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Music classical 8 opera listings

Sun 3

I Peter ilkey a. Friends Cafe Cossachok. 10 King Street. 553 0733. 8.30pm. £3. Performing a new programme of guitar music. with guest artists.

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I The Open Orchestra Royal Museum. 2 Chambers Street. 247 4219. 1pm. Free. The talented orchestra play a live concert in front of the Millennium clock.

Haddington

I Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra St Mary‘s Parish Church. The Sidegate. 01620 829138. 7.30pm. £7 (£5). See Sat 2.

Monday 4

Edinburgh

I Paul Lewis Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £8—£14.50. Young British pianist Paul Lewis builds on his already excellent reputation. with the third of four concerts featuring Schubert‘s complete Piano Sonatas.

Glasgow

I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra City Hall. Candleriggs. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£l6. Martyn Brabbins is at the baton for Hamish MacCunn‘s The Ship 0 ' the Fiend. Rachmaninov’s Symphony no 2 and. with guest soloist Anthony Marwood. Sally Beamish‘s Violin Concerto.

I Duncan Olenday Hutchesons‘ Hall. 158 Ingram Street. 552 8391. 1.15pm. £2.50. Pianist Glenday performs excerpts from Prokofiev‘s Romeo and Juliet.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Quartet Reid Concert Hall. Edinburgh University. Bristo Square. 668 2019. 1.10pm. Free. The acclaimed string quartet perform works by Beethoven and Leighton.

Wednesday 6

Glasgow

I Wind Orchestra Concert RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Bryan Allen conducts a mixed programme by the Academy Wind Orchestra.

Thursday 7

Glasgow I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £7.50—£12.50. Dynamic conductor Marin Alsop is at the baton for an equally dynamic programme. featuring Menotti‘s Sebastian Suite. Barber‘s Piano Concerto (with guest soloist Stephen Prutsman) and Adams‘ dramatic Fearful Symmetries. Note the reduced ticket rices!

Opera On A Shoestring Pollok House. Pollok Country Park. 2060 Pollokshaws Road. 616 6410. 7.30pm. £13. Opera on a Shoestring are back on the road. this time with ‘An Evening in Paris‘. a programme of highlights from operas set in the French capital. including La Boheme and La Traviata.

I Lunchtime Recital Glasgow L'niversity Chapel. University Avenue. 330 4092. 1.10pm. Free. Organ recital by John Butt.

Edinburgh

I Barbican Piano 'Mo Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £10 (£5). The highly regarded trio. on violin. cello and piano. perform three works by Schubert.

I Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers Canongate Kirk. 153 Canongate. 332 2110. 7.45pm.

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£6 (£3.50). The singers present ‘Music for the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I‘. including Byrd‘s Great Service.

Glasgow

I Hebrides Ensemble RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £5 (£3). A midday concert featuring work by Dvorak and student composer Colin Broom.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh University Wind Band Reid Concert Hall. Edinburgh University. Bristo Square. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £4.50 (£2.50). Morven Bell conducts a night of contemporary and classical music. celebrating the band‘s 21st anniversary.

Saturday 9

Glasgow

I Philip Yancey with Maire Brennan and the New Scottish Choir and Orchestra Clyde Auditorium. Finnieston Quay. 0870 040 4000. £6—£15. Christian writer Yancey hosts a spiritual evening with vocalist Maire Brennan and accompaniment.

I Animal Magic Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 3pm. £9.50 (£5 children). Roger McGough presents this Children‘s Classic Concert featuring his version of the Carnival Of The Animals. with Christopher Bell and the Orchestra of Scottish 0 ra.

I Oiasgow Orchestra Society Adelaide‘s. 209 Bath Street. 248 4970. 7.30pm. A mixed programme of classical music.

I Renfleid Recitals Renf‘ield St Stephen‘s Church Centre. 260 Bath Street. 332 2826. 1pm. Free. See Sat 2.

Edinburgh

I New Edinburgh Orchestra Nicolson Square Church. Nicolson Square. 667 7776. 7.30pm. Tim Paxton conducts the orchestra in Mackenzie‘s Benedictus. Sibelius's Valse Triste.

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Dvorak's Serenade for Winds. Cello and Bass and Brahms’ Violin Concerto.

I Meadows Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £8 (£1—£6.50). Conductor Peter Evans is joined by guest soloist So-Ock Kim for Sibelius‘s Violin Concerto. Faure‘s Pelleas et Melisande and Beethoven‘s

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I Edinburgh University Chamber Choir Canongate Kirk. 153 Canongate. 07813 289548. 8pm. £5 (£3). Eric von Ibler conducts works by Bach. Pachelbel. Leighton and more.

Haddington

I Essential Scottish Opera St Mary‘s Parish Church. The Sidegate. 01620 824655. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). See Thu 28.

Glasgow

I From Russia With Lev Cafe Cossachok. Russian Cultural Centre. 10 King Street. 553 0733. 8.30pm. Free. Russian. Armenian and gypsy folk melodies from violinist Lev Atlas.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Quartet Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 2.30pm. £9 (£2.50—£6). The talented string outfit continue their Sunday series at the Queen‘s Hall with renditions of Mozart‘s Quartet in C. plus works by Franck and Schumann. Piano maestro Gusztav Fenyo joins them for the occasion.

I Animal Magic L'sher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 3pm. £9.50 (£5; family ticket 26). See Sat 9.

Edinburgh

I Mr McFall’s Chamber Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £8 (£6). The ever-eclectic ensemble take their work a stage further by collaborating with Edinburgh College of Art‘s Animation Department. Elsewhere in the programme. they‘ll serve up pieces

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Glasgow

I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra City Hall. Candleriggs. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£l6. Janacek‘s The Fiddler's Child and Nielsen's Symphony no 3 ‘Sinfonia espansii'a' open and close the evening. with Sibelius‘s Violin Concerto with guest soloist Ida Haendel sandwiched inbetween. Osmo Vanska conducts.

I Paragon Ensemble CCA. 350 Sauchiehall Street. 352 4900. 8pm. £10 (£6.50). (CCA 5). The contemporary music group return with ‘Strange and Familiar Occurrences‘. featuring the world premiere of Gordon McPherson's The Waterworks. inspired by UFO sightings and alien abductions in the US. I Toby Thrton and Peter Hewitt Hutchesons' Hall. 158 Ingram Street. 552 8391. 1.15pm. £2.50. A lunchtime concert from the cello and piano duo.

I The Mikado Mitchell Theatre. 6 Granville Street. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£10. Amateur production of Gilbert and Sullivan‘s opular opera.

I Princess rda King‘s Theatre. 297 Bath Street. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£10. Amateur production of Gilbert and Sullivan‘s popular opera.

Wednesday 13 ,

Glasgow

I Der Rosenkavalier Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 332 9000. 6.30pm. £5.50—£50. Scottish Opera return to the Viennese golden age for David McVicar‘s acclaimed version of Richard Strauss‘s love story.

I Princess Ida King‘s Theatre. 297 Bath Street. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£10. See Tue 12.

I The Mikado Mitchell Theatre. 6 Granville Street. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£10. See Tue 12.

Paisley

I Choral Concert Paisley Abbey. Abbey Place. 889 7654. 7.30pm. Free but ticketed. Catherine Mackintosh conducts the Academy Early Music Singers and Players and the Choristers Of Paisley Abbey in Montaverdi‘s Vespers 0f I 610.

Glasgow

I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra City Hall. Candleriggs. 287 5511. 7.30pm.£7—£16.0smo Vanska conducts guest soloist Elisabeth Batiashvili in Brahms‘ Violin Concerto. Bartok‘s Concerto for Orchestra

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I T e Mikado Mitchell Theatre. 6 Granville Street. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£10. See Tue 12.

I Princess Ida King‘s Theatre. 297 Bath Street. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£10. See Tue 12.

I RSAMD Junior Academy Merchants House. 7 West George Street. 334 9757. 12.45pm. £4.50 (£1.50—£4). A concert from the Junior Academy‘s final year students.

Edinburgh

I Scottish Chamber Orchestra L'sher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.45pm. £6—£20 (£2.50). The dynamic combination of conductor Sir Charles Mackerras and pianist Alfred Brendel should make this a concert to remember. On the bill are Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos 1 7 and 25 and Schubert's Symphony no 6.

I Choral Concert St Mary‘s Episcopal Cathedral. 23 Palmerston Place. 225 6293. 7.30pm. Free but ticketed. See Wed 13.