CLASSICAL MUSIC

Haymarket, junction of Dalry Road. 9pm. Free. 10 and 24 Jan.

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

Mondays

I Cordwalners St James Oyster Bar, Calton Road. 9pm. Free.

I Christies West Port, Grassmarket. 9.30pm. Session.

I Bridge Dar Session Bridge Bar, George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fiddle music and son 5.

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

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

I Little Green Monkeys Bannerman‘s Bar, Cowgate. 9pm. Free.

I Live Music Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.

I Nobles Bar Constitution Street, Leith. 8.30pm. Free. Folk session.

I Maxies Wine liar West Nicholson Street. 9pm. Free. Vital Sparlt.

Tuesdays

I Oxford Bar Young Street. 9pm. Free. Instrumental session.

I flaebum Renters Holyrood Tavern, Holyrood Road. 9pm. Free.

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

I Patsy Maclt 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 Neil Thompson Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.

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

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

CLASSICAL

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

FRIDAY 15 Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £2 (£1). Mezzo-soprano Linda Ormiston is partnered by pianist Angela Livingstone in songs by Gounod, lbert, Ravel, Messiaen. Satie and Rossini.

I Felicity Lott Theatre Royal, Hope Street, 332 9000. 7.15pm. Tickets: from £4.50. International soprano in a recital of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Poulenc, Offenbach and Strauss.

I SCO City Hall, Candleriggs, 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3—£11 (£1). Lars Vogt, 1990 Leeds prizewinner, plays Mozart‘s Piano Concerto No 9, framed by symphonies from Haydn (No 88) and Beethoven

(No 4).

Edinburgh

I HSNO Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 16, Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50(£3.50). The year has hardly started and the word ’National’ is back in the orchestra‘s name. Walter Weller conducts an Eastern European programme of Kodaly, J anacek, Bartok and Dvorak.

SATURDAY 16

Glasgow

I HSNO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25-£18.50 (£3.50). See Fri 15. Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I Scannuccia Stockbridge Parish Church (formerly St Bernard’s), Saxe-Coburg Street. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Period instrument chamber group play Bach’s Suite in 8 minor for flute and strings and Telemann’s Concerto for Recorder and Bassoon.

SUNDAY 17 Edinburgh

I Friends oi Scottish Opera Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 3pm. £2. A make-up demonstration by members of Scottish Opera.

I Edinburgh Quartet Stockbridge Parish Church (formerly St Bernard‘s), Saxe Coburg Street. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 3pm. £6 (£4). Inc coffee/mince pies. Continuing their series of concerts featuring quintets, the E0 is joined by Hilary Thornton, viola, for Beethoven’s Op 29 in C major. The Scandinavian thread is picked up by Grieg and the featured Mozart quartet is K172 in B flat.

TUESDAY 19 Edinburgh

'I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Piano music by Chabrier and Gaspard de la Nair by Ravel played by Roy Howat.

I Leda Piano Trio Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. Extra date: Fri 22, Glasgow. £7 (£4). Haydn, Schubert, Bloch and Shostakovich in a typically intriguing programme from this first-rate trio.

WEDNESDAY 20 Edinburgh

I ECAT Contemporary Music Queen's Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. Please note that the concert by Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe scheduled for this evening has been postponed until the 1993/94 season.

THURSDAY 21 Glasgow

I Merchants Music Merchants‘ House, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.30pm. £3 (£2.50). From Novello to Sondheim from Song Machine.

I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall, Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. Students of the keyboard class display their stuff.

EB] Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £2 (£1). All-French programme for Pascal Roge‘s recital at the Academy. Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc make up his choice.

I BBC SSO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1

(Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3—£15. World premiere of John Maxwell Geddes’ Symphony No 2 - In Memoriam Bryden Thomson is opener to a programme of Beethoven‘s Piano Concerto No 2 and the Symphony No 5 by Nielsen. J erzy Maksymiuk conducts and Ronan O’Hara is soloist.

I Leda Piano Trio Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.45pm. £7 (£4). See Tue 19, Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I HSNO Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat23, Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50 (£3.50). Jansug Kakhidze is soloist in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3 with the Symphony No 15 by Shostakovich in the second half. Leif Ove Andsnes conducts.

I Edinburgh University Concert McEwan Hall, Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Organist Andrew Moore plays Bach,

Widor and Du ré. SATURDAY 23 Glasgow

I HSNO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25—£18.50(£3.50). See Fri 22, Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I SCO Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019.7.45pm.£3.50—£15(£5/standby£3). An evening in salute to Italy with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony. James Clark is soloist and director.

I Georgian Concert Soclety St Cecilia’s Hall, Cowgate. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. £7.50 (£5/£4/£2). The Royal Consort is the title of Fretwork’s programme of music from the courts of Charles I and Charles II by Gibbons, Lawes, Lupo and Matthew Locke.

SUNDAY 24

Glasgow

I City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50-£15. Classics of Rock and Jazz is the title of tonight’s evening of popular classics.

I Paragon Ensemble Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.45pm. £6.50 (£3). Shall We Dance is Elaine Agnew’s invitation in a concert which also includes Scottish contemporary music by Edward McGuire, John Purser and Sally Beamish.

Edinburgh

I Music at St Mark’s St Mark’s Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 6pm. £5 (£3).

Edinburgh Players with Richard Beachamp, piano, in a programme of Mozart and Haydn.

I Darblcan Piano Trlo Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6 (£3.50). Leading young British trio give a Tchaikovsky Centenary Concert with his Trio in A minor Op 50 and piano tn'os by Haydn and Smetana.

TUESDAY 26 Glasgow

I Celebrity llecltal Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Cellist Ralph Kirschbaum in a solo recital of Bach Cello Suites Nos 1, 2 and 6.

Edinburgh

I Nelson llall Concert Nelson Hall, McDonald Road Public Library. 7.45pm. Free at door. Catching the Post, a celebration in words and music of a hundred years of the Scottish Philatelic Society, presented by Cameo.

I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Wind quintets by Mozart, Nielsen and De Groot from the Nielsen Wind Consort.

WEDNESDAY 27 Edinburgh

I anemoon Tea Concert Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 3pm. £4.50. Renowned young artists Duncan Prescott (clarinet) and Scott Mitchell (piano) give a recital of Lutoslawski, Debussy, Bax, Martinu and Arnold.

I Leonard Friedman and Friends Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5/£7 (£3). First of four recitals sees violinist Leonard Friedman team up with pianist Allan Schiller for a programme of Elgar, Mozart, Berkeley and Fritz Kreisler.

THURSDAY 28 Glasgow

I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall, Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. The Kelvin Ensemble.

Edinburgh

I Chamber Music at Oueen Street BBC, 5 Queen Street. Tickets: Reception, BBC, 5 Queen Street, Edinburgh or Reception, BBC, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow. 1pm—2pm. Free. Christian Blackshaw plays piano music by Bach and Schubert. I 8C0 Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.50—£15 (£5/standby £3). Acclaimed pianist Imogen Cooper is soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto N02. On either side sit homages- Hommagea Chopin by Panufnik and Hommagea Panufnik by Osborne. Beethoven’s Symphony No 7 completes Yoav Talmi’s programme.

THE GEORGIAN CONCERT SOCIETY

FRETWORK with WILLIAM CARTER and

PAULA CHATEAUNEUF (theorbos) 'The Royal Consort' : Music from the Courts of Charles I and Charles II. Saturday 23rd January 1993 at St Cecilia's Hall, Cowgate, Edinburgh at 7.45pm. Tickets £750: UB40$ and students £4: OAPs £5: 'Young Scots' £2: from Usher Hall, Queen's Hall, or at door.

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