MUSIC CLASSICAL & OPERA

THURSDAY 15

I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45-1.45pm. £3.50 (£3). The Morley String Quartet with mezzo Sandra Porter and pianist Graeme McNaught play Barber. Chausson and Debussy.

Edinburgh

I SUD Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.5()—£15 (standby £3/£5). Baroque specialist Roy Goodman conducts the SCO in a musical pilgrimage from Passiontide to Ascension in a programme which includes the Easter Oratorio and the Ascension Oratorio. Soloists are Judith Nelson. Margaret Cable. Jamie MacDougall and Michael George. With the SCO Chorus.

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THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by R. Vaughan Williams KING'S THEATRE 28 April - 1 May 7.30pm

Musical Director: Christopher Bell Produced by: Gerard Mulgrew/James Bryce

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FRIDAY 16

I Glasgow Grand Opera - Opera Gala! New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 17. Mon 19. Tue 20. Wed 21. Thurs 22. Fri 23. Sat 24 (+ 2.15pm matinee). £6—£8. On their first visit to the RSAMD. Glasgow Grand mount a pot-pourri production featuring the music of great operatic composers such as Mozart. Wagner. Bizet. Strauss and Verdi. Musical Director is Graham Dickie and Producer is lnness Wilson.

Edinburgh

I RSND Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 17 (Glasgow). £4.25—£l8.50 (standby £3.50). Lynn Harrell is soloist in Shostakovich‘s Cello Concerto No l. which is framed by

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SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

7.30pm Saturday 17th April ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DRAMA Geoffrey King: Man Dancing (BBC Commission, World Premiere)

Britten: Nocturne for tenor and chamber orchestra

Tippett: Symphony No. 2

Neil Mackie, tenor Howard Williams, conductor

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Wagner's Rienzi overture and Tchaikovsky‘s Symphony No 5. With Walter Weller conducting. this should be a sell-out.

I Plano Recital Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £5 (£3.50). Reginald Baker plays Beethoven. Chopin and Brahms.

SATURDAY 17

I Glasgow Grand Opera - Opera Gala! New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 1(X) Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Mon 19. Tue 20. Wed 21. Thurs 22. Fri 23. Sat 24 (+ 2.15pm matinee).

£6—£8. See Fri 16.

I BSND Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25—£18.50 (standby £3.50). See Fri 16. Edinburgh.

I BBC 380 Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6 (£3.50/£2.50). The Premiere series. a celebration of new music. comes to its conclusion with the first performance of a new work by Geoffrey King plus Britten's Nocturne for tenor (Neil Mackie) and chamber orchestra and Tippett‘s Symphony No 2. Howard Williams conducts.

Edinburgh

I Leda Piano Trio Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£4). ()racle Beach by Sally Beamish. which incorporates the story of Leda and the swan and features Edinburgh-born soprano Adele Paxton. is included with works by Mozart (Piano Trio in C K548). Ravel (Five Greek Songs) and Faure (1) minor Piano Trio).

SUNDAY 18

Glasgow

I City at Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.5()—£15. Music from Vienna going under the title Voices ofSprt'ng.

MONDAY 19

Glasgow

I Glasgow Grand Opera - Opera Gala! New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tue 20. Wed 21. Thurs 22. Fri 23. Sat 24 (+ 2.15pm matinee). £6—£8. See Fri 16.

TUESDAY 20

Glasgow

I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons' Hall. enter by 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm. £1.50. Pianist Brian Davidson in an almost all Chopin programme of the C sharp minor Prelude. Barcarolle ()p ()0. Nocturne ()p 55 No 2 in E flat and the Polonaise Fantasie in A flat. Four Moments Musicaux by Rachmaninov complete the programme.

I Composers’ Workshop Guinness Room, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Free. An informal performance/composition workshop with students and composer Thomas Wilson. who speaks about his life and work.

I Glasgow Grand Opera - Opera Gala! New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 21. Thurs 22. Fri 23. Sat 24 (+ 2.15pm matinee). £6—£8. See Fri 16.

I Itzhak Perlman Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£15. As part of the Hall's Intemational Series. this world renowned violinist stars in Beethoven's Sonata in G major. the Divertimento by Stravinsky and Saint-Sa'ens's Sonata in 1) minor.

Edinburgh

I Sonic Boom Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 7.30pm. £2.50 (£1). New electronic music including two World premieres. Gendy 3 by Xenakis and La Porte by David Revil.

WEDNESDAY 21

I Norma Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 24 and Tue 27 April. Sat 1 and Thurs 6 May. Glasgow; Tue 15 and Sat 19 June. Edinburgh. £3.5()-£43.50. Gala performance of Bellini‘s rarely performed opera Norma in aid of Crusaid Scotland. It's the first time ever that Scottish Opera has tackled the work. with soprano Jane Eaglen taking the title role as its dramatic tensions unfold. See Music Preview.

I Glasgow Grand Opera - Opera Gala! New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 22. Fri 23. Sat 24 (+ 2.15pm matinee). £6—£8. See Fri 16.

I 500 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs 29. Edinburgh. £3—£15 (£1). Evelyn Glennie is soloist in James MacMillan's recent percussion concerto Vent, Vent Emmanuel which sits between two works by Beethoven. Leonora No 3 and the Pastoral Symphony. Jukka-Pekka Saraste condttcts.

I Schubert in Spring Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. 943 (1312. 7.30pm. An evening of song and chamber music from baritone William Jenkins and friends.

Edinburgh

I A Silver Jubilee Fanfare - The Organ in Consort St Giles’ Cathedral. High Street. 226 2998. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Trumpeters Crispian Steele-Perkins and Michael Laird with organist John Birch perform in aid of The Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children.

THURSDAY 22

Glasgow I RSAMO Chamber Ensemble Concert

Hall. Glasgow L'niversity. 1.15pm. Free at door. Some music for lunchtime.

I Glasgow Grand Opera - Opera Gala! New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra Jates: Fri 23. Sat 24 (+ 2.15pm matinee). E6—£8. Sec Fri 16.

I “SUD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 23. Edinburgh and Sat 24. Glasgow. £4.25—<£18.5() (standby £3.50). Sir Alexander Gibson conducts Weber‘s overture to ()lN’I‘rHi. Dvorak‘s Cello Concerto with Robert Cohen as soloist. and the Symphony No 2 by Brahms. Should be quite a stunner.

Edinburgh

I Chamber Music at Oueen Street BBC. 5 Queen Street. Tickets: BBC Reception. 1pm. Free. The Edinburgh Quartet with string quartets by D\ orak and Robert Crawford.