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Thursday 15 Glasgow Fali Pavri The Merchant House, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; students & children £4). Piano works by Schumann, Rachmaninov and Volkmar Andreae. FREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 1–2pm. Light and popular music daily. FREE Kandinsky Piano Trio Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10– 2pm. Schubert’s Piano Trio No 1 D898. Claudia Molitor: Remember Me Scotland Street School Museum, 225 Scotland Street, 287 0500. 5pm, 6pm & 7pm. £9 seven days in advance; £12 on the door (£6 seven days in advance; £8 on the door). Miniature multimedia opera. Part of Sonica. BBC SSO: Nicola Benedetti plays Szymanowski City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10.50–£23.50. Andrew Litton conducts Nicola Benedetti in Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No 1. Also works by Karłowicz and Prokofiev. 33 1/3 collective: Bluebeard Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. 7.30pm & 9pm. £9 seven day advance; £12 on the door (£6 seven day advance; £8 on the door). 3D digital opera interpretation of the folktale.
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Followed by Q&A on 16th November. Part of Sonica. Sven Werner: Tales of Magical Realism Part 2 Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. 8pm, 8.30pm, 9pm & 9.30pm. £12 (£8 concessions; £9 full price advance tickets; £6 concession advance tickets). Vaudevillian sonic performance. Part of Sonica. Edinburgh FREE Scottish Opera: The Magic Flute Unwrapped Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 6pm. The Magic Flute works on more levels than the Taipei 101. Let Scottish Opera illuminate it. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Pires plays Mozart Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £13–£27 (£5–£25; under 16s free). Mario João Pires plays Mozart’s Concerto No 17 K453; Robin Ticciati also conducts Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Beethoven’s Symphony No 6. Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers: Iberia and the New World Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.45pm. £8 (£4). Renaissance and early Baroque music. Noel O’Regan directs.
Friday 16 Glasgow 33 1/3: Bluebeard Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. 7.30pm. See Thu 15. Maxwell String Quartet Cairns Church, 11 Buchanan Street, Milngavie, milngaviemusic.org 7.30pm. £10 (students £5; schoolchildren free). Haydn’s Quartet in D Minor Op 103, Britten’s Quartet No 1, Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E flat Op 128 and a new work by Tom Harrold.
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Glasgow ■ Runrig Barrowland, 244 Gallowgate, 552 4601. 7pm. £25. See Wed 5.
list.co.uk/music ■ Roots Showcase The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Roots, R&B and blues from Toby of Black Diamond Express and friends. Featuring a set form Jack Rabbit’s Foot Minstrels.
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Edinburgh ■ Cafe Ceilidh Gorgie Dalry Parish Church, 190–192 Gorgie Road, 337 7936. 1.15pm. Donation. See Tue 27. ■ Ceilidh Club The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 8.20pm. £6. Ceilidh dancing, furious fiddlers and callers to lead you through the steps. The Scott Leslie Ceilidh Band play live.
Wednesday 5 Edinburgh ■ June Tabor & Oysterband The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7pm. £17.50. A fine interpreter of traditional song, with a concert of jazz- inflected contemporary folk, collaborating with Oysterband 21 years after Freedom and Rain for new album Ragged Kingdom.
Thursday 6 Glasgow ■ North Sea Gas St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Hugely entertaining Scottish folk band who combine guitars, mandolins, bodhrans, banjos, whistles and bouzoukis with fine vocals. Expect a mixture of traditional and original material and great craic. ■ Sarah MacDougall and Stephanie Manns Woodend Tennis & Bowling Club, 10 Chamberlain Road, 959 1428. 8pm. Storytelling singer/songwriter performing tunes about love, crows and city living. Part of Glasgow Americana Festival.
Edinburgh ■ Runrig Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7pm. £25. See Wed 5. Sunday 9
Edinburgh FREE Sangstream Choir Christmas Performance Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, 248 2909. 2.30–3pm. Choir singing traditional and contemporary songs from around the world. FREE Sangstream Choir Christmas Performance Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, 248 2909. 1–1.30pm. See Sun 9.
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Edinburgh ■ Ceilidh Club The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 8.20pm. £6. Ceilidh dancing, furious fiddlers and callers to lead you through the steps. Featuring Heeligoleerie.
Wednesday 12 Edinburgh ■ Café Voices Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. 7pm. £5. A relaxed session of oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song. With a theme of ‘Found in Translation’, this session uses images, sounds, mime and props alongside languages that might be new or familiar to you. With host storyteller Rana Syed.
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With special guest Julie Fowlis FRI 30 NOV 2012: 7.30PM Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 0141 353 8000 rsno.org.uk
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