MUSIC FOLK & WORLD
8681 . 3.30-5.30pm. Free. In previous incarnations they have been New Celeste and other fine acoustic/electric bands.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4.
Edinburgh
I Kathryn Tickell Band St Brides. Orwell Terrace. Dalry Road. Haymarkct. 8pm. £6 (£4). Some of the best of the younger generation of folk musicians. With the celebrated Northumbrian piper and fiddler are Karen Tweed on accordion. Ian Carr on guitar and Geoff Lincoln on bass. Only Scottish date. See Music preview. I Ceilidh Dance Downstairs at the Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 8.30pm. £4. Live band. .
SUNDAY 1 Glasgow
I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 8.30pm. £2.50 (£1 .75). Singing sister of Archie and Cilla. Ray Fisher.
I The Attic The Studio. Shuttle Street. Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions. £2.50 everyone else. Information from organiser Danny Kyle. 887 9991.
I Strathaven Folk Club Bucks Head Hotel. Strathaven. 8.15pm. Non members£1.
TUESDAY 3 Glasgow
I Fiddle Workshop Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 7.30—9.30pm. Weekly workshops on Scots fiddle for beginners and learners. Information 2214526.
Edinburgh
I Penicuilt Folk Club Navaar Hotel. Penicuik. 8pm. Singaround.
WEDNESDAY 4 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. Edinburgh songwriter and guitarist Gill Bowman.
Edinburgh
I Sara Grey and Roger Wilson Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Edinburgh Folk Club presents the Scots domiciled American singer. banjo player and storyteller in her latest duo with talented English fiddler and singer.
THURSDAY 5 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside MitchellThcatre. 8pm. £2. Annual gig for the sweet-voiced Irishman Gerry Cairns.
FRIDAY 6 Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4.
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh Dance Downstairs at the Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 8.30pm. £4. Live band.
SATURDAY 7 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. Code 9.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4.
Edinburgh
I Wollstone Queens Hall. Clerk Street. Tickets from Box Office 668 2019. £6.50. Concert ceilidh on behalf of Special Care
Baby unit at Simpsons Memorial Maternity Pavilion and Holy Corner Community Playgroup. Doors open 7.45pm. The favourites from the Highlands. with songs and instrumentals from their latest CD. ‘Unleashed‘.
I Ceilidh Dance Downstairs at the Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 8.30pm. £4. Live band.
I Edinburgh Highland Slrathspey and Reel Soclely Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 7.30pm. Tickets from Usher Hall Box Office. Fiddlers rally with guest singers
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Glasgow
I The Attic The Studio. Shuttle Street. Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions. £2.50 everyone else. Information from organiser Danny Kyle. 887 9991.
TUESDAY 10 Glasgow
I Fiddle Workshop Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 7.30—9.30pm. Weekly workshops on Scots fiddle for beginners and learners. Information 2214526.
Edinburgh
I Eddi Reader Calton Studios. Calton Road. With her band The Patron Saints 01 lmperlection. Sec Rock listings.
I Penicuik Folk Club Navaar Hotel. Penicuik. 8pm. Singaround.
WEDNESDAY 11 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. Moonshiners.
Edinburgh
I Rod Paterson Cafe Royal Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Edinburgh Folk Club Rare solo appearance at the club by one of Scotland‘s finest singers.
THURSDAY 12 Glasgow
I Dick Gaughan Cumbernauld Theatre. Braehead Road. Cumbernauld. Tickets 0236 732 887. £4.75 (£2.25). Compelling song and guitar style. one of Britain‘s most respected singers and a noted campaigner for social justice.
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. American songstress/banjo player in a duo with singing fiddler. Sara Grey and Roger Wilson.
CLASSICAL mm-
Concerts are listed by date. then bycity. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.
FRIDAY 28 Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Music for two pianos by Debussy. Frank Spedding and Rachmaninov performed by Jean Hutchinson and Jack Keaney.
I Solo: The Alan Davie Retrospective McLellan Galleries. Sauchiehall Street. Admission: at door. 2.30pm-4pm. £1.50 (50p). Students of the RSAMD present the fourth concert in the series reflecting the distinguished Scottish painter‘s
musical enthusiasm. Some new
compositions will be included.
I La Traviata Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tue 10. Thurs 12 and Sat 14 March. Edinburgh. £3—£36. Scottish Opera in some of Verdi‘s most emotional and moving music. Production first seen in 1989. Sungin Italian with English supertitles.
I BBC SSD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3—£15. Young violinist Isabelle van Keulen is soloist in Brahms’s Violin Concerto which comes between the Slavonic Dances by Dvorak and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Alexander Rahbari conducts.
I Scottish Ensemble Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sun 1. Edinburgh. £8 (£4). Mahler‘s arrangement of Schubert‘s Death and the Maiden concludes this concert of Vivaldi. Couperin and Mendelssohn‘s Violin Concerto. Jonathan Rees directs.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. Free at door. 1.10pm. Organist Paul Whittaker in works by Buxtehude. Sweelinck. Mendelssohn and Guilmant.
I BSD Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 29. Glasgow. £4—£l7.50 (standby £3.50). Borodin 's In the Steppes of Central Asia. Schumann‘s Piano Concerto (soloist Christian Blackshaw) and the Symphony No 2 by Rachmaninov.
I Turandol King's Theatre. Leven Street. 2291201. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat29. £3—£10. Edinburgh Grand Opera in annual production. Puccini‘s last opera having been made particularly famous recently through the World Cups use of Pavarotti singing Nessun dorma. Christopher Bell conducts and Gerry Mulgrew is director.
SATURDAY 29 ‘
Glasgow
I Cinema Music Organ Recital Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. Free at door. 2.30—4pm. Duncan Sinclair explores the lighter side of the organ repertoire in a new monthly concert series presented by Glasgow Museums in association with the Cinema Organ Society.
I Marriage of Figaro Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 11. Fri 13. Edinburgh. £3—£36. Scottish Opera in Mozart‘s witty opera of comedy. confusion and love in revival of 1989 production.
I BSD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4—£17.50. See Fri 28. Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3.50(£2). Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrimsson conducts his own Daydreams in Numbers for string orchestra. along with the Symphony No 33 by Mozart.
I Turandol King‘s Theatre. Leven Street, 2291201.7.30pm.£3—£10.See Fri 28.
SUNDAY 1 Glasgow
I Canlilena Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 1pm. Chamber orchestra of 23 players with works by Rossini.Tartini. Mahon and Dittersdorf.
I Organ Recital Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. Free at door. 2.30—4pm. Organist is David Hamilton.
I Piano Recital Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6 (£4.50). Promotional concert for the 1992 Scottish International Piano Competition later this year. Jonathan Plowright plays
Scarlatti. Mediner. Scriabin. Chopin and Liszt.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Ensemble Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 2.30pm. £7/£9 (£2.50—£6). See Fri 28. Glasgow.
I Edinburgh New Town Choir St Mary‘s RC Cathedral. Broughton Street (top of Leith Walk). Free at door. 6—7pm. A programme of Renaissance music from the Sistine Chapel including Allegri‘s Miserere mei. Deus and motets by Palestrina. Josquin and Morales.
I Sunday Serenade Church of St Andrew and St George. George Street. Tickets: 228 1 155 (Usher Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £5 (£4). The Glasgow Phoenix Choir sing in aid ofthe Usher Hall Organ Appeal.
MONDAY 2 Glasgow
I Moscow State Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7. 50—£ 1 5. The world renowned orchestra comes to Glasgow as part of the GRCI I‘s International Orchestra Series to play the first oftwo all Russian programmes under conductor Pavel Kogan. Tonight it‘s Rimsky Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninov (soloist Dmitri Alexeev) and Mussorgsky‘s Pictures at an Exhibition. See also Tue 3.
Edinburgh
I Symposium French Institute. 13 Randolph Crescent. 225 5366. 4pm. Music in relation with Literature and Painting. with contributions from John McLeod. Jane Manning and specialists in Jean Cayrol‘s poetry and Poussin's works. See also entry for Greyfriars Kirk. below.
I The Gypsy Baron King’s Theatre, Leven Street. 229 1201. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Tues 3. Wed 4. Thurs 5. Fri 6. Sat 7. £5—£7. Edinburgh Southern Light Opera in Johann Strauss‘s lighthearted operetta. The complicated plot stars the tenor. who comes to claim his inheritance. only to find that his land has been taken over by gypsies. Surprise. surprise. he falls in love with one of them. who turns out to be a princess.
I John McLeod Porlralt Concert Greyfriars Kirk. Candlemaker Row. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. £6.50 (£2/frec). Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Tr'ust focuses on the work ofJohn McLeod with two first performances framing Messiacn‘s Poemes pour Mi. Jane Manning is soprano with Dominic Saunders piano. Philip Sawyer is organist in The Seven Sacraments of Poussin. slides of which will accompany the performance.
TUESDAY 3 Glasgow
I BBC SSD City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 12.45—1.50pm. £3 (£1). Matthias Bamert conducts a lunchtime programme of Mozart‘s Piano Concerto K482 with Hugh Tinney as soloist and the Symphony No 6 by Schubert.
I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons‘ Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15—2pm. £1.50. First performance ofA Saltire Sonata by Robert Crawford. commissioned and performed by pianist Peter Sievewright who also plays Variations and Fugue on a Theme of]. S. Bach by Reger.
I Moscow State Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£15. Pavel Kogan conducts more Russian music starting with Glinka‘s overture Ruslan and Ludmilla followed by two of Tchaikovsky's most popular works - the first Piano Concerto (soloist Derek
4D The List 28 February — 12 March 1992