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Ceilidh dancing, furious fiddlers and callers from the Edinburgh Ceilidh Club. Heeliegoleerie play live.
Philos Baroque. Wednesday 23
Wednesday 14
Glasgow ■ Ceilidh Dance Classes St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Sq, 559 5902. 7.15pm. £5.50. See Wed 23. Edinburgh ■ Jez Lowe Edinburgh Folk Club, Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, 650 2458. 8pm. £10 (£8; members £6). Acoustic folk singer often accompanied by his Bad Pennies.
Thursday 15
Glasgow ■ Hank Wangford & The Lost Cowboys O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall St, 332 2232. 7pm. £15. Hank has picked at the miserable underbelly of country music for thirty years, and spread the word with his many TV series and books. ■ Scottish Music Year End Showcase RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £11 (£8.50). An evening of Scottish music. Edinburgh ■ Café Voices Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High St, 556 9579. 7–9pm. £5. A relaxed oral storytelling night, with poetry, music and song. Tonight it’s ‘Barbecued Husbands!’, based on myths found by anthropologist Bett Mindlin.
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Edinburgh FREE Will Pickvance: Piano Speak St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Improvisations every Thursday lunchtime. FREE Gordon Ferries Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. French music from the 16th and 17th centuries on lute, theorbo, baroque and renaissance guitar. FREE Separation – Integration McEwan Hall, Bristo Square. 8pm. Electro-acoustic works by Stockhausen, David C Johnson and Sean Williams.
Friday 18
Edinburgh Hebrides Ensemble: Pierrot Lunaire Traverse Theatre, Cambridge St, 228 1404. 8pm. £12.50 (£10). Arnold Schoenberg’s feverish melodrama, featuring Anna Huntley (mezzo).
Saturday 19
Glasgow National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, 353 8000 . 7.30pm. £15 (£10; under 16s £6). Tecwyn Evans conducts Walton, Longworth, MacMillan and Elgar. Featuring soloist John Wallace. Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Finland’s Vox Nova. NYCoS National Girls Choir St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Rd, 287 2856. 3pm. £13 (£9; under 26s £6). The national choir for girls aged 12–16.
Sunday 20 Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm.
Edinburgh Michael Nyman Queen’s Hall 87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £29.50 plus booking fee. The composer performs his film music. Thursday 24
Glasgow Simon Johnstone & Scott Mitchell Westbourne Music, 7 West George St, 221 1876. noon. £8 (£7; students and children £4). Music for trombone and piano by Weber, Ropartz and Milhaud. BBC SSO: Runnicles Conducts Mahler 9 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£24. Mahler’s Ninth and Arvo Pärt’s equally mournful Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten. Edinburgh SCO: Benedetti Plays Mozart Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£30 (£5–£28; under 16s free). Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 5 with Nicola Benedetti, plus Beethoven’s ’Egmont’ Overture and Symphony No 4. Jérémie Rhorer conducts. See Wed 23.
Friday 25
Glasgow Makoto Ozone in Recital RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 1pm. £11 (£8.50). Classical and jazz piano. The Artisans Cairns Church, 11 Buchanan St, Milngavie, the-artisans.co.uk 7.30pm. £12 (members £5; schoolchildren free). Medieval music. Glasgow Phoenix Choir Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £8–£25. Community choir. SCO: Benedetti Plays Mozart City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £14–£28. See Wed 23. Edinburgh RSNO: Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11.50–£36 (students & under 26s £5; under 16s free). Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 with soloist Behzod Abduraimov, as well as works by Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts. See Thu 24.
Saturday 26
Glasgow Caledonian Voices Cairns Church, 11 Buchanan St, Milngavie, caledonianvoices. co.uk/index.html 7.30pm. £10. Choral concert. RSNO: Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (students & under 26s £5; under 16s free). See Fri 25. Edinburgh SNJO with Makoto Ozone Queen’s Hall87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £20 (£17.50). Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 9 in Ozone’s new version and Tommy Smith’s exhilarating re-orchestration of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Sunday 27
Glasgow Scottish Opera St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Sq, 559 5902. 3pm. £13 (£10). Daniel Cohen conducts works by Mozart, Britten and Shostakovich. SNJO with Makoto Ozone RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £12.50–£19.50. See Sat 26. Edinburgh RSNO Chamber Series: Baroque Fireworks Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary St, 550 3660. 2.30pm. £12 (under 26s £5; under 16s free). Music by Vivaldi, Handel and Locatelli. BBC SSO: Runnicles Conducts
Mahler 9 Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 4pm. £10.50–£26.50. See Thu 24. FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Tim Cais (cello) and Chris Harding (piano) play works by Beethoven and Brahms.
Monday 28
Glasgow The Lark above the Trenches RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 1pm. £9.50 (£7.50). Music to commemorate the outbreak of WW I. Edinburgh Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. Recital on the amazing Usher Hall organ, featuring guest performers.
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Edinburgh Gordon Stewart Palmerston Place Church, 12 Palmerston Place, 220 1690. 7.30pm. £5. Organ recital. Wednesday 30
Glasgow ✽Plug 1: Red Note RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £9.50
(£7.50). New work by Jay Capperauld, Michael McEneny, Hugh Holton, Martin Keary, Lucy Hollingsworth, Tom Butler and Shona Mackay. Plug.
✽ Scottish Ensemble: Seavaigers The Arches, 253 Argyle St, 565 1000.
7.30pm. £13 (students £5; accompanied under 16s free). Performed by Catriona McKay (clarsach) and Chris Stout (fiddle).
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✽ Scottish Ensemble: Seavaigers Scotland is
the Ensemble’s inspiration, with six leading Scottish composers, including Stuart MacRae, Anna Meredith and Alasdair Nicolson, presenting their version of Scottish tune ‘Tullochgorum’ alongside Sally Beamish’s vivid sea journey from Dundee to Shetland, a double concerto for folk musicians Chris Stout (fiddle) and Catriona McKay (clarsach, pictured above). The Arches, Glasgow, Wed 30 Apr; Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Thu 1 May.
Thursday 1 Glasgow Plug 2: The Wallflowers RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 1pm. £9.50 (£7.50). New pieces for guitar, harp or piano. Plug. FREE Janice Kerbel: Doug Mitchell Library, North St, 287 2999. 7pm. Canadian artist presents a musical composition chronicling a series of catastrophes endured by a single individual. BBC SSO: Dvo" ák’s Cello Concerto City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£24. Dvo" ák masterpiece with Joshua Roman, plus pieces by Janá" ek and Bartók. Richard Farnes conducts. Plug 3: A Tale of Two Halves RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £9.50 (£7.50). Electroacoustic music by Jamie Wilson, Matthew Zurowski, Euan Kristaps Cukurs and Utsav Lal. Plug.
Edinburgh ✽Scottish Ensemble: Seavaigers Assembly Rms, 54 George St,
668 2019. 7.30pm. £15 (students £5; accompanied under 16s free). See Wed 30.
Friday 2
Glasgow Plug 4: Fridays at One RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 1pm. £11 (£8.50). New music for viola. Plug. Plug 5: Go Big or Go Home RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £11 (£8.50). Garry Walker conducts new pieces by Daniel Fígols Cuevas and others. Plug. SCO: Mozart and Strauss City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £14–£28. Clemens Schuldt conducts works by Mozart and Richard Strauss, for clarinet, bassoon and horn. Edinburgh RSNO: Søndergård Conducts ‘The New World’ Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11.50–£36 (students & under 26s £5; under 16s free). Dvo" ák’s Symphony No 9 (From the New World) and works by Brett Dean and Britten, featuring soloist Vilde Frang.
✽ Plug 1: Red Note Opening concert of ninth annual PLUG
Festival which showcases new music by students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland over three days. It’s unique in the UK as a platform for talented young composers and Red Note’s concert features several of the current leading lights. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, Wed 30 Apr.
✽ Tectonics Orchestral Concert 1 Part of a three- day feast of some of the most adventurous programming of new music around, the BBC SSO’s first Tectonics concert features first performances of three BBC commissions, with Ilan Volkov, festival co-curator, conducting. See interview, page 69. City Halls, Glasgow, Sat 10 May.
ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois A Woman Without Secrets Until 18 May 2014 Modern One, Belford Road, Edinburgh Free admission
The ARTIST ROOMS collection of modern and contemporary art is jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, and was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008 with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, and the Scottish and British Governments. 17 Apr–15 May 2014 THE LIST 87