MUSIC | Classical Saturday 3
Glasgow FREE Edward Cohen Renfield St Stephen’s Church, 260 Bath St, 332 2826. 1–2pm. (donations welcome). Schubert’s Piano sonata in B flat, D960 RSNO: Søndergård Conducts ‘The New World’ Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (students & under 26s £5; under 16s free). See Fri 2. Edinburgh SCO: Mozart and Strauss Queen’s Hall87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10–£30 (£5–£28; under 16s free). See Fri 2.
Sunday 4
Glasgow Glasgow Chamber Choir: Psalms, Hymns and Songs St Andrew’s Cathedral, Clyde St, 204 2409. 2.30–4pm. £10 (£8). Choral concert also featuring the St Joris Kamerkoor. RSNO Chamber Series: Baroque Fireworks St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Gt Western Rd, 339 6691. 2.30pm. £12. See Sun 27. Monday 5
Glasgow FREE Red Note: Stars of the Future – Thomas Butler Showcase City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 6pm. (ticketed). Works by Glasgow-based composer Thomas Butler. FREE Red Note: Noisy Nights City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8pm. An informal way to hear new music. Edinburgh Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. See Mon 28.
Tuesday 6
Edinburgh FREE Luc Ponet St Mary’s RC Cathedral, York Pl. 7.30pm. Organ recital. Edinburgh Quartet Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. 9–10pm. £8 (members £7). Playing MacMillan’s For Sonny and Etwas zurückhaltend. Wednesday 7
Glasgow Allan Neave and Angus Ramsay Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Rd, 0844 493 2202. 7.30–9.30pm. £12 (students £5). Music for guitar and violin. FREE Hans Uwe Hielscher Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, 330 5419. 7.30pm. Organ recital. Edinburgh Quartet Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, 221 8886. 9pm. See Tue 6.
Thursday 8
Glasgow Elizabeth McCormack, Ralph Strehle & Julia Lynch Westbourne Music, 7 West George St, 221 1876. noon. £8 (£7; students and children £4). Voice and piano trio perform songs by Tom David Wilson and Dorothee Eberhardt. Edinburgh Scottish Opera: Madama Butterfly Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson St, 529 6000. 7.15pm. £10–£78. Puccini’s famous tale of a Japanese girl betrayed by a Westerner. SCO: Beethoven’s Ninth Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£30 (£5–£28; under 16s free). Emmanuel Krivine conducts Beethoven’s mighty Symphony No 9, with the SCO Chorus.
Friday 9
Glasgow Ian Watt and Paul Livingston Renfield St Stephen’s Church, 260 Bath 88 THE LIST 17 Apr–15 May 2014
St, 332 2826. 7.30–9.30pm. £8–£10. Music for guitar and violin. Symphony Orchestra: German Jessica RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £14.50 (£12). Jessica Cottis conducts works by Weber, Hindemith and Richard Strauss. Tectonics Opening Concert St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Sq, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £12.50 (£8.50). Avant- garde feast with Klaus Lang, Jer Reid and Solène Weinachter, David Berhman, Catherine Lamb, Aby Vulliamy, Christian Wolff, Richard Youngs, Vernon and Burns, ANAKANAK, Thurston Moore, Takehisa Kosugi and others. See interview, page 69. Tectonics Glasgow. RSNO Naked Classics: Beethoven’s Fifth Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10. Paul Rissmann introduces this bucking bronco of a symphony. Saturday 10
Glasgow S.L.Á.T.U.R. Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 4pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). Music from composers’ collective based in Reykjavik. Tectonics Glasgow. FREE Sarah Kenchington: Sounds from the Farmyard City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 4pm & 7.30pm. An interactive installation, where audiences can play Kenchington’s handmade instruments. The composer performs at 7.30pm. Tectonics Glasgow. Tectonics Orchestral Concert 1 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 5.30pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). World premieres by David Behrman, John Oswald and Georg Friedrich Haas, plus the UK premieres of works by Haas and Christian Wolff. Tectonics Glasgow. La Rondine RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50–£22.50. Benjamin Davis directs Puccini. RSNO Naked Classics: Beethoven’s Fifth Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10. See Fri 9. Wolff/Behrman City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 9.30pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). Works by Christian Wolff and David Behrman. Tectonics Glasgow. Tectonics Late Gig Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 10.30pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). Performances from Glasgow’s Cindytalk and Thurston Moore with Dylan Nyoukis. Tectonics Glasgow. Edinburgh The Edinburgh Singers St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Rd, 668 2019. 7.30–9.30pm. £12 (£10; under 12s free). Music by MacMillan, Howells and Kodály. Meadows Chamber Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, meadowsorchestra.org.uk 7.45pm. £10 (£9; students £5; children £1). Works by Debussy, Seamus Heath and Brahms.
Sunday 11
Glasgow FREE Sarah Kenchington: Sounds from the Farmyard City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2pm & 6.30pm. See Sat 10. Tectonics Glasgow. Exaudi City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 5pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). Vocal ensemble performs works by Christopher Fox, Christian Wolff, James Saunders, Amber Priestley and Cassandra Miller. Tectonics Glasgow. Radical Rd City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 6pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). James Weeks’ Radical Rd performed by members of the Glasgow Chamber Choir and Glasgow University Chapel Choir. Tectonics Glasgow. BBC SSO: Tectonics Orchestral Concert 2 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). Ilan Volkov conducts works by James Clapperton, Michael Finnissy and Klaus Lang, many of them premieres. With Exaudi. Tectonics Glasgow.
CLASSIC TRAGIC OPERA MADAMA BUTTERFLY Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 8, Sun 11, Tue 13, Thu 15, Sat 17 May; Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Wed 21, Sat 24, Tue 27, Thu 29, Sat 31 May
If you’ve never been to an opera before, this is for you. If you’re a seasoned opera lover, this is also for you. Great story, great music and a revival of a favourite production combine in Scottish Opera’s staging of one of the most popular operas ever – Madama Butterfly. It tells the agonising tale of the young Japanese girl Cio-Cio San – Butterfly – who falls in love with and marries handsome American naval officer Pinkerton, only to experience the most desperate betrayal. Scottish Opera’s version, first created by internationally acclaimed Scottish director David McVicar, is a classic that looks as beautiful as Puccini’s music sounds. Taking charge of reviving McVicar’s production, first staged in 2000, is Elaine Kidd. She says, ‘Madama Butterfly has been a hugely popular opera for many, many years – this is a great place to start for first-timers, but of course it is also a real favourite of regular opera-goers. I’m particularly thrilled that Italian conductor Marco Guidarini is returning to work with us because he is steeped in this passionate, dramatic and lyrical music.’
Sharing the title role are French soprano Anne Sophie Duprels and Korean Hye-Youn Lee, who makes her Scottish Opera debut. ‘It is emotionally and vocally a very demanding but amazing role,’ she says, ‘which I first sang in 2010 as one of Grange Park Opera’s Rising Stars.’ Other rising talent in Madama Butterfly’s cast includes Hanna Hipp (pictured) as Suzuki, Cio-Cio San’s loyal maid. A mezzo-soprano from Poland, Hipp graduated from the Royal Opera’s Young Artist’s programme last year and is hotly tipped as one to watch. Young talent from closer to home is Scottish Opera Emerging Artist Andrew McTaggart, in the role of Prince Yamadori. (Carol Main)
The Glasgow Lyric Choir St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Sq, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £15 (£12). Local choir with star guests. Takehisa Kosugi City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8.50pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). Japanese master, sometime member of Fluxus and musical director of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Tectonics Glasgow. BBC SSO: Tectonics Closing Concert Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 9.30pm. £15 (£10; w/e pass £16–£24). Multi-instrumentalist Richard Youngs closes Tectonics with his first orchestral work. Tectonics Glasgow. Edinburgh Dunedin Consort: Monteverdi Madrigals of Love and War Queen’s Hall87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 3pm. £10–£22. Late Renaissance madrigals. Scottish Opera: Madama Butterfly Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson St, 529 6000. 4pm. £10–£78. See Thu 8.
Monday 12
Glasgow La Rondine RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50–£22.50. See Sat 10. Edinburgh Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. See Mon 28.
Tuesday 13
Glasgow La Rondine RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50–£22.50. See Sat 10. Edinburgh Scottish Opera: Madama Butterfly Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson St, 529 6000. 7.15pm. £10–£78. See Sun 11.
Wednesday 14
Glasgow La Rondine RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50–£22.50. See Sat 10.
Thursday 15
Glasgow La Rondine RCS, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50–£22.50. See Sat 10. BBC SSO: Closing Night – Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£24. Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1. Edinburgh FREE The Agnew McAllister Duo Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. Music for flute and guitar. Scottish Opera: Madama Butterfly Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson St, 529 6000. 7.15pm. £10–£78. See Sun 11. SCO: Anderszewski Plays Mozart Queen’s Hall87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10–£30 (£5–£28; under 16s free). Piotr Anderszewski on piano.