MUSIC CLASSICAL
Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £5—£20. The RSO plays in aid ofthe Vicky Appeal in a popular programme of Beethoven. Grieg, Sibelius and Dvorak‘s New World Symphony. Sir Alexander Gibson is conductor.
Edinburgh
I ECAT Contemporary Music Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6.50 (£2). Seventieth birthday celebrations for George Mackay Brown with music from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Geoffrey King- and a few jigs and reels as well.
I Philomuslca oi Edinburgh St Cuthbcrt‘s Church. Lothian Road. Tickets: 667 7505 (D MeNally) or at door. 8pm. £4.50 (£3.50). Christmassy programme with Peter and the Wolf. Corelli‘s Christmas Concerto and Pachelbel‘s Canon being presented by Crusaid Scotland.
I Jurgen Syberberg's Parsiial Cameo. Home Street. 228 4141 . 12.30pm. Syberberg‘s cinema version ofWagner‘s opera has been hailed as ‘brilliant'. It is presented in its four-and-a-quarter hour entirety with a short interval between acts. Ifwell attended. it will be the first ofa series of Sunday matinee opera films.
MONDAY 9 Glasgow
I Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10am. The Governors‘ Recital Prize Competition for brass.
I Competition Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Free at door. The Glasgow Jewish Choral Society Prize Competition for vocal ensembles.
I Jose Caneras Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). £20. £45. £65. Leading international tenor in one of only two UK dates this year. With the Scottish Opera Orchestra. he performs a programme of classic arias and duets with mezzo soprano Claire Powell as partner.
TUESDAY 10 Glasgow
I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons‘ Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15—2pm. £1.50. The Edinburgh Quartet withJames Durrant. viola. in a programme of Mozart/Bach. including Mozart‘s String Quintet K614.
I Nigel Kennedy Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. SOLD OUT. Rearrangcd date of cancelled August concert.
Edinburgh
I Carmen Playhouse Theatre. 2 Greenside Place. 557 2590. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 12. Edinburgh and Tue 17. Thurs 19 and Sat 21 . Glasgow. £5—£25. Scottish Opera open their Edinburgh week with Bizet‘s opera of jealousy and passion in a revival of Graham Vick‘s dramatic production.
I Edinburgh Candlelight Carolcade Central Hall. Tollcross. Tickets: 2200100 (Connoisseur Travel). 7.30pm. £4 (£2). Mixed group of performers from the King‘s Own Scottish Borderers to Isobel Meiras. clarsach. perform in aid of National Children‘s Homes.
I Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers St Mark‘s Unitarian Church. Castle Terrace. Tickets: at door. 7.45pm. £4 (£2). A programme of music for Advent and Christmas by student/amateur choir directed by Noel O‘Regan. Works by Cardoso. Esquivel. Victoria. Schutz. Tallis and more.
I Nelson ilall Concert Nelson Hall.
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Walk. 7.45pm. Free at door. St Margaret‘s School Senior Choir in informal recital.
WEDNESDAY 11 Glasgow
I Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The Governors‘ Recital Prize Competition for singing.
I BBC 880 City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 12.45pm. £3. Second in a new series of lunchtime concerts features music by Glinka.
I SCO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs 12. Edinburgh. £2.50—£1 1. World premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies‘s Strathclyde Concerto No 5 for violin and viola is postponed and. instead. the composer conducts Caroline Matilda. a ballet suite he wrote for Danish Ballet. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No] is directed from the keyboard by Peter Donohue.
I Mozartiana Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets: 2275511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £4 (£2.50). Strathclyde University Orchestra play Tchaikovsky's Mozartiana suite as finale to a concert ofthe overture to The Magic Flute and the B flat minor Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky. with Peter Seivewright as soloist.
I Songs tor the Falling Angel Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. Extra date: Fri 24 January. £5 (£3). A choral Requiem for Lockerbie by Karen Wimhurst with the Scottish Festival Singers directed by Ian McCrorie.
Edinburgh
I Madama Butterfly Playhouse Theatre‘. Greenside Place. 557 2590. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Fri 13. Edinburgh and Wed 18. Fri 20. Glasgow. £5—£25. Scottish Opera in revival of Nuria Espert‘s highly acclaimed production of Puccini masterpiece.
I Organ Recital Greyfriars Kirk. Candlemaker Row. Tickets: Queen‘s Hall Box Office (668 2019) or Italian Institute (668 2232). 7.30pm. Free. Claudia Termini in works by Frescobaldi. Bach. Ross and Buxtehude.
[Il' Glasgow
I Merchants’ Music Mcrchanls‘ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £2.50 (£2). More violin sonatas from Edwin and Elizabeth Paling. Today it‘s Brahms Op 108 anti Franck.
I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. A performance of the early minimalist classic In (.‘by Terry Riley. directed by Nicky Hind.
I Chamber Music Concert Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Admission free by ticket.
Edinburgh
I Carmen Playhouse Theatre. 2 Greenside Place. 557 2590. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tue 17. Thurs l9 and Sat 21 . Glasgow. £5—£25. See Tue 10.
I 3C0 Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019.7.45pm.£3—£12.See Wed 11. Glasgow.
FRIDAY 13 Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stexenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Music for oboe and piano by Lennox Berkeley. Alan Richardson. Alan Ridout and York Bowen performed by Gordon Hunt with PhilipJenkins.
I Stallis Masterclass Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057.
2.30pm. Free at door.
I Organ Recital Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 7.30pm. Free at door. Music by Franck. Reger and Mendelssohn performed by Italian organist Claudia Termini.
I Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund iorChlldren Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £5—£9. The Hospitals' Christmas Carol Concert with massed choir from Greater Glasgow Health Board. Paisley Abbey Choir and Murray International Whitburn Band. Christopher Bell conducts.
I 8C0 City Hall.Candleriggs.227551I. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 14. Edinburgh. £2.50—£1 l. Antoni Ros-Marba conducts Haydn‘s Military Symphony. Mozart‘s Sinfonia Concertante for wind and Edward Harper‘s lntrada after Monteverdi.
Edinburgh
I Madama Butterfly Playhouse Theatre. Greenside Place. 557 2590. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 18. Fri 20. Glasgow. £5—£25. See Wed 11.
I 880 Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 14. Glasgow. £4—£17.50 (£3.50). RSO tribute to Mozart with his Requiem and Songs and Dances of Death by Mussorgsky/Shostakovich.
SATURDAY 14 Glasgow
I B80 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). See Fri 13. Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I A Night in Vienna Playhouse Theatre. Greenside Place. 557 2590. 7.15pm. £3—£15. Scottish Opera end their Edinburgh winter week with an evening of Viennese bon-bons such as excerpts from Merry Widow. Gypsy Baron and Die Fledermaus. as well as the usual input from the Strauss family.
I 3C0 Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019.7.45pm.£3—£12.See Fri 13. Glasgow.
SUNDAY 15 Glasgow
I Glasgow University Choral Society and Orchestra University Chapel. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3 (£1 .50). Schubert‘s Mass in E flat and the Te Deum by Bruckner. I City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.50—£15. Classical Sensations. an evening of pop classics. but with a special festive character for Christmas time.
Edinburgh
I Christmas with the Clarsach Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £3 (£2). Carols in traditional and new settings accompanied by a ‘heavenly host of harpsi
TUESDAY 17' Glasgow
I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons‘ Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15—2pm. £1.50. Recital of songs about the festive season - from snowflakes and carols to parties and presents. Mezzo isJennifer Logan with Alan Jacques at the piano.
I Carmen Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 3329000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 19. Sat 21 . £3—£36. See Tue 10. Edinburgh. I Carol Concert City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm.£5—£7.50(£3—£5). RSAMD soloists and choir conducted by Philip Ledger and George MePhee perform in aid of the Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Fund.
Edinburgh
I Carol Concert Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 11.30am. Free toOAPs. Liberton High School‘s Carol Concert.
I Klst oi Musicil St Cecilia‘s Hall. Cowgate. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £5 (£2.50). A concert of Baroque music by Corelli. Purcell and William McGibbon with the group being joined by the baroque scholar and harpsichordist Peter Holman. whose anthology of chamber music by the 18th century Scottish composer McGibbon has just been published.
I Family Carol Concert Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2 (£1).
WEDNESDAY 18 Glasgow
I Strathclyde University Carol Service Barony Hall. 2pm—3pm. Free at door. University Chorus and Brass Ensemble conducted by Alan Tavener. All welcome. I Stallis Masterclass Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. Free at door. Horn masterclass directed by Anthony Halstead.
I Madama Butterin Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra date: Fri 20. £3—£36. See Wed 11. Edinburgh.
I Christmas Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£2.50). Strathclyde University Wind Band. Brass Ensemble and Chamber Choir in a programme of light and popular Christmas music with opportunity for audience participation.
I BBC SSO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3—£15 (cone available). Tom Fleming presents Christmas Classics a pot-pourri of pretty tunes and seasonal music including Sleigh Ride by Delius. excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov‘s Snow Maiden and Rossini’s overture to Cinderella.
Edinburgh
I Anemoon Tea Concert Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £4. Songs from Sasha Abrams. soprano. and Peter Alexander. piano. including popular light music as well as Schubert and Mendelssohn. Piano music by Chopin. Debussy and Scott Joplin.
I Carol Concert Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Christmas Carols in aid of the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children. with instrumentalists from the SCO.
THURSDAY 19 Glasgow
I Merchanls' Music Merchants‘ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £2.50 (£2). CWS Brass Ensemble.
I Glasgow University Community Carol Service University Chapel. 4pm. Free at door.
I Carmen Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra date: Sat 21. £3—£36. See Tue 10. Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Chamber Music at Queen Street Broadcasting House. BBC. 5 Queen Street. Tickets: from above or Room 113. BBC. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow. Please enclose sae. 1pm. Free. The Hebrides Ensemble. outstanding new Scottish group. play works by James MacMillan. Sally Beamish and Dohnanyi.
Edinburgh
I 8C0 Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Fri 20. Glasgow. £3—£12. Christmas Special with conductor Carl Davis. soprano Marilyn Hill-Smith and SCO Chorus. Highlights includes works by Mozart. Corelli and Berlioz as well as popular Christmas carols.
44 The List 6 — 19 December 1991