CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
SATURDAY 5
Glasgow
I RSAMD Junior Oept Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Admission free by ticket. Second orchestra. wind orchestra and brass.
I RSAMD Junior Oept Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). The Chamber Orchestra conducted by James Durrant puts the spotlight on young timpanist Colin Currie and percussionist Douglas Blair in Panufnik‘s concerto for that combination. Also Arnold. Richard Rodney Bennett and John Stanley.
I Opera in Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £8.50—£18. Highlights from favourite operas by soloists from the Bolshoi Opera (Katerina Kudriavchenko) and from Covent Garden (tenor Peter Bronder). Music by Mozart. Rossini. Donizetti. Verdi and Puccini. With conductor Martin Merry and the Opera-in-Concert Orchestra and Chorus. I Summer Serenade Church of the Good Shepherd. Hillington Road South. G52. Tickets: 882 7655 (L. Thompson). 7.30pm. £5 (£2.50). Save the Children is the charity chosen to benefit from proceeds from this evening by the Serenata Singers and Orchestra with Ben Buunnan. violin. and Peter Alexander Wilson. tenor.
Edinburgh
I Cappella Nova Greyfriars Kirk. Candlemaker Row. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £8 (£4). See Fri 4. Glasgow
I Edinburgh light Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £4.40/£5.60. Tunes galore including incidental music by Arthur Blake for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Porgy and
Bess. Rodgers and Hart and a selection from Fiddler on the Roof. James Beyer conducts and violinist Miles Easter is soloist/leader.
I RSND Proms Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £3—£18.50. it’s the Last Night. Well. in Edinburgh anyway — Glasgow starts on Friday. All predictable fare including Elgar. Wood. Arne and some Scottish traditional reels. Sir Alexander Gibson conducts. George Mcllwhan plays the bagpipes and BBC Young Musician Nicola Loud is soloist in Bruch’s Violin Concerto.
I Scottish Chamber Choir St Mary‘s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 8pm.
£4 (£3). Haydn's Heiligmesse is learned up with the Te Beam and anthems by Purcell under conductor Colin Tipple with lain Ogg. organist.
SUNDAY 6
Glasgow
I Glasgow Chamber Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Summer concert features BBC SSO cellist Dierdre Cooper in the Dvorak Cello Concerto. conducted by her colleague Peter Jones. Programme also includes Symphony No I by Boyce and Symphony No 5 by Beethoven.
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I Helensburgh Oratorio Choir St Bride's Church. Hyndland Road. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3. Under conductor Peter Christie. the choir‘s Glasgow summer concert includes Britten‘s Rejoice in the Linn/2. Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Er Resurrein by Martin Dalby. in aid of Crusaid.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Giles' Cathedral. High Street. Free at door. 6pm. Andrew Armstrong. more usually at the organ of Dunfennline Abbey. visits St Giles‘ for an hour's recital.
I Goreclti’s Symphony llo 3 St Mary's Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. £10. Opportunity to hear this popular work in a spiritual setting with The Continuum Orchestra conducted by Christopher Bell. Soprano soloist is lrene Drummond and funds go to Solas. the HIV/Aids Support and Resource Centre. I Celebrity Concert Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). The Scottish Working People‘s History Trust present a pot-pourri of entertainment including singer Bill McCue and the Scottish Brewers Silver Band (Newtongrange) under its conductor Ray Tennant
WEDNESDAY 9
Glasgow
I Woodwind Jamboree Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Admission free by ticket. Tootlety-toot for Blowing in the Wind . . .. a varied programme of music on a variety of woodwind instruments.
I BBC SSD Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: Room 209. BBC (please enclose sae). 7.30pm. Free. Fedor Glushchenko is conductor in Wagner‘s overture to 'lannhauser. Schubert’s Unfinished
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Symphony and the Piano Concerto in B minor by Hummel. which features Piers Lane as soloist.
I Afternoon ‘I’ea Concert Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £4.50. Six students from the RSAMD in instrumental music by Poulenc. Shostakovich. Malcolm Arnold and Saint-Saéns.
THURSDAY 10
I Merchants Music Merchants Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). l2.45pm—1.45pm. £3.50 (£3). Pianist Bn'an Davidson in Schubert and Rachmaninov.
I Charity Concert Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. Bearsden. 943 0312. 7.30pm. A summer evening of vocal and instrumental music for soprano. mezzo. piano. harpsichord. flute and cello.
FRIDAY 11
I RSND Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3—£18.50 (series discount available). An all-Russian music night opens this year’s Glasgow proms. The selection includes well known works by Borodin. Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Nicholas Cleobury conducts.
SATURDAY 12
Glasgow
I RSID Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3—£18.50 (series discount
available). Ron Goodwin conducts film
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