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. (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £2.50 (£2). Pianist Kenneth Hamilton plays Beethoven‘s B flat major Sonata Op 106 and the Fantasia 0p 77 as part of Westbourne Music‘s regularThurs lunchtime series. Lunch and snacks available.
I Organ Recital Glasgow University Chapel. Free at door. 1.15pm. David Hamilton gives a lunchtime recital.
Edinburgh
I Patience Church Hill Theatre. Morningside Road. Tickets: 332 0820(M. Nairn). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 1.Sat2. £5 (£3). See Mon 28.
I SCO Brass St Bernard‘s Church. Saxe (‘oburg Street. Stockbridge. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. Extra date: Sat 2. Glasgow. £4.50(£2.50). Music from the Renaissance to Fats
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Quintet. Handel‘s Water Music and Ge rshwin’s Porgy and Bess.
FRIDAY 1 Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. The Academy of Ancient Music on a visit to this Academy of all sorts of music perform songs and keyboard works by Monteverdi. Purcell. Locke and Humfrey.
I Stakis Masterclass Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2.30pm. Free at door. Lynn Dawson gives a demonstration/workshop on Baroque vocal music following her lunchtime performance.
I Kilmardinny Music Circle Kilmardinny House. Kilmardinny Avenue. Bearsden. Tickets: 943 0312. 7.45pm. £4(£2). Soprano Patricia MacMahon and pianist Walter Blair in a recital ofsongs by Schubert. Wolf, Turina. Vaughan Williams. Poulenc. Quilter and Gershwin. Hardly time to pause for breath.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital Reid Concert Ha1|.Bristo Square. 1 . 10pm. Free at door. Edinburgh University continues its regular Friday lunchtime organ slot with today‘s guest being Gordon Stewart who plays pieces by Bach. Buxtehude and Salamanca by G. Bovet.
I Patience (‘hureh Hill Theatre. Morningside Road. Tickets: 332 0820(M. Nairn). 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 2. £5 (£3). See Mon 28.
I BSNO Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 2. Glasgow. £3—£ 15 (£3). Sinfonia Semplice by Nielsen. 1 laydn‘s Symphony No 88 and Beethoven‘s Piano Concerto No 4. Stephen BishopKovacevich is soloist and Bryden Thomson conducts.
SATURDAY 2 Glasgow
I Fidelio Theatre Royal. Hope Street,332 9000. 2.15pm. Extra dates: 9. 14. 20.22 February at 7. 15pm. Glasgow. 20. 23 March at 7. 15pm. Edinburgh. £3—£30. See Tue 29.
I BSNO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3123. 7.30pm. £3.50—£15(£3). See Fri 1. Edinburgh.
I 8C0 Brass Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4.50 (£2.50). See Thurs 31 . Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Patience Church Hill Theatre. Morningside Road. Tickets: 332 0820(M. Nairn). 7.30pm. £5 (£3). See Mon 28.
SUNDAY 3 Glasgow
I Cantilena Henry Wood Hall. Clarcmont Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre.
Candleriggs). 1pm. £4. Capriccio Stravagante by Farina sounds lively for a Sunday lunchtime programme which also includes Mozart's Concerto for flute and harp and Haydn‘s Symphony N016.
I Bach at the Burrell Burrell Collection. Pollok Park. 649 7151. 3pm. £4(£2.50). More flute sonatas from John Grant and Leslie Maclcod — today you can hear Nos 4. 5 and 6. Cellist Gary McBrctncy also
plays.
TUESDAY 5 Glasgow
I Glasgow Harpsichord/Goliar/Recorder Societies Pollokshaws Hall. Further info: 882 6127. 7.30pm. Non-members £2. A joint meeting ofthe three societies. Anything could happen.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Singers Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. English and Scottish composers with a bit of Germany thrown in by Elgar‘s From the Bavarian Highlands. in a recital which also includes Scottish part-songs and Songs ofFarewell by Parry.
WEDNESDAY 6 Glasgow
I Lunch and Listen First Circlc.Theatre Royal. Hope Street. Tickets: at door. 1pm. £1.25. Scottish Opera series in which visiting artists talk about their life and work. Lunch available.
I 800 City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs 7. Edinburgh. £2.50—£10 (£1 ). A Haydn symphony — No 64. Schumann‘s Konzertstuck for4 horns. Tchaikovsky's Rococco Variations and Bizet’s Symphony in C conducted by Mark Elder with Stephen 1sscrlis.ccllo.
Edinburgh
I John Tunnell Trust Celebrity Prizewlnners Concert Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street.668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.50—£10(£3). The Techinski String Quartet play Haydn's Op 71 No 2. Dvorak's American and, with the Sorrel String Quartet. the Octet by Mendelssohn. Proceeds to the John Tunnel] Trust for young musicians starting offon professional careers.
THURSDAY 7 Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchant‘s Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 12.45pm. £2.50 (£2). An hour ofsong from soprano Margot Archibard and accompanist John Parr. Composers are Sibelius. Grieg. Wagner and Brahms.
I Lunchtime Recital Hunterian Museum. Glasgow University. Free at door. 1.15pm. Music for the delightful combination of flute and harp played by Alison Mitchell and Saida de Lyon.
I The Academy Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£3/£2/£1.50). A programme of Berlioz. Thomas Wilson's Piano Concerto and Dvorak‘s 7th Symphony dedicated to the memory ofWight Henderson. who was Head ofthe Piano Department between 1939 and 1978.
I BSNO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3123. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 8. Edinburgh and Sat 9, Glasgow. £3.50—£15 (£3). Strong, stirring stuffwith Janacek‘s Sinfonierta. Brahms‘ Symphony No 3 and Dvorak's Violin Concerto. with lda Haendel as soloist. Vladimir Fedoseycv conducts.
Edinburgh
I 800 Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.50—£10.50(£2.50). See Wed 6. Glasgow.
40 The List 25 January - 7 February 1991