CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
Music celebrates the life and work of past Dean. Kenneth Leighton. who died in 1988. With the choir of Wakefield Cathedral. the programme encompasses choral. solo and organ music.
I The Barblcan Virtuosi Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6.50/£8 (£4). See Sat 23. Glasgow.
MONDAY 25
I The Barony The Barony Hall. University of Strathclyde. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). The Hagan Quartet play string quartets by Haydn. Puccini (Crisanremi) and Beethoven (0p 13]).
TUESDAY 26 7
Glasgow
I lunchtime Concert Hutchesons‘ Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. ' 1.15pm-2pm. £1.60. Pianist Murray McLachlan plays Bach. Beethoven. John McLeod and Chopin.
I Katya liabanova Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 28 Oct. Glasgow; Fri 12 Nov. Edinburgh. £5—£40. Janacek‘s powerful opera is updated in a new production for Scottish Opera directed by Mark Brickman and conducted by Richard Armstrong with designs set in late Tsarist Russia by Richard Aylwin. Soprano Helen Field sings Hatya.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. The Hebrides Ensemble - five of them today — play :1 Mozart duo. a Poulenc trio and Songs and Blessings by Sally Beamish.
f WEDNESDAY 27
Glasgow
I The Massed Bands of the lioyal Air Force Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £6.50—£l2.50. Part of an autumn UK tour to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force. Tom O‘Connor is the compere.
I Salome Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 30 Oct. Tues 2 and Thurs 4 Nov. Glasgow; Thurs ll Nov. Edinburgh. £5—£40. Scottish Opera revival of a co-production with Welsh National sees Beverly Morgan as the ‘smouldering‘ Salome. Richard Armstrong conducts Strauss’s heady stuff. ' Sung in German with English supertitles. '
Edinburgh
I Attemoon Tea Concert Queen‘s Hall.
Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £4.50. The Calton Piano Trio go from the classical
sounds of Mendelssohn‘s Trio in D minor 1 to lighter hearted pieces by Elgar. Faure and Gershwin in palm court mood. Ticket i includes afternoon tea.
£3.50 (£3). Songs by Grieg. Wolf. Faure g and Poulenc sung by Patricia MacMahon
3 Fri 12 Nov. Edinburgh. £5—£40. See Tues
Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 = 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 29. Edinburgh
Variations seem to be the theme this
Tchaikovsky‘s on a Rococo theme. His Symphony No 4 provides the after
; I The Barony The Barony Hall.
University of Strathclyde. Tickets: 227 1 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs).
7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). Eighteenth century
} Baroque Players and their director
3 Nicholas Kraemer. Monica Huggett and Catherine Weiss are the violins and Kasia ? Elsner plays lute. Telemann. Leclair.
I Edinburgh
Violin Concerto.
1 FRIDAY 29
exile and Venetian nobility.
Margaret Drive (please enclose sae).
' 7.30pm. Free. Takuo Yuasa is conductor , and Seiji Yokokawa soloist in Finzi’s
Clarinet Concerto. which falls between
1 Heaven and Earth. an evening which
includes Carver’s mass L'Homme Amiee.
g In tempore helli by John Maxwell Geddes. f Howells‘ Sequence for St Michael and
. 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs).
; celebratory discovery of a splendid new
I Elizabeth McKeon Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6 (£4.50). An evening of French song with this Edinburgh soprano who won the 1988 National Mozart Competition. Faure. Debussy. Poulenc and Duparc are among the composers whose work can be heard. Proceeds to Alzheimer's Scotland.
THURSDAY 28 '
Glasgow
I Merchants MUSIC Merchants‘ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm.
with piano accompaniment by Walter Blair.
I Katya Kabanova Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra date:
26. I Royal SND Glasgow Royal Concert
and Sat 30. Glasgow. £4.50—£l9.
evening — Brahms on Haydn and
interval meat and the whole evening is conducted by Lawrence Foster with Allison Eldredge the Rococo cello soloist.
period performance from the Raglan
Vivaldi and Locatelli are the composers.
I SCD Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.50—£15. Jaimie Laredo directs from the violin in a programme of Bach and Mendelssohn which includes the latter‘s Octet and
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2.50 (£1.50). Works by Neil Gow. Skinner and William Marshall in the capable hands of Alasdair Fraser. Scots fiddle. and Savourna Stevenson. harp and clarsach.
I I due Foscari Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 6 Nov. Glasgow; Tues 9 Nov. Edinburgh. £5—£40. New production first ' seen at this year‘s Edinburgh Festival to great acclaim continues in Glasgow on Scottish Opera‘s home ground. Verdi in full flight in Byron’s story of murder.
I DDC SSD Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. Tickets: BBC Concerts Secretary. f BBC Broadcasting House. Queen
the Scherzo and Finale by Wolf and Brahms' Symphony No 2.
I Cappella ilova Glasgow University Chapel. Tickets; 227 5511 (Ticket Ccntre.Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 30. Edinburgh. £8 (£4). War in
Angels by John Tavener. I The Barony The Barony Hall. University of Strathclyde. Tickets: 227
7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). Final concert of this
concert venue is given to the Goldberg Ensemble who play. under director Malcolm Layfield. Janacek. Haydn. Strauss and Suk.
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Organ music by J. S. Bach. Buxtehude. Eben. Peeters and Krebs makes up the lunchtime programme given by Andrew Wilson.
I Royal SUD Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 30. Glasgow. £4.50—£l9. See Thurs 28. Glasgow.
SATURDAY 30
I lnionnal talk Scottish Music information Centre. 1 BowmontGardens. 334 6393. 10.30am—12.30pm. Free. First of a new series designed to introduce the SMlC library and services to all interested is given by John Heame. who will focus on choral music.
I Salome Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tues 2 and Thurs 4 Nov. Glasgow; Thurs 11 Nov. Edinburgh. £5-£40. See Wed 27. I Royal SID Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.50—£l9. See Thurs 28.
Edinburgh
I Cappella ilova Greyfriars Kirk. Candlemaker Row. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £8
; (£4). See Fri 29..Glasgow.
SUNDAY 31
. Glasgow
g I live from Studio One BBC.
3 Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret
; Drive. Tickets: Room 209 (please enclose ; sae). 2.30pm. Free. The Scottish Brass
1, Ensemble with works by Richard Robles.
John Maxwell Geddes. Nigel Don and Tom David Wilson.
I Glasgow Jewish Choral Society Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. lOO Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £7 (£5). Extremely varied programme including
5 Jewish music. spirituals. folk songs. Elgar
and no less than five different languages. Eddie Binnie conducts.
Edinburgh
I Winton Winds St Columba‘s by the
Castle. 14 Johnstone Terrace. Tickets: at j door. 7.30pm. £5 (£2.50). Hummel.
; Mozart. Krommer and Dvorak‘s Slavonic Dance No 8.
l TUESDAY 2
; Glasgow
I lunchtime Concert Hutchesons‘ Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm—2pm. £1.60. The Giovanni Piano Trio play Edward McGuire's Elegy and Brahms’ Trio in C 0;) 87.
I Salome Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 4 Nov. Glasgow; Thurs 11 Nov. Edinburgh. £5—£40. See Wed 27.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Pianists Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow share a programme opening with the first performance of Hans Gal’s Three lmpmmptus.
WEDNESDAY 3
I Tosca Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 10 and
Sat 13 Nov. Edinburgh. £5-£40. A welcome return of Puccini at his most passionate in a production updated to fascist Rome as Floria Tosca attempts to protect her lover Cavaradossi from Scarpia. the Chief of Police. The title role is sung by Eva Zseller and Sir Alexander Gibson conducts.
THURSDAY 4
I St Petersburg Exchange Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. An all Rachmaninov recital given by a top professor from the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Ekatarina Mun'na.
I Salome Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra date: Thurs ll Nov. Edinburgh. £5-£40. See Wed 27. I Academy Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Students of the RSAMD in Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel‘s own Pavane and music by Berlioz and Boris Blacher. Christopher Adey conducts.
LIGHT
light Music is listed by date, then by city. Pertorniarices will be listed, subject to space, provided that details reach our ottlces at least one week before publication. light Music listings compiled by Fiona Shepherd
and Gavin inglis.
MONDAY 25
I Val ooonlcan Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. £8.50/£7.50/£6.50. Tickets from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. Sweaters. rocking chairs and swaying girls with Silvikrin‘d hair and floaty dresses. if you don't get the swaying girls, demand a refund.
THURSDAY. 4
Glasgow
I Dominic Kirwan Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. £7/£8/£9. Tickets from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. The mums‘ choice.
Edinburgh
I Broadway By Storm Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10/£9. CANCELLED.
A WELlSl’lll NG Benefit Concert JAMES MACMIllAN witth odelolmembersoltlie Scottish (barber Ordiestro aid friends on Sunday evening, 31 October,
Halloween at 7pm in Stodibridge Paisli (hatch, 7/8 Scxe (obilg Si
P RT l An assortment of music seleded and presented by James MotMillun
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