MUSIC LIST/CLASSICAL

5.30pm-6.15pm. Free. Informal concert by students of the RSAMD to refresh the spirits after a hard day.

I Oedipus flex/Duke Bluebeard's Castle Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 331 1234 or 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra date: Thursday 15. Edinburgh. £3-£25.50. Scottish Opera

in powerful double bill. both operas directed by Stefanos Lazaridis making his solo debut with Bluebeard. in which Kathryn Harries is the star of the evening. I The Grand Duke King‘s Theatre. 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Friday 2. Saturday 3 (2.30pm and 7.30pm). See Monday 26 for full description.

Edinburgh

I Napier Polytechnic Symphonic Wind Band Chapel, Craiglockhart Campus. Napier Polytechnic. 219 Colinton Road. Admission programmes: at door. 7.30pm. £2. Music for wind band conducted by Christopher Bell.

I SCO Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. See Wednesday 28. Glasgow. for full description.

I Edinburgh University Contemporary Music Society Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 8pm. £3 (£2). Music by William Sweeney, Geoffrey King. Peter Maxwell Davies and some ofthe students who present the concert.

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I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD, 100 Renfrcw Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Trumpeter John Wallace. accompanied by Jack Keaney on piano. plays some virtuoso stuff including Sequenza X by Ben'o. Three Rhythmic Pieces by Cardew and Martinu‘s Sonata written in 1955. See also 2.30pm today.

I Stakis Masterclass Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrcw Street, 332 5057. 2.30pm. Free at door. Amazingly, John Wallace has the stamina and energy to give a trumpet masterclass, following today‘s lunchtime concert.

I Gusztav Fenyo - Beethoven Piano Sonatas Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrcw Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. Extra date: Tuesday 6, Edinburgh. £5 (£2.50). The cycle continues with Op 90, Op 49 No 2, Op 7. Op 2 No 2 and the Appassionara. Op 57.

I Glasgow University Chapel Choir University Chapel. 7.30pm. Free at door. Motets by Gabrieli. Magnificat by Robert Fayrfax and works by Arnold Bax. Martin Butler and Judith Weir. Stuart Campbell directs.

I The Grand Duke King‘s Theatre, 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 3 (2.30pm and 7.30pm). See Monday 26 for full description.

I Oboe/Piano Recital Kilmardinny House, Kilmardinny Avenue, 943 0312. 7.45pm. £4 (£2). Douglas Boyd and lain Burnside present a varied programme including Mozart, Britten. Schumann and Lutoslawski for Kilmardinny Music Circle.

Edinburgh

I Organ Recital McEwan Hall, Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Morley Whitehead plays works by Rheinberger, Franck and Whitlock.

I SNO Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 3, Glasgow. £2.95—£12.70 (standby £2.50). Mozart‘s Symphonies Nos 25 and 40 with two works by Schoenberg inbetween Erwarrung and Accompaniment to an imaginary film scene. Josephine Barstow is the soprano and Matthias Bamert conducts.

SATURDAY 3

Glasgow

I The Grand Duke King‘s Theatre, 227 5511. 2.30pm and 7.30pm. See Monday 26 for full description.

I La Forza del Destino Theatre Royal, Hope Street, 331 1234 or 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tuesday 13 and Saturday 17, Edinburgh. £3—£25.50. New production for Scottish Opera of Verdi giant and the first time the opera has been staged in Britain since 1867 with Verdi‘s

Preludes and the original final scene. Elijah Moshinsky directs and John Mauccri is conductor.

I SNO City Hall, Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3.50-£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Friday 2. Edinburgh. for full description.

I Cappella Nova Glasgow Cathedral. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £5 (£3.50). A second chance to hear two of Cappella Nova‘s most outstanding recent commissions. Lyell Cresswcll‘s To aspro pano sro aspro and William Sweeney‘s salm an fhearainn

Edinburgh-

I Sonatas, Rants and Other Things St Cecilia‘s Hall. Cowgate. Tickets: 229 8018. 8pm. £3 (£1.50). Flute. harpsichord and piano music from the 18th and 20th centuries performed by Jean Murray and Susan Nickalls in aid ofthe Russell Collection of keyboard instruments. Scottish composers featured are John McLeod. John Bevan Baker and Wilma Paterson.

SUNDAY 4 Glasgow

I Cantilena Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 1pm. £3.50. Last concert in Cantilena's series includes Mozart‘s popular Horn Concerto No 4. Albinoni‘s Concerto for 2 Oboes and the Symphony No 4 by Haydn.

I Paragon Ensemble Stevenson Hall, RSAMD. 100 Renfrcw Street, 3325057. 7.45pm. Extra date: Monday5, Edinburgh. The strings of Paragon come to the fore in a programme of works by Scottish composers, including the first performance of Edward McGuire's Guitar Concerto, Three Solos for viola, clarinet and guitar by John Maxwell Geddes and The Pumpkin Massacre by Lyell Cresswcll. See Music Preview.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh University Musical Society Orchestra and Choir Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £2.50—£5. A programme of Russian music to include Prologue/Coronation Scene from Boris Gudonov by Tchaikovsky.

I Scottish Sintonia Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.80(£3/£2). Hugh Seenan, principal horn with the LSO, is soloist in Strauss‘s Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat. Vaughan Williams‘ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas TaIIis kicks off and it‘s Elgar's Enigma Variations in the second half. Neil Mantle conducts.

MONDAY 5

Glasgow

I Competition Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrcw Street, 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The Lawrence Glover Memorial Prize Competition with entrants playing the piano music of Schumann.

Edinburgh

I OI Thee I Sing King‘sTheatre, Leven Street. 229 1201 . 7.30pm. Extra dates: Tuesday 6, Wednesday 7, Thursday 8. Friday 9, Saturday 10 (2.30pm and 7.30pm). £2—£6. The Southern Light Opera Company give the European premiere of Gershwin‘s look at life in the

US of A. Neville Garden is musical director.

I Guitar Recital Boroughmuir High School. Viewforth. 7.30pm. lan Smith plays classical guitar.

I Paragon Ensemble St Bernard's Church. Saxc Coburg Street, Stockbridge. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. £2.50/£4.50 (50p). See Sunday4, Glasgow, for full description.

TUESDAY 6 Glasgow

I Mozart and Salleri New Athenaeum Theatre, RSAMD, 100 Renfrcw Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wednesday 7, Friday 9, Saturday 10. £4 (£2). The RSAMD Opera Class presents Rimsky-Korsakov‘s opera about the supposed confrontation between Mozart and Salleri. made famous by Peter Schaffer's Amadeus. The first part ofthe evening contrasts the music of the two composers, with excerpts from their operas.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Quartet Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 1 . 10pm. Free at door. String Quartet No 4 by Thomas Wilson and Haydn‘s Op 50 No 5.

I OI Thee I Sing King’s Theatre, Leven Street, 229 1201 . 7.30pm. Extra dates: Wednesday 7, Thursday 8, Friday 9, Saturday 10 (2.30pm and 7.30pm). £2—£6. See Monday 5 for full description.

I Gusztav Fenyo - Beethoven Piano Sonatas Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 6682019. 7.45pm. £5/£6.50 (£4/£5.50). See Friday 2, Glasgow, for full description.

WEDNESDAY 7 Glasgow

I Competition Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrcw Street, 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The Governors‘ Recital Prize for percussion.

I Mozart and Salieri New Athenaeum Theatre, RSAMD, 100 Renfrcw Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Friday 9, Saturday 10. £4 (£2). See Tuesday 6for full description.

Edinburgh

I Afternoon Tea Concert Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 3pm. £3.50(inc afternoon tea). David Nicholson, principal flute of the SCO, entertains in this series aimed at the older concert-goer I Oi Thee I Sing King‘s Theatre, Leven Street, 229 1201. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Thursday 8, Friday 9, Saturday 10 (2.30pm and 7.30pm). £2—£6. See Monday 5 for full description.

E URSDAY 8

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I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £2 (£1 .50). The Scottish Piano Trio play Dvorak‘s Dumky and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor Op 49.

I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall, Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. A consort concert with music by Coprario, Jenkins and Christopher Simon for violin, viols and organ.

I Guardian Royal Exchange Concert Series Princes Square, Buchanan Street. 5.30—6.15pm. Free. Informal concert by RSAMD students.

Edinburgh

I 0t Thee I Sing King‘s Theatre, Leven Street, 229 1201. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Friday 9, Saturday 10 (2.30pm and 7.30pm). £2—£6. See Monday 5 for full description.

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