MUSID CLASSICAL

Edinburgh I

I RSD Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 19. Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50. Walter Weller conducts the orchestra and RSO Chorus in § Beethoven's Missa Solemnth

SATURDAY 19 ;

Glasgow

I RSAMD Junior Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. £4 (£2). Orchestra and choirin Rimsky-Korsakov. Torelli. Frank Spedding and Sydney Sager‘s Delilah the Sensitive Cow.

I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tue 22. Wed 23. Tue 29. Wed 30 Dec. Sat 23. Sat 30 (mat) Jan. Thurs 4. Wed 10Feb (Glasgow): Tue 16. Thurs 18. Sat 20 Feb (Edinburgh). £3.50—£38.50. New Scottish Opera production of Mozart‘s magical and colourful opera. with Simon Keenlyside as Papageno and Jennifer Rhys-Davies as the Queen ofthe Night. Martin Duncan‘s direction promises to use ‘gentle humour and clowning.‘ Sung in English

I RSD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25—£l8.50. See Fri 18. Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I Cappella Nova Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £7/£8 I (£3.50/£4). See Fri 18, Edinburgh. 3 I Carol Party lor Christian Aid Mayfield 1 Church. Mayfield Road. Tickets: 667 8871. 7.30pm. £2 (children 50p). Charity I concert given by Mayfield Church Choir I and Youth Choir. Christmas music and l

readings. both devotional and entertaining.

SUNDAY 20 E Glasgow

I Organ Concert Art Gallery and Museum. ; Kelvingrove. Free at door. 2.30—3pm and 3.30—4pm. Last concert in series is given by Neil Cockburn of Keeble College. Oxford.

I Carol Service Glasgow University Chapel. 3pm. Free at door. Chapel Choir Carol Service directed by Stuart Campbell.

I Music at the Burrell Burrell Collection. Pollok Country Park. Pollokshaws Road. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 3pm. £3 (£2). Csardas presents With a Song in My Heart. a

festive selection of Christmas classics from Bach and Handel to lrving Berlin.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Clarsach Society Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Afternoon Christmas Concert with clarsachs. flutes. fiddles and voices. I Carol Concert Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Christmas Carols with the Salvation Army.

I Jubilo Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street.668 2019. 8pm. £4 (£3). Family Carol Concert from Jubilo. the Jubilo Juniors and the Edinburgh Players conducted by Walter Thomson. Familiar and not so familiar carols plus Vaughan Williams‘ Fantasia (it bears little relation to Disney‘s) and Holst‘s Christmas Day.

I Edinburgh Ouartet Stockbridge Parish Church (formerly St Bernard‘s). Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 3pm. £6 (£4.50)/season £20 (£16). First in a series of four concerts featuring Mozart quartets. Scandinavian quartets and a variety ofquintets. This afternoon it‘s Mozart k168in F. Berwald and Schubert Quintet in C. ()p 163 with Donald Gillan. cello.

MONDAY 21

' TUESDAY 22

Edinburgh

I The Carol Party 92 Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £5 (£3.50). Murray international Whitburn Band. Edinburgh Royal Choral Union. Edinburgh Grand Opera Chorus plus children. handbells. fiddles. pipes and surprises for all the family with Christopher Bell leading proceedings.

Glasgow

I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 23. Tue 29. Wed 30 Dec. Sat 23.Sat 30 (mat) Jan. Thurs 4. Wed 10Feb (Glasgow):Tue 16.Thurs 18. Sat 20Feb (Edinburgh). £3.50—£38.50. See Sat 19. Glasgow.

I Christmas Cami Concert City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Wednesday 23. £5—£15. A Christmas celebration of seasonal music and carols with Philip Ledger and the R50 Youth and Junior Choruses.

I The Messiah Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£17.50. Sir Yehudi Menuhin conducts the first major performance of Handel‘s Messialt in the GRCI 1. With the Scottish Ensemble. Bearsden Burgh Choir and John Wallace. trumpet.

Edinburgh

I Carol Service St Mary‘s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Free at door. 7.30pm. Service of Nine Lessons and Carols.

WEDNESDAY 23 ; Glasgow

I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tue 29. Wed 30 Dec. Sat 23. Sat 30(mat). Thurs 4 Jan. Wed 10 Feb (Glasgow);Tue 16. Thurs 18. Sat 20 Feb (Edinburgh). L3.50—£38.50. Sec Sat 19.

I Christmas Carol Concert City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £5—£ l 5. See Tue 22. Glasgow.

I 1 Edinburgh i

I SCD Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155.7.30pm.£3.50—£15(£3).What would Christmas be without The Messiah‘.’ i This is the last one this year and with ' Maria Bayo. Patricia Bardon. John Mark Ainsley and David Wilson-Johnson. it should be worth hearing. Antoni Ros-Marba conducts.

CHRISTMAS EVE 5 Glasgow

I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Music. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.30pm. £3 (£2.50). That’s the Spirit. a concert for those who‘ve not had enough at the office Christmas party. The Csardas cocktail is made up of spirits sacred. ghostly and alcoholic by Handel. Saint-Saens and Offenbach.

Edinburgh

I Carol Service St Mary‘s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Free at door. 7.30pm/11.30pm. Service of Nine Lessons and Carols followed by Midnight Mass at 11.30pm Schubert‘s Mass in (i.

{ CHRISTMAS DAY

Edinburgh

I Carol Service St Mary‘s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Free at door. 10.30am. Sung Eucharist Mozart‘s Coronation Mass with Carols.

TUESDAY 29

Glasgow

I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 30 Dec. Sat 23. Sat 30 (mat)Jan. Thurs 4. Wed 10 Feb (Glasgow): Tue 16. Thurs 18. Sat 20 Feb(Edinburgh). £3.50—£38.50. See Sat 19.

Edinburgh

I Piano Recital Church ofSt Andrew and St George. George Street. Tickets: 5 Walker Street. Edinburgh (by post) or at door. 7.30pm. £5 (£3.50). Mark Prescott performs Beethoven. Chopin and Debussy in aid of Edinburgh Youth Orchestra‘s forthcoming European tour. The EYO Beethoven Septet will also be

playing.

WEDNESDAY 30 Glasgow

I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 23. Sat 30(mat)Jan. Thurs 4. Wed 10Feb (Glasgow); Tue 16. Thurs 18. Sat 20Feb (Edinburgh). £3.50—£38.50. See Sat 19.

NEW YEAR’S DAY Glasgow

I City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £5—£15. Glasgow Greets Vienna. a New Year‘s Day celebration of music from Scotland and Vienna. To be broadcast by BBC Radio 2.

SATURDAY 2 Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Royal Choral Union Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1 155. Noon. £5—£12 (£4). Annual performance of Handel‘s Messiah with Patricia MacMahon. Peter Alexander-Wilson. William Forbes-Jones and Andrew Greenan and Cantorum Amici. conducted by Harry Bicket.

SUNDAY 3 Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Quartet Stockbridge Parish Church (formerly St Bernard‘s). Tickets:

668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 3pm.

£6 (£4.50)/season £20 (£16). Mozart‘s Quartet in 1) minor K173. Neilsen‘s Quartet in Fand Dvorak‘s Quintet in (i with Ninian Perry. double bass.

MONDAY 4 Glasgow

I New Year Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Celebrate the New Year in style with Carl Davis. Edwin Paling. the R80 Junior Chorus and the R80.

Edinburgh

I National Youth Orchestra at Scotland Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 l 155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Tuesday 5. Glasgow. £6—£14(conc half-price). John Lill is soloist in Brahms‘ Piano Concerto No] 0;) 15. centrepiece to a programme of Glinka‘s Russian and Ludmilla overture and Strauss‘s Death and Transfiguration. Roland Kieft conducts.

TUESDAY 5 Glasgow

I National Youth Orchestra otScotland Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 2275511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm.

£6—£14(conc half-price). See Monday4. Edinburgh.

WEDNESDAY 6 Glasgow

I 300 City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 9. £3—£l 1 (£1). An orchestral celebration of dance by Mozart. Prokofiev. Stravinsky and lves. Leonidas Kavakos is soloist in Prokofiev‘s Violin Concerto No I.

THURSDAY 7 Glasgow

I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.30pm. £3 (£2.50). Pianist Murray McLachlan plays the tenth programme in The

( ‘omplete Beethoven Sonatas. Today it‘s Op 7. Op 78 and Op 2 No3.

Edinburgh

I Scaramuccia Stockbridge Parish Church (formerly St Bernard‘s). Saxe (‘oburg Street. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £6(£3). Sonatas and trio sonatas by l landel played on period instruments. plus the young French male soprano Renald Laban in Handel‘s Laudate Pueri and fourGerman arias.

FRIDAY 8 Edinburgh

I RSD Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 9. Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50. All English programme of Walton. Britten and Elgar‘s linima Variations with Jane Glover. conductor. and Mischa Maisky. cello.

SATURDAY 9

Glasgow

I RSD Glasgow Royal Concert llali. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 2275511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25—£l8.50. See Fri 8. Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I 800 Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.5(l—£15(£3). See W‘cd O. Glasgow.

SDAY 12

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh University Concert Reid E

Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. '

Free at door. The Edinburgh Quartet

plays Bartok and Haydn. l i

THURSDAY 14

Glasgow

Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511

1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. ; Extra dates: Friday 15. Edinburghand

Saturday 16. Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50. Exciting Eastern European programme of Kodaly‘s Hary Janos Suite. Josef Suk as

I RSD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 l i

' soloist in violin concertos by Janacek and

Bartok (No l) and Dvorak‘s.S‘ymphonv No 7. Walter Weller conducts.

I La Boheme Theatre Royal. ilope Street. 332 9000. 7. 15pm. Extra dates: Sat 16. Wed 20. Fri 22. Tue 26. Thurs 28 Jan. Wed 3. Sat 6. Tue 9.Thurs 11.Sat l3 (mat)l"eb

(Glasgow); Wed 17. Fri 19 Feb

(Edinburgh). £3.50—£38.50. Puccini passion from Scottish Opera in their

' revival of Elijah Moshinsky‘s wonderful

production. A clean hanky is recommended. in ltalian with English supertitles.

Edinburgh

I SCD Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. Extradate: Fri 15. Glasgow. £3.50—£15 (£3). German wunderkind Lars Vogt plays Mozart‘s Piano Concerto No 9. framed by l laydn 's Symphony No 88 and Beethoven‘s Symphony No 4.

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56 The List 18 December 1992 14 January 1993