CLASSICAL MUSIC
organ music by Domenico Scarlatti. Glass. Byrd and J S Bach.
I RSND Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 30. Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50 (£3.50). What a night! Debussy‘s La Mer followed by Messiaen‘s mammoth Turangalila Symphony. complete with ondes martenot. a sort of early electronic keyboard. Rising star on the conducting scene. the youthful Mark Wigglesworth. conducts.
SATURDAY 30
Glasgow
I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 2.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 4. Wed 10 Feb— Glasgow; 16.18 and 20 Feb. Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. Sparkling and highly enjoyable new production from Scottish Opera of Mozart‘s ever popular magical opera of Tamino and his quest to rescue the daughter of the Queen of the Night. Excellent cast and direction from Martin Duncan.
I RSND Glasgow Royal Concert Ha11.2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25—£18.50 (£3.50). See Fri 29. Edinburgh.
I Chamber Group of Scotland Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). First Glasgow appearance for this innovative and flexible ensemble founded by composersJames MacMillan and Sally Beamish and cellist Robert Irvine. For their debut. they play piano trios by Beethoven. Edward McGuire and Mendelssohn.
Edinburgh
I Scaramuccia Stockbridge Parish Church. Saxe Coburg Street. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Baroque chamber ensemble performing on period instruments presents a programme of Italian virtuoss sonatas by Veracini and Vivaldi constrasted with French composers Couperin. Naudot and Corrette.
I The New Thirteen The City Art Centre. Market Street. Tickets: at door. 7.45pm. £5 (£2.50). Recently formed group committed to the performance and enjoyment of 20th century music chooses as its venue the fourth floor of the recently re-opened City Art Centre. where they use the open space of the gallery to theatrical effect in Schnittke's Moz-A rta la Haydn. Also in the programme. conducted by William Conway. are pieces by Gorecki. Andrew Robson and Shostakovich‘s Chamber Symphony ()p 110a.
SUNDAY 31 Glasgow
I Scaramucia Burrell Collection. Pollokshaws Road. 649 7151. 2.30pm. Final concert in series. See Sat 30.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Ouartet Stockbridge Parish Church. Saxe Coburg Street. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street). 3pm. £6 (£4.50). Last concert in afternoon series tracing Scandinavian quartets. four quartets by Mozart and a variety of quintets. Today. clarinettist Lawrence Gill joins the EQ for Brahms‘ Op 115 preceded by Mozart‘s Quartet in E flatand Voces lntimae by Sibelius.
MONDAY 1 Glasgow
I Polish Chamber Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£15. Popular programme including Grieg‘s Holberg Suite. Mozart. Britten and Reger forthis phenomenal eastern European orchestra. Part ofthe International Orchestra series.
I Franz Schubert : A Birthday Celebration Merchants' House. 7 West George Street. Information: 0360 20211. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£3). An evening of songs and chamber music with recollections of the composer‘s life with Trio Lorien, the Schwamerl Consort and Friends. Proceeds to the Scottish Musicians Benevolent Fund.
TUESDAY 2 Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. A concert ofAmerican music featuring clarinettist Ronald Woodley. who will give a workshop
afterwards on the music of Steve Reich. In
the meantime. he‘s working with members of the University‘s Chamber Orchestra and Edward Harper. who directs from the piano works by Ives. Crumb and Reich.
WEDNESDAY 3
Glasgow
I La Boheme Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 6. Tues 9. Thurs 11. Sat 13 (mat) February— Glasgow; 17 and 19 Feb. Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. Revival of Elijah Moshinsky‘s wonderful production of Puccini‘s classic. Scottish Opera puts Peter Bronder and Gordon Sandison in the roles of Rodolfo and Marcello with Sally Harrison as Musctta and Katerina Kudriavchenko as Mimi. Even the hardest hearted should be prepared for a few sniffles.
I SCD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs 4. Edinburgh. £}—£15 (£1). Ivor Bolton conducts a fine quartet of soloists. the orchestra and the SCO Chorus in Bach‘s 8 minor Mass. Soloists are Lorna Anderson. Michael Chance. Barry Banks and David Wilson-Johnson.
THURSDAY 4
Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchant‘s Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.30pm. £3 (£2.50). Murray McLachlan soldiers on in his series of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. For his tenth recital. his choice is 0p 7, 0p 78 and 0p 2 N03.
I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. Soprano Fiona Lindsay is accompanied by pianist Isobel Anderson in songs by Grieg. Sibelius. Strauss and Wolf. In association with the Royal Norwegian Consulate. Edinburgh.
I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 10 Feb — Glasgow: 16. 18 and 20 Feb. Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. See Sat 30. Glasgow.
I RSND Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 5. Edinburgh and Sat 6. Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50 (£3.50). Walter Weller. who in just over a year has forged a magical relationship with the RSNO. conducts Beethoven‘s Symphony No 5 . the Violin Concerto by Berg with Viktoria Mullova as soloist and Roussel‘s Bacchus etAriane Suite N02.
I Talich Quartet Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Celebrity recital features string quartets by Haydn (0p 64 N05). Bartok (No 6) and Ravel.
Edinburgh
I SCO Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155.7.30pm.£3.50—£15(£3). See ch3. Glasgow.
FRIDAY 5 Glasgow I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall.
RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2 (£1). The SCO Chamber Ensemble. on this occasion a straight wind quintet line-up. plays a new work by emerging composer Cluny Strachan. Untold by James MacMillan and Nielsen‘s Wind Quintet.
I Kilmardinny Music Circle Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. 943 0312. 7.30pm. Recital by Gabrielle Lester (violin) and Alexandra Andrievsky (piano) ofsonatas by Beethoven. Schumann and Ravel. along with Afterthe Tryst by James MacMillan and Two Preludes for piano by Scriabin.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Saint-Saens famous The Swan is the final item in Rupert Jeffcoat‘s organ recital. which also includes works by Lubeck. Howells and Milhaud.
I RSND Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 6. Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50 (£3.50). See Thurs4. Glasgow.
SATURDAY 6 Glasgow
I RSAMD Junior Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Admission free by ticket. TheJunior Second Orchestra. chamber ensembles and various soloists show some ofthe great talent of the RSAMD's Saturday students.
I La Boheme Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tues 9. Thurs 11. Sat 13 (mat) February— Glasgow: 17 and 19 Feb. Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. See Wed 3. Glasgow.
I RSND Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25—£18.50 (£3.50). See Thurs 4.
I Zoe Alambicum Music and Film Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £4 (£2). Music by Arvo Part and Ravel sits alongside works by young Scottish composers David Paul Jones and Cluny Strachan in this unique merging of music and film. Performers include the two latter composers and top students from the RSAMD.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 7.30pm. Edinburgh University String Orchestra conducted by Emre Araci plays Kenneth Leighton’s Veris Gratia. Britten's Simple Symphony. the St Paul '3 Suite by Holst and some Turkish folk songs arranged by the conductor.
SUNDAY 7 Glasgow
I John Currie Singers and Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew
E Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Extra date: ; Thurs 11. Edinburgh. £8 (£7/£4.50).
Edward McGuire‘s Loonscapes is partnered with Purceli‘s Dido andAeneas in an evening entitled Games and Tragedy.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Sinlonia Queen's Hall. Clerk
, Street.6682019.7.45pm.£5(£4). ‘ Anothertypicallywellconstructed
programme from Neil Mantle and his orchestra. with Mozart‘s Flute Concerto
i N02 (soloist Richard Chester) falling
between Elgar's symphonic study Falstaff
i and Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5.
TUESDAY 9 '
I La Boheme Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs I 1. Sat 13 (mat) February — Glasgow: 17 and 19 Feb. Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. See Wed 3. Glasgow.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1 . 10pm. Free at door. This year‘s Reid Memorial Concert is given by The McGibbon Ensemble who play music by Reid and McGibbon in tribute to the man who founded the Reid School of Music of Edinburgh University.
WEDNESDAY 10 Glasgow
I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extradates: l6. l8 and 20 Feb. Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. See Sat 30.
I John William/BBC $80 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£15. The GRCH's International Series continues with a programme to include Rodrigo‘s Concierto de A rangue: for guitar and orchestra.
THURSDAY 11 Glasgow
I BBC SSO Concert Ilall. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: Room 107. BBC. Queen Margaret Drive. 7.30pm. Free. John Kenny is soloist in the Trombone Concerto by Bloch. Symphony No 0 by Vaughan Williams in the second half. David Robertson conducts.
I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. Glasgow University Chamber Singers in Ton de Leeuw and Car nos vignes sont en fleur directed by Graham Hair.
I La Boheme Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 3329000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 13 (mat) February — Glasgow: 17 and 19 Feb. Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. See Wed 3. Glasgow.
I Academy Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). George Hurst is guest conductor for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama as he takes the main orchestra in Britten‘sFour Sea Inter/tides from Peter Grimes. Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante K297b and Brahms's Symphony No 2.
I BBC SSO Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: Room 107. BBC (please enclose SAE). 7.30pm. Free. Rare chance to hear Bloch's Symphony for Trombone an (1 Orchestra. which has John Kenny as soloist. Vaughan Williams‘s Symphony No 0 makes up the second half. David Robertson conducts.
Edinburgh
I John Currie Singers and Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Stret. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £8 (£7/£4.50). See Sun 7.
I Glasgow.
Scammuccia.
SCOTIAND'S LEADING BARNUE CHAMBER GROUP PERFORMING ON PERIOD INSTRUMENTS
OI STOCKBRIDGE PARISH CHURCH, SAXE-COBURG STREET Saturday 301h Jan 7.30pm
ATTHE BURREII. COLLECTION Sunday 3151 Jan 2.30pm I
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