CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC

The shiny. happy Vellinger Ouartet at

Edinburgh's Oueen’s Hall. Monday 13 I Katharine Ourran lit-Service Suite. Jordanhill Campus. 552 4400 ext. 3444. 12.30pm. See Tue 14. I love, Death and Marriage New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. £5 (£2.50—£4.50). See Tue 14.

Edinburgh

I Scottish Early Music Consort Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £7/£10(£5). Gregory Squire directs the Consort in a witty and irreverent English translation by Httgh MacDonald of Bach's Coffee Cantata and Heinrich Biber’s Jatu'ltzet (lot! and Sonata representativa.

THURSDAY 16

Glasgow

I Wind Orchestra Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£2.50—£4.50). Maurice Temple conducts the Orchestra in Gregson's The Sword and the Crown. Bourgeois' Svmp/umv of Winds and McCabe's Canvons. and Angela Whelan is the soloist in Richard Rodney Bennet's Concerto for Trumpet.

I Henry Hertord and Robin Bowman Merchants~ House. West George Street. 639 3176. £3.50 (£3) 12.45pm. The baritone and pianist give a recital of songs on an animal theme by Schumann. Ravel. Chabrier. Britten and Copland.

I Discoveries Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 339 8855 ext. 4092. 1.15pm. Free. Presentation of electro-acoustic music from around the world.

Edinburgh

I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £3.50—£l5 (£3). See Wed 15.

FRIDAY 17

Glasgow

I Scottish Early Music Consort Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £9 (£5). See Wed 15.

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2.50 (£1.50). James Bowman (counter- tenor). David Woodcock (violin). Miles Golding (violin). Jane Norman (viola). Jane Coe (bass violin). David Miller (theorbo) and Robert King (chamber organ/harpischord) perform a selection of music by Purcell.

I Masterclass Stevenson Hall, RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2.30pm. Free. Early music workshops on voice. lute and strings directed by members of the King's Consort.

I love, Death and Marriage New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. £5 (£2.50—£4.50). See Tue 14.

Edinburgh

I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £6—£l9. Gary Bertini conducts the RSNO and the RSNO Chorus in Stravinsky‘s The Rite ofSpring and Ravel's Dap/tnis and Cltloe.

SATURDAY 18

Glasgow

I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. £6—£l9. 7.30pm. See Fri 17.

I Strathclyde University Wind Band and Recorder Consort Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Colin Suckling and Caroline Donald conduct old and new wind music including Dvorak’s Serenade in D ntinor.

I love, Death and Marriage New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. £5 (£2.50—£4.50). See Tue 14.

Edinburgh

I The King’s Consort Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £7/£9 (£5/£6). See Fri 17. I The King’s Consort Masterclass Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. Noon. Free with ticket for evening event. Public masterclass on authentic performance techniques for voice and strings with James Bowman and Robert King.

SUNDAY 19

Glasgow

I Scottish Bach Consort Tron Theatre. 63 Trongate. 552 4267. 8pm. £7 (£5). John Doig leads the Consort in a performance of works by Albinoni. Bach. Corelli. Mozart and Vivaldi.

I The Hattner Wind Ensemble ot london Merchants‘ House. West George Street. 639 3176. 2.30pm. £7 (£5). The Ensemble perform Hummel iv Octet Partita in G. Beethoven‘s Octet and Mozart's Serenade in C minor.

I Chaplin Operas Glasgow Film Theatre. Rose Street. 332 8128. £7 (£3.50). 7.45pm. The Paragon Ensemble perform Benedict Mason’s live music score for three of Chaplin‘s movies Easy Street. The Adventurer and The Immigrant. As usual with the Paragon Ensemble be prepared for the unexpected. the unusual and the downright bizarre.

I Call That Singing Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £5/£7 (£3.50/£5). Glasgow‘s singing audience rolls back into town after a jaunt in the Costa del Sol. Spanish influences ahoy. Joe McGinley conducts.

I Into The light Studio One. BBC Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. 2.30pm. Free on the door or by post from Margaret Beaton. BBC Scotland. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow G12 8DG. The Hebrides Chamber Ensemble play chamber music by Fauré. Francaix and Sally Beamish‘s Piobaireachd.

Edinburgh

I Michael Bonaventure St George‘s- West Church. Shandwick Place. 7.30pm. Free. The organist performs music by Sweelinck. Jolivet. Bach and the UK premiere of Geoffrey King‘s L’Apothe’ose de Dali.

I Mahler and More 11 Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £5.50—£22.50 (£4.50—£20.50). Mark Elder conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No 4. Eva Randova is mezzo-

soprano and Stig Anderson the tenor in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

I Monica Groop Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £8 (£6). As part of the Songlines series. Finnish mezzo-soprano Groop. accompanied by llmo Ranta. explores the songs ofGrieg and Sibelius. I Friends or Scottish Opera Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 3pm. £2.50. Richard Coxon talks to the branch about his work with Scottish ()pera as their Principal House Tenor.

I Edinburgh Royal Choral Union Greyfriars Kirk. Greyfriars Place. 7.30pm. £6 (£4) on door or from choir members. 447 3398. Richard Jeffcoat conducts and Morley Whitehead is the organist in Bach's Siuget dent Herrn. Schumann's Mass in C minor and a new work by David Paul Jones t‘timmissioned Irv IERC'U.

I Michael Bonaventure St George's West Church. Shandwick Place. 539 2211. 7.30pm. Free. The organist gives a recital of Bach's l’asstu'ag/ia and the British premiere of Geoffrey King‘s l.’.-lpotheose de Dali.

I St Giles’ At Six St Giles' Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 2998. 6pm. Free. Lenten address and music.

TUESDAY 21

Glasgow

I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£2 1. Ron Goodwin conducts the RSN() in an evening of television and film music.

I William Jenkins and Julian Nathan Hutcheson's Hall. John Street. 552 4400 ext. 3444. 1. 15pm. £1.60. The baritone and pianist give a recital of French songs and settings by Beethoven and Schumann

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as well as Rick Potter‘s '12) Carry Water To The River and Poulenc‘s Chansons (iai/lards.

Edinburgh

I Evelyn Glennie Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £5. The outstanding percussionist gives a solo show in aid of SPIN.

THURSDAY 23

Glasgow

I Academy Brass Ouintet Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Free by ticket. This is a St Petersburg exchange concert featuring Maurice Temple (conductor); Angela Whelan and Victoria Morrison (trumpets); Matthew Roddie (horn); Desmond McShane (trombone) and Mark Reynolds (tuba) performing Lutoslawski's Mini ()verture. Victor Fwald's Quintet in 1) flat. John Casken‘s (‘larion Sea and Malcolm Arnold's Quintet ()p 73.

Edinburgh

I Peter Evans Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 8pm. £6 (£3) from Queen‘s Hall. 668 2019: Usher Hall. 228 1155 and on door. Fvans performs the premiere of David Johnson's [2 Preludes and Fugues for Piano. The piece is an enormous 80 minutes long and based on the four note motif B H li A.

I Murray McLachlan Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Belford Road. 1.15pm. £3 (students 50p). The pianist gives a recital as part of the 75th Edinburgh Competition Festival.

I George Reriot’s School First Orchestra and Choir Greyfriars Kirk. Greyfriars Place. 7.30pm. £2 (concs free) on door or from the school. Howard Duthie conducts the Orchestra and Choir in Bernstein‘s (.‘hit'hester Psalms and orchestral works

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Eva Randova Stig Anderson Mark Elder

by lilgar. Grieg and Brahms.

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SUNDAY 19 MARCH

Symphony No. 4 Das Lied {' \.‘ von‘der Erde mezzo-soprano tenor'

conductor

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