MUSIC FOLK & WORLD
I Nancy Nicolson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.
Mondays
I Session Green Tree. Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Irish/Scottish.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening, 229 2665. Free. Traditional Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddles.
Tuesdays
I Scratch Band Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Celtic instrumental music.
I Famous Other Band Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
Wednesdays
I Misfits St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 9.30pm. Free. Acoustic guitars and harmony. top female duo from Glasgow.
I Miro Leith Oyster Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9.30pm. Free. Irish and Celtic music.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
Thursdays
I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
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CLASSICAL mamm-
Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.
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Glasgow
I Harpsichord Recital McLellan Galleries. Sauchiehall Street. 331 1854. 12.30—2pm. £1 .50(50p). Virginia Black. internationally acclaimed keyboard player. gives the first in a series ofrecitals in conjunction with The Alan Davie Retrospective exhibition. which uses pre-recorded music showing the wide range of the painter‘s musical tastes.
I Midday Concert Stevenson I fall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Viola and piano recital by Nobuko Imai and Roger Vignoles who play sonatas by Hindemith and Franck.
I 8C0 City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £2.50—£1 1. In its last Glasgow concert until March. the SCO welcomes Barry Douglas to play Mozart's Piano Concerto No 26 in 1). He stays on todirect
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5th FEB KILMARNOCK, PALACE THEATRE Tickets: Box Office 0563 23590
7th FEB INVERURIE, TOWN HALL Tickets: Aberdeen Music Hall. T&H Sinclair Jewellers, West High Street, Inverurie
8th FEB STIRLING, GOLDEN LION Tickets: Tourist Information,
Hay, Music Shop I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Stravinsky‘s Dumbarron Oaks and 9th FEB Street. Informal live acoustic music most Haydn's Clock Symphony. SGO nights. I Scottish Early Music Consort Stevenson algae”. msrffieqixme Han I Famous Other Band Christies. West Port. Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 ' Union 5"," r9 ' 9pm. Free. 5057. 8pm. Extra date: Sat 1.Edinburgh.
I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitarist Freddie Triay with friends and dancers.
£7 (£4). Music and Dance from Medieval Spain. complete with pregnant abbess. a chaplain who swallowed a spider and all sorts of other delights performed by
10th FEB EDINBURGH, QUEEN’S HALL Tickets: Box Office 8: Virgin Princes St.
singers. dancers and instrumentalists.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Organist Roger Sayer in a recital ofworks by Jongen. Franck. Peeters and Saint-Saens.
I HSO Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 1.Glasgow. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). Philip Ledger is conductor of what promises to be a stunning performance of Britten‘s War Requiem with soloists Janice Cairns. Robert Tear and David Wilson-Johnson along with the R30 Chorus and Junior
Chorus. SATURDAY Glasgow
ON TOUR IN SCOTLAND
KIRKCALDY 7.30 pm INVERNESS 8.00 pm
I RSAMD Junior Dept Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Admission free by ticket. Second orchestra and chamber ensembles in
concert. I 830 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). See Fri 31 . Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Classical Guitar Concert Corstorphine Youth Centre. Kirk Loan. Tickets: at door. 12 noon. £2 (£1). Guitarist Ian Smith plays music by Giuliani. Walton. Barrios and Ponce.
I Edinburgh University String Orchestra Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £4 (£2.50). Serenades for strings by Elgar and Tchaikovsky with Shostakovich Piano Concerto No I and the Chaeony by Purcell. Emre Arasi conducts and Jason Power is soloist.
I Scottish Early Music Consort Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£4). See Fri 31 . Glasgow.
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SUNDAY 2 Edinburgh
I Sunday Serenade Church of St Andrew and St George. George Street. Tickets: 228 1 155 (Usher Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £5 (£4). Timothy Byram-Wigfield. organ. and Rupert Waddington. cello. gives a recital in aid of the Usher Hall Organ Appeal.
I ECAT Contemporary Music Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6.50 (£2). A charity concert in aid ofthe SSPCA with the first performance ofAn Animal Song Book. new works for voice and piano by ten leading Scottish composers. Jane Gardner‘s new Moral Tails for two pianos and string ensemble. commissioned by the SSPCA . also receives its premiere. Performers include young musicians from St Mary‘s Music School.
MONDAY 3 Edinburgh
I Altemoon Tea Concert Queen‘s 1 tall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £4 (incl afternoon tea). Violinist Michael d‘Arcy accompanied by Alexandra Andrievsky plays music while you sip by Stravinsky. Schubert. Franck and
Saint-Saens.
TUESDAY 4 Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. The University Singers in a tribute to Purcell — Welcome to allrhe Pleasures and My hear! is indicring. John Kitchen is director and the String Orchestra accompanies.
WEDNESDAY 5
Glasgow
I Student Competition Guinness Room, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The Peter Lindsay Millar Prize for piano duct is at stake for RSAMD students this morning.
THURSDAY 6 Glasgow
I Student Competition Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The Dunbar-Gerber Prize Competition for strings and piano. I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. The Kelvin Ensemble plays works by Mozart.
I La Traviata Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 8. Sat 15 (2. 15pm). Thurs 20. Wed 26 and Fri .78 Feb (Glasgow); Tues 10andThur' ' March (Edinburgh). £3—£36. Nuri. Espert’s production returns to Scottish Opera in a revival conducted by Taku Yuasa. Principal Conductor with the BBC 830. who makes his UK operatic conducting debut. Anne Williams King is Violetta. Marek Torzewski is Alfredo and Jason Howard is Germont.
I BBC 880 Studio One. BBC. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: BBC Reception. 7.30pm. Free. An invitation concert which opens with Three Pieces in Old Style by Gorecki. followed by the Symphony No 85 by Haydn and Bartok's Diverrimenrofor Strings. Jerzy Maksymuik conducts.
I lntemational Celebrity Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street.332 5057. 7.30pm. £7.50 (£5). GuitaristJohn Williams plays music by Villa-Lobos. Vivaldi. Granados and others.
I H80 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 7. Edinburgh and Sat 8. Glasgow. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). Walter Weller. who in a very short
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38 The List 31 January — 13 February 1992