MUSIC LIST
Sonatine by Jean Martinon and J .S. Bach’s Partita No 3 in D minor.
0 Classical Guitar Society Recital St Mark’s Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace. Tickets at door. 7.30pm. £3 (£2). Since his British debut recital for the Guitar Society in June 1984, the German guitarist Wolfgang Lendle has become familiar to guitar lovers through his broadcasts on Radio 3’s ‘Music for Guitar’ programmes.
WEDNESDAY 7
Glasgow
0 Competitions RSAMD, St George’s Place. Box office 332 4101. Free at door. Daytime. Students compete for the Hilda Bailey Prize Competition and the Robert Highgate Scholarship Competition, both for violin.
Edinburgh
0 Friends at the Queen’s Hall Evening Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street. Ticket Centre, 31/33 Waverley Bridge. 7.45pm. £2 (inc wine). A recital of music for a summer evening, performed by students of Napier College, followed by a party. Promoted by Friends of the Queen‘s Hall.
THURSDAY 8
Glasgow
0 Benjamin Luxon and Geoffrey Parsons Glasgow Cathedral. Box office 552 5961 (Ticket Centre). 7.30pm. £4/£5. As part ofGlasgow Cathedral’s special 1986 Festival, one of Britain’s best-loved baritones, Benjamin Luxon, gives what is sure to be a popular recital with accompanist Geoffrey Parsons.
Edinburgh
0 lnlormal Classical Music Restaurant, Gilded Balloon, Cowgate, 225 5650. 8—11pm. Extra dates: Fri 9, Sat 10. Free. See Fri 2 for full description.
0 Napier College Concert Reid Concert Hall, Teviot Row, Bristo Square. Tickets at door. 7.30pm. £1.50 (£1). Students of the Music Department perform a varied selection of songs by Schubert and Poulenc, piano music by Debussy and Bartok with brass and wind ensembles providing additional diversions.
FRIDAY 9 Edinburgh
0 informal Classical Music Restaurant, Gilded Balloon, Cowgate, 225 5650. 8—11pm. Extra date: Sat 10. Free. See Fri 2 for full description.
SATURDAY 10 Glasgow
0 The Marriage oi Figaro Theatre Royal, Hope Street. Box office 331 1234. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tue 13 and Thurs 15 at7. 15pm — Glasgow; Wed 21 , Sat 24— 7.15pm — King’s, Edinburgh. £2.50—£18.50. See Sat 3 for full description.
0 The Praise Choir City Hall, Candleriggs. Tickets at door. Extra date: Mon 12, Edinburgh. 7pm. £2.
Handel’s Messiah forms the basis of this evening of praise and worship, conducted jointly by John Brown and Raymond Wylie. Half an hour of choruses and hymns make up the rest of the concert which is in aid of charity, the main beneficiary being Christian Friends of Israel.
Edinburgh
0 Edinburgh Royal Choral Union Usher Hall, Lothian Road. Box office 228 1155. 7.30pm. £3—£6. Mendelssohn’s
St Paul is ERCU’s chosen work this evening, last performed by them in 1901 , so it’s unlikely to evoke any cries of ‘oh no, not this again’ from the Chorus. It’s a shame it’s rarely performed as it has several well known choruses eg, Happy and Blest Are They and Rise Up! Arise! Philip Ledger conducts, and joining the singers, who’ve been rehearsed by Geoffrey Ditcham, are the Philharmonic Virtuosi of Scotland and soloists Mary Wells, William Kendall and Stephen Rhys-Williams.
0 Edinburgh Light Orchestra Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street. Ticket Centre, 31/33 Waverley Bridge or 334 3140 or 228 1 155 (Usher Hall). 7.30pm. £2.50. Lots of light pops in this concert including a selection from The King and I, the theme tune of Take the High Road, Dances from Nell Gwyn, Pomp and Circumstance March No 5 and a selection ofsongs and arias from some of the best-loved operas and operettas.
o lnlormal Classical Music Restaurant, Gilded Balloon, Cowgate, 225 5650. 8—11pm. Free. See Fri 2 for full description.
SUNDAY 11
Glasgow
0 The Harpsichord in Concert St Mary’s Cathedral, Great Western Road. Tickets at door. 7.45pm. No charge — retiring collection. Leslie Macleod plays Handel’s Harpsichord Suite in D minor and the Sonata for ’Cello and Harpsichord. Also on the programme is Walter Leigh’s Concertino for Harpsichord and Strings and 18th and 20th century poetry read by Mandy Reid.
Edinburgh
0 Recltal/ Lecture Danish Cultural Institute, 3 Doune Terrace. Box office 225 7189. 3pm. £2 (£1). Denmark’s most famous composer, Carl Neilsen, is the subject ofthis afternoon’s recital and lecture by the recognised American Neilsen authority and pianist Dr Mina Miller, who'll be playing a varied selection of his music.
0 Elijah Brunton Hall, Musselburgh. Box office 665 3711 or 228 1155 (Usher Hall). 7.30pm. £3 (£1). A performance of Mendelssohn‘s popular oratorio by Catherine Welsh’s Garleton Singers. Ticket price includes interval refreshments. O St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street. Free at door. 6pm. A perfect chance for tourists — and locals — to take in the beauty of Scotland’s most famous Cathedral at the same time as listening to a recital by Peter Cannell (baritone) and
Shonagh McNeil (piano).
MONDAY 12 Edinburgh
0 The Praise Choir Music Hall, Assembly Rooms, George Street. Tickets at door. 7pm. £2. See Sat 10, Glasgow for full description.
TUESDAY 13 Glasgow
0 The Marriage of Figaro Theatre Royal, Hope Street. Box office 331 1234. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 15, 7.15pm (Glasgow); Wed 21 , Sat 24 — 7.15pm— King's, Edinburgh. £2.50—£18.50. See Sat 3 for full description.
Edinburgh
0 Edinburgh University Madrigal Group Reid Concert Hall, Teviot Row, Bristo Square. Free at door. 1.10pm. Director Michael Turnbull takes his young choristers through a Spring programme of chansons and madrigals.
O The Mikado Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street. Box office 229 9697 or 332 0429 (Ian Compton). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Wed 14, Thurs 15, Fri 16 all at 7.30pm and Sat 17 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. £3—£5. Taking a break from thinking about final term exams, students of Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group turn their minds to lighter matters in Gilbert and Sullivan’s ever-popular Operetta The Mikado.
o Cappella Nova Old St Paul‘s Church, Jeffrey Street. Box office 228 1155 (Usher Hall). 8pm. £3. See Monday 12, Glasgow (Mayfest) for full description.
0 Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust St Cecilia’s Hall, Cowgate. Box office 334 7414. 8pm. £3.50 (£2). The Roth String Quartet with Catherine Denley are the guests of ECAT, playing the String Quartet entitled ‘Dreams for Marci’ by Ian McQueen. Without mezzo-soprano, the Quartet play Ravel and Bartok (No l) Quartets.
WEDNESDAY 14 Glasgow
0 Tosca Theatre Royal, Hope Street. Box office 331 1234. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 17 (2. 15pm, Glasgow); Tue 20 and Fri23 (7.15pm, Kings, Edinburgh) NB Returns to Glasgow on 12, 17 and 21 June). £2.50—-£18.50. Puccini’s Tosca is Scottish Opera’s last production this season. It’s revival of their 1980 production with Russian soprano Galina Kalinia again in the title role. Sir Alexander Gibson conducts and director is Anthony Besch. It’s sung in Italian and set in the context of Fascist Italy.
Edinburgh
0 Lunchtime Music Magdalen Chapel, Cowgate. Free at door. 1.15pm. Charlie Wood, _ Vice-President of Heriot Watt University Music Society (which is" the organisation behind this regular series of lunchtime concerts), presents a personal choice of music on record. Coffee and snacks available from 12.45pm.
O The Mikado Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street. Box office
229 9697 or 332 0429 (Ian Compton). ‘
7.30pm. Extra dates: Thurs 15, Fri 16 at 7.30pm; Sat 17 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. £3—£5. See Tue 13
URSDAY 15 .
Glasgow
0 Rosemary Eliot (llute)/Angela Livingstone (piano) Kibble Palace, Botanic Gardens, Woodlands Road. Box office 552 5961 (Ticket Centre). 0 The Linn Choir City Hall. Candleriggs, 552 5961 (Ticket Centre). 7.30pm. £2. With Love From a Chorus is the title of this evening ofmusic featuring love songs of the past five centuries from all round the world. Scottish tenor William McAlpine joins the choir for the concert which is sure to have something for everyone from sexually explicit hot-blooded Spanish music to gentle German songs of farewell.
o The Marriage of Figaro Theatre Royal, Hope Street. Box office 331 1234. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 21, Sat 24 — 7.15pm — King’s, Edinburgh. £2.50—£18.50. See Sat 3,
Edinburgh
0 The Mikado Royal Lyseum Theatre, Grindlay Street. Box office 229 9697 or 332 0429 (Ian Compton). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 16 7.30pm; Sat 17 at 2.30 and 7.30pm. £3—£5. See Tue 13 for full description.
0 Electra-Acoustical Music Reid Concert Hall, Teviot Row, Bristo Square. Box office 667 1011 ext 4577 (office hours). 7.45pm. £2 (£1). Rita McAllister and Alasdair Nicholson with several boxes of tricks, presenting the latest in the growing field 0 {electronic music.
[3}] DAY 16 Edinburgh
0 The Mikado Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street. Box office 229 9697 or 332 0429 (Ian Compton). 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 17 at 2.30 and 7.30pm. £3—£5. Sec Tue 13 for full description.
SATURDAY 17 Edinburgh
0 The Mikado Royal Lyceum
Theatre, Grindlay Street. Box office 229 9697 or 332 0429 (Ian Compton).
7.30pm. See Tue 13 Saturday 10th May 1986 ' 7.30pm Usher Hall 667/["51’59/3 MENDELSSOHN ST PAUL a Philharmonic Virtuosi of Scotland
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Mary Wells
Conductor: Philip Ledger - William Kendall Stephen Rhys-Williams
Tickets £3 - £6 from Usher Hall
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