Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Royal Choral Union Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 I I55. 7.30pm. £l l—£24. Martyn Brabbins conducts the choir. accompanied by the BBC SSO. in a performance of Iilgar‘s rarely-performed masterpiece the Kingdom.

Tuesday 1 6

Glasgow

I Ramshorn Lunchtime Concert Ramshom Theatre. 98 Ingram Street. 552 3489. l.l5—2pm. £3. A concert of solo and ensemble string music by students from the RSAMI).

I Honours Year Music Periormances Ramshom Theatre. 98 Ingram Street. 552 3489. 2-5pm. Free. I Strathclyde University's BA Applied l Music course students demonstrate the l fruits of four years hard musical graft. I The Oovernors’ Recital Prize RSAMI). I00 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. Free. ticketed. Senior students from the RSAMD's Vocal Studies department compete for this prestigious prize.

Edinburgh

I Carmina Burana Festival Theatre. l3—29 Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £| l~£25.50. A mix of flamenco. Spanish guitar music and excerpts from Carl ()rff‘s choral masterpiece. La Cuadra de Sevilla.

Wednesday 1 7

Glasgow

I Honours Year Music Perrormances Ramshom Theatre. 98 Ingram Street. 552 3489. 2—5pm. Free. See Tue I6.

I The Merchant Voices City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7pm. Free. Brand new community choir led by tenor and conductor Dominic Peckham. covering a broad vocal repertoire. ()pen to adults of all ages. No previous musical experience required »- just lots of enthusiasm!

Edinburgh

I Carmina Burana Festival Theatre. l3—29 Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £| l—-£25.50. See Tue I6.

I Organ Recital: Thomas Heywood Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 l l55. 7.30pm. £l0. A line tester for the Hall’s Norman and Beard ()rgan. the intemationally acclaimed virtuoso. and first Australian musician in history to become a professional concert organist. performs a variety of arrangements including the overture to The Barber of Seville. Slaves Chorus fmnt Nabucco and the Pirates of Penzanee overture. Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm.

Thursday 18

Glasgow

I Honours Year Music Performances Ramshom Theatre. 98 Ingram Street. 552 3489. 2—5pm. Free. See Tue I6.

I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Thoroughly Modern Music City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 8pm. £l2 (£4 students). The series continues with a performance of two works by Xenakis and Morton Feldman‘s In search of an (m‘hestration. conducted by Nicholas Kok.

Edinburgh

I Carmina Burana Festival Theatre. l3—29 Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 2.30pm & 7.30pm. £1 l—£25.50. See Tue I6.

I Trio Con Brio National Gallery of Scotland. The Mound. 624 6200. 6—6.30pm. Free. Classics inspired by the Venus Rising exhibition played by this wind tn'o from the RSAMD in Glasgow.

I Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers St (‘olumba's By The Castle. 14 Johnston Terrace. 666 0234. 7.45pm. £8 (£5). Noel ()'Regan leads the singers through a 'lightheaned' summer performance. raising funds for Birmingham Children's Hospital's Cardiac Unit.

Glasgow

I Lunchtime Concert: Andreas Raefliger RSAMD. I00 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lprn. £7 (£5). The internationally renowned Swiss pianist treats us to Mozart‘s [animal in (' minor. K 475. Beethoven's Piano Sonata No [4 in C sharp minor 'Moonlight' and Piano Sonata No I .t‘ in Iz'flat ()p 27 No 1

Edinburgh

I Carmina Burana Festival Theatre. l3—29 Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £l l £25.50. See Tue l6.

Saturday 20

Glasgow

I Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Scrapers and Tooters City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. Noon. £30 (£l5). An opportunity for amateur orchestral musicians to get together and make beautiful music as part of a full orchestra under the direction of conductor Jason I.ai. While a bit of experience in the old scraping and looting department is required. knowledge of the rnusic isn't. as sectional instruction from S(‘() musicians will be given. To find out more and to book your place contact Lucy Perry on 0|3I 478 8353 or lucy.perry(a)sco.org.uk.

I RSAMD Youthworks Music: Students’ Concert RSAMD. |()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 4pm. Free. ticketed. Timothy Paxton conducts a performance from the RSAMI) Youthworks Music Second ()rchestra.

Edinburgh

I Carmina Burana Festival Theatre. l3—29 Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 2.30pm & 7.30pm. £l l—£25.50. See Tue I6.

I Edinburgh Academy Queen‘s Ilall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7pm. £6 (£3). A varied programme of music for senior and junior orchestras. concert bands. string orchestras. dance band and chamber choir with concerto performances.

I Jubilo Stockbridge Parish Church. Saxe Coburg Street. 668 20l9. 7.30pm. £l0 (£7). An all inclusive charity concert from the Edinburgh-based mixed voice choir. featuring everything from captivating Russian Hymns to West Side Story songs. via Mozart's Are Verum. Handel‘s ledflk the Priest and less familiar folk arrangements by Stanford and Rutter.

I Edinburgh University Music Society Symphony Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk. Candlemaker Road. Tickets: 07790 837l32. 7.30pm. £7 (£4). An evening of orchestral favourites from this acclaimed student orchestra under the baton of Russell Cowieson.

Glasgow

I Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Scrapers and Tooters City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. Noon. £30 (£l5). See Sat 20.

I BBC SSO Chamber Series: Trapped Winds City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 3pm. £7. Formed by members of the BBC SSO. this playfully named group will be perfomiing piano quintets by Mozart and Beethoven. * Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with Cecilia Bartoli Royal Concert Hall: Main Auditorium. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15—£25. The lntemational Classical Season finishes on

a high with zesty baroque interpretations from the all singing and standing 7 ‘Freiburgers‘. joined by leading mezzo— soprano Bartoli. Iintitiled ()pera Prmhtta 7 Rome at the Turn ofthe lh'th ('enturv. the programme will include arias by Handel. Scarlatti and Caldara.

Edinburgh

I Budapest Symphony Orchestra llsher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 l I55. 7.30pm. £l5 £30 (Students £l0). Final concert in Iidinburgh's Intemational Classics season for 2005/06 brings the welcome return of the Budapest Symphony with charismatic conductor Tamas V'asary in the emotional pow er of Sibelius' Symphonv No 5. Kodaly‘s

Dames offidlaflht. the cello concerto by

Dvorak and Mozart's overture to Don

(iiot-anni.

Paisley

I Paisley Philharmonic Choir Paisley Town Ilall. Abbey Close. 887

l0l0. 7.30pm. £8.50 (£7). An evening of choral rnusic including Schubert. Mozart and Haydn.

Glasgow I La Boheme King's Theatre. 297 Bath

Street. 240 llll. 7.30pm. “3.50133.

Chisinau National Opera perform

Puccini's romantic opera about Mimi‘s

City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000.

love for an impoverished writer.

Glasgow

I Ramshom Lunchtime Concert: The Edinburgh Quartet Ramshom Theatre. 98 lngratn Street. 668 20l9. l.l5~ 2pm. £3. The Quartet perform Mozart‘s K42] Quartet and Schumann‘s Opus 4 I No .i Quartet.

I La Boheme King’s Theatre. 297 Bath Street. 240 llll. 7.30pm. £l3.50 £33. See Mon 22.

I Amici Forever Royal Concert Hall: Main Auditorium. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 7.45pm. £22. Featuring four

voices plucked from across the globe.

Amici Forever are the world‘s first opera band and are‘rapidly changing the popular perception ot opera with their interpretations of familiar classics such as ‘Nessun I)orma‘.

Wednesday 24

Glasgow l I The Merchant Voices City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7pm. Free. See

Wed I7.

I La Boheme King‘s Theatre. 297 Bath Street. 240 l I l l. 7.30pm. £l3.50—£33.

See Mon 22.

Glasgow

I Music at the Mitchell - Danny Driver Mitchell Library. 20l North Street. 287 2999. 6.30pm. Free. Piano recital presented by the Mitchell Library in partnership with the Scottish International Piano Competition.

>i< Scottish Opera: Carmen Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.l5pm. £6.50—£55. Bizet's passionate Sevillian opera. about the Don Jose’s obsession with the wilful Carmen. is performed by a cast including Andrea Szanto and Peter Auty.

* BBC SO Thursday Night Series

7.30pm. £9-£2l.50. The BBC SSO‘s new associate guest conductor. Stefan Solyom. conducts Sibelius' En Saga: tone poem. the Scottish premiere of Judith Weir's song-cycle Natural History and Shostakovich‘s .S'ymphony No 5. Pre concert talk at 6.45pm with Judith Weir and the orchestra's MUsic Producer. Simon Lord. in conversation.

I La Boheme King's Theatre. 297 Bath Street. 240 I l I l. 7.30pm. £l3.50—£33.

See Mon 22.

ClassiCal Music

THE BESTCLASSICAL 8 "OPERA

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with Cecilia Bartoli One of the world's most successful and highest— selling opera singers in a showcase of the baroque and early classical music that feels as if it were written for her. The only Scottish date on current tour featuring her latest release. Opera Pro/pita. Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. Sun 27 May.

>i= Scottish Opera: Cannon Hot on the heels of their new Don Giovianni and continuing to mark the company's return to main-stage. Scottish Opera revive Aidan Lang's successful 1999 production of what must surely be one of the most popular operas of all time. But whatever will they do about the cigarettes on stage this time round? Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Thu 25 8. Tue 30 May 3, 6, 8 8 10 Jun; Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 13, 17, 20 8. 23 Jun. BBC SSO Thursday Night Series Scottish premiere of Judith Weir's soprano and orchestra song-cycle, Natural History. composed for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and taking ancient Chinese Taoist texts as the starting point for the composer's look at natural life as lived by different species. human and animal. City Hal/s, Glasgow, Thu 25 May.

I NYOS Staffa Award I’ollok House.

I’ollok Country Park. 2060 I’ollokshaWs

Road. 332 83] l. 7.30pm. £l6. Competing for the National Youth

()rchestras of Scotland’s prestigious Staffa Award this year are flautist Clare Jet'feris. double bassist (ieorgina Poad and violinist Midori Sugiyama. There will also be a performance frorn last

year's runner up. trumpeter Thomas

Osborne.

Edinburgh I Hebrides Ensemble: Rush Hour

Concert St Mark's Church. Castle

Terrace. 0|3l 228 l155. 6pm. £6 (£4). More French music to unwind to after work. including the Piano Trio by Ravel.

whose Chansons Madei'asses are sung

by mezzo Louise Innes. as well as some songs by Koechlin. See also Thu I l.

I George Heriot’s School Queen‘s

Hall. Clerk Street. 668 20I9. 7.30pm. A varied programme of music by the First

Orchestra. the Concert Band and the

Community Choir. Tickets available from the school on 0] 3] 229 7263.

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