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Jordi Savall: Music of the Emperors Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 8pm. £15–£20 (£13–£18; under 26s £5). Viol master plays 16th century Spanish music. Edinburgh Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven Seven Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£29 (£5–£27; under 16s free). Emmanuel Krivine conducts Mendelssohn’s Overture to ‘The Fair Melusine’, Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Nelson Goerner and Beethoven’s roaring Symphony No 7.
Friday 3
Glasgow Plug 2: Plug Fridays at One Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £9.50. New music by student composers Jay Capperauld and Jamie Wilson, plus pieces by visiting Canadian composer Nicole Lizee. Plug 3: Electroacoustic Plug Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 5pm. £6 (£4). Compositions by student composers. Plug 4: Red Note with MusicLab Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6. New works by student composer Tom Butler and the remarkable Nicole Lizee. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven Seven City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £13–£27 (£5–£25; under 16s free). See Thu 2. The Gabrieli Consort: Morales’ Requiem Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 8pm. £15–£17.50 (£13–£15.50). Paul McCreesh directs Morales’ magnificent Requiem.
Saturday 4
Glasgow Plug 5: Junior Conservatoire Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 6pm. £6 (£4). Student compositions. City of Glasgow Chorus City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £13–£18. Choral works by Bruckner and Vaughan Williams. Plug 6: Closing Concert with MusicLab Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6. New works by student composers. Edinburgh Bach2Bach St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place,225 6293. 9am—12am. £10. Wall to wall Bach with 30 ensembles celebrating the man and his music. In support of Christian Aid. Sospiro: Actus Tragicus Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Cantatas by Bach and Buxtehude. Loud and Proud Church Hill Theatre, 33a Morningside Road, 447 7597. 8pm. £10 (£6). Edinburgh’s LGBT choir in concert.
Sunday 5
Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Organ recital from Sue Heath-Downey. Tuesday 7
Edinburgh Pink Martini Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £19.50–£26.50. Romantic Oregonians accompanied by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Thursday 9 Glasgow Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven’s Ninth City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £14–£28. Emmanuel Krivine conducts Beethoven’s choral symphony, featuring guest soloists and the SCO Chorus.
Edinburgh Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Levin Plays Mozart The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10–£29 (£5–£27; under 16s free). Robert Levin (piano) conducts Reicha and Schubert plus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 16 K451. Friday 10
Glasgow Gringolts Goes It Alone Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £9.50. Ilya Gringolts (violin) in a solo recital. Gilbert Innes Prize for Woodwind Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 6pm. £3 (£2). Student competition. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Levin Plays Mozart City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £13–£27 (£5–£25; under 16s free). See Thu 9. Edinburgh Cadenza: Voices from the Heart St John’s Episcopal Church, Princes Street, 334 4010. 7.30pm. £5. Choral concert in aid of the PF Counselling Service. RSNO Naked Classics: Wagner’s Ring Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10 (£5; under 16s free). Wagner’s crazy-magnificent opera cycle condensed into one hour by Dutch composer Henk de Vlieger, conducted by Philippe Bach.
Saturday 11
Glasgow Junior Conservatoire Junior, Senior and Chamber Choirs Concert Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 4pm. £3. Student choral recital.
✽ Tectonics Opening Concert City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 6pm.
£15–£20 for Festival Pass, £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC SSO in works by David Fennessy, Morton Feldman, Alvin Lucier, Charles Ross and Frank Denyer. See previews, pages 74 and 94. Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £19. Otto Nicolai’s operetta version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. RSNO Naked Classics: Wagner’s Ring Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10 (£5; under 16s free). See Fri 10. Voice of the Bird with Hanna Tuulikki The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8pm. £15–£20 for Festival Pass; £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). World premiere of nine- voice version of Tuulikki’s exploration of Gaelic song. Dumitrescu / Avram City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 9pm. £15–£20 for Festival Pass; £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). Electro-acoustic works by Romanian composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram.
✽ Tectonics Late Gig The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000.
10pm. £15–£20 for Festival Pass; £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). Text-based and improv performances from Stuart Braithwaite, Aidan Moffat and Hildur Guðnadóttir; Oren Ambarchi’s Knots and DJ set from Stephen Pastel. See previews, pages 74 and 94.
Edinburgh FREE Dawn Coulshed and Andrew MacLean Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.30pm. Piano and trumpet music by Beethoven, Ravel, Gregson and Haydn. Edinburgh Kevock Choir The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £6–£14. Choral favourites.
Sunday 12 Glasgow Asparagus Piss Raindrop The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3pm.
£15–£20 for Festival Pass; £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). Promenade performance by self-styled ‘science-fiction anti-band’. Lucier Performs Lucier City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 4.30pm. £15–£20 for Festival Pass; £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). Alvin Lucier performs his own Bird and Person Dyning; other Lucier works performed by Frank Denyer (piano) and Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O’Malley (guitars).
✽ Tectonics Orchestra Concert 2 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7pm. £15–£20 for Festival Pass, £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC SSO in world premieres by Chiyoko Szlavnics, Martin Suckling and Alvin Lucier. See previews, pages 74 and 94. Hildur Guðnadóttir The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8pm. £15–£20 for Festival Pass, £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). Solo performance from Icelandic cellist and composer.
✽Tectonics Closing Concert City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8.30pm.
£15–£20 for Festival Pass; £8–£12 for Day Pass (Sat or Sun events only). World premieres of works by John DeSimone and Iancu Dumitrescu’s, featuring Stephen O’Malley and the BBC SSO conducted by Ilan Volkov. See previews, pages 74 and 94.
Monday 13
Glasgow Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £19. See Sat 11. RCS Baroque Ensemble Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6.50. Student ensemble plays chamber music for small groups. Tuesday 14
Glasgow Song Studio: Songs from the Baltic Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Student recital. Edinburgh Love Music Community Choir Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7–9pm. £5. Choir singing a mix of world, jazz, classical, rock, indie, folk, gospel and opera.
Wednesday 15 Glasgow Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £19. See Sat 11.
✽ Scottish Opera: The Pirates of Penzance Theatre Royal, 282 Hope
St, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £9–£70. Pirates, policemen, Gilbert, Sullivan. RCS String Department: Guitars and Harps Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Student string players in recital.
Edinburgh Edinburgh Quartet Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £15 (£12; children and students £5). Quartets by Haydn, Britten and Tchaikovsky. Thursday 16
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✽ Scottish Opera: The Pirates of Penzance Something a bit different for Scottish Opera, who turn to G&S in a co-production with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (pictured). It’s all singing, all dancing and a lot of light operatic fun in parody of Victorian society. Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Wed 15 & Thu 16 May.
✽ BBC SSO: Closing Night – The Rite of Spring
Centenary Concert Written for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes, Stravinsky’s orchestral score caused a near riot when first performed in Paris one hundred years ago. Now recognised as one of the most important works of the 20th century, it is just cause for celebration by the BBC SSO. City Halls, Glasgow, Thu 16 May.
✽ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Britten
100 Continuing to mark the Benjamin Britten centenary year, the SCO feature his Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, with their regular star horn Alec Frank-Gemmill as soloist along with guest John Mark Ainsley in Britten’s setting of six poems all about night. City Halls, Glasgow, Fri 26 Apr; Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 27 Apr.
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £19. See Sat 11.
✽ Scottish Opera: The Pirates of Penzance Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £9–£70. See Wed 15.
✽ BBC SSO: Closing Night – The Rite of Spring Centenary
Concert City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10.50–£23.50. Matthias Pintscher conducts Stravinsky’s modernist bachelor party, plus Bach’s Suite No 2 and the UK premiere of his own Chute d’Étoiles: Hommage à Anselm Kiefer. James Lancelot Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 7.30pm. £tbc. Organ recital.
Glasgow Jean Highgate Scholarship for Singing Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 10am. £3 (£2). New and second-year students’ recital. Athenaeum Winds The Merchants House, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; students/children £4). Wind recital. Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Edinburgh Mr McFall’s Chamber: María de Buenos Aires Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 8pm. £10–£16 (under 18s £7.50). Piazzolla’s mini-opera features Valentina Montoya Martínez and special guests. Will Pickvance: The Anatomy of the Piano Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. 8pm. £7.00 (£5.00). Pianist and composer plays and talks.
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