FOLK & WORLD MUSIC
SUNDAY 7
I Gamelan Workshop Arts Centre. Washington Street. 7-9pm. £2.50 (£1.50). See Wednesday 3.
I Scotia Blues Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. The Blues
Poets.
I Attic Folk Club Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. Paisley. 8pm. £3 (£2). Live groups. Information 889 8309.
WEDNESDAY 10
I Battlefield Band C umbernauld Theatre. Cumbernauld. ()236 732887. 7.45pm. £6 (£4). Later in the winter than usual. the world-travelling Scottish music band brings pipes. fiddle. guitars and keyboards I on the annual visit.
I ealn Brothers Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. Eclectic stylists with two fiddles and female vocalist.
I Gamelan Workshop Arts Centre. Washington Street. 7—9pm. £2.50 (£1.50). See Wednesday 3.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Popular club singer and instrumentalist from south of the border. Jez Lowe.
THURSDAY 11
Glasgow
I Star FOlk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Stephen Ouigg.
I Jiveass Clutha Vaults. Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Blues.
I Samba Workshop Maryhill Community Education Centre. Avenue Park Street. 7.30-.10pm. £2.50 (£1.50).
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh Collective The Calton. 24
Calton Road. 558 3758. 8pm—lam. £3. Bar. Fortnightly ceilidh dances. new to this venue. with popular six piece band.
CLASSICAL 8i. OPERA
LISTINGS
Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.
FRIDAY 26
Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lpm. £2 (£1). Organ music from Wayne Marshall. including his own Improvisee and arrangement of Verdi. plus Dupre‘s Variations sur un Noel and works by Hendrie.
I Impressions do Pelleas Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. 423 1333. 8pm. Extra date: Sat 27 (2.30pm and 8pm). £8—£15 (£5/£9). Peter Brook‘s reworking of Debussy‘s great operatic masterpiece about doomed lovers. emotional turbulence and moral confusion. Marius Constant is Musical Director. and it's performed with two pianos and five principals of intemational standing.
I Scottish Early Music Consort Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. Extra date: Sat
with Ameral Gunson. mezzo-soprano and
E SATURDAY 27
; Glasgow
Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 l
27. £8 (£5). The Zelenka lxtmentatimts. a complete performance of Bohemian composer Zelenka's beautiful Lamentations for Holy Week written in 1722.
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Christopher Allsop. British Gas Young Organist of the Year. in a stunning all J S Bach programme of organ music.
I RSD Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 27. Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50(£3.50). When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloom 'd - Requiemfor those we love by Hindemith.
David Wilson-Johnson. bass. Bach‘s Suite No I to start. Matthias Bamcrt conducts.
I Impressions de Pelleas Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. 423 1333. 2.30pm and 8pm. £8—£15 (£5/£9). See Fri 26. No concessions for evening performance.
I RSU Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25—£l8.50 (£3.50). See Fri 26. Edinburgh.
I Scottish Early Music Consort Stevenson Hall. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £8 (£5). See Fri 26.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 7.30pm. Peter Evans conducts this excellent student orchestra in the .S'ymphony No I by Shostakovich preceded by Beethoven's Leonora No 3 and the Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn with So- ()ck Yim as soloist.
I Chansons/1‘ he Kevock Choir St George’s West Church. Shandwick Place. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Two choirs - one from Perthshire. the other from Midlothian - comprising 100 voices present a programme of popular choral music. Composers range from Handel to Vaughan Williams and Elgar to Cedric Thorpe Davie.
SUNDAY 28
Glasgow
I City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2
(Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£ l 5. The Magic ofthe Musicals. What more can one say‘.’
I Kelvin Ensemble Chapel. Glasgow University. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2). Programme to be announced.
Edinburgh
. I ECAT Contemporary Music Queen‘s
Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6.50 (£2). The Composers' Ensemble with Songbook. a project initiated by soprano Mary Wiegold to bring together songs by the world‘s leading composers. So far. the total is over 160. Tonight. she sings a selection of them with piano
. interludes played by Catherine Edwards.
TUESDAY 2 . .
I Lunchtime necital Hutchesons‘ Hall. lngram Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm (snack lunches from 12.45pm). £1.50. Strathclyde University Music Society‘s Spring series is launched by Peter Manning. leader of the Britten Quartet. and Peter Seivewright. the University‘s part-time pianist in residence. They play )
Beethoven's Kreutzer and John Ireland's Sonata No 2.
I RSU Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 | (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 5. Edinburgh and Sat 6. Glasgow. £4.25—-£18.50 (£3.50). Christopher Seaman conducts Brigg Fair by Delius. Grieg‘s Piano Concerto with Howard Shelley as soloist and the Symphony No I by Sibelius. Should pull in the crowds.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. The Edinburgh Quartet play the Andante and Menuct by Haydn and the Quartet No 6 by Bartok.
WEDNESDAY 3
Glasgow I Glasgow University Chapel Choir
Chapel. Glasgow University. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. Works by Herbert Howells and Kenneth Leighton‘s Mass in Dfor double choir.
THURSDAY 4
Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants” Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.30pm. £3 (£2.50). Murray McLachlan in the eleventh programme of his complete Beethoven sonatas series. Today it's ()pl4 No 2. ()p 27 No I and ()p [10.
I lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. Rachel Beckles-Wilson plays piano sonatas by Elliott Carter.
I Vienna Symphony Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £l()-£20. The Ladies of the RS() Chorus and the RS() Junior Chorus join this world famous orchestra with maestro Rafael Frubeck de Burgos for the Symphtmy No 3 by Mahler. Should be fantastic.
I Mozart and More The Drama Centre at the Ramshorn. 98 ingram Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 5. Sat 6. £5.50 (£4). Glasgow ()pera Group presents Mozart’s one-act opera The I/n/n‘esario plus .4 Little Nightmare Music. a short opera which recalls through dream sequence what might have happened the night Mozart died.
I Academy Wind Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332
3 5057. 7.30pm. £4(£2). Scottish
contemporary works by Peter lnness. Martin Dalby and James MacMillan are followed by Straviiisky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments and Messiaen's If! exspecto resurret'tionem mortttorttm. David Davies conducts.
5 Edinburgh
. I Lunchtime Recital National Gallery of ' Modern Art. Belford Road. Tickets: at
door. 1.15pm. £3(conc). Edinburgh
Competition Festival Association presents
Young Composers Scotland.
I Sound Check BBC Studios. 5 Queen Street. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen's Hall Box Office). 8pm. £5 (£3.50). First in new series of new music concerts features the Scottish virtuoso pianist James Clapperton playing the complete piano music of lannis Xenakis.
I Shameless St Bride's Centre. ()rwell
j Terrace. 346 1405. 8pm. £5.
FRIDAY 5
Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lptn. £2 (£1). Guitarist Philip Thorne is
joined by pianist Philip Jenkins and cellist
llallidi Hallgrimsson for the latter's
Jacob's Ladder. Tristia and Four Icelandic fol/(songs. along with Poltadka by Janacek.
I Mozart and More The Drama Centre at the Ramshorn. 98 lngram Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 6. £5.50 (£4). See Thurs 4.
I The Pirates of Penzance Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £10.50—£l4.50.
Bonnie Langford is Mabel. Paul Nicholas is the Pirate King and Victor Spinetti is the Major General but by virtue of the music being G 8.: S they've made it to this column for this one night of the fully staged. costumed show as seen at the London Palladium.
I The Leda Trio Stevenson Hall. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £7 (£4). Piano trios by Debussy and Ravel with Debussy sonatas for cello with piano then violin with piano. played by Peter Campbell-Kelly. violin. Kevin McCrae. cello and Katherine 'l‘hompson. piano.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. ()rgan music by Franck - l'antasie in C - and Widor - Symphonic .Vo 5 (the one often played at weddings) from John Kitchen.
I RSU Usher Hall. l.othian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 6. Glasgow. £4.25—£18.50(£3.50). See Tues 2. Glasgow.
I Edinburgh University Chamber Choir Old St Paul's Church. Jeffrey Street. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. Extra date: Wed 10. Glasgow. £3.50 (£2). Mozart's Requiem and Carissimi‘s Jeptha directed by Nicholas Jones.
I Shameless St Bride's Centre. ()rwell Terrace. 346 1405. 8pm. £5. See Theatre
preview.
SATURDAY 6
Glasgow
I Organ necital Chapel. Glasgow University. 3pm. Roger Fisher ofChester Cathedral gives the Royal College of ()rganists Celebrity Recital.
I RSU Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.25~—£l8.50 (£3.50). See Tues 2.
I Mozart and More The Drama Centre at the Ramshorn. 98 lngram Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs).
' 7.30pm. £5.50 (£4). See Thurs 4.
I Glasgow Wind Band Stevenson liall. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£1.50/free). Programme includes the first performance of Mistral
by Edward McGuire and Miles Apart by Michael Barnett. Also music by Gregson. Mussorgsky. Williams and Leonard Bernstein.
‘ Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Musical Society Orchestra and Chorus McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. 7.30pm. ()rff's Carmina Burana is the main work tonight with
I’inlandia by Sibelius and Piano Concerto l
No 2 (remember BriefIz'ncounter‘.’) by Rachmaninm' for starters. Alex Taylor is the pianist and James White conducts.
I Scottish Chamber Choir St John's Church. West End. Princes Street.
Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box ()fiice)/228 l 155 (Usher Hall Box
Office). 8pm. £4 (£3). An all French
night with motets and the Requiem by Durufle and Poulenc's I.itanies a la Vierge Nor re .
I Shameless St Bride's Centre. ()rwell I
' 'l’cmicc, 346 1405. 8pm. £5. See Theatre
l preview J
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