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on organ, play concertos by Handel, Geminiani and Vivaldi. Adrian Chandler (violin) directs. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Sunday 23
Glasgow 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: Philos Baroque: Before the ’45 St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Group performing on period instruments presents an evening of Scottish music by James Oswald, Francesco Barsanti and William McGibbon.
Haddington Fauré’s Requiem St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 0131 473 2000. 7.30pm. £10–£25 (students £5). The Northern Sinfonia plays Ibert, Debussy and Fauré and is joined by the National Youth Choir of Scotland for Fauré’s Requiem, conducted by Christopher Bell. Bradley Creswick directs the first half. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Whitekirk Ravel and Debussy Quartets St Mary’s Parish Church, 0131 473 2000. 3pm. £10 (students £5). The Navarra Quartet and guitarist Sean Shibe share a bill rather than team up, with quartets from Debussy and Ravel framing a piece for guitar by the late Toru Takemitsu, In the Woods. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Tuesday 25
Glasgow FREE Glasgow University Chapel Choir Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 6pm. The choir performs pieces by Rimmer, Henschel and Bullock. Raymond Spasovski City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10. See Sat 22. Edinburgh FREE Emma Versteeg & Stuart Hope Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Versteeg (soprano) and Hope (piano) perform songs by Ravel (Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques) and Wolf (selections from the Italienisches Liederbuch) and folksong arrangements by Copland, Britten and Haydn.
Wednesday 26
Edinburgh FREE Very Wednesday St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Will Pickvance (piano) and guests play classical favourites and new material. Danish Cultural Institute Concerts Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. 6.30–8pm. £8 (£6); £20 (£15) for all three concerts. A series of three classical concerts in association with the Danish Cultural Institute. Nightingale String Quartet plays music by Langgaard and Beethoven.
Thursday 27 Glasgow FREE Simon Johnson & Scott Mitchell Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10–2pm. Music for trombone and piano: John Kenny’s Fanfare and Casterede: Sonata for trombone and piano; Bernstein’s Elegy for Mippy; Sandstrom’s Sang Til Lotta; Bill Geldard’s arrangement of Joseph Kosma’s ‘Autumn Leaves’. BBC SSO: Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Act I City Halls, Candleriggs,
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353 8000. 6.45pm. £10.50–£23.50 (£5–£21.50). Concert performance of Wagner’s intoxicating but delectable goulash of doomed love with a generous dollop of Schopenhauerian pessimism, conducted by Donald Runnicles and starring Nina Stemme and Ian Storey. See preview, page 102. Edinburgh FREE Live Music Now: Hoot Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. Flute and harp duo playing everything from traditional Scottish music to modern compositions.
Friday 28
Glasgow Oxana Shevchenko Cairns Church, 11 Buchanan Street, Milngavie, milngaviemusic.org 7.30pm. £10 (students £5; schoolchildren free). Kazakh pianist in recital, performing Mozart, Chopin, Stravinsky and Ravel. Edinburgh FREE Copenhagen Concert Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Choir on tour stop off in Edinburgh for some lunchtime music. FREE John Kitchen: Music from the age of Louis XIV Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. John Kitchen (organ) performs baroque music by De Grigny, Lully, Corrette and Raison.
Saturday 29 Glasgow FREE Dalesmen Male Voice Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 1–1.45pm. Derbyshire’s Dalesmen male choir presents a classical concert conducted by Richard Hayward and accompanied by the Kelvingrove organ. Junior Conservatoire Student Concert Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 4pm. £3. Young musicians in recital.
Sunday 30
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 23. Edinburgh BBC SSO: Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Act I Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 4pm. £10–£26. See Thu 27. FREE St Giles’ at Six: Handel St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Duets and arias for soprano and alto with the Nenthorn Baroque Ensemble directed by Robert Dick.
Tuesday 2 Glasgow FREE Glasgow University Chapel Choir: Choral Contemplations II Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 6pm. The UK premiere of Vasiliauskaite’s Cantico del Sole. Sutherland Duo Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 0844 493 2202. 7.30pm. £6–£16. Harriet Mackenzie (violin) and Christina Lawrie (piano) play Leclair, Brahms, Gareth Williams, James MacMillan, Tchaikovsky and Sarasate.
Thursday 4
Glasgow Art Trio The Merchant House, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; children & students £4). The Trio plays Rachmaninov’s Trio Elegiaque No 1 and Dvorák’s Lumky Trio. FREE Sutherland Duo Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10pm. Award- winning violin/piano duo play Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher Op 42, a new work by Gareth Williams and Prokofiev’s Sonata No 1 in F minor. FREE Gregory Hand Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 7.30pm. Organist plays Bolcom’s Gospel Preludes. Edinburgh Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Cosi fan tutte Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7pm. £10–£29 (£5–£27; under 16s free). Robin Ticciati conducts a concert performance of Mozart’s sardonic romcom, featuring Sally Matthews, Laura Tatulescu, Rachel Frenkel, Maximilian Schmitt, Adam Plachetka and Christopher Maltman plus the SCO Chorus. Edinburgh Quartet St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. Tickets by registration only. Quartet recital, including works by Krzysztof Meyer, Nigel Osborne and Yati Durant. Booking essential.
Friday 5
Glasgow A Celebration of John McCabe Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £10.50 (£7.50). The Kreutzer Quartet, with clarinettist Linda Merrick and pianist Aaron Shorr, celebrate the music of John McCabe. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Cosi fan tutte City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7pm. £13–£27 (£5–£25; under 16s free). See Thu 4. Edinburgh FREE Tom Wilkinson Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Organ recital featuring works by Buxtehude, Bohm, Pachelbel, Fischer and JS Bach. RSNO: Oundjian Conducts Shostakovich Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35. Peter Oundjian kicks off his first season as Music Director with Glinka’s Overture to ‘Ruslan and Ludmilla’, Tchaikovksy’s Violin Concerto featuring Vadim Gluzman; and Shostakovich’s accessible Symphony No 11.
Saturday 6 Glasgow Junior Conservatoire: Spanish Song Recital with Alison McNeil Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 4pm. £3. Student musicians show off their duende. BBC SSO: Hear and Now – Saariaho’s Adriana Songs City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. Free (ticketed). The UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Songs, featuring mezzo Patricia Bardon. Also works by Lindberg, Staud and Andre. Matthias Pintscher conducts. Booking essential. RSNO: Oundjian Conducts Shostakovich Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35. See Fri 5.
Wednesday 3 Sunday 7
Edinburgh Edinburgh Quartet The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £15 (£12; children & students £5). The Quartet celebrates Britten’s centenary with his 1945 Quartet No 2 as well as Haydn’s Quartet in B Minor Op 33/1 and Mendelssohn’s Quartet in F Minor Op 80.
Glasgow The Great Caruso sung by Martin Aelred City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30–9.30pm. £12.50. Tenor sings pieces from the repertoire of Caruso. Edinburgh Vienna Boys’ Choir Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1pm.
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Scottish Opera: The Magic Flute Singer turned director Sir Thomas Allen returns to Scottish Opera for his first staging of the Mozart favourite, inspired by the industrial prowess of Glasgow in Victorian times in co-existence with the world of science and Enlightenment debate. Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Wed 17, Fri 19, Sun 21, Tue 23, Thu 25 & Sat 27 Oct; Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 16, Sun 18, Tue 20, Thu 22 & Sat 24 Nov.
The AniMotion Show: Evelyn Glennie and Maria Rud Premiere of a new visual art production which has been specially created for large venues with music composed by Evelyn Glennie (above) and cellist Philip Sheppard to integrate with Maria Rud’s painting in celebration of the National Museum of Scotland’s Catherine the Great exhibition. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Thu 11 Oct.
St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra On tour in the UK to mark 70 years since the historic Leningrad premiere of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony during the Second World War, the distinguished Russian musicians perform it along with Rachmaninov’s testing Piano Concerto No 3. Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Sun 7 Oct.
£10–£27.50. A programme of Viennese favourites. FREE Russkaya Cappella National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. 3–3.45pm. Glasgow- based Russian-singing choir performs music from the reign of Catherine the Great. St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£30. The orchestra performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 (soloist Freddy Kempf) and Shostakovich’s Symphony No 7. Alexander Dmitriev conducts.
Monday 8
Glasgow Keyboard Showcase Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £7 (£5). Showcase for RCS keyboard students. Edinburgh FREE Red Note: Noisy Nights Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, 228 1404. 8pm. A chance to meet music-lovers, curious minds, musicians, composers and artists in an informal space where you can hear some of the best examples of brand new music while having a beer.
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