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Ellersley Road. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 8pm. £10 (£8) incl wine and canapes. Final concert in series in buildings of distinction continues the Schumann and Beethoven theme. with Op 41 No 3 and Op 59 No 3 respectively and C ypresses by Dvorak.
TUESDAY 4 Glasgow
I Paisley International Organ Festival Coats Memorial Church. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 1.10pm. £3 (£2). Unlikely combination of trombone and organ in a programme which includes the first performance of a new work by Lyell Cresswcll from John Kenny and John Kitchen.
I Paisley lntemational Organ Festival Paisley Abbey. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £6 (£4.50). Scottish music to the fore as The Wallace Collection play works by Maxwell Geddes. MacCunn, David Johnson, John Hearne. Oswald and an arrangement of Tam O’Shanrer by Arnold.
WEDNESDAY 5 Glasgow
I Paisley international Organ Festival Wallneuk North Parish Church. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 1.10pm. £3 (£2). Organist at Paisley Abbey. George McPhee. teams up with baritone Mark Rowlinson for songs by Dvorak, Reger and Vierne.
I Paisley International Organ Festival Paisley Abbey. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £6 (£4.50). Celebrity recital by Gillian Weir. who plays Bach, Messiaen. Alain and Widor.
Edinburgh
I Lunch and Listen Church of St Andrew and St George. George Street. Free at
door. 12.30—1pm. Recital by Leon Coates, organist of St A‘s and St G‘s.
I Lamp Ot Lothian Canongate Kirk. Royal Mile. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 8pm. Extra date: Friday 7. £2.50—£15. Melvyn Tan. fortepiano, plays works by Mendelssohn and Schubert.
I Organ Recital St Mary‘s Cathedral, Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door. 8pm. £3 (£2). Peter Backhouse. Assistant Organist at St Mary‘s Cathedral.
THURSDAY 6 Glasgow
I Paisley International Organ Festival Laigh Kirk. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 3pm. £4 (£3). Joachim Grubich plays music by Polish composers from the 16th. 17th and 20th centuries.
I Paisley lntemational Organ Festival Paisley Abbey. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £6 (£4.50). International award winner Naji Hakim of the Sacre Coeur in Paris in an all French programme.
FRIDAY 7 Glasgow
I Glasgow international Early Music Festival Glasgow Cathedral. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 5pm. £8 (£5). Ensemble Gilles Binchois from Dijon in a complete liturgical performance of a 15th century Mass by Dufay to open the 1992 GlEMF.
I Paisley Intemaional Organ Festival Paisley Abbey. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £6.50 (£3.50). Final round ofthis year's Interpretation Competition in which young organists from all over the world compete for a Scottish recital tour, prestigious recital dates and cash.
I Glasgow lntemational Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100
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Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 8.30pm. £10 (£6). Les Arts Florissants, France‘s top baroque ensemble of ten singers and six instrumentalists on first visit to Glasgow.
Edinburgh
I Lamp oI Lothian Holy Trinity Church. Haddington. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 8pm. £2.50—£15. See Wed 5.
SATURDAY 8
Glasgow
I Paisley International Organ Festival Coats Memorial Church. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 10am. £3 (£2). Final of the Improvisation Competition.
I Glasgow International Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 12.45pm. £5 (£3). Scotland‘s newest early music group. Scaramuccia, with sonatas and trio sonatas by Vivaldi, Corelli. Uccellini and Castello.
I Paisley lntemational Organ Festival Coats Memorial Church. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs).
1. 10pm. £3 (£2). Lots ofvariation from the Berlioz Brass Quintet and organist John Langdon. who present no less then nine pieces from Vivaldi to Vaughan Williams. I Paisley lntemational Organ Festival Lylesland Parish Church. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 3pm. £4 (£3). Bach specialist Lionel Rogg from Switzerland.
I Paisley International Organ Festival Paisley Abbey. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £8 (£6). The Royal Scottish Orchestra with Sir Alexander Gibson and organist Christopher Nickol in Poulenc‘s Organ Concerto. Wagner to open. and Bruckner's Symphony No 4 to complete this final concert of the Festival.
I Glasgow International Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£6). UK debut for La Stagione Frankfurt. a leading German ensemble which performs early oratorios and opera.
Edinburgh
I Netherlands Youth Orchestra Central Hall, Tollcross. 229 7937. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/free). One of the world‘s best youth orchestras gives Preview Gala Concert to this year‘s Edinburgh Festival of British Youth Orchestras. Programme includes Shostakovich‘s Symphony No 5.
SUNDAY 9 Glasgow
I Glasgow International Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 12.45pm. £5 (£3). Concertos for recorder, flute, oboe and viola da gamba by Camerata Cologne, a virtuoso band making its first appearance in the UK.
I Glasgow International Early Music Festival Burrell Collection. Pollok Country Park. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 3pm. £5 (£3). Richard Gwilt, violin, and Lucy Carolan, harpsichord. in baroque music from ltaly and Scotland.
I Glasgow International Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£6). Melvyn Tan and Alexei Lubimov make their first appearance together in a programme of piano duets by Mozart and Schubert on an authentic early 19th century forte-piano.
MONDAY 10
Glasgow
I Glasgow lntemational Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall, RSAMD. 100
Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 12.45pm. £5 (£3). A $010 recital by Melvyn Tan, internationally acclaimed exponent of early keyboard music.
I Glasgow lntemational Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£6). With director Monica Huggett the European Commonity Baroque Orchestra makes its first appearance in Scotland with a programme of concertos and orchestra music by Handel. Bach. Vivaldi and Van Wassenacr.
TUESDAY 11 Glasgow
I Glasgow lntemational Early Music Festival Burrell Collection. Pollok Country Park. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 3pm. £5 (£3). Early music performed by Cantus Serenus of Romania brings to life ancient Byzantine chants and secrets from a monastery wall. I Glasgow International Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£6). Troubadour songs from medieval times performed by Sinfonye from Oxford.
WEDNESDAY 12 Glasgow
I Glasgow lntemational Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 12.45pm. £5 (£3). Second chance to hear Cantus Sercnus from Romania. Today they perform music from Transylvanian composers ofthe 17th and 18th centuries. I Glasgow International Early Music Festival Burrell Collection, Pollok Country Park. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 3pm. £5 S£3). Sonatas by CPE Bach. Purcell, Geminiani and Gottfried Keller by young Scottish ensemble. The Complete Baroque.
I Glasgow lntemational Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£6). A Sei Voci from Paris present music by Josquin des Prez and Juan de Anchieta.
Edinburgh
I Lunch and Listen Church of St Andrew and St George. George Street. 12.30—1pm. Free at door. Alberto Massimo. formerly of The Vatican. Rome. is today's lunchtime recitalist.
I Organ Recital St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door. 8pm. £3 (£2). Thomas Laing-Reilly gives the last in this summer's series of organ recitals at St Mary‘s.
THURSDAY 13 Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£2.50). Soprano Sally Harrison and pianist Martin Fitzpatrick in songs by Debussy. Strauss. Walton and Satie.
I Glasgow International Early Music Festival Stevenson Hall, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 12.45pm. £5 (£3). Baroque Brass of the RSAMD in masterpieces of the period.
I Glasgow lntemational Early Music Festival Burrell Collection, Pollok Country Park. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 3pm. £5 (£3). A Sei Voce with 17th century treasures from Portugal.
I Glasgow lntemational Early Music Festival Tramway, Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.15pm. Extra date: Saturday 15. £8-£15. La Baltasara by Abbatini and last performed in 1668, is revived to be centrepiece of the Festival. The opera is produced by Kate Brown and Warwick Edwards is Musical Director.
42 The List 31 July - 13 August 1992