MUSIC CLASSICAL & OPERA
FRI" CDI'I'D
I RSID Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 227 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 12. Glasgow. £4.50—£19 (£3.50). Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin and Piano with Karin Adam. violin. and Doris Adam. piano. Mackenzie‘s From the North to kick off and Brahms's Syttiphony No 4 in the second half. Walter Weller conducts.
SATURDAY 12
I RSAMD Junior Dept Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Admission free by ticket. Wind orchestra. brass ensemble and chamber music groups.
I Prot Frederick Dimmer 80th Birthday Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 5pm. Patricia MacMahon and Alice Dumas. sopranos. Sandra Porter. mezzo. and pianists Graeme McNaught. Graham Hair and Kenneth Elliott play in honour of Frederick Rimmer.
I RSID Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.50—£19 (£3.50). See Fri 11. Edinburgh. I Glasgow Wind Band Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £4 (£2). Kevin Price conducts a programme which includes the world premiere of the specially written Prager Strasse by Jeremy Randalls. along with the Scottish premiere of A‘ Bhirlinn Taibhseil by William Sweeney and the Tuba Concerto by Edward Gregson with Martin Thomson as soloist.
SUNDAY 13
I Amir ltatz Merchants’ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Prize winning lsraeli pianist makes his Scottish debut with Bach. Chopin. Zvi Avni and Liszt.
I Glasgow University Chapel Choir Glasgow University Chapel. 7.30pm. Music by Martin Dalby. Robin Orr and Frederick Rimmer. who celebrates his 80th birthday.
I Strathclyde University Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Wind music old and new including marches and Renaissance dances. folksong arrangements and courtly songs. For wind band. wind ensemble and recorder consort.
I live irom Studio One BBC. 5 Queen Street. Edinburgh. Tickets: Reception. 2.30pm. Free. The Emperor Quartet with string quartets by Mozart and Ravel.
I The Practice Choir Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk. Candlemaker Row. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. Programme includes Mozart’s Vespers.
MONDAY 14
I Moscovt State Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £10.50—£2l. Pavel Kogan conducts Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht and Mahler’s Symphony No 5.
TUESDAY 15
I lunchtime Recital Hutchesons' Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm-2pm. £1.60. Students of the Junior Dept of the RSAMD.
I Celebrity Concert Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5—£ 15 (£5 on night). Kalichstein. Laredo and Robinson trio give a fundraising concert in aid of the Young Musicians‘ Trust. Piano trios by Beethoven. Mendelssohn and Brahms sit alongside a completely new work by Haflidi Hallgrimsson.
I llelson liall Concert McDonald Road Public Library. off Leith Walk. Free at door. 7.45pm. Pennyfarthing present Follow the Man front Cook 's. a musical journey across Europe and America and back to Scotland.
WEDNESDAY 16 Edinburgh
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I The Balanescu Ouartet BBC. 5 Queen Street. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 8pm. £7 (£4). A string quartet with rock and roll sensibilities. playing David Byrne and Kraftwerk alongside contemporary classical music. Part of Assembly Direct’s Soundcheck series.
THURSDAY 17
Glasgow
I Merchants MOSic Merchants’ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3). Pianist Kenneth Hamilton in an interesting choice of music with works by Saint-Saens. Liszt and Ronald Stevenson‘s Three Scottish Ballads and Hebridean Seascape.
I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. Free at door. 1.15pm. Pianist Margaret Fingerhut in a Ferguson Celebrity Concert of Mozart. Leighton and Chopin.
I RSIID Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 18. Edinburgh. and Sat 19. Glasgow. £4.50—£ 19 (£3.50). Walter Weller conducts a p0pular based programme of Beethoven‘s Emit'a. Wagner‘s overture to The Mastersingers and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 2 with lngeborg Baldaszti.
I Academy Chamber Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Students of the RSAMD in Mozart's Hafi’ner Symphony and Strauss‘s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
FRIDAY 18
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2.50 (£1.50). Piano students of the RSAMD explore the role of the pianist as soloist. accompanist and chamber music player in a programme of 19th and 20th century music.
I DDC 830 BBC. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: $50 Concerts Secretary. BBC. Queen Margaret Drive. G12 8DG (please enclose sae). 7.30pm. Free. British premiere of Durcli die Lieb Allei'n by Alessandro Sbordoni. symphonies by
Haydn and Schubert and Capriccio by Stravinsky with pianist Boris Beresowsky. Jerzy Maksymuik is conductor.I leda Piano Trio Stevenson Hall. RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. Extra date: Sun 20. Edinburgh. £7 (£4). This outstanding trio of violin. cello and piano are joined by soprano Irene Drummond for Scots song arrangements made by Beethoven and Haydn and folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams in a programme which looks at the influences of song on chamber music. with Schubert and Hans Gal helping to prove the point. I Soundstrata Guinness Room, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 8pm. £5 (£3). Mezzo. piano. flute and WX7 join together for Schoenberg. Goehr. Beat and Messiaen.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Mary’s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. 225 6293. 8pm. £5 (£3/family ticket £10). Timothy Byram- Wigfield plays music for organ by Vieme. Bach and Roger-Ducasse.
I RSID Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 227 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 19. Glasgow. £4.50—£19 (£3.50). See Thurs 17. Glasgow.
SATURDAY 19
I RSUD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.50-£ 19 (£3.50). See Thurs 17.
I Glasgow Chamber Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Mendelssohn’s Die Schone Melttsin opens this concert conducted by Peter Jones and with Gill Morton as soloist in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No 2. The Scotch Symphony. also by Mendelssohn. is in the second half.
Edinburgh
I 8CD Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.50—£15 (standby £3). Spiritual inspiration from the SCO as they turn to Arvo Part‘s Tabula Rasa and Bach’s Double Concerto. Schubert and Mozart to respectively open and close. James Clark and Gabrielle Lester are the soloists.
SUNDAY 20
Glasgow
I Live trom Studio One BBC. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: Reception. 2.30pm. Free. An all Schubert programme from pianist lngeborg Baldaszti.
I City of Glasgow Chorus City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £5.50—£10. Mozart‘s Requiem and Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces with the City of Glasgow Symphony Orchestra. Soloists are Anne Williams-King. recently seen in Glasgow as the Governess in Turn of the Screw. Clare Shearer. Dennis Haggerty and Quentin Hayes. Graham Taylor conducts.
I Call That Singing! Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£7.50. An evening of rhythm and romance with the Glasgow 1990 Steel Band. Joe McGinley. Musical Director. conducts.
I Paragon Ensemble Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. Extra date: Tues 22 (Edinburgh). £7 (£3.50). The Loving of Etain. a music theatre piece by Edward McGuire based on Celtic myth. A tale of sorcery. treachery. jealousy and eternal love. David Davies conducts. Good stuff.
I Friends or Scottish Opera Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £2.50 (at door). A talk by Derek Watson on
Giles Havergal‘s new production of Donizetti‘s L’Elisir d 'amore.
I leda Piano Trio Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£4). See Fri 18. Glasgow.
MONDAY 21 Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Secondary Schools Orchestra Central Hall. Tollcross, 229 7937. 7.30pm. Varied selection of orchestral items including music by Grieg. Rossini and Tchaikovsky.
I Endelllon String Onarlet Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5—£11 (£3—£6). One of Britain‘s top young string quartets. who appear under the auspices of the New Town Concerts Society to play Haydn. Bartok and Beethoven.
TUESDAY 22
I lunchtime Recital Hutchesons’ Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm-2pm. £1.60. The Edinburgh Quartet is joined by pianist Murray McLachlan for Schumann’s Quintet in E flat 0p 44.
Edinburgh
I Paragon Ensemble Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). See Sun 20.
WEDNESDAY 23 Edinburgh
I Afternoon Tea Concert Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £4.50 (incl afternoon tea). 1n the last of this current series. presented in association with Yehudi Menuhin‘s Live Music Now! scheme. the virtuoso classical accordionist James Crabb plays music by Franck.
Scarlatti. lbert. Mozart. Kenneth
Dernpster and Olsen. Lots of tea and scones in a specially extended long interval.
I Aida King‘s Theatre. Leven Street. Tickets: 220 4349 (Ticketline). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Thurs 24. Fri 25. Sat 26. £5—£l2 (£2 off). Edinburgh Grand Opera in annual production of Verdi’s really grand opera. A promise of scenes and music familiar to many. including the famous triumphal Grand March. Benjamin Twist is producer and ChristOpher Bell is musical director.
I Edinburgh Secondary Schools Wind Band Central Hall. Tollcross, 229 7937. 7.30pm. Bedford's Ronde for Isolde with Bernstein‘s Candide overture and the Children is March by Grainger.
THURSDAY 24
I Chamber Music Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Admission free by ticket. A concert given by student chamber ensembles.
I Aida King’s Theatre. Leven Street. Tickets: 220 4349 (Ticketline). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 25. Sat 26. £5—£12 (£2 off). See Wed 23.
I George lieriot’s School Orchestra and Choir Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk. Candlemaker Row. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £2 (free). Monteverdi's Beatus Vtr. Weber‘s Bassoon Concerto and Walton’s Crown Imperial.
I SCD Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. Extra date: Fri 25. Glasgow. £3.50—£15 (£3). Raymond Leppard conducts an all Mozart programme with Marisa Robles and David Nicholson as soloists in the Concerto for Flute and Harp. Selection also includes the Paris Symphony.
40 The List 1 1-24 March 1994