 17 March (Edinburgh). £3—£25 (various concessions available). See Tuesday 13 for full description.
I SNO City Hall, Candleriggs, 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3.50-£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Thursday 15 for fulldescription.
Edinburgh
I 8120 Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.20—£9.90 (£3.50/standby £2.20). See Friday 16. Glasgow. for full description.
S U N DAY 1 8 Glasgow I Sunday Promenade Concert Art Gallery
_ and Museum. Kelvingrove. 357 3929.
THE GEORGIAN CONCERT SOCIETY
GabrieliConsort and Players: Carissimi ’3 Rome including CarISStmt’s oratorioJephte and instrumental music by Frescobaldi, Michi and Kapsberger.
Saturday 24 February at Greyfriars Kirk, Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh at 8pm
Tickets £7; unemployed/students £4; other concessions £5; ‘Young Scots’ £2, from Usher Hall, Queen’s Hall, or at door.
Subsidised by the Scottish Arts Council
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