MUSIC CLASSICAL & OPERA

I Bridge Bar Session Bridge Bar. George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fiddle session.

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

I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. 229 2665. Evening. 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.

Tuesdays

I Auld Toll Bar Tollcross. 8pm. Free. Session.

I International Bar Tarvit Street. 9pm. Session.

I Iiaeburn Ranters Holyrood Tavern. Holyrood Road. 9pm. Free.

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

I Patsy Mack Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 9.30pm. Free.

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

Wednesdays

I Partisan liar High Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic In'sh session.

I West End Iiotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Jam session.

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

Thursdays

I Shooglenilty La Belle Angele. Hastie‘s Close. behind 369 Gallery. Cowgate. Folk fusion band.

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

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

CLASSICAL & OPERA

Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical 8. Opera listings compiled by Carol Main.

SATURDAY 11 Edinburgh

I RSAMO Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2OI9. 7.45pm. Extra date: Sun l2. Glasgow. £4 (£2).

Just before going off to Canada. the orchestra gives Scottish audiences a chance to hear their programme of Mozart. Bach. Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. Britten's Les Illuminations and Mozart’s Symphony No 29.

SUNDAY 12

Glasgow

I RSAMO Chamber Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. IOO Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). See Sat II. Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I Violin and Piano Recital Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7.50. Clio Gould. one of Britain’s most recent rising talents and newly appointed artistic director of the Scottish Ensemble joins with pianist Katharine Durran for Janacek. Schoenberg. Prokofiev and Strauss. Proceeds to Edinburgh Competition Festival.

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I Glasgow International Gala Season Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 55] I (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm.

£ IO—£20. Gorecki’s Svmphony No 3. top of the Classic FM charts for over six weeks. receives its Scottish premiere by the RSNO. The soprano is Margaret Field and Strauss’s Also Spratrh Zarathustra opens the concert.

I Organ Recital St Mary’s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door. 8pm. £5 (£3/children free). Herrick Bunney. Master ofthe Music at St Giles’. gives tonight‘s recital.

THURSDAY 16

Glasgow

I Merchants’ Music Merchants' House. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). I2.45pm. £3.50 (£3). Ursula Smith. cello. and Elizabeth Upchurch. piano. play Rachmaninov and Beethoven.

FRIDAY 17

Wilhelmenia Fernandez

I Glasgow International Gala Season Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 55I I (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £I0—£20. Wilhelmenia Fernandez is the guest soloist of the City ofGlasgow Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Iain Sutherland.

SATURDAY 18

Glasgow

I I due Foscari Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7. l5pm. Extra dates: Thurs 23. Sat 25 Sept. Fri 29 Oct. Sat 6 Nov (matinee) Glasgow; Tues 9 Nov Edinburgh. £5—£40. 7. l5pm. The company‘s new Music Director. Richard Armstrong. with early Verdi opera to start the season. Based on Byron’s play about murder and exile among Venetion nobility. this new production is directed by Howard Davies and designed by Ashley Martin-Davis. Chinese tenor. Deng. makes his Scottish Opera debut as Jacopo Foscari.

I Glasgow International Gala Season Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 I (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm.

£I0—£20. Alexander Lazarev conducts the Bolshoi Orchestra in a programme which includes Sergei Gershenko as soloist in the Sibelius Violin Concerto and the Symphony No 8 by Shostakovich.

I IBM/BSilo Composers’ Competition Finalisis’ Concert City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 55I I. 7.45pm. £4.50/£7.50 (£3). Five new works by young Scottish composers vie for a £7000 prize and a place in the RSNO‘s I994 season. Judges are Martin Dalby. Richard Bernas. Sir Alexander Gibson. Paul Ruders and Judith Weir.

SUNDAY 19

Glasgow

I Glasgow International Gala Season Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 55 ll (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £10—£20. Last night of the GIGS. a traditional evening of celebration with the City ofGIasgow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Male Voice Choir.

TUESDAY 21

Glasgow

I Centre Cage - American Composers’ Concert Series Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 55II (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £7 (£4). Four members of Cappella Nova perform Song Books and litany/or the Whale by John Cage.

Edinburgh

I leda Piano Trio Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. Extra date: Thurs 23. Glasgow. £7 (£5). Two new works by the young Edinburgh composer Kenneth Dempster The Angels" Shore and Scottish Spirit are premiered. Both are inspired by the subject of whisky making and its consumption. Trios by Beethoven and Brahms frame their central position.

WEDNESDAY 22

Glasgow

I Tosca Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7. I5pm. Extra dates: Fri 24. Wed 29 Sept. Sat 2 (matinee). Thurs 7. Sat 9 Oct. Wed 3 Nov Glasgow; Wed I0 and Sat I3 Nov Edinburgh. £5—£40.

7. I5pm. Sir Alexander Gibson conducts Scottish Opera in Puccini‘s passionate tale of love and murder with opera singer Floria Tosca at its centre. Set in Fascist Rome. the title role is taken by Eva Zseller. Jonathan Welch is Cavaradossi and Scarpia is played by Henk Smit.

I Centre Cage American Composers’ Concert Series Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 551i (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £7 (£4). The highly regarded Smith Quartet with string quartets by Elliott Sharp. Philip Glass. Russell Pinkston. John Cage and Wayne Siegel.

THURSDAY 23

Glasgow

I l due Foscari Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 25 Sept. Fri 29 Oct. Sat 6 Nov (matinee) Glasgow; Tues 9 Nov - Edinburgh. £5—£40. 7. I5pm. See Sat I8. I leda Piano Trio Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. IOO Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £7 (£4). See Tues 2 I. Edinburgh.

I Centre Cage - American Composers’ Concert Series Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 55]] (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £7 (£4). More American string quartets from the Smith Quartet. Tonight you can hear Steve Montague. John Cage's In Four Parts. Ezequiel Vinao. Elliot Carter and Steve Reich's Different Trains.

48 The List 10—23 September I993