MUSIC LIST
Hendrik Andriessen. In aid of Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund.
0 Chinese Music Talk Assembly Rooms, George Street. Tickets: 667 1011 ext 6686 (Edinburgh University Extra-Mural Department, 10.30am. £1 (50p). A word or two of explanation about Chinese Music as part of China Week, mainly to complement the concert by the Guo Brothers later this evening.
0 The Guo Brothers Assembly Rooms, George Street. Tickets: 228 1155 (Usher Hall). 8pm. £2.50 (£1.50). A wide variety of music from China on both Chinese and Western instruments. A highly repected duo.
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Glasgow
0 800 City Hall. Candleriggs, 552 5961. 7.30pm. £3—£7.50. See Sat 8. Edinburgh for full description.
Edinburgh
0 Meadows Chamber Orchestra Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street. Ticket Centre, 31/33 Waverley Bridge. 7.45pm. £3 (£1.50). Peter Evans, who’s to be found elsewhere in this issue’s listings playing the piano, conducts this high standard amateur chamber orchestra in an attractive programme. With soloist Mi-Kyung Lee, the concert opens with Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Britten’s Prelude and Fugue for Strings and Mozart’s Haffner Symphony complete proceedings.
0 Liszt— Illustrated Talk St Mary’s Music School, 25 Palmerston Place.
Tickets at door. 2.30pm. £1 (EPTA members free). Derek Watson gives a lecture for the European Piano Teachers Association in celebration of Liszt’s centenary year. Also, Ronald Stevenson performs the premiere of his Symphonic Elegy in Memory of Liszt, specially written for the occasion.
MONDAY 10 Edinburgh
0 Charity Concert Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street. SSCIA, Princes House, 5 Shandwick Place. 7.30pm. £3 (£1.50). An evening oflight entertainment with St Augustine’s High School Wind Band (conductor Stephen Callaghan), Caledonia Brass, Elizabeth Harley (contralto) and George Mcllwham (flute), all compered by Fay Lenore from Take the High Road in aid of the Scottish Spinal Cord in jury Association.
0 International Lunchtime Concert Assembly Rooms. George Street. Tickets: 228 1155 (Usher Hall) or 225 5373 (P&O Travel, 30 George Street. 1pm. £3 (£2). This popular series of lunchtime concerts returns for a second season with the welcome bonus of a concessionary price. One of the world’s most famed violinists comes to Edinburgh for the first concert — Kyung-Wha Chung with Jonathan Feldman piano.
TUESDAY 11 Glasgow
0 Chamber Music Recital Assembly Hall, Strathclyde University, James
The Purcell Quartet, who perform for i” the Georgian Concert Society on Saturday 1 at St Cecilia’s Hall In the Cowgate, Edinburgh. See Listings.
Weir Building, Montrose Street. Free at door. 1.15pm. Members of the University put on this varied programme of chamber music.
0 Scottish Brass Glasgow Cathedral. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre). 7.30pm. £4/£5. Members ofthe SNO joined together just over two years ago to form this popular group, which should sound well in Glasgow Cathedral as part of its special Festival year.
0 Opera Video Scottish Opera Centre, 39 Elmbank Crescent, 248 4567. 7pm. £2. As part oftheir regular series of videos while the company is on tour, Friends of Scottish Opera show Verdi’s [I
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Edinburgh
0 Plano Duet Recital Reid Concert Hall, Teviot Row, Bristo Square. Free at door. 1.10pm. When two of Edinburgh University’s music staff get together, you never know what might happen. On this occasion it’s Mendelssohn’s Op 83a Variations in B Flat and Leighton’s own Sonata for four hands Op 92.
0 Carmen King's Theatre, Leven Street, 229 1201 . 7.15pm. Extra date: Fri 14. £3—£15 (series discount available). Scottish Opera bring their highly successful new production of Bizet’s Carmen to Edinburgh. Sung in English with translation by Anthony Burgess. See Review.
WEDNESDAY 12 Glasgow
0 88C Scottish Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets from Reception, BBC Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive. 7.30pm. Free. Always adventurous with their programming, the BBC $80 and conductor Erich Schmid play Alexander Goehr’s Sinfonia and the Chamber Symphony No 2 by Schoenberg. Recorded for future transmission.
Edinburgh
0 lolanthe King’s Theatre, Leven Street, 229 1201. 7.15pm. £3-£15 (series discount available). Extra date: Sat 15. See Sat 1, Glasgow for full description.
KYUNG-WHA CHUNG violin
FOU TS’ONG piano 1 DECEMBER 19861.00 pm
CHOPIN
Ballade No.1 in G minor
NORTHERN SINFONIA GRANT LLEWELLYN conductor CAROLINE DALE cello
5 JANUARY 1987 1.00 pm
HAYDN
Cello Concerto in C
AII concens finished by 2.00pm. All seats are unreserved Tickets: £3 Concessions: OAPs. Students, Young Scot Cardholders 8 UB40$ £2
Tickets available from: Usher Hall Box Office. Lothian Road. Edinburgh EH1 2EA; Edinburgh Ticket Centre. Waverley Bridge. Edinburgh; P & 0 Travel Ltd. 30 George Street. Edinburgh EH2 2LF; or on the door Telephone reservations: 031 225 5373
BERNARD D'ASCOLI piano
with 9 FEBRUARY 1987 1.00 pm Jonathan Feldman piano o . BEETHOVEN Sonatain C shar minor 10 NOVEMBER 19861.00 pm Edinburgh Internauonal ‘Moonlight' p , , ° RAVEL MenuetAntique BRAHMS ScherzomCmmor Lunchtime Concert Trust RAVEL Pavane (F.A.E. Sonata) RAVEL Jeux d’eau BARTOK Sonata No.2 DEBUSSY Estampes gggsgégtéchgtYaTngeeaéng W INTER NATIONAL oeeussv I.’ile Joyeuse ASSOCIATION OF A LU N “COHN'II'DIM E CONCERTS BENJAMIN LUXON baritone SCOTLAND LTD The LAS Group AYSatat 1°00 Pm with David Williaon piano . 16 FEBRUARY 1987 1.00 pm The Assembly Rooms. George Street. Edinburgh EDUARDO FERNANDEZ guitar ISRAEL PIANO TRIO 17 NOVEMBER 19861.00 pm 6 APRIL 1987 1.00 pm HAYDN Trio in C minor Hob. XV13
BEETHOVEN
Trio in B flat ‘Archduke’
CHOij Three Mazurkas 0959 Party Bookinmgs - Groups of 8 or more: £2 each BARTOK Suite: ‘Out of Doors' CHijN Two Nocturnes 0952 Season Ticket- AII Twelve Lunchtime Concerts SCHUBERT Sonata in B flat 0.960 CHOFIN Sonata No.3 in 8 minor for only £24
STEPHEN BISHOP-KOVACEVICH piano 20 APRIL 1987 1.00 pm
SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Lionel Friend conductor
Alan BrInd violin
18 MAY 1987 1.00 pm
WAGNER MENDELSSOHN
Siegfried idle
Violin Concerto in E minor
26 JANUARY 1987 1.00 pm SCHUBERT
SCHUBERT
MOZART Symphony No.40 in G minor LINDSAY STRING QUARTET
Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden” Quartettsatz in C minor
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SUPPORTING HEARTS
ENDELLION STRING QUARTET 25 MAY 1987 1.00 pm
HAYDN SM ETANA
Quartet in G Op.54 No.1 Quartet in E minor ‘From my Life’
PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA v 1 JUNE 1987 1.00 pm
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