MUSIC CLASSICAL & OPERA

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Quartet of two horns. trombone and piano from the RSAMD play a varied selection of music by Ferdinand David. Arnold Cooke. Franz Strauss. Saint-Sa'e'ns and Haydn.

THURSDAY 9

Glasgow

I Chamber Music Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Admission free. Student chamber music ensembles.

FRIDAY 10

I RSID Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£l9 (£4). The Scottish Proms open their Glasgow season in style. A Wagner spectacular with the overtures to Tannhauser. Riertzi and Ride oft/re Valkyries and excerpts from Gotterdammerung. Walter Weller is the conductor.

Edinburgh

I lunchtime Prom Royal Scottish Academy. The Mound. Tickets: at door. l.05pm-—l.55pm. £4 (£1.50). A lunchtime recital of music for harp played by Susan Drake. Composers include Debussy. Glinka. Fauré and Dussek.

I Edinburgh Quartet Palmerston Place Church. Tickets: 332 8691 (E0). 7.45pm. £7.50 (£6). Series discount available. First concert of three concert piano quintet series includes Schumann‘s Piano Quintet with Murray McLachlan. Beethoven‘s string quartet 0p 18 No 4 and the Quartet in A major by Pleyel.

I Summer Series at St Cecilia's St Cecilia’s Hall. Cowgate. Tickets/further info: 650 2423 (F. Donaldson). 8pm. £5 (£3). John Kitchen plays harpsichord.

SATURDAY 11

I RSUD Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£l9 (£4). Roll Over Beethoven. an all-Beethoven night of Egmont. the Pastoral Symphony and the Piano Concerto No 3. Howard Shelley is soloist and conductor.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh light Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £5/£6. Unashamedly popular mix of music with plenty of tunes being the order of the night. Les Miserables. West Side Story and Show Boat are among the show- stoppers with light music by Robert Farnon. Armstrong Gibbs and Eric Coates keeping up the momentum. Miles Easter is violin soloist and leader and the soprano for the evening is Elizabeth McKeon.

I Summer Series at St Cecilia’s St Cecilia's Hall. Cowgate. Tickets/further info: 650 2423 (F. Donaldson). 8pm. £5 (£3). A concert to mark the anniversaries

of three instruments in Edinburgh University‘s Collection of Historic

Musical instruments. Crispian Steele- Perkins plays a 1794 trumpet and Susan Addison is on a 1594 sackbut and 1794 trombone.

SUNDAY 12

Glasgow

I Glasgow Sinionla Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Symphonies by Mozart (Paris) and Mendelssohn (Italian) span Schumann’s Cello Concerto, in which

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I Scottish Voices Trio Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £6 (£4). Interesting programme of Kurtag. Bartok and Thea Musgrave. featuring young. female Scottish voices as well as guest artists Jane Manning and pianist Rachel Beckles Willson. A rare chance to hear some of this stunning contemporary vocal repertoire and the performers are first class.

Edinburgh

I St Giles’ at Six St Giles‘ Cathedral. High Street. Free at door. 6pm. Donald Halliday conducts the St Thomas's Singers from Newcastle in music by Palestrina. Wesley. Mendelssohn. Bruckner and the Magnifieat and More Dimitiss by John Tavener.

I Cathedral Classics St Mary's Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Tickets: 220 4349 (Ticketline). 7.30pm. £7.50—£l2.50. London Festival Orchestra on their summer tour of British cathedrals team up with St Mary's Cathedral Choir for Schubert's Mass in C. which ends the programme of the Sinfonia No 19 by Boccherini. Webern. Haydn’s Trailer Symphony and the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Martyn Hill. tenor. Also at Paisley Abbey, Monday 13.

I ludus Instrumentalis Broughton St Mary‘s Church. Bellevue Crescent. 7.30pm. £4 (£3). Tickets from Queen‘s Hall Box Office. 668 2019. Festive Baroque concert perfonned by a chamber orchestra and choir with a programme of Handel. Bach and Corelli.

Glasgow

I Cathedral Classics Paisley Abbey. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £8.50 (£6). Paisley Abbey Choir are the collaborators with the London Festival Orchestra who are on

their annual summer tour of cathedrals the length and breadth of the country. The featured choral work is Haydn's Nelson Mass, while in the first half you can hear Vivaldi. Mozart. Boccherini and the Oboe Concerto by Malcolm Amold with Malcolm Messiter as soloist. Also at St Mary's. Edinburgh. Sunday 12.

TUESDAY 14

Glasgow

I BSID Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£19 (£4). Romantic Russian Classics by Tchaikovsky. Prokofiev and Liadov conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

WEDNESDAY 15

Glasgow

I RSHD Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£l9 (£4). A family night including Dukas’s The Somerer's Apprentice. Peter and the Wolfand excerpts from Cinderella by Prokofiev. The conductor is En Shao and soloist in Wallen's Percttssirm Concerto is BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist Colin Currie from Edinburgh.

THURSDAY 16

I BSIID Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£19 (£4). Popular classics what else at the Proms? such as Dvorak’s Carnival and Cello Concerto and Tchaikovksy‘s Marthe slave. Swan Lake and 1812 Overture. Sir Alexander Gibson conducts and Raphael Wallfisch is soloist.

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58 The List 3-16 June 1994