MUSIC LIST/CLASSICAL
Indiana talks on 'I'rouvere Songs.
I The Pearl Fishers Theatre Royal. 1 lope Street. 331 1234. 7. 15pm. Iixtradates: 9 and 11 March. Edinburgh. £3—£21 . Let's hope the terrors throat's better for Scottish ()pera's new production of Bizet's rarely heard tale of love and friendship.
I Claremont String Quartet Burrell Collection. Pollok Park. Pollokshaws Road. Tickets: SAI'. to 21 I)unvegan I)ri\c. Bishopbriggs. (i64 31.B. 7.30pm. £4 ( £3). Quartets by Beethoven. Stravinsky and Mozart.
I Harpsichord Recital Pollok House. Pollok Park. Pollokshaws Road. 7.30pm. £3.50(£2.50) including wine. Further information: 357 3632. The park is alive to the sound of music tonight. Just up the way from the Burrell. Carole Cerasi plays music by (‘ouperin. I-‘orqueray. Ballastre. Bach and Rameau.
THURSDAY 25
Glasgow
I Clarinet/Piano Recital Concert 1 Iall. (ilasgow l‘niycrsity. Ir‘ree atdoor. 1.15pm. Su/antic Hall and Iiric(iraebner play works by Poulenc. Tchaikovsky and Iiric(irae1mcr.
I Eugene Onegin Theatre Royal. 1 lope Street. 331 1234. 7. 15pm. listra dates: 27 I'ebruary(2.15pm).15.17.19March
1". 15pm). (ilasgow . Sand 12 March
1". 15pm). Iidinburgh. Scottiin Opera and Tchaikovsky 's romantic drama. with Russian baritone Sergei I.eifferkus in the title role. Sung in Russian. I.asts 3 hours. I SNO City I Iall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. listra dates: Fri 26. Iidinburgh and Sat 27. (ilasgow. £2.50—£9.90. Nccmc .Iarvi. shortly to leave the SN() as Musical l)ircctor. conducts an all Beethoven programme of the Iz'roicu Symphony. the Violin Concerto with Dmitri Sitkovetsky as soloist and the Prometheus ()vcrture. I Alberni String Quartet + others Stevenson Hall. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 4101. 7.30pm. Special preview event including the Mendelssohn ()ctet. Schubert's Quartets and Schumann's Piano Quintet in I. flat.
I Glasgow Opera Group Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. Bearsden. 943 0312. 7.30pm. Iixtradates: Hi 26. Sat 27. Mozart's .llurriugeof I'iguro.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra Reid Concert Ilall. BristoSquare. Tickets: Alison House. Nicolson Square on at door. 7.30pm. £2.50 (£2). Well chosen programme of Mozart'sJupiter Symphony. Les .Vuits [fl-fie by Berlioz. l-"rutres by A rvo Part and Ravel's much-loy ed Puvune.
FRIDAY 26
Glasgow
I Pro Arte Recital Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets: Ambassador Classics. Kelvinbridge. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£1.95). SeeTue 23. Edinburgh. for full description.
I Glasgow Opera Group Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. Bearsden. 9430312. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Thurs 25. Sat 27. Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
I Milgavie Music Club Milgavie Town Hall. Iiurther information: 9562642. 7.30pm. Carmina String Quartet.
I Glasgow University Chapel Choir lfniversity Chapel. Free at door. 7.30pm. .lfissu (i/oriu tihi 'I'rt'nilas by Taverner. Five ( Urn/s by Richard Rodney Bennett and Poulenc's Litunies ('Iu viergenoire directed by Stuart Campbell. Organ scholar David McCruiness plays music by Bustehude and 16th Century Iinglish composers.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. I-‘ree at door. 1.10pm. Bustehude. Pachelbel and J. S. Bach are organist Andrew Armstrong's choice of composers this lunchtime.
I 3N0 l'sher 1 Tall. Lothian Road. 228’ 1155. 7.30pm. Iixtra date: Sat27. (ilasgow. £2.50 £9.90. See Thurs 25. (ilasgow. for full description.
SATURDAY 27 Glasgow
I Eugene Onegin Theatre Royal. 1 lope Street. 331 1234. 2.15pm. Iixtradatcs: l5. l7and l9 March.(i|asgow ° Sand 12 March. Iidinburgh.
I 8N0 City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £2.50- £9.90. See Thurs 25 for lull description.
I Glasgow Opera Group Kilmardinny House.511Kiltnardiiiiiy Avenue. Bearsden. 943 0312. 7.30pm. Iistradates: Thurs 25. Hi 26. Mozart's .llurriugeof l'iguro.
I Bach to Stravinsky l Ienry \Vood l Iall. Claremont Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre). 8pm. £3 (£1 .50). Strathclyde l'niversity Chorus and Chamber Choir get together with Strathclyde Sinfonia for lots of Bach and Stravinsky including the latter's .lluss and Symphony oil’su/ms.
Edinburgh
I Daniel Stewart‘s and Melville College and The Mary Erskine School Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.50 ( £ 1 .50). Weber's l)er l-"rcisc/tut: ()verture. Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto and Symphony No 8 by 1)vorak. Neil Mantle conducts.
I The Sound of Music Iiducalion Centre. Royal Museum of Scotland. Chambers Street. 225 7534 ext 219. 10am- 1pm. £1.15 (helpful parents free). A workshop for
8 14 year-olds on how to make yourown musical instrument. Advance booking recommended.
I Lunchtime Concert Assembly Rooms. (ieorge Street. Free at door. 12.30pm. Violin. flute and piano trio. (ieminae. perform as part of the Iidinburgh Peace I’estival.
I Music for Meditation Assembly Rooms. (ieorge Street. I-‘ree at door.
12.45— 1 .45pm. 'I'ransformer perform music from the Indian spiritual teacher. Sri Chimnoy.
I Fettes College Concert St Bernard‘s Church. Saxe Coburg Street. Stockbridge. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3 (£2). Pupils from I-‘ettes College perform choral. orchestral and organ music in aid ofthe church organ.
I Edinburgh Society of Musicians Centenary Concert St Cecilia's I lall.Cowgate. Tickets: 228 1 155 ( L'sher I Iall). 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .25). Harpsichord recital with Lucy Carolan playing works by Couperin. Ir‘roberger. Lully and]. S. Bach on the Pascal Taskin Harpsichord of 1769.
Haydn
Beethoven Brahms Moussorgsky
PRO ARTE RECTTALS
Tues 1 March. 7.30pm Reid Hall. Edinburgh
Wed 2 March. 7.30pm Burrell Collection. Glasgow VIKTOR FRIEDMAN
Sonata in E flat
‘Eroica‘ Variations Two lntermezzi ()p 118 Pictures from an Exhibition
(recital in Glasgow presented in association with the Scottish PianoCompetition) Tickets: 011801031 668 2019): Ambassador Classics 1041 334 6908)
pianoforte
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SUNDAY 28 Glasgow
I Glasgow Chamber Orchestra Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets: at door. £2.50 (£1 .50). 7.30pm. Interesting progra mn me with Delius ()n hearing the first cuckoo in Spring and Summer nigliton the River. Mozart's Paris Symphony. a symphony by Arriago and a concerto for two clarinets by Krommer with the S.\'( )‘s John Cushing and Josef Pacewicz as soloists. Charles Floyd conducts.
I Gala Concert City I Iall. Candleriggs. 227 5511 or 639 3o57. 7.45pm. (ilasgow Jew iin Choral Society with Maria Moll (soprano) in aid ofthe British l)iabetic Association ((ilasgow Parents (iroup).
Edinburgh
I Wagner Society Society of Musicians. 2 Belford Road (by Dean Bridge). Tickets: at door. 2.30pm. £2 £1.50. Neil Mackay talks about (ireut ll'ugner ( 'onrluctors.
I Maccabee Singers St Bernard‘st "hutch. Sase Coburg Street. Stockbridge. Tickets: 228‘ 3979 (Michelle Scott ) or 5565443 (Actionaid ). 7.30pm. £2.50 minimum donation. An all Mozart concert including [fine Kleine .Vuclimuvik. the Te l)eum and Requiem in aid of a well for the peoplcol Bhola Island in Bangladesh.
I Paragon Ensemble ()ucen‘s I Iall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. Iixtradate:.\1oti 29. (ilasgow. £3.50 (£2.50). first performance of ()ctuves oflx’uiliution by [.yell Cresswell. with Martin I)alby's Songs My Mother 'I‘uug/it Me and the Violin Concerto by Kurt Weill with Peter Mountain as soloist.
I Edinburgh Players Palmerston Place Church. Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door. 8pm. £2.50(£1.50). Chamber ensemble directed by Christopher Bell in a programme including Purcell's ( ‘liuconne. the Britten Serenade/or 'I‘enor. Horn and Strings with Christopher Hobkirk as soloist and Vaughan Williams' l’untusiu on u fflt’IIlt’ by Thomas 'l‘u/lis.
MONDAY 29 Glasgow
I Paragon Henry Wood Hall . Claremont Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre). 7.45pm. £3.50 (£2.50). See Sun 28. Iidinburgh. for full description.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Secondary Schools Orchestra Music 1 Iall. Assembly Rooms. (ieorgc Street. Tickets: 229 9166 ext 2976(Mrs Kinghorn). 7.30pm. Pictures utun I:'.t‘hibition and works by Mozart. Bruch and Rossini.
I Southern Light Opera Company King's Theatre. Leven Street. 229 1201. 7.30pm. Iixtra dates: Tue I.Wed 2. Thurs 3. HM. Sat 5 (also matinee). This year's annual production is The Hair! oft/re .llounluirls.
UESDAY 1 Glasgow
I Lunchtime Concert Assembly Hall. Strathclyde University. James Weir Building. Montrose Street. Free at door. 1.15pm—2pm. David Hunter plays Mussorgsky's Pictures front an lz'xliihition in its original version for solo piano.
Edinburgh
I Piano Recital Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Free at door. 1.10pm. Sonatasby Berg and Schubert performed by Ruth Geiger.
I Song Recital Queen‘s I Iall. Clerk Street. 6682019. 7.45pm. £3.50 £4.50(£2v£3). Young Crerman soprano Ruth Ziesak with Edinburgh-born Malcolm Martineau. Programme includes a Mozart concert aria and songs by Schubert. Strauss and I-‘aure. I Pro Arte Recital Reid Concert Ilall. Bristo Square. Tickets: 668 2()19((_)uecn‘5 Hall). 7.30pm. Extra date: Wed 2. £3.50
(£1.95). Soviet pianist Viktor Friedman. one of the adjudicating panel at the 1986 Scottish Piano Competition. plays works by Haydn. Beethoven. Brahms and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an I:'.t'hihitiort. I Southern Light Opera Company King‘s- Theatre. [even Street. 229 1201. 7.30pm. Iixtra dates: Wed 2. Thurs 3. Fri 4. Sat5 (also matinee). See Mon 29.
EDNESDAY 2 .
Glasgow
I Mondrian Trio Pollok Ilouse. Pollok Park Pollokshaws Road. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre ) or 632 0274 ( Pollok House Shop). 7.45pm. Instra date: Sat 5. Iidinburgh. £4.50(£2.50). I-'or theirl‘inal programme this season. the Mondrian choose I Iaydn's Trio in Ii lIat. Smetena‘s (1 minor and The (iliost by Beethoven.
I Pro Art Recital Burrell Collection. Pollok Park. Tickets: Ambassador Classics. Kelvinbridge. 7.30pm. £3.50(£1.95). See Tue 1.1idinburgh. lor l'ulldescription.
Edinburgh
I St Margaret's School Concert ()ueen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £2.50. Choral and orchestral concert with music by I)v orak. Verdi and John Clements and arrangements of Scots songs.
I Southern Light Opera Company King‘s Theatre. 1.even Street. 229 1201. 7.30pm. Iixtra dates: Thurs 3. Hi 4. Sat 5 (also matinee). See Moti 29.
asgow I Organ Recital ( ilasgow t 'nivcrsity Chapel. I’ree at door. 1.15pm. Musicby Franck. [is/t. Widor and I)upre played by Way ne Marshall. organ.
Edinburgh
I 3C0 ()ucen's I Iall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3 £8.80 (()APs £3 all cones on night £2 ). Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Beethoven's Ifroictl. Bizet's Symphony in ( ‘ and the Ballade for Cello and ( )rchestra by Martin. with the SC()'s own William ( ‘onw ay as soloist.
I Southern Light Opera Company King‘s Theatre. Leven Street. 229 12111 . 7.30pm. Iistra dates: Hi 4. Sat 5 (alsomatinee). See Mon 29.
I 20th Century Camerata Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.45pm. Contemporary music by young. mainly Iidinlmrgh-bzncd composers.
FOLK
FRIDAY 19
Glasgow
I Schiehallion Scotts Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Song andguitar duo.
I Ceilidh/Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £2.50. Bartill late.
I Nailan Tolbooth Bar. (ilasgow Cross. 5524149. Evening. Fiddle and accordion.
Edinburgh
I Dick Gaughan/Janet Russell/Deal Heights Assembly Rooms. (ieorge Street. 225 3614. Tickets in advance from Usher Hall Box ()ffice. 22‘s 1 155. 1.ate bar. Iidinburgh Peace I-‘estival. 7.30pm— 1am. £4 (£2). AlsoTam White. Mike Heron. The Deadly Serious Sisters. Valencia and Peader Long with Jim Woodland. Concert and dance. See panel.
I North Sea Gas Platform 1.Rut1and Street. Iivening. Resident mandolins. guitars and well worn songs.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Iiveningtill 1.30am. Late bar with