Music Classical ‘ namin—
Glasgow
I A Concert, a Cocktail and a Canape ()ran Mor. 731—735 Great Western Road. 357 6200. 5.15pm. £10. A programme of Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela. Elgar's Sea Pictures with mezzo Carolyn Dobbin and Walton's Suite from Henry V. Music starts 6.15pm.
Tuesday 13
Glasgow
I A Winning Talent Ramshorn Theatre. 98 Ingram Street. 552 3489. 1.15—2pm. £3. Winner of the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition. Russian- bom pianist Sasha Grynyuk (piano). performs two sonatas by Scarlatti (F minor K466 and E major K26). Bach- Busoni C haeeone. Bartok's Piano Suite
presents
fl Spring Concert 7.30pm on Suariday 11th May
2008
Sherbrooke Church, 240 Nithsdale Road, Pollokshields Road, Glasgow
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Bizet:
Symphony in C major for Orchestra
Mendelssohn:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor Op. 64
Bizet:
L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
gerard'QDofieny
Conductor ‘Iamas Tejes ‘l ’iofin Soloist
TICKETS
£8, £6 concessions, £4 under 16’s
W.
()p [4 and Brahms' ()p I I 6 Intermezzi Nos 3, 4 and 7.
FREE Organ Recital: Kevin Bowyer Glasgow University Memorial Chapel. The Square. Off University Avenue. 5.15pm. Ticketed. Free early evening concert.
I Scottish Opera: Falstaff Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 0870 060 6647. 7.15pm. £9—£58. Dominic Hill directs this new production which promises to be pure fun yet in the finest Verdi tradition. Based on a character in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Sir John Falstaff‘s larger than life appetites and self-indulgences strike a chord of universal recognition. See preview. page 93.
Wednesday 14 ' " '
Edinburgh
FREE Philippe Quint: Violin
Recital St Cecilia‘s Hall. Cowgate. 6.30pm. Solo performance by Grammy-nominatcd New York violinist in a special presentation to launch the world-premiere recording of John Corigliano's Red Violin Capt-ices.
Glasgow
I Scottish Opera: Falstaff Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. ()870 060 6647. 7.15pm. £9—-£58. See Tue 13.
I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £9—£2l.50. Conductor Robert Spano leads the orchestra through a performance of Britten's Serenade for Tenor: Horn and Strings with soloists Andrew Kennedy and David Pyatt. and Mahler's Symphony No 5. made famous by the use of its Adagietto in Visconti‘s lilm Death in Venice.
Edinburgh
; FREE Live Music How: Hoot
= National Gallery of Scotland. The
Mound. Princes Street. 624 6560. 6pm. Iimma Wilkins and Helen Macleod. the Scottish-based flute and harp duo. play a selection of music from France. Italy and Scotland all about love. nature and the changing seasons.
I Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers: LightHEARTed Summer Concert St Columba‘s by the Castle. Johnston Terrace. 7.45pm. £8 (£5). Madrigals. songs and motels from Henry VIII to Brahms with all proceeds going to the Cardiac Unit of Edinburgh Sick Children‘s Hospital. Tickets available on the door.
Glasgow
I Friday Lunchtime Concert Series RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lpm. £7 (£5). Brahms‘
Box office: 0141 332 8311
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NYOS STAFFA AWARD
FINAL AWARDS PERFORMANCE
with support from The Merchants House of Glasgow
Thursday 22 May 2008, 7.30pm
The Merchants House, Glasgow Tickets: £16I£12I£2 (StudentIChild) Price includes wine and canapés
future stars of classical musi
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Second Piano Trio and more from 4 members of the Scottish Ensemble.
FREE Scottish Opera: Falstaff
' Unwrapped Theatre Royal. 282 Hope
Street. 0870 ()60 6647. 6pm. Unwrapped shares some theatrical secrets giving you a fascinating behind the scenes look at opera. a perfect introduction for those who
i have never experienced it. Free with a
ticket for a performance of the opera.
I Band of HM Royal Marines
Scotland City Halls. Candleriggs. 353
8000. 7.30pm. £l6-£18. The ever popular concert season featuring music from the classics. shows. films and big band era.
Edinburgh
FREE Heather Maclean St Giles' Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 12.15pm. A lunchtime concert of handbell music.
Saturday 17 ~ ‘ .
Glasgow Piano Legends: Angela Hewitt in Recital City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7pm. £l2—£20. An opportunity to hear Bach's Well Tempered Clai'ier, Books I and II. as Hewitt performs both from memory over two nights. Buy tickets
' for Book I and get Book II half price. I Scottish Opera: Falstaff Theatre
Royal. 282 Ilope Street. 0870 060 6647. 7.15pm. £9—£58. See Tue 13.
I Junior Academy of Music Chamber Concert RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Julian Clayton conducts and Liam Brolly plays the viola in a programme of Britten‘s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge. Telemann‘s Viola Concerto in G Major and Beethoven‘s Symphony No 5 in C minor.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Academy Queen‘s Hall. 87-89 Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7pm. £6. Varied programme of music from final year pupils with orchestras. concert bands. string orchestras and choir with concerto performances.
I Sacred and Profane Reid Memorial
Church. 182 West Saville Terrace. 662
1203. 7.30pm. £6. A range of sacred and
secular works for vocal duet by Alison . Beck (soprano). Alice McMichael (mezzo-
Meadows Chamber Orchestra
Stockbridge Parish Church. Saxe Coburg Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £10 (£8: students £4; children £1). Garry Walker conducts the Edinburgh-based orchestra. with Claire Sterling on violin. in Harper‘s Chanson Minimal ( Variations on a Theme by Iz'lgar). l-iaydn's Symphony No 22 in Iz'flat ‘l’hilosopher. Hartmann’s
soprano) and Jeremy Cull (organ. piano).
Concerto I’unehre and Mozart's
Friday‘lo ’ 1
Symphony No 3’6 in C. K425 ‘I.in:'.
Sunday 18
3 Glasgow i FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ 3 Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery &
Museum. Argyle Street. 276 9599. 3—3.45pm. See Sun 11.
. I The Land of Songs (‘afe (‘ossaehok.
Russian Cultural Centre. 38 Albion Street. 553 0733. 9pm. £6. Ukrainian songs and
operatic arias performed by Glasgow-
based Ukrainian soprano ()ksana Mavrodi
with Anna Mavromatidi on piano.
Edinburgh
FREE St Giles’ at Six: The Chapel
Choir of Fettes College St Giles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 6pm.
- Nicholas Wearne on the organ. Joanne
Armstrong as director and programme of
Monteverdi‘s Beams Vir and anthems by
Stanford and Mathias.
Monday 19
Glasgow I Music on Mondays RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £3.
Maria Kozlova (soprano) and Fali Pavri (piano) join forces for a Slavic
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programme of music by Rachmaninov. Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.
I A Concert, a Cocktail and a Canapé: Carmina Burana ()ran
Mor. 731—735 Great Western Road. 357 6200. 5.15pm. £10. Carl ()rff's
. bombastic opera and The Sirens of 7itan by Percussion of the RSAMI). Music
starts at 6.15pm.
_ FREE Scottish Opera: A Night at
the Chinese Opera Unwrapped Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 0870 060 6647. 6pm. Go backstage before a performance of Judith Weir‘s A Night at the Chinese Opera to find out all about costumes. the music and what makes an operatic production tick. Free with a
g ticket for a performance of the opera.
Piano Legends: Angela Hewitt in Recital City Halls.
. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7pm. £l2—£20.
See Sat 17.
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Glasgow
I Virtuoso Viola Ramshorn Theatre. 98 Ingram Street. 552 3489. l.l5—2pm. £3. Veronika Toth. an accomplished
; student at the RSAMI). presents a solo
programme.
I Scottish Opera: A Night at the
Chinese Opera Theatre Royal. 282
Hope Street. 0870060 6647. 7.15pm.
£9—£58. A new production directed by Lee Blakeley. which involves a colourful range of characters including canal workers. explorers. Iimperors and even Marco Polo. A combination of catchy folk melodies with parodies of Chinese and Italian opera creates a tale within a tale with its tongue firmly in
its cheek.
Edinburgh
I The Curve Foundation Dance Company: Four Seasons King‘s
Theatre. 2 Leven Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £5—£17.50(£9.50—£l4.50). See
: Glasgow
I Scottish Opera: Falstaff Theatre
1 Royal. 282 Hope Street. 0870060 6647. 7.15pm. £9~£58. See Tue 13.
I Concerto Concert RSAMI). 100
Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3. Performed by some of the Academy‘s
brightest new hopes.
Glasgow FREE RSAMD Ye Cronies Opera Award RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street.
332 5057. 5.30pm. Vocal Studies Department showcase event offering a
further opportunity to hear senior
' students singing from the opera stage.
I Scottish Opera: A Night at the
Chinese Opera Theatre Royal. 282
Hope Street. 0870060 6647. 7.15pm.
£9—£58. See Tue 20.
I NYOS Staffa Award The Merchant House. 7 West George Street. 332 831 I.
7.30pm. £tbc. Three young musicians ; compete for the first prize of £3.0()().
Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh University
Music Degree Students Reid Concert Hall. Edinburgh University.
Bristo Square. 650 2427. l2.30—-3pm &
; 6.30--9.45pm. See (and hear) the
, culmination of years work with recital L by the University's final year music
students.
FREE Edinburgh University ’ Music Degree Students St Cecilia‘s
Hall. Niddry Street. 650 2427. 3.30—5.30pm. See Thu 22.
v I Oliver Latry St Mary's Iipiscopal § Cathedral. 23 Palmerston Place. 523 0106. 8—-9. 15pm. £8. All the way from
the Notre Dame. Paris. Latry plays a
selection of music by Tournemire. Durutie. Alain. Florentz. Messiaen.
Iiscaich and improvisation.