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Glasgow Orchestral Society Sherbrooke St Gilbert’s Church, Nithsdale Road, Pollokshields, info@gos.org.uk. 7.30pm. £10 (£7). Eric Dunlea conducts Glasgow’s oldest amateur orchestra in a programme of music by Britten, Copland, Rodriguez and Tchaikovsky. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Brass Band Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University Bristo Square, 650 2427. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Angus Tully conducts. Jubilo Spring Concert Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, tickets@jubilo.org.uk. 7.30pm. £10 (£7). Four Bruckner Motets, Haydn’s Te Deum Laudamus and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, featuring soloists Colin Heggie and Andy Fraser. Accompaniment from the Edinburgh Players, who will provide Mendelssohn’s Ruy Blas Overture. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: New Romantics IV The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £9–£27. Garry Walker conducts Battistelli’s Fair is foul, foul is fair, Berio’s Folk Songs, the world premiere of Harper’s Pastoral and Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes. Edinburgh University Chamber Choir Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 8pm. £8 (£5). A selection of works by Vaughan Williams, Mealor, Sweelinck and William Byrd. Edinburgh University String Orchestra and Singers Old St Paul’s Church, 39 Jeffrey Street, 556 3332. 8pm. £6 (£4). A night of Handel, featuring his roof-raising Coronation Anthems, the Organ Concerto Op 7 No 1 in B Major and costume drama soundtrack fave Water Music Suite No 1.
Sunday 20 Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 6. Sounds International Annual Charity Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10. The ecumenically- minded choir’s annual charity concert is in aid of Scottish charity Quarriers.
Edinburgh Children’s Classic Concerts: Bongos and Brass The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 3pm. £10 (children £6; family ticket £29). Mayhem and musicianship on percussion and brass, presented by Owen and Olly. Edinburgh University Female Voice Choir Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). With conductor Vaughan Fleischfresser. Linton Singers 25th Anniversary Concert Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, 226 0000. 7.30pm. £8. The choir performs Fauré’s Requiem and a new work by Edinburgh-based composer Steve King. Benefit concert in aid of Mercy Ships. Scottish Sinfonia St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, 229 1142. 7.45pm. £12 (£10; schoolchildren £3). Neil Mantle conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante (with soloists Daniel Bell and Matthew Hunter) and Franck’s Symphony in D minor.
Electroacoustic music by pioneering composer Jonty Harrison. Edinburgh Edinburgh Youth Choir Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, 226 0000. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Wayne Weaver conducts. FREE Noisy Nights 13 Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, 228 1404. 8pm. Red Note’s informal night of new music, featuring the Ten Minute Composing Challenge: write a piece in the interval and it might get played at the end of the night.
Tuesday 22
Glasgow Albert Herring RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £19.50 (£15.50). See Sat 19. Edinburgh East Lothian Council Instrumental Music Service Showcase Concert The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £5. Talented young musicians’ showcase.
Wednesday 23
Glasgow Lord Todd Prom Lord Todd Bar, Campus Village, University of Strathclyde, 548 2435. 7.30pm. £9 (£7; children £5). Strathclyde University’s Guitar Ensemble and Celtic Ensemble in an informal setting. Edinburgh FREE The Margaret Fletcher Schola Cantorum of Edinburgh Lieder Prize 2011 Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 2pm. A competitive concert of German Lieder.
Thursday 24
Glasgow St Mary’s Music School Ensembles Westbourne Music, 7 West George St, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £7 (£6; students/children £3). Virtuoso young performers from the renowned specialist music school based in Edinburgh. Albert Herring RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £19.50 (£15.50). See Sat 19. BBC SSO: Flights of Inspiration City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£23. Bartok’s Music for strings, percussion and celesta and Harrison Birtwistle’s Endless Parade featuring trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger, as well as Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E Flat and Sibelius’s The Wood Nymph. Mr McFall’s Chamber: Mad March Week 2 RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). New commissions from top UK jazz composers Tim Garland and Martin Kershaw plus works by Astor Piazzolla, Raymond Scott and Frank Zappa. Edinburgh Edinburgh Quartet Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. 6.30pm. £23.50 (£21.50; without supper £11.50–£13.50). The irrepressible quartet performs Schubert’s Quartet in A Minor Op 29 (‘Rosamunde’), Beethoven’s Quartet in D major Op 18 No 3 and the Quartet No 2 by Prokofiev, following a one-course supper.
Monday 21 Friday 25
Glasgow RSAMD String Ensemble with Ilya Gringolts RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £6.50 (£4.50). Ilya Gringolts (violin) joins RSAMD players in a performance including Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht. Albert Herring RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £19.50 (£15.50). See Sat 19. Electroacoustic Event 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6.50 (£4.50). Edinburgh Trio Ecossaise Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 6pm. £8 (£6; schoolchildren £2). The clarinet/cello/piano trio plays works by Mozart, Bruch and Nino Rota. All proceeds go to the Musicians Benevolent Fund. RSNO: Järvi conducts the Leningrad Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£32. Neeme Järvi conducts Shostakovich’s roaring
Symphony No 7 ‘Leningrad’. Plus Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings and a pre- concert talk at 6.45pm. Mr McFall’s Chamber: Mad March Week 2 The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8pm. £12 (£10). See Thu 24. Saturday 26
Glasgow ✽✽ Scottish Opera: Intermezzo Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £17–£49 (concessions available). Francesco Corti directs Richard Strauss’ droll ‘sitcopera’ of marital confusion, starring Anita Bader and Roland Wood. Part of Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival RSNO: Järvi conducts the Leningrad Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£32 (under 26s £5; under 16s free). See Fri 25. Edinburgh Edinburgh Bach Choir: St Matthew Passion St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, 228 1155. 6.30pm. £17.50 (£15). Bach’s masterpiece features Philippa Hyde, Marion Ramsay, John Arthur, Joshua Ellicott, Chris Elliott, Stewart Kempster and the Edinburgh Bach Society Orchestra. Edinburgh Concert Band & James Gillespie’s School Choir Morningside United Church, 15 Chamberlain Road, 473 2000. 7.15pm. £10 (£8; children £5). A concert in aid of 500 Miles, a charity supporting medical services in Malawi and Zambia. Cadenza: CD Fundraising Concert St Peter’s Church, Lutton Place, 447 3102. 7.30pm. £8 (£6; schoolchildren £2). Lighter favourites by Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Whitacre, Richard Rogers, Gershwin, George Harrison and more.
Sunday 27
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 4–4.45pm. See Sun 6. Kings Park Brass St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £6 (£5). Kings Park Brass and the Glasgow Youth Choir in an evening of instrumental and choral music. Edinburgh Artisan Trio Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). The Hans Gál Society presents the young Edinburgh-based piano trio performing works by Schubert, Beethoven and Gál.
Monday 28
Glasgow FREE BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Discovering Music City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2pm. Pianist Martin Roscoe, presenter Stephen Johnson and conductor Jonathan Schiffman explore Brahms’ colossal Piano Concerto No 2. Edinburgh Edinburgh Quartet Stockbridge Parish Church, Saxe-Coburg Street, 554 1315. 7.30pm. £12 (£4–£8). Final concert in the Edinburgh Quartet’s 2010/11 season features quartets by Mozart, Ravel and Beethoven’s great Op 59 No 3 ‘Rasumovsky’. Hagen Quartet The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £11–£19 (concessions available). Lutoslawski’s String Quartet and Beethoven’s craggy String Quartet No 14 in C sharp Minor Op 131.
Tuesday 29 Glasgow From Vienna to Paris Ramshorn Theatre, 98 Ingram Street, 552 3489. 1.15pm. £4. Valentin Schiedermair
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Birtwistle – Pulse Shadows Amazingly, this major piece by Sir Harrison Birtwistle has not been heard live in Scotland before. Don’t miss its Scottish premiere with Hebrides Ensemble and the phenomenal American soprano Claron McFadden (pictured), to whom the work is dedicated and who gave its first performances in 1996. Mon 7 Mar, St Andrews in the Square, Glasgow; Tue 8 Mar, Eden Court, Inverness; Wed 9 Mar, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh; Fri 11 Mar, Perth Concert Hall.
Scottish Opera: Intermezzo Hot on the heels of their enormously successful Orlando, Scottish Opera turn to something completely different and Richard Strauss’s witty and elegant comedy of manners inspired by the real life marital goings on in his own home. Sat 26, Wed 30 Mar, Sat 3 Apr, Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Thu 7, Sat 9 April, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.
Mr McFall’s Chamber: Mad March Week Four new commissions one week in March and another two unveiled the next. Yes, it is a bit mad. First off are Martin Suckling from Scotland, Joel Rust from England, Dylan Curran from Ireland and Eric Allen from the US. All are under 30 and all have set a poem by Edward Thomas, with the set making a fine companion to Gavin Bryars’s Eight Irish Madrigals. Thu 17 Mar, St Bride’s Church, Glasgow; Fri 18 Mar, St John’s Church, Edinburgh.
(piano) presents Mozart’s Rondo in D K485, Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy and Chopin’s Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante Op 22.
Wednesday 30 Glasgow ✽✽ Scottish Opera: Intermezzo Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £17–£49 (concessions available). See Sat 26.
Thursday 31
Edinburgh Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Fauré’s Requiem Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £9–£27. Fauré’s tranquil testament plus Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Schreker’s seldom-heard Chamber Symphony. With Robin Ticciati (conductor), bass-baritone Neal Davies and soprano Carolyn Sampson. 3–31 March 2011 THE LIST 107