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orchestra plays the world premiere of Lewis Forbes’ Classical Overture; Schumann’s Violin concerto; the premiere of Elisabeth Cowe’s Mr Stevenson’s Lighthouse; extracts from Beethoven’s Fidelio and Symphony No 5. David Watkin conducts, with Alexander Janiczek (violin) and Ben Thapa (tenor) as guest soloists. Sunday 10
Edinburgh Soundings Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 6pm. £5 (£3). New electroacoustic music from student composers. Edinburgh Grand Opera: Don Giovanni The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 6.30pm. £12– £17.50. Mozart’s great seducer is given a semi-staged production with Swedish baritone Anders Östberg in the title role. Neil Metcalfe conducts.
Monday 11 Glasgow Woodwind Chamber Music Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £6 (£4). Student concert. Electroacoustic Concert Alexander Gibson Opera Studio, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Electroacoustic concert introduced by composer and staff member Alistair McDonald. Governors’ Recital Prize for Percussion Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7pm. £3. Percussion students’ recital.
Tuesday 12
Glasgow FREE Glasgow University Chapel Choir: Choral Contemplations VIII Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 6–7pm. Valentine’s Day concert featuring Whitacre’s A Boy and a Girl and The Marriage, and Wood’s True Love. Edinburgh FREE Reid Memorial Concert: Kist of Musick Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Hector Scott & Alastair Hardie (violins), Donald Gillan (cello) and James Hardie (harpsichord) play works by John Reid as well as Corelli, McGibbon and others.
Wednesday 13 Glasgow Maxwell Quartet Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 0844 493 2202. 7.30pm. £6–£16. Wolf’s Italian Serenade, Mozart’s G major Spring quartet and Verdi’s String Quartet in E minor. Red Note: New Music for Strings Alexander Gibson Opera Studio, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Works for strings by Arvo Pärt, John Adams and student composers.
Thursday 14 Glasgow Governors’ Recital Prize for Keyboard Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 10am. £3. Student keyboardists compete. Governors’ Recital Prize for Woodwind Alexander Gibson Opera Studio, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 10.30am. £3 (£2). Student woodwind players compete. BBC SSO: St Valentine’s Day Concert City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10.50–£23.50. Latin-flavoured pieces: Turina’s Danzas Fantasticas, Ravel’s Piano Concerto
in G, Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien, and Bernstein’s mamboriffic Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’. Ingrid Fliter is the piano soloist and Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts. RSNO: Romantic Valentine’s Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (£5–£17.50; under 16s free). Richard Strauss’ Don Juan; Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2; Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture; and Ravel’s insistent Boléro. Christian Kluxen conducts, with Olga Kern (piano). Edinburgh FREE Live Music Now: Olga Jegunova Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. Piano works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Vasks and Dubra.
Friday 15
Glasgow Women in the Shadows: Alma’s Circle Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £9.50. Songs by Zemlinsky, Wagner, Alma Mahler and her hubby Gustav. Governors’ Recital Prize for Singing Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 4pm. £2. Senior singing students in competition. Richard Craig: New Works for Solo Flute Alexander Gibson Opera Studio, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 5.30pm. £6 (£4). New works for flute. Scottish Opera: Werther Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £9–£70. Massenet’s opera of Goethe’s ragingly emo novel. Jonathan Boyd is the moony hero and Viktoria Vizin his unrequited love Charlotte. Pia Furtado directs. Edinburgh FREE Francoise Dornier Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Highly-garlanded French organist plays music by three generations of Bachs.
✽ John Armitage Memorial Concert Greyfriars Kirk,
Greyfriars Place, greyfriarskirk.com 7.30–9.30pm. £12 (students £5). The Aberdeen University Chamber Choir, Edinburgh University Chamber Choir, St Andrews University Chapel Choir, Red Note Ensemble, Tom Wilkinson (organ) and conductor Michael Bawtree perform music by Britten, Leighton, Rory Boyle, Julian Philips and Phillip Cooke. RSNO: Romantic Valentine’s Concert Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (£5– £17.50; under 16s free). See Thu 14. Scottish Ensemble: La Follia The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £15 (students £5; children free). See Thu 14.
Saturday 16
Glasgow FREE Music in the University: Phantasm Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 7.30–9.30pm. Viol consort plays extracts from Bach’s The Art of Fugue plus Mozart’s quartet arrangements of pieces from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Scottish Ensemble: La Follia City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £13. See Thu 14. Edinburgh Music for Two Pianos and for Piano Four Hands Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 7.30pm. £8 (£5). RCS students play four-handed piano music, including arrangements of Holst and works by Mozart, Schubert and Jake Spence.
Sunday 17
Glasgow Junior Conservatoire of Scotland – Composers’ Sunday Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £3. Workshops and performances featuring the young composers of tomorrow. Scottish Opera: Werther Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 4pm. £9–£70. See Fri 15. Auricle Ensemble: The City The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10 (£8; under 26s £5). See Mon 28. Edinburgh RSNO Chamber Series: Brahms Clarinet Quintet Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. 2.30pm. £12. Brahms’ Quintet Op 115 is regarded by many as its composer’s greatest work for chamber music. Josef Pacewicz is the soloist.
Monday 18 Glasgow Songs Studio: That’s Amore Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £6 (£4). Italian songs and arias about love.
Tuesday 19
Glasgow Governors’ Recital Prize for Brass Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 11.30am. £3 (£2). Brass students compete. FREE Scottish Opera: Werther Unwrapped Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 6pm. An hour- long introduction to Massenet’s opera. ■ Red Note Ensemble: John Armitage Memorial Concert St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, 337 2862. 8pm. £12 (students £5). Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Judith Bingham’s The Hythe and Jacob’s Ladder, featuring guest soloists Claire Seaton (soprano), Andrew Radley (counter-tenor) and Tom Wilkinson (organ), play. Michael Bawtree conducts. Edinburgh FREE Ursula Smith & Nicholas Ashton Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Music by Beethoven for cello and piano.
Wednesday 20
Glasgow Governors’ Recital Prize for Strings Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 2pm. £3 (£2). Student string players’ competition. Scottish Opera: Werther Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £9–£70. See Fri 15. Edinburgh ■ Red Note Ensemble: John Armitage Memorial Concert Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, greyfriarskirk.com 8pm. £12 (students £5). See Tue 19.
Thursday 21 Glasgow RCS Governor’s Recital Prize for Chamber Music: Winners’ Recital The Merchant House, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; students/children £4). Prizewinning student musicians in recital. BBC SSO: Haydn’s Mass in Time of War City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2pm. £7–£9. Bernard Labadie conducts Mozart’s Chaconne from ‘Idomeneo’ and Symphony No 39 and Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli, with guest artists Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (alto), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
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✽ John Armitage Memorial Concert The inimitable JAM, not to mention their equally inimitable conductor Michael Bawtree (pictured, above), join forces with Red Note Ensemble for the first time to give premiere performances of a clutch of exciting new works for instruments and voices. Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Fri 15 Feb (choral concert) and Wed 20 Feb (voices/strings concert); St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, Tue 19 Feb (voices/strings concert).
✽ Verdi and Wagner Gala with Scottish Opera
Two of the greatest ever opera composers celebrate their bicentenaries in 2013. Both born in 1813, Verdi and Wagner didn’t have much to do with each other when alive, but will be to the fore together this year, including the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s magnificent tribute. City Halls, Glasgow, Sun 27 Jan.
✽ Scottish Opera: Werther One of the finest
French operas, Massenet’s Werther hasn’t been staged in Scotland for almost 20 years. It’s the old story of obsessive love and the heartbreak that comes along with it in a new production by Pia Furtado, set in the early 1900s. Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Fri 15, Sun 17, Wed 20, Sat 23 Feb; Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Tue 26, Thu 28 Feb, Sat 2 Mar.
and the BBC Singers. Plus guest conductor Bernard Labadie. RSNO Naked Classics: Stravinsky’s Firebird Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10 (£5; under 16s free). If Stravinsky’s Firebird were a rock band it would be early Van Halen and if it were a pizza flavour it would be American Hot. Paul Rissmann introduces the work and Christian Kluxen conducts. Edinburgh Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Anderszewski plays Mozart The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10–£29 (£5–£27; under 16s free). Piotr Anderszewski conducts and plays two Mozart concertos, K488 and K503; Alexander Janiczek plays and conducts Schubert’s Overture in D ‘In the Italian Style’ and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge.
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