MUSIC CLASSICAL NEW YEAR’S DAY

Glasgow

I Glasgow Greets Vienna Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4—£15. In time for hangovers to be clear, the Trade‘s House of Glasgow presents their New Year‘s Day blend of Viennese and Scottish music with the City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra.

THURSDAY 2 Edinburgh

I The Messiah Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. Noon. £5—£10. Annual performance by Edinburgh Royal Choral Union. Christopher Bell is conductor and Cantorum Amici accompany.

FRIDAY 3 Glasgow

I National Youth Orchestra oi Scotland Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 4. Edinburgh. Takuo Yuasa is guest conductor for NYOS‘s winter course and concerts which feature Evelyn Glennie in Jolivet‘s Percussion Concerto. Rossini‘s overture to The Thieving Magpie to open and Mahler's Symphony No 5 is the main work.

Edinburgh

I BSD Usher Hall, Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 4. Glasgow. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). Christopher Seaman conducts a programme to launch 1992 with popular excerpts from works such as Hansel and Gretel by the original Engelbert Humperdinck. Mozart‘s Bassoon (‘oncerto and evergreen Strauss waltzes.

SATURDAY 4 Glasgow

I B80 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sarchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm.

£4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). See Friday 3,

Edinburgh.

I Grand Tour to Melody Theatre Royal, Hope Street. 331 1234. Richard Baker presents and plays in a musical tour of Paris. Berlin, Vienna and London. Offenbach to Ivor Novello.

Edinburgh

I National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. See Friday 3, Glasgow.

SUNDAY 5 Edinburgh

I Sunday Serenade Church of St Andrew and St George. George Street. Tickets: 228 1155 (Usher Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £5 (£4). John Kitchen gives an organ recital in aid of the Usher Hall Organ Appeal.

THURSDAY 9 Glasgow

I BSO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Friday 10. Edinburgh and Saturday 11. Glasgow. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). New chief conductor of the R80. Walter Weller, in his first concert of this special centenary season with Mozart, Bruch and Beethoven‘s Symphony No 7.

FRIDAY 10

Glasgow

I Kilniardinny Music Circle Kilmardinny

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House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. Bearsden, 943 0312. 7.45pm. Joy Farrall, flute, with Angela Hewitt. piano. play Schumann. Bruch, Weber. Wagner and Brahms.

Edinburgh

I I180 Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 11. Glasgow. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). See Thursday 9, Glasgow.

SATURDAY 11 Glasgow

I BSD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). See Thursday 9

Edinburgh

I Georgian Concert Society St Cecilia's Hall, Cowgate. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. £7 (£5/£4/£2). The Gainsborough String Quartet presents Haydn in London. where the composer stayed using his redundancy money from Esterhazy almost 200 years ago.

MONDAY 13 Glasgow

I Call That Singing! Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Glasgow‘s singing audience, all 500 or so of them, in concert. Entertainment for all ages and anyone can join in.

TUESDAY 14 Glasgow

I Stains Masterclass Stevenson Hall. RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. Free at door. Percussion masterclass

directed by Evelyn Glennie.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Ouarlet Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Edinburgh University‘s lunchtime series resumes today with Mozart‘s String Quartet K I73 and the String Quartet in E flat by Berwald.

I Nelson Hall Concert Nelson Hall, McDonald Road Library. off Leith Walk. 7.45pm. Free at door. The Scott String Quartet play Borodin's famous Quartet No 2. Scottish Airs by Marie Dare. the A minor Quartet by Mendelssohn and String Divertimento K138 by Mozart. In association with Live Music Now!

WEDNESDAY 15 Glasgow

I BBC 880 City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 12.45—1.50pm. £3 (£2/£1). Lunchtime menu of Hadyn and Dvorak. with his ()p 91. 92 and 93 —- Amid Nature, Carnival and ()thello. Jiri Starek conducts.

I Stakis Masterclass Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. Free at door. Trombone masterclass directed by Sue Addison.

I 8C0 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Thursday 16. Edinburgh. £2.50—£11. Frank-Peter Zimmerman is soloist in Beethoven‘s Violin ('oncerto with conductor .lukka-Pekka Saraste whose other choices are Marea by Lindberg and the Symphony No 2 by Schumann.

THURSDAY 16 Edinburgh

I 8C0 Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.45pm. £3—£12. See Wednesday 15, Glasgow.

THE GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL

Where the world comes to play

FRIDAY IANUARY 17

TIONAL @RCHESTRA dERIES

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas. PIANO: Joanna MacGregor COPLAND: Billy the Kid. PROKOPIE V: Piano Concerto No. 2. BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4

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MONDAYMARCH 2 & TUESDAYMARCH 3

M oscow STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CONDUCTOR: Pavel Kogan. PIANO: Dmitri Alexeev MONDAY Rimsky Korsakov: Le Coq d’or. RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. MOUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition TUESDAY GLINKA: Overture - Ruslan 8 Ludmilla. TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 1 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5. PIANO: Derek Han

MONDAYMARCH 23

THE PHILHARMONIA

CONDUCTOR: Claus Peter Flor. TRUMPET: lohn Wallace. IIAYDN: Marches I-IAYDN: Symphony No. 2.2 ’Philosopher’. HUMMEL' Trumpet Concerto HUMMEUWALLACE: Indian Rondo. BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7

SUNDAYMARCH 29

L 2 SAUCI-IIEHALL STREET - GLASGOW

CELEBRITY RECITAL - MIDORI

The latest Japanese world batter, the sensational violinist Midon' in recital. * Any salt in house £5 with Series Ticket for International Orchestral Concerts.

BOX OFFICE: 041-227 5511

SERIES TICKETS (4 Concerts): £27, £35, £38, £45, £54

SINGLE TICKETS: £7.50, £9.50, £10.50, £12.50, £15

CELEBRITY RECITAL - MIDORI: £6.50, £8.50, £10

USUAL CONCESSIONS APPLY!

MON - SAT 10am - 6pm, SUN 1 pm - 9pm

56 The List 20 December 1991- 16 January 1992