MUSIO CLASSICAL & OPERA
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OLASSIOAL & OPERA
Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical a Opera Listings compiled by Jonathan Trew.
FRIDAY 29 Edinburgh
I Wagner’s Ring Gymnasium Studio. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Belford Road. 7.30pm. £2.50. Ticket reservations on 556 8921 ext. 307. The Goethe Institute present a magic lantern show of Wagner‘s epic. condensing the entire cycle into 70 minutes.
SATURDAY 30 Edinburgh
I Wagner's Ring Gymnasium Studio. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Belford Road. 7.30pm. £2.50. Ticket reservations on 556 8921 ext. 307. See Fri 29.
I Essener Madrigalchor1968 St Mary‘s Episcopal Cathedral. Palmerston Place. 7pm. For tickets contact Mrs Berber on 225 2978. This German 50-strong choir will perform works by Bach. Mozart. Handel and Bruckner. Gregor Briick both conducts and will perform works by Vieme and Widor on the organ.
Edinburgh
I St Giles’ at SIX St Giles' Cathedral. 6pm. The TOTAL Aberdeen Youth Choir promise an interesting evening with music from Bach to Beethoven via the blues.
Glasgow
I Organ Recital Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 331 1854. 2.30pm. Free. Neil Cockbum gives a recital.
WEDNESDAY 3
Glasgow
I National Youth Orchestra oi Scotland Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 7.30pm. Tickets from Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Box Office. 332 3123; Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511 or other Ticket Link outlets. £14/£10/£6 (Concessions: halfpn'ce & children and full time students £1). Jun'ichi Hirokami conducts the orchestra through works by Stravinsky. l'oert and Mahler. William Bennett and Lisa Milne are the solo fiautist and soprano respectively.
I Essener Madrigalchor 1968 Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 12.30pm. Free but donations welcome. This popular touring choir from Essen. Germany. will perform a selection of Renaissance. Baroque and Romantic songs.
Edinburgh
I Ludus Instrumentalis Stockbridge Parish Church. Saxe Coburg Street. 7.30pm. Tickets from Queen‘s Hall and Usher Hall box offices or on the door. £4 (£3). This relatively new. Edinburgh- based. baroque group will perform Handel's light-hearted Ads and Galatea. I Organ Recital St Andrew‘s and St George‘s Church. George Street. 12.30pm. Free with collection at end. Mark Pybus. Edinburgh University
Anderson Organ prizewinner. gives a recital on the Wells-Kennedy organ.
FRIDAY 5
Glasgow
I Moscow Academy of Ancient Music City Hall. Candleriggs. 7.30pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511; Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box ()ffice. £12/£9/£6 (£9/£6). This is the opening concert of the International Early Music Festival. Violinist Tatyana Gridenko will lead a group of young string players in their first UK appearance. The programme includes works by Corelli. Lully. Geminiani and Vivaldi‘s ubiquitous Four Seasons.
I BBC SSO Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. 7.30pm. Tickets from SSO Concerts Secretary. BBC Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow G12 8DG. (Enclose an SAE). Free. Fedor Glushchenko conducts the orchestra through Don Juan by Strauss. Bartok‘s Piano Concerto No 3 and M yaskovsky's .S'y/nphmrv No 2. Philip Fowke is the pianist.
SATURDAY 6 Edinburgh
I Michael Nyman Band Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 8.30pm. £4—£12.50. Nyman brings his nine-piece band to Edinburgh for an exclusive Scottish performance. This evening‘s performance will include music composed for the films The Draughtsman 's Contract and the highly successful The Piano. His latest chamber piece. The Fall o/‘It'arus. inspired by Brueghel's landscape with Full of Icarus. will also feature.
Glasgow
I Chansons A Notre Dame St Aloysius Church. Rose Street. Tickets in advance
from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511; Citizens' Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. 7.30pm. £10 (£6). As the second concert of the international Early Music Festival. the Alla Francesca ensemble from the Centre de Musique Medievale in Paris will perform a selection of songs by 13th century troubadors. cantigos by Alfonso the Wise of Spain along with other pieces in Galician. Catalan. old French and Latin. Vocalists. Brigitte Lesne and Raphael Bouiay. will be accompanied by medieval fiddles. harps and wind instruments.
I Squair Mile Consort Art Gallery and
' Museum. Kelvingrove. 331 1854. 11am.
Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I Flat Pavan St Mungo Museum. 331 1854. 2pm. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I The Galloway Consort Pollok House. 331 1854. 3.30pm. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I The Galloway Consort The Burrell Collection. 331 1854. 1pm. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe. I Squair Mile Consort The Burrell Collection. 331 1854. 2.30pm. Free. Part ofthe Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
SUNDAY 7 Edinburgh
I Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £4—£15. Hot on the heels of their patrons. HM Queen Sonja and King Harald of Norway. this fine ensemble will perform Mozart‘s
Symphony No 26 and Beethoven’s Symphony No 1 among others. Terge Tonnesen leads.
I St Giles’ at Six St Giles‘ Cathedral. 6pm. Simon Bertram puts the organ through its paces with works by Vivaldi. Bach. Franck. Dupré and Hakim.
Glasgow
I les Musicians de Louvre Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 7.30pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511; Citizens' Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £15/£10(£12/£6). Marc Minkowski conducts his Paris-based baroque orchestra in the third concert of the international Early Music Festival. Jean-Paul Fouchecourt. accompanied by the orchestra. will perform extracts from Rameau‘s Hippolyte et Ariirie and Mouret‘s Les Amours de Ragonde.
I Whirligig Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 331 1854. llam-12pm and 3pm—4pm. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I The Galloway Consort The Burrell Collection. 331 1854. 12pm. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe. I The Scottish Recorder Consort The Burrell Collection. 331 1854. 3.45pm. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I The Scottish Recorder Consort Pollok House. 331 1854. 11am. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I The Galloway Consort Pollok House. 331 1854. 3.30pm. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I leslie Macleod Lecture Theatre. The Burrell Collection. 331 1854. 2pm. £4(£2). A selection of works by Bach performed by Macleod on the harpischord.
MONDAY 8
Glasgow
I Jean-Paul Fouchecourt Merchants‘ House. 7 West George Street. BBC invitation concert. Tickets from Margaret Beaton. Concerts Secretary. BBC. Glasgow G12 8DG. Enclose SAE. 12.45pm. Free. Accompanied by lutenist Pascal Montheilet. French tenor Fouchecourt will sing works by Le Camus. Lully. Couperin and Purcell. Part of the international Early Music Festival.
TUESDAY 9
Glasgow
I The Scottish Trumpet Consort Merchants‘ House. 7 West George Street. 12.45pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511: Citizens' Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £5 (£3). As part of the lntemational Early Music Festival this baroque brass ensemble will perform works by Biber. Matteis and Philidor.
I Sirinu City Hall. Candleriggs. 7.30pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511'. Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £10(£6). Medieval Spanish music along with contemporary Bolivian folk music give a fascinating insight into Andean life as part of the continuing lntemational Early Music Festival. This group of artists from London and Cambridge use a wide variety of instruments which have been developed by the indigenous people of South America from those brought over by the Conquistadores.
WEDNESDAY 10 Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Andrew‘s and St
T in the'Park, July 30th and 31 st at Strathclyde Park
George‘s Church. George Street. 12.30pm. Free with collection at end. Stephen Doughty from St Mary‘s Church. Haddington gives a recital.
Glasgow
I Scaramuccia Merchants' House. 7 West George Street. 12.45pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511; Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £5 (£3). Scotland's leading baroque chamber group present an all French programme by Couperin. Leclair and Marais in one of a series of lunchtime concerts in the lntemational Early Music Festival.
I New Mozart Ensemble Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 7.30pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511; Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £15/£10(£12/£6). Using period instruments and directed by Melvyn Tan from the fortepiano. the Ensemble will play two of Mozart's most popular piano concertos. No 27 and No 23 as well as excerpts from Gluck's Echo et Narcisse. This should be one of the highlights of the lntemational Early Music Festival.
THURSDAY 11
Glasgow
I The Scottish Recorder Consort The Burrell Collection. 331 1854. 11am. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I Ensemble Galant Pollok House. 331 1854. 11am. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I The Scottish Recorder Consort Pollok House. 331 1854. 2pm. Free. Part of the Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringe.
I Mhairi Lawson and Dlga Tverskaya Merchaan’ House. 7 West George Street. 12.45pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511; Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £5 (£3). The lntemational Early Music Network Young Artist prize-winning duo. soprano Mhairi Lawson and Russian fortepiano player Olga Tverskaya. perform Scots songs arranged by Haydn.
I The Indian Dueen Citizens' Theatre (Main Theatre). Gorbals. 7.30pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511; Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £6 (£2). Theatre. music and dance with Dryden supplying the plot and Purcell the music. The Scottish Early Music Consort bring together actors. singers dancers and a full orchestra of baroque instruments. Singers include David Thomas. Stuart Patterson and Tinuke Olafimihan.
I Sinfonye Citizens' Theatre (Circle Studio). Gorbals. 7.30pm. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511‘. Citizens' Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £6 (£2). The lntemational Early Music Festival brings a cycle of Cantigas de Amor to Glasgow. Along with Cantabrian folk-singer. Equidad Bares. the Sinfonye will perform songs by Alfonso X of Spain. King Dinis of Portugal and traditional Spanish folk songs.
I Blind Date Citizens' Theatre (Circle Studio). Gorbals. llprn. Tickets in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511; Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 429 0022 and from any TicketLink Box Office. £6 (£2). Scottish Early Music Consort regulars take an irreverent view of early music in this 45- minute cabaret. Purcell. Handel and Monteverdi are all in the sights.
48 The List 29 July-1 1 August 1994