CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
I Friends ot Scottish Opera Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £2.50. Martin Fitzpatrick. assistant conductor. tells about Scottish Opera‘s new production of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.
I Edinburgh University Concert St Cecilia‘s Hall. Cowgate. Tickets: Faculty of Music, Alison House. Nicolson Square. 1.10pm. £3 (£2). The Faculty of Music‘s Centenary Weekend celebrations begin with a recital of Baroque music by Bach and General Reid performed by graduates who are now in the profession.
I The Concert live from Studio One Studio One. BBC, Queen Street. Tickets: BBC Reception. 2.30pm. Free. Pianist Steven Osborne plays Chopin’s Sonata No 3. music by Ravel and an improvisation. I Carneo St Columba-by-the-Castle. 14 Johnston Terrace. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £5 (£2.50). An Evening with Mr Roben Louis Stevenson. a special programme of music based on Stevenson’s poems in the centenary year of his death. To include Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel. dramatic readings from the novels and complementary music of the period.
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: Faculty of Music. Alison House. Nicolson Square. 7.45pm. £7.50 (£5). The Scottish Chamber Orchestra. conductor Matthias Bamert. in a programme of music by composers associated with Edinburgh University as part of the Music Faculty‘s Centenary Celebrations. Edward Harper‘s Intrada after Monteverdi is followed by Nigel Osborne‘s Hommage a Panufnik and the Concerto for Strings by Kenneth Leighton. To finish. there is Garb ofOld Gaul. variations on a theme of General Reid by a collection of composers.
TUESDAY 15
Glasgow
I The Turn of the Screw Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). Extra dates: 17. 19. 22. 24 and 26 February. £3.50—£18.50 (£3.50 standby; £11 wheelchair users). Scottish Opera’s much awaited new production of Britten’s chilling and sinister opera based on the novel of the same name by Henry James. Director is David Leveaux and Timothy Lole conducts. Peter Quint is sung by Philip Salmon. Anne Williams-King is the Governess and Louise Kennedy- Richardson is Miss Jessel.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Heather and Leon Coates in a lunchtime programme of interesting sounding songs by composers with an Edinburgh connection such as Hans Gal. Kenneth Leighton and Lyell Cresswell. I Steven Osborne Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £8 (£6). Acclaimed and popular young Scottish pianist plays Bach, Chopin. Ravel and Oscar Peterson in aid of Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
I Nelson liall Concert Nelson Hall. McDonald Road Public Library. off Leith Walk. Free at door. 7.45pm. The Calton Piano Trio (violin. cello and piano). formed in 1992. play tn'os by Faure. Schumann. Shostakovich and Bloch. Players are Jon Beales. Rupert Waddington and Ingrid Sawers.
WEDNESDAY 16
Glasgow
I SCD Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs 17. Edinburgh. £3—£15 (£1). lntemationally famous soprano Victoria De Los Angeles is special guest
2 Webern’s arrangement of the Ricert'ar
; from The Musical Offering by Bach and
the Violin Convent) by Dvorak with
: Dong-Suk Kang as soloist. Tomasz Bugaj conducts.
Edinburgh
5 I SCD Usher Hall, Lothian Road. 228
; FRIDAY 18
j Glasgow
RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057.
i I Moving On ’94 Stevenson Hall.
’ I BBC SSO Concert Hall. Broadcasting
in songs by Falla and Rodrigo. Orchestral items include Rossini‘s overture to The Barber of Seville and Bizet's Symphony in C in this mixture of Spanish and French music. Carl Davis conducts.
I Glasgow University Orchestra Bute Hall. Glasgow University. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. Programme to include Martinu’s Rhapsody Concerto for viola and orchestra with Fiona Sinclair as soloist. and Dvorak’s Symphony No 8. Carlos An'el Gracia conducts.
Edinburgh
I Castor et Pollux Pleasance Theatre. The Pleasance. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Thurs 17. Fri 18. Sat 19. £6 (£4). Edinburgh University Opera’s annual production is not about life in student halls, but one of the 18th century‘s finest Operatic gems from the pen of Rameau. Gregory Squire is musical director. Kate Brown is artistic director and the producer is Brian Allingham.
THURSDAY 17
Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3). Bach Preludes and F ugues Book 11, Nos [2 —- 24 played on piano by Vanessa Latarche.
I The Turn of the Screw Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). Extra dates: 19. 22. 24 and 26 February. £3.50-£18.50 (£3.50 standby; £1 1 wheelchair users). See Tues 15.
House. Tickets: SSO Concerts Secretary. BBC Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. G12 8DG (please enclose sae). 7.30pm. Free. Rossini’s William Tell overture provides ajolly finale to tonight’s recording which also features
1155. 7.45pm. £3.50—£15 (£3). See Wed 16. Glasgow.
I Castor et Pollux Pleasance Theatre. The Pleasance. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Fri 18. Sat 19. £6 (£4). See Wed 16.
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall.
lptn. £2.50 (£1.50). The King‘s Consort
give today’s concert of Telemann. Handel and Albinoni for oboe. recorder and i harpsichord.
‘ RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. i
' 7.30pm. £5 (£3). New works by ’ postgraduate student composers at the
l and Brahms for horn. violin and piano.
RSAMD include Jane Gardner‘s Mother Song. Destination by Jan Peddersen. Quintet by Selena Kay and pieces by Amanda Collins and Chick Lyall.
I langdon Chamber Players Horn Trio Milngavie Town Hall. Further info: 956 1572 (Milngavie Music Club). 7.30pm. Music by Lennox Berkeley. Szymanowski
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Organist Christopher Rathbone plays Stanford. Leighton. Howells and Rathbone.
I RSND Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 19. Glasgow. £4.50—£19 (£3.50). Sian Edwards conducts Berlioz's overture Les
F rancs-Juges. the Piano Concerto No 3 by Prokofiev with Michael lnjae Kim as soloist and the Symphony No 6 by Dvorak. I Castor et Pollux Pleasance Theatre. The Pleasance. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 19. £6 (£4). See Wed 16.
SATURDAY 19
I The Turn oi the Screw Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). Extra dates: 22. 24 and 26 February. £3.50—£18.50(£3.50 standby; £11 wheelchair users). See Tues 15.
I RSND Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.50—£19(£3.50). See Fri 18. Edinburgh. I Children‘s Concert Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. 943 0312. 7.30pm. An evening presented by Young Kilmardinny Music Circle.
Edinburgh
I The King’s Consort Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. Noon. Free. A public masterclass on authentic performance techniques for wind instruments with Paul Goodwin and Catherine Latham. See below.
I An Audience with Frances McCaiterty Palmerston Place Church. Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door or 337 4331 (J. Macnab). 7.30pm. £5 (£3.50). In the 150th Anniversary Year of the Royal SNO Chorus. mezzo Frances McCafferty learns up with pianist Alasdair Nicolson for an evening of light and classical repertoire in aid of the Chorus’s I994 Overseas Tour Fund.
I Castor et Pollux Pleasance Theatre. The Pleasance. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). See Wed 16.
I The King’s Consort Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £4—£9 (£5/£6). Period instrument performance of music
for wind. with Robert King on
harpsichord. by Telemann. Handel and Albinoni. See above.
SUNDAY 20
I The Concert live irorn Studio One Studio One. BBC. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: BBC Reception. 2.30pm. Free. Music by Shostakovich. Glazunov and Rachmaninov played by cellist Alexander Volpov and pianist Philip Silver.
I Chamber Group at Scotland Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. Extra date: Mon 21.
Edinburgh. £7 (£3.50). in the second of ; their concerts taking the elements as their theme. the Chamber Group of Scotland : turns to air. Not surprisingly. it's a programme for wind instruments and
includes Judith Weir‘s Out ofthe Air.
5 Haflidi Hallgrimsson‘s Flight ()f/(‘UI'US : and Sea Eagle by Maxwell Davies. The
concert will also feature special lighting design by Mike Newman.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Popular orchestral pieces with an American slant include Billy the Kid by Copland. Gershwin‘s Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Stuart Montgomery and Dvorak‘s Symphony No 9. From the New World.
MONDAY 21 Edinburgh
I Chamber Group of Scotland Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). See Sun 20. Glasgow.
TUESDAY 22 ‘
I lunchtime Concert Hutchesons' Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm—2pm. £1.60. The Haffner Wind Ensemble of London. made up of flute. clarinet. horn and bassoon. play Mozart. a new work by Michael Berkeley and Walton‘s Facade suite arranged by Lisa Portus.
I The Turn of the Screw Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). Extra dates: 24 and 26 February. £3.50—£18.50(£3.50 standby; £1 1 wheelchair users). See Tues 15.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Ambitious stuff as Music Faculty students undertake Messiaen's Quartet for the End of 7Tme.
WEDNESDAY 23
Edinburgh
I Afternoon Tea Concert Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £4.50 (inc afternoon tea). Soprano Sally Scott-Jupp and pianist Julia Lynch in an informal afternoon‘s recital of Handel. Mozart. Bernstein and traditional Scottish music. Presented in association with Lord Menuhin's Live Music Now! scheme for young artists.
THURSDAY 24
Glasgow
I Lunchtime Concert Concert Hall. Glasgow University. Free at door. 1.15pm. Mezzo Christine Cairns joins the Kelvin Ensemble with conductor John Lubbock for Des Knaben Wander/torn by Mahler. Also Pelleas et Melisande by Faure.
I The Turn of the Screw Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). Extra date: 26 February. £3.50—£18.50(£3.5O standby; £11 wheelchair users). See Tues 15.
THE 0 CHAMBER e GROUP 0 OF 0 SCOTLAND
'The Elements' AIR
Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn & piano Stevenson Hall, RSAMD SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20 at 19.45 Queen's Hall Edinburgh MONDAY FEBRUARY 21 at 19.45 Tickets £7.00 and £3.50 STUDENTS £1.00 only RSAMD box office 041 332 5057 TICKETLINK box offices 041 227 5511 QUEEN'S HALL box office 031 668 2019
Concert series
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