MUSIC FOLK & WORLD

I Park Bar Argyll Street, near Kelvin Park,3391715. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders pub.

Mondays

I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal session.

Tuesdays

I Clutha Vaults 167 Stockwell Street, 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Music and song session.

Wednesdays

I Halt Bar Woodlands Road. 9pm. Free. Irish/Scots instrumental session.

I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal session.

I Hebridean Bar Dumbarton Road, Partick. Scottish/Irish.

EDINBURGH Fridays

I Sandy Bells Forrest Hill Bar, Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish session.

I Gll Bowman and Friends Thistle Hotel, Manor Place, 225 6144. 9pm.—midnight. Free. Songwriter/guitarist.

I Tron Ceilldh House Hunter Square, High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free.

Accordion and guitar in the bar.

I North Sea Gas Platform One, Caledonian Hotel, Rotund Street. Free. Popular Scots entertainers.

I Live Music Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket, top of High Street. 9pm. Free.

I Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9.30pm. Free. Informal music downstairs.

Saturdays

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. 2pm. Afternoon session.

I Shore Music The Shore Bar, Shore, Leith. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental music.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion/guitar in the bar.

I Live Music Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket, top of High Street. 9pm. Free.

I Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal music.

Sundays

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

I Sandy Bell's Forrest Hill Bar, Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.

I Live Music Ensign Ewan, Lawnmarket, top of High Street. 9pm. Free. Waliynllen. I Nancy Nicholson Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.

, I Christies West Port, Grassmarket.

. 9.30p

, I Bridge Bar Session Bridge Bar. George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fiddle music and

songs. . I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High

, I Little Green Monkeys Bannerrnan’s Bar, Cowgate. 9pm. Free.

8.30pm. Free. Folk session.

'Tuesdays

f I Raeburn Renters Holyrood Tavern,

. Holyrood Road. 9pm. Free.

, I Open Session Thistle Hotel, Manor Place, 225 6144. 8.30pm—midnight. Free.

Mondays

m. Free. Session.

Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening, 229 2665. Free. Traditional Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddles.

I Live Music Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, l 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. l I Nobles Bar Constitution Street, Leith.

Singers and instrumentalists.

I Patsy Mack Bannermans Bar, Cowgate. 9pm. free.

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

Wednesdays

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

I Green Tree Cowgate, 9pm. Free. Scottish and Irish.

Thursdays

I West End Oyster Bar West Maitland Street. 10pm. Free. Acoustic contemporary songs.

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. 9pm. Free. Informal sessions.

I Riptide Scotsman Bar, Cockburn Street. 9pm. Free.

I Nell Thompson Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.

CLASSICAL m

Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classlgal Listings compiled by Cami Mail. _

FRIDAY 4

Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £2 (£1). The King’s Consort with lute songs, consort songs and airs by John Dowland, Purcell and their contemporaries.

geotfish flarinusic Consort

WILLIAM BYRD

Consort music, anthems, songs, motets, music for Christmas and for Mary, Queen of Scots

Thtn'sday 10 December 7.45pm The Queen's Hall, Clerk Street, Edinburgh Tickets: 031-668 2019 swayed by Morgan Gnu/ell omtopuu Capital Ltd M O R G A N G RE N F E L 1. Friday 11 and Saturday 12 December 8pm Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow Tickets: 041-332 5057

“The List4- 17 December 1992

I BBC SSD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3—£15. The Edinburgh Festival Chorus join the BBC orchestra for Beethoven's Choral Symphony. Soloists are Janice Cairns, Jean Rigby, Robert Tear and John Conneil. Strauss‘s Death and Transfiguration in the first half. Mark Wigglesworth is conductor.

I Scottish Ensemble Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sun 6, Edinburgh. £8.50 (£4.50). Varied selection of music for strings by Corelli, Telemann, Mozart, Atterberg and Grieg.

I ltilmardinny Music Club Kilmardinny House, 50 Kilmardinny Avenue, Bearsden. 7.45pm. The Hand/Dupre Duo play Edward McGuire’s Piobaireachd to the Brahmaputra.

Edinburgh

I SCO St Bemard’s Church, Saxe Coburg Street, Stockbridge. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7pm. £3.50 (£1.50). Revolting Rhymes Roald Dahl‘s alternative version of Little Red Riding Hood in a new setting by Paul Patterson. Also, Peter and the Wolf. Harriet Buchan of Taggart narrates both.

I RSO Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 5, Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50 (£3.50). The sparkling Joanna MacGregor is soloist in Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand in a thrilling programme including Berlioz’ Le Corsaire, Fauré’s Pavane and Stravinsky’s Petrushka in its 1947 version to finish up. David Atherton conducts.

I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 7.45pm. Tickets at door. Handel’s Dixit Dominus and the Requiem by Faure are the end of term choice for Edinburgh University Chamber Choir under conductor Nicholas Jones.

SATURDAY 5

Glasgow

I RSAMD Junlor Dept Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 3pm. Admission free by ticket. Wind Orchestra, Brass Ensemble and Chamber Music Groups.

I RSO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25—£18.50 (standby £3.50). See Fri 4, Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I 800 Brass Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. Extra date: Sun 6, Glasgow. £4/£7 (£4). From Russia with Brass, a journey from St Petersburg with Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Ewald and Prokofiev.

I Edinburgh Bach Society Greyfriars Church, Candlemaker Row. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. £5 (£4). Vaughan Williams, Handel and Finzi prove that this choir is far from constrained by its name. Conductor is Philip Rossiter.

SUNDAY 6 Glasgow

I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons‘ Hall, 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm—2pm. £1.50. The RSAMD Junior Dept Chamber Orchestra with Mozart and two more unusual items for soloist and orchestra Torelli’s Trumpet Sonata and the Concerto for Marimba and Strings by Rosauro.

I Organ Concert Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove. Free at door. 2.30pm—3pm and 3.30pm—4pm. Anne Strachan of St John’s Renfield Street Church, Glasgow. I SCD Brass Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (£4). See Sat 5, Edinburgh.

I Glasgow University Choral Society Glasgow University Chapel. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). Hadyn’s St Cecilia Mass, performed with the Glasgow University Chamber Orchestra under conductor Marjorie Rycroft.

Edinburgh

I Scottish Ensemble Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 2.30pm. £7/£8.50 (£3—£6). See Fri 4, Glasgow.

I Edinburgh Renaissance Band St Mark‘s Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 6pm. £5 (£3). Christmassy vocal and instrumental music from the 12th century to the 17th century, with the Scottish Gabrieli Ensemble and the Linton Singers.

I St Mary's Cathedral Choir/Scottish Cantata Singers St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. Handel’s Messiah with soloists from the RSAMD and the Cathedral Orchestra. Timothy Byram-Wigfield conducts.

MONDAY 7 Edinburgh

I Fanfare ior Europe Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. Lothian Region Schools concert.

I ECAT Contemporary Music St Bride‘s Centre, Orwell Terrace. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street). 7.45pm. £2/£6.50 (free). Harrison Birtwistle’s Bow Down, a music theatre piece about love, sex and murder performed by the Major Road Theatre Company and four Lothian secondary schools.

I Hebrides Ensemble Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£3). Rare chance to hear Schnittke’s completion of Mahler’s Piano Quartet and the world premiere of Haflidi Hallgrimsson's lntarsia.

I Tu- Assembly Rooms, George Street, 220 4349. 8.30pm. £5 (£3). Stephen King, viola, and Allan Neave. guitar, in a programme ranging from mainstream classical Bach/Kodaiy, Vivaldi, Granados— to jazz, folk and contemporary. Part of Europe, the World.

TUESDAY 8 Edinburgh

I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 1.10pm. ; Free at door. A programme of music from 1 Rome which has lain dormant since the 16th century, including some Holy Week Lamentations possibly by Palestrina.

I 0 renovate Scotia . . .Signet Library. , Parliament Square. Tickets: 228 1 155 : (Usher Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £10. A Scottish European concert with the Camerata of St Andrew directed by Leonard Friedman in celebration of the 450th anniversary ofthc birth ofMary Stewart on this day in 1542. Music by Carissimi, Clerk, Luily, Munro and Anon. With Margaret Marshall, soprano. and Kenneth Elliott, harpsichord.

I Carol Concert Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. St Margaret’s School celebrate Christmas with music.

THURSDAY 10 Glasgow

I Merchants Music Merchants' House, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£2.50). Solo piano music from Kenneth Hamilton, including the seasonal In Diem Nativitatis Christi M C MXV II by Busoni and the same composer’s Carmen Fantasy.

I RSAMD Contemporary Ensemble Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). Repeat of Edinburgh lunchtime programme with the addition of East 11th Street NY10003 by James Dillon.