FOLK & WORLD MUSIC

THURSDAY 7 Glasgow

I Mayiest See separate listings.

I Cottiers Poetry and Song Cottiers, (Old Dowanhill Church) Highburgh Road. 8pm. Free. Jim Ferguson, Margaret Fulton Cook and Dorothy Clark supply the words, Andy Smith, Ian Fergus and Crawiord McCallum, the music. Hosted by Allan Tall. I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside MitchellTheatre. 8pm. £2. New band called The Fite.

Edinburgh

I Mitten Folk Club Dean Tavern, Newtongrange. £2 (£1). 8pm. Singaround.

CLASSICAL mim-

Concerts are listed by date. then by city. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.

FRIDAY 24

Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Philip Jenkins in a piano recital of music by Mozart, Schumann and Paul lsolfsson.

I Milngavie Music Club Milngavie Town Hall, 9561572. 7.30pm. AGM followed by concert.

SATURDAY 25 Glasgow

I Don Giovanni Theatre Royal, Hope Street, 332 9000. 2.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 14, Sat 16, Fri 22, Wed 27 and Fri 29 May, Wed 3 June (Glasgow); Wed 24 and Fri 26 June (Edinburgh). £3—£36. Scottish Opera in new production of Mozart's version of the Don Juan story. Steven Page sings the title role with Gidon Saks as Leperello. Director and designer is Tom Cairns and Robert Dean conducts.

I The Organist Entertain: Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, 357 3929. 2.20-3pm and 3.30—4pm. Free. Fourth concert in a new series to explore the lighter side of the organ repertoire is given by John Burnett.

Edinburgh

I 8CD Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3—£12(£2.50/£3.50). Ernst Kovacic is soloist in Nigel Osborne’s Violin Concerto which, along with James MacMillan’s3 Dawn Rituals, sits between Faure‘s Pelleas et Melisande and the Mother Goose Suite by Ravel.

SUNDAY 26 Glasgow

I Sunday Organ Concert Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 357 3929. 2.30—3pm and 3.30—4pm. Free. Andrew Armstrong of Dunferrnline Abbey gives this week‘s recital.

I Music at the Ourrell Burrell Collection, Pollok Country Park. Tickets: 227 5511. 3pm. £3 (£2). The Telemann Ensemble with Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in F minor, Telemann’s Cantata No 13 and the Concerto Grosso 0p 3 No 2 by Handel.

I City oi Glasgow Phlihannonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1. 7.30pm. £4.50-£15. A Strauss Family Gala Concert in which conductor lain Sutherland takes an enraptured audience through the heady days of Vienna and the family Strauss.

TUESDAY 28 Glasgow

I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons‘ Hall, 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15—2pm. £1.50. Peter Sievewright plays music for piano by Bach, Liszt and Villa Lobos.

I Phoenix Choir Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs30. £4—£8. Varied programme of acappella music, traditional folk songs and arrangements of popular numbers.

Edinburgh

I Lunchtime Concert Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. The Edinburgh Quartet gives the first performance of Quartet by Deborah McCoy along with Mozart‘s Quartet in E flat K I 71.

WEDNESDAY 29

Glasgow

I 8CD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs 30, Edinburgh. £2.50—£1 1. The SCO brings its winter season to a close with two Viennese classics - Beethoven‘s Symphony No 1 and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Adam Fischer conducts and soloists are Elizabeth Laurence and David Kucbler. I Organ Recital Paisley Abbey, 889 7654. 7.30pm. £4 (£3). Christoph Kuhlmann from Germany gives his Scottish debut with a programme centred on organists of St Clotilde in Paris, including Franck and Langlais.

Edinburgh

I ECAT Contemporary Music Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6.50 (£2/free). Pcrcussionist Evelyn Glennie and soprano Anna Steiger give the first performances of two new works, both commissioned by ECAT, one written by Geoffrey King and the other by Nigel Osborne. Also on the programme is Pssapha by Xenakis.

THURSDAY 30

Glasgow

I Westboume Music Merchants Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£2.50). Violin and piano recital of works by Ysaye, Mozart and Bartok with Susanne Stanzeleit, violin, and Gusztav Fenyo, piano.

I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall, Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. Performance class recital.

I Academy Choral Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). Soloists and choir from the RSAMD with conductor George McPhee perform Haydn‘s Nelson Mass and Hymnus Paradisi by Herbert Howells.

I Phoenix Choir Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4—£8. See Tue 28.

Edinburgh

I 8CD Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3—£12(£2.50/£4.50). See Wed 29, Glasgow.

FRIDAY 1

Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Beethoven‘s Hammerklavier sonata is the choice of John Lill for his lunchtime recital.

I Stakis Masterclass Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 2.30pm. Free at door. Piano masterclass directed by John Lill.

Edinburgh

I Lunchtime Prom Royal Scottish Academy, Princes Street. Tickets: at door. 1.05—1.55pm. £5 (£2). Evelyn Glennie, percussionist extraordinaire, gives first in short series of concerts. Programme includes works by Lang, Thomas, Masson and Abe.

I the Copenhagen trio Danish Cultural institute , 3 Doune Terrace, 225 7189. 7.30pm. Works by Brahms, Shostakovich, Schumann, Gade and Koppel in this Edinburgh stop on UK tour.

SUNDAY 3 Glasgow

I Music at the Burrell Burrell Collection. Pollok Country Park. Tickets: 227 5511. 3pm. £3 (£2). Play Gipsy, Csardas’s programme of Carmen, Dvorak, Atrhe Balalaika and traditional Russian folk melodies.

I Lanark Community Music Week St Nicholas’ Church, Lanark. Further info: 0555 4964. 7.30pm. Festival of music and song with SCO Brass Quintet and Les Coeurs Gais and combined choirs.

TUESDAY 5 Glasgow

I Competition Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The John Ireland Prize Competition for chamber music.

I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons' Hall, 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15—2pm. £1.50. Members ofthe University of Strathclyde Music Society.

I the Darling Buds oi May City Hall, Candlcriggs, 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3. The Linn Choir, conductor H W Gardner, with guest soprano Sandra Porter and accompanist Jack Bolling.

I Lanark Community Music Week St Mary‘s Church, Lanark. Further info: 0555 4964.

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SCOTTISH

7.30pm. The Four Seasons . music and art from local primary schools with the SCO.

Edinburgh

I Lunchtime Concert Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 1 . 10pm. Free at door. Concert by students of Edinburgh University’s Faculty of Music.

I Brigham Young University Chamber Orchestra Portobello Town Hall. Tickets: 228 1155 (Usher Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Talented young American orchestra on UK tour performs in aid of the RSSPCC.

WEDNESDAY 6 Glasgow

I Winter Gardens Prom Winter Gardens. People’s Palace. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4 (£2.50). Fanfares, marches, madrigals and folksong arrangements from students of Strathclyde University music groups.

I Academy Baroque Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. Admission free by ticket. A concert by students of the RSAMD‘s early music course. It includes works by Bach and Telemann‘s Concerto for three trumpets.

I Lanark Community Music Week St Mary‘s Church, Lanark. Further info: ()555 4964. 7.30pm. Lanark and Carluke Choral Union join forces with the SCO forJohn Rutter‘s Requiem and the Gloria by Poulenc.

THURSDAY 7

Glasgow

I Westboume Music Merchants Hall , 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£2.50). Murray McLachlan is now into programme No 2 in his performance ofthe complete Beethoven sonatas.

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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SIR YEHUDI MENUHIN

Conducts Ronald Stevenson's Violin Concerto World Premiere

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Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G minor

Ronald Stevenson: Violin Concerto HU KUN. Violin SIR YEHUDI MENUHIN. Conductor

Tickets £2.50 - £12.00

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