Music CLASSICAL
Seafarer Cambo Barn, North Lodge Cottage, Cambo Estate, 0131 473 2000. 9.30pm. £15. Theatre of Voices, directed by Paul Hillier, sing music by Hildegard of Bingen. Also featuring Andrew Lawrence-King on harp. Part of East Neuk Festival. Leven His Harp Sae Rare Kilconquhar Parish Church, Main Street, Kilconquhar, 0131 473 2000. 4pm. £12. An hour of medieval and renaissance harp music. Part of East Neuk Festival.
Monday 2
Edinburgh FREE Hurdalskoret St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Recital by Norwegian choir. Isle of Islay Bach at Laphroaig Laphroaig Distillery, Laphroaig, cantilenafestival. co.uk 8pm. £10–£12. Bach-to-Bach favourites: the Violin Concerto in E, the Double Concerto, the Orchestral Suite in B Minor and the Keyboard Concerto in D Minor. Part of Cantilena Festival.
Adamo St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Organ recital. Milngavie FREE Live Music in the Bandstand Mugdock Country Park, Craigallion Road, 956 6100. 2–4pm. See Sun 1.
Monday 9
Edinburgh FREE Salem Youth Chorus St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Recital by Ohioan choir.
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Tuesday 10
Glasgow Temptations of Tam Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, 429 0022. 7.30pm. £10 (£2–£8). See Fri 29.
Anstruther Leipzig String Quartet II Cellardyke Church, Toll Road, Cellardyke, 0131 473 2000. 11.30am. £12–£15. Mendelssohn specialists the Leipzig Quartet play the great man’s Quartet Op 44 No 2 and Beethoven’s Quartet Op 127. Part of East Neuk Festival. Crail Beethoven’s Last Sonatas Crail Parish Church, Marketgate North, 01333 312631. 7.30pm. £17–£25. Llyr Williams performs Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas, Op 109, 110 and 111. Part of East Neuk Festival.
Stirling Auricle Ensemble: Mini Mahler Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, 01786 274000. 8pm. £14 (£12). Just 15 players from the Auricle Ensemble come together to perform a stripped-back version of Mahler’s Symphony No 4 and Songs of a Travelling Wayfarer, as well as Debussy’s Prélude à L’après midi d’un faune.
Sunday 1
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 24.
Anstruther Octets II Cellardyke Church, Toll Road, Cellardyke, 0131 473 2000. 2pm. £12–£15. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra Winds play three octets: Haydn’s Suite in E Flat, Stravinsky’s aptly-named Octet and Mozart’s Serenade in E Flat K375. Part of East Neuk Festival. Crail Octets III Crail Parish Church, Marketgate North, 0131 473 2000. 5pm. £17–£25. The Festival finishes with a programme of all-Mendelssohn: Llyr Williams performs the evergreen Songs without words and after the interval the Festival Ensemble with Alexander Janiczek plays the outrageously precocious Octet. Part of East Neuk Festival.
Isle of Islay Havilland Willshire Columba Centre, Gartnatra, Distillery Road, Bowmore, cantilenafestival.co.uk 8pm. £10–£12. Piano recital featuring works by Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Schumann and Chopin. Part of Cantilena Festival.
Milngavie FREE Live Music in the Bandstand Mugdock Country Park, Craigallion Road, 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 of individual bands. 110 THE LIST 21 Jun–19 Jul 2012
Isle of Islay Lagavulin Recital Lagavulin Distillery, Port Ellen, cantilenafestival. co.uk 8pm. £10–£12. Chamber music recital, featuring Telemann’s Pyrmonter Kurwoche I, Weber’s Flute Trio in G Minor, Villa-Lobos’ Jet Whistle, Bach’s Flute Sonata in G Minor and Mozart’s String Quartet in C K465. Part of Cantilena Festival.
Wednesday 4 Isle of Islay Sanaigmore Recital Outback Art Gallery, Sanaigmore Gruuinart, Bridgend, cantilenafestival.co.uk 1.30pm. £5. Light music for the afternoon. Part of Cantilena Festival. Mozart & Glass Columba Centre, Gartnatra, Distillery Road, Bowmore, cantilenafestival.co.uk 9pm. £10–£12. A Mozart piano concerto and flute quartet, plus music by Philip Glass for solo piano. Part of Cantilena Festival.
Thursday 5 Edinburgh FREE Gainesville Youth Chorus St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Recital by choir from Florida.
Friday 6
Paisley The National Children’s Orchestra of Scotland Paisley Abbey, Abbey Place, 889 7654. 1.30pm. £10 (£2–£5). Conductor Peter Stark aids Scotland’s brightest 8–14-year-old classical hopes through a repertoire that includes Malcolm Arnold’s Suite from Hommage to the Queen, Aram Khachaturian, Masquerade Suite and Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Isle of Islay Cantilena Festival Finale Bruichladdich Distillery, Bruichladdich, cantilenafestival.co.uk 8pm. £10–£12. Boccherini’s Flute Quintet in D Minor, Haydn’s String Quartet No 33/2, Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto ‘Il Gardellino’ and other works, including performances from Rona Wilkie (fiddle) and Marion Ramsay (contralto). Part of Cantilena Festival.
Saturday 7 Edinburgh Duo Allemand St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £14 (seniors £10; students and unwaged £5). Peter Wendland (viola da gamba) and David Roblou (harpsichord) play works by Kuehnel, Hoeffler, JS Bach, Richmann, Handel, Mente, Abel, CPE Bach and Hammer.
Edinburgh FREE De Jonge Scheuten St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Concert by Belgian wind orchestra. St Andrews World Saxophone Congress 2012 Various venues, wscxvi.com Times vary, until Sun 15 Jul. Spectator day tickets (giving access to all recitals on one day) £25–£30. The World Saxophone Congress last took place in Britain more than 30 years ago; now it’s St Andrews’ turn to see over 1000 musicians descend on the town in search of sax-based pleasure and enlightenment. Besides workshops for players there are also concerts featuring stars of the instrument such as Branford Marsalis, Tommy Smith and John Harle.
Wednesday 11
Edinburgh FREE Cerknica Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Recital by Slovenian choir. Dundee Alfie Boe: The Bring Him Home Tour Caird Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7pm. £20–£35. West End hits and light opera from tenor Boe.
Thursday 12 Edinburgh FREE Affie Boys Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Recital by choir from the venerable Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool of Pretoria, South Africa.
Friday 13
Edinburgh The Playfair Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk, Candlemaker Row. 7.30pm. £10. Ex-SCO leader Christopher George turns to conducting in Haydn’s Cello Concerto No 1 and Beethoven’s exhilarating Symphony No 7. Berwick upon Tweed FREE Alasdair Beatson Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 5.30–6pm. In this free taster concert, Beatson (piano) plays Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy. Part of Music at Paxton. Scottish Ensemble with Alasdair Beatson: Trout Quintet Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £20 (£10). Schubert’s Trout Quintet and Schumann’s Piano Quartet performed with a new commission, Bite, by recent RCS composition graduate Alasdair Spratt.
Sunday 8 Saturday 14
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 24. Edinburgh FREE St. Giles’ at Six: Riccardo
Berwick upon Tweed Carducci String Quartet Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £20 (£10). Young quartet plays Haydn’s No 4, The Sunrise, Debussy’s Quartet and Mendelssohn’s Quartet in F minor, Op 80. Part of Music at Paxton.
Sunday 15
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 24.
✽ Sun Rings at Riverside Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Place, 287 2660. 7.30–10pm. £10. Kronos Quartet headlines the climax of an evening of music and art installations inspired by the architecture and exhibitions of the Riverside Museum, with contemporary space-themed strings.
Berwick upon Tweed Pure Brass: Brass on the Grass Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 3.30–4.30pm. £7.50 (free). Brass quintet plays popular favourites. Part of Music at Paxton. William Berger & Ian Burnside Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 6pm. £20 (£10). Berger (baritone) and Burnside (piano) perform songs by Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, Warlock, Vaughan Williams, Richard Rodney Bennett, Schubert, Wolf, Liszt and Richard Strauss, as well as Schumann’s great Leiderkreis Op 39. Lochgelly Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust Lochgelly Centre, Bank Street, 01592 418141. 2.45pm & 4.45pm. £7 (school children £1). A concert featuring the Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, Wind Band and Brass Ensemble. Conducted by Matthew Rowe, Robin Wedderburn, Susan Dingle and Bede Williams.
Milngavie FREE Live Music in the Bandstand Mugdock Country Park, Craigallion Road, 956 6100. 2–4pm. See Sun 1.
Monday 16 Edinburgh FREE Key Chorale St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Recital by choir from Florida.
Tuesday 17
Edinburgh FREE Texas Youth Orchestra & Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Concert by Texas youth ensemble on a UK & Ireland tour. Berwick upon Tweed Flutes en Route & Sutherland Duo Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £12 (£6). Flute quartet playing works by Tchaikovsky, Delibes, Rory Boyle, Prokofiev and others in a double bill with piano/violin duo playing MacMillan, Brahms and Sarasate. Part of Music at Paxton.
Wednesday 18 Berwick upon Tweed Simon Thacker Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £16 (£8). Guitarist plays works by Britten, Nigel Osborne and Ginastera. Part of Music at Paxton.
Thursday 19 Edinburgh FREE Live Music Now: Nafis Umerkulova Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. Pianist Nafis Umerkulova interprets the current exhibition of symbolist landscapes from 1880 to 1910 with a programme of solo piano music by composers of the period, including Debussy, Stanchinsky and Scriabin.
Crail Crail Festival Orchestra Crail Community Hall, St Andrews Road, 01333 450108. 8pm. £12. A programme of Purcell, Mozart and Beethoven, featuring Lyndsey Ellis (flute) and Gwen Sinclair (harp). Part of the Crail Festival.