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Hall, Main Street, Tobermory, 01688 302211. 8pm. £12 (£5–£8). The SCO’s highly skilled wind and brass players hit the road with a programme that includes Haydn’s Trio No 1 (‘London’) and Beethoven’s Rondino. Melrose ■ The Edwardian Cello Wynd Theatre, 7 The Wynd, 01896 820028. 8pm. £11. See Fri 23.
Thursday 22 Sunday 25
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 1pm. Free lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists. Edinburgh FREE Live Music Now: Laura Grime National Gallery Complex, The Mound, 624 6200. 6pm. The genre- crossing violinist weaves together Scottish and Danish folk music, as well as some of her own melodies.
Berwick Upon Tweed ■ Edinburgh Quartet Paxton House, Paxton, 473 2000. 7.30pm. £16 (£8); buffet supper £16. Pianist Nicholas Ashton joins the acclaimed Edinburgh Quartet for Dvorák’s Piano Quintet in A, performed alongside quartets by Haydn and Schumann. Part of the Music at Paxton Festival. St Andrews ■ Chamber Concert St Salvator’s Chapel, North Street, 01334 462226. 8pm. £6 (£5). An evening performance by clarinettist Jill Craig, cellist Angela Stevenson and pianist William Stevenson.
Friday 23
Berwick Upon Tweed ■ Hebrides Ensemble Paxton House, Paxton, 473 2000. 7.30pm. £16 (£8); buffet supper £16. The ensemble performs Chopin’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Harper’s Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, and works by Lutoslawski and Brahms. Part of the Music at Paxton Festival. Selkirk ■ The Edwardian Cello Bowhill Theatre, Bowhill House, Bowhill, 01750 22204. 8pm. £10. A witty and nostalgic recreation of a 1912 musical soirée with cellist Melanie Dennerly and pianist/actor Michael Lunts.
Saturday 24
Glasgow ✽✽ FREE The Lost Piece Babbity Bowsters, 16 Blackfriars Street,
2.30pm & 4.30pm. A chance to enjoy a drink and performances from Gareth Williams and Christina K Guillaumier, courtesy of Scottish Opera. Part of the Merchant City Festival.
Berwick Upon Tweed ■ The Three Don Quixotes: A comic opera Paxton House, Paxton, 473 2000. 2.30pm. £5 (concessions free). Viriditas Opera presents a comedic outdoor mash-up of the operas of Purcell, Telemann and Boismortier on the adventures of Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho. Bring a rug or deck chair and get comfy. Part of the Music at Paxton Festival. ■ Piano Recital: Cédric Tiberghien Paxton House, Paxton, 473 2000. 7.30pm. £16 (£8); buffet supper £16. The pianist performs a selection of mazurkas, scherzi and ballades by Chopin along with more mazurkas by Scriabin, Tansman and Szymanowski. Part of the Music at Paxton Festival. Isle of Mull ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Wind and Brass Tour 2010 Aros
soprano’s UK tour takes her to Edinburgh, where she is accompanied onstage by the RSNO, conductor Anthony Inglis and special guests.
Sunday 1
Glasgow FREE Live Music in the Bandstand Mugdock Country Park, Craigallian Road, Milngavie, 956 6100. 2–4pm. See Sun 25. Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Retiring collection. Agnieszka Opiola performs a selection of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.
Kilberry ■ The Dalmeny Trio Crear: Space to Create, Crear, 01880 770369. 3pm. £22; season tickets £65 (under 18s free). The trio is joined by violinist Cheryl Crockett, clarinettist Joanna Nicholson and pianist Ingrid Sawers. Drinks and canapés included. Buy two tickets, get one free.
Monday 2
Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Concert: Bellevue Rendezvous St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Retiring collection. The Scottish trio gives a concert on an unusual variety of instruments, including the cittern, jaw harp and nyckelharpa, a traditional Swedish instrument rarely seen in the UK. Dundee ■ The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland: Summer Tour 2010 Caird Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Diego Masson conducts the orchestra in a performance of Webern’s Six Pieces for Orchestra Op 6, Berg’s Three Fragments from Wozzeck and Mahler’s Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor. With guest mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin.
Dunfermline ■ Edinburgh Youth Orchestra Alhambra Theatre, 35 Canmore Street, 01383 740384. 7.30pm. £10 (£2–£8). A bold, vibrant programme featuring Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, Bernstein’s West Side Story Symphonic Dances and Gershwin’s Strike Up the Band. Conducted by Garry Walker and with a guest appearance by soprano Lisa Milne in Richard Strauss’ luscious Four Last Songs.
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✽✽ Katherine Jenkins Before she starts limbering up for her TV acting debut in the Christmas Dr Who, the Welsh diva (pictured) visits Edinburgh for the only Scottish stop on her current tour. Love her or loathe her, there is no doubt she has a following that is not all to do with her Facebook appreciation society. Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 31 Jul. ✽✽ The Lost Piece In its first year as a summer rather than autumn event, the Merchant City Festival retains its spirit of performances here, there and everywhere in the vibrant, cultural quarter of central Glasgow. A chance to get close to opera with drink in hand. Babbity Bowsters, Glasgow, Sat 24 Jul. ✽✽ Ben Kearsley Edinburgh- born classical guitarist Ben Kearsley lived in La Paz in Bolivia before returning to his roots. With an authentic flavour of the music he found there, Kearsley appears with guest South American classical guitarist Miguel Cerruto in the historic St Michael’s, Inveresk. St Michael’s Parish Church, Musselburgh, Tue 27 Jul.
Glasgow FREE Live Music in the Bandstand Mugdock Country Park, Craigallian Road, Milngavie, 956 6100. 2–4pm. A variety of musical ensembles perform every Sunday this summer in the peaceful surroundings of the Victorian Walled Garden. Please phone for details FREE The Lost Piece Babbity Bowsters, 16 Blackfriars Street, 2.30pm. See Sat 24. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists. Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Retiring collection. Pianist Bruce Thomson performs works by Bach, Brahms and Grieg.
Berwick Upon Tweed ■ Jamie MacDougall and Fali Pavri Paxton House, Paxton, 473 2000. 3.30pm. £10 (£5); afternoon tea £10. Tenor Jamie MacDougall and pianist Fali Pavri perform Schumann’s Dichterliebe and songs by Mendelssohn. Part of the Music at Paxton Festival. ■ Violin and Piano Concert Paxton House, Paxton, 473 2000. 6pm. £16 (£8); afternoon tea £10. In the finale to this year’s festival, violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien perform works by Bach, Schubert and Schumann. Part of the Music at Paxton Festival.
Tuesday 27
Church, Inveresk, 665 0713. Musselburgh ✽✽ Ben Kearsley St Michael’s Parish 7.30pm. £5. Bluegrass, flamenco, tango, Spanish and South American styles from this Edinburgh-born classical guitarist, with Bolivian classical guitarist Miguel Cerruto.
Wednesday 28 Tuesday 3
Edinburgh FREE Organ Recital St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 8pm. £8 (children free). Salisbury organist Daniel Cook performs Guillou’s Toccata, Bach’s Passacaglia BWV 582 and works by Arnold, Grainger and others. St Andrews ■ Organ Recital St Salvator’s Chapel, North Street, 01334 462226. 1.15pm. £3. Robert Kubala gives a lunchtime recital.
Thursday 29
St Andrews ■ Chamber Recital St Salvator’s Chapel, North Street, 01334 462226. 8–9pm. £6 (£5). A performance by violinist Julia Rogers and harpsichordist Tom Wilkinson of music by Bach and Corelli.
Saturday 31 Edinburgh ✽✽ Katherine Jenkins Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £20–£55. The world-famous Welsh
Edinburgh ■ Lunchtime Concert: Bellevue Rendezvous St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Retiring collection. See Mon 2. St Andrews FREE Simon Chadwick Lunchtime Recital Cathedral Ruins, North Street, 01334 472563. 12.45pm. Monthly series of lunchtime recitals of medieval and Renaissance Scottish harp music.
Wednesday 4 Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Concert: Bellevue Rendezvous St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Retiring collection. See Mon 2.
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■ Organ Recital St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 8pm. £8. Peter Backhouse performs sonatas by Bach and Hindemith, and works by Peeters, Bairstow and Duruflé. St Andrews ■ Organ Recital St Salvator’s Chapel, North Street, 01334 462226. 1.15pm. £3. An organ recital by Nicholas Wearne.
Thursday 5
Edinburgh ■ Lunchtime Concert: Bellevue Rendezvous St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Retiring collection. See Mon 2. FREE Live Music Now National Gallery Complex, The Mound, 624 6200. 6pm. Baritone Phil Gault and pianist Claire Haslin present a programme of works by Debussy, Ravel and Vaughan Williams, inspired by the Impressionist Gardens exhibition. St Andrews ■ Organ Recital St Salvator’s Chapel, North Street, 01334 462226. 8pm. £6 (£5). An evening recital by University Organist Tom Wilkinson.
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