MUSIC CLASSICAL & OPERA
SUNDAY 30
I City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 7.30pm. £7.50—f. 15.50. Magic of the Musicals. a blockbuster of a concert with all the hits from Cats. Miss Saigon. Phantom ofthe Opera and Les Miserables. Conductor is lain Sutherland.
I Chamber Group or Scotland Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. Extra date: Mon 31. Edinburgh. £7 (£3.50). First of a series of concerts taking the elements as their theme starts off with Earth and appropriate music by John Cage. James MacMillan. Martin Dalby. Bartok and others. For violin. clarinet and piano.
Edinburgh
I lluatrain Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5. Songs of Childhood. a benefit concert of music for vocal ensemble. reader and piano to mark lntemational Year of the Family.
MONDAY 31
Edinburgh
I Chamber Group of Scotland Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). See Sun 30. Glasgow.
TUESDAY 1
I l’Ellsir d’amore Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thurs 3. Sat 5 (mat). Mon 7. Wed 9. Fri 11 February. Sat 16 April. Sat 7 and Wed 18 May (Glasgow); Wed 22. Thurs 23 June (Edinburgh). £5—£40. New Scottish Opera production of Donizetti‘s delightful comic opera all about two lovers. their fellow villagers and a quack pedlar. Giles Havergal, Artistic Director of the Citizens' Theatre. makes his Scottish Opera debut as director. Marco Guidarini conducts.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. The Leda Trio perform the Piano Trio by John Thomson. first Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University and friend of Mendelssohn and Schumann. along with the Piano Trio by a more recent Reid Professor. Kenneth Leighton.
WEDNESDAY 2
I Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.45pm. £5 (£3). 400 years to the day since his death. Palestrina is the focus of an unaccompanied choral programme including his Requiem and Stabat Mater. Noel O’Regan conducts.
I ECAT Contemporary Music Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£2/free). Music from Japan is performed by the Hebrides Ensemble with Yoshikazu lwamoto playing shakuhachi. the bamboo flute. Pieces by Kondo and Takemitsu are heard alongside a new work from the young English composer Rebecca Saunders.
I The Consort Ct Voices St Andrew‘s and St George's Church. George Street. Tickets: at door. 7.45pm. £4 (£2). Newish. small. a cappella choral group in sacred music by Mendelssohn and Bach. with a lighter second half of English madn’gals. Vaughan Williams's Three Shakespeare Songs and Britten's Five Flower Songs. Directed by James Waters.
THURSDAY 3
Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants’ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3). Bach Preludes and Fugues nos 1 — 12 from Book 11 played by Vanessa Latarche.
I lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. Glasgow University Big Band with director Carlos Ariel Garcia.
I l’Elisir d’amore Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 5 (mat). Mon 7. Wed 9. Fri 11 February. Sat 16 April. Sat 7 and Wed 18 May (Glasgow); Wed 22. Thurs 23 June
; (Edinburgh). £5—£4(). See Tue 1.
I 880 $50 Concert Hall. Broadcasting
House. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: 880 Concerts Secretary. Queen Margaret
Drive (please enclose sac). 7.30pm. Free. Hu Kun is the soloist in Brahms's Violin Concerto, which follows on from the overture to Hamlet by Niels Gade and the Adagio by Guillaume Lekeu. Conductor is Janos Furst.
FRIDAY 4
Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2.50 (£1.50). The Alberni String Quartet are joined by pianist Philip Jenkins for Schumann‘s Piano Quintet in liflat. while to start they play Beethoven‘s 0p 95 in I" minor.
I New Glasgow Piano Trio Kiltnardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. 943 0312. 7.45pm. As guests of Kilmardinny Music Circle. the Trio play Beethoven. Kenneth Leighton. Frank Bridge and Brahms.
I Scottish Early Music Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew
Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £9 (£5). Palestrina
and the Garden ojlxn’c’. a new SEMC
. Palestrina programme to commemorate
the more or less exact 400th anniversary of the greatest Italian Renaissance composer‘s death features his cycle of settings of Solomon's Song.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door.
Music for organ by Mendelssohn. Alain.
Franck. Messiaen and Vierne performed by St Giles’ Master of the Music. Herrick Bunney.
I RSNU Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 5. Glasgow. £4.50—£ l 9 (£3.50). Mahler‘s Symphony No 4 and Schubert's Rosamunde. J ansug Kakhidze conducts and the soprano is Judith Howard.
SATURDAY 5
: Glasgow
I RSAMD Junior Dept Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. The second orchestra plus solo and chamber music items.
I l’Elisir d’amore Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Mon 7. Wed 9. Fri 11 February. Sat 16 April. Sat 7 and Wed 18 May (Glasgow); Wed 22. Thurs 23 June (Edinburgh). £5—£40. See Tue 1.
I iiebrides Ensemble Concert Hall. Glasgow University. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). Extra date: Sun 6. Edinburgh. 7.45pm. £7.50 (£3). A
concert featuring the Hebrides wind '. players includes the premiere of Dole by
Edinburgh composer Kenneth Dempster for bassoon and ensemble plus the Oboe Quarter by Britten. Poulenc‘s Sextet and Verse 1 by Haflidi Hallgn'msson.
i I RSNU Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2
Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511
(Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £4.50—£l9 (£3.50). See Fri 4. Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I llapier Symphonic Winds and llapier Chamber Ensemble Palmerston Place Church. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). Holst. Tartini. Handel. Berstein. Jacob and Bedford under the direction of Brian Duguid and Margaret Murray McLeod.
I 800 Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.50—£15 (£3). A variety of French music taking elegance as its theme includes Berlioz's Les nuits d 'e’te’. with soprano Joan Rodgers as soloist. and the suite f rotn Les Boreades by Rameau.
SUNDAY 6
Glasgow
I John Currie Singers and Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4.50/£6). Premiere of a new work by Gordon McPherson opens a programme which continues with vocal and instrumental music by Handel and Vivaldi.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Ensemble Queen’s Hall. Clerk
Street. 668 2019. 2.30pm. Extra date: Fri
l 11. Glasgow. £6.50/£8 (£3.50/£6.50).
1 Premiere of new commission by Dave
1 Heath. the SE's first composer-in-
residence. is The Four Elements. and it’s
teamed with three short concertos for guitar and violin by Vivaldi.
i I Music at St Mark’s St Mark‘s Unitarian
Church. Castle Terrace. Tickets: 668 2019
l (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 6pm. £5 (£3).
Pianist William Alexander in an all-
French programme of Rameau. Couperin.
Debussy. Fauré and Ravel.
I Hebrides Ensemble Queen's Hall. Clerk
Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7.50 (£3). See
Sat 5. Glasgow.
MONDAY 7
Glasgow
I l’Ellsir d’amore Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 9. Fri 11 February. Sat 16 April. Sat 7 and Wed 18 May (Glasgow); Wed 22. Thurs 23 June (Edinburgh). £5—£40. See Tue 1.
Edinburgh
I New town Concert Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5—£ll (£3—£6). The Schubert Ensemble of London play the Piano Quintet by Judith
' Weir. Brahms's Piano Quartet in C minor and Schubert’s Trout Quintet.
| l i Dave Heath 1 l
TUESDAY 8
Glasgow
I RSNU Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.50-£19 (standby £3.50). A St Valentine‘s Day concert with lots of lovely melodies conducted by Carl Davis. Romance comes from Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev. Bernstein‘s West Side Story. Lehar waltzes and passionate Puccini. Rosalind Sutherland is the soprano and Bonaventura Bottone is the tenor.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. An all-Chopin piano recital by Colin Kingsley. whose choice includes the C sharp minor Mazurka. Selle/to No 4 and the Sonata in leat minor Op 58.
WEDNESDAY 9
Glasgow
I L’Elisir d’amore Theatre Royal. Hope j Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Fri
11 February. Sat 16 April. Sat 7 and Wed 18 May (Glasgow); Wed 22. Thurs 23 June (Edinburgh). £5—£40. See Tue 1.
Edinburgh
I Barbican Piano Trio Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6 (£3.50). Young up-and-coming trio of vioiln. cello and piano play Haydn. Schumann and Schubert.
THURSDAY 10
Glasgow
I lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 1.15pm. Free at door. Works by Mozart and Saint-Sa'ens performed by Jane Murdoch. violin. and Cameron Murdoch. piano.
Simon Keenlyside as Papageno in last year’s Scottish Opera production of The Magic Flute
I The Magic Flute Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 90(X). 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 12 Feb; Wed 11 and Fri 20 May (Glasgow); Tue 21 June (Edinburgh). £5—£40. Welcome return of Martin Duncan‘s colourful and pantomime like Flute. which won Scottish Opera great acclaim when it was first seen in Glasgow last December. Nicholas McGegan conducts. George Mosley sings Papageno and Anne Dawson is Pamina.
I RSAMD Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Janos Furst conducts the Academy Orchestra in Schumann‘s Manfred overture. the Flute Concerto by the Danish composer Nielsen (soloist Susan Evans) and Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin.
Edinburgh
I SOD Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. Extra date: Fri 11. Glasgow. £3.50—£15 (£3). The recent Violin Concerto by Robin Holloway is played by Ernst Kovacic and appears with Mozart and Stravinsky’s Concerto for String Orchestra.
52 The List 28 January—10 February 1994