CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
from Queen’s Hall Box Office. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776; by post from the Secretary. Greyfriars Kirk. Greyfriars Place and on the door. The Scottish Sinfonia along with the Edinburgh Bach Choir and Jubilo present Elgar‘s The Kingdom. Neil Mantle conducts. Patricia McMahon is soprano. Heather Boyd is mezzo soprano. Graham Lovatt is tenor and John Hearne is the bass.
'I Friends of Scottish Opera Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 3pm. £2.50. Neil MacKay gives a talk on Scottish Opera’s production of Beethoven's F idelio.
I St Giles' At Six St Giles’ Cathedral. 225 9442. 6pm. Free. The Oriana Singers perform as part of the St Giles' series of Sunday night concerts.
MONDAY 10
Edinburgh
I Hebrides Ensemble Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £7.50 (£3). Talented young violinist. Anthony Marwood. appears as the guest of the Ensemble to give a programme consisting of Janaceck’s
Violin Sonata. Webern’s String Trio. Judith Weir‘s Piano Quartet and Dvorak's Piano Quintet.
TUESDAY 11
Glasgow
I Fidello Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. Scottish Opera animate Beethoven’s only opera telling of Leonore‘s daring bid to save her husband. Florestan. from a tyrant’s merciless clutches. Tim Albery directs. Michael Pabst plays Florestan and Elizabeth Whitehouse assumes the mantle of Leonore/Fidelio.
I Alasdair Cameron Hutcheson’s Hall. John Street. 1.15pm. £1.60. As part of the University of Strathclyde Music Society’s season of lunchtime concerts. Cameron will give a piano recital of Mozart’s Rondo and Schubert’s Sonata.
Edinburgh
I Madama Butterfly King’s Theatre. Leven Street. 229 1201. 7.15pm. £8—£35 plus concs. Puccini’s much loved tale of passion and heartbreak is brought to life by the flamboyant Romanian National Opera. The production is sung in Italian with English surtitles.
WEDNESDAY 12
Glasgow
I Mary Stuart Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. See Fri 7.
Edinburgh
I Nabucco King’s Theatre. Leven Street, 229 1201. 7.15pm. £8—£35 plus concs. The Romanian National Opera get to grips with Verdi’s epic tale of revenge. destruction and jealousy. Listen out for the chorus of the Hebrew slaves. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.
THURSDAY 13
I Geortrey Trabichoit and lynda Cochrane Merchant's House. West George Street. 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3 £1 students). Trabichoff and Cochrane settle down with their violin and piano respectively to perform Beethoven’s Sonata Op 12 No 1. Mozart's Sonata in G major K301 and several pieces by Kreisler including Schon Rosmarin, Polchinelle Liebeslied and Marche Miniature.
Edinburgh
I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra St Mary’s Parish Church. Haddington. 7.30pm. £9 on the door. £8 in advance
from James Orr. 81 High Street. Haddington or by post (cheque only. payable to BBC Scotland) from $80 Concerts Secretary. BBC Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow. G 12 8DG. Concessions £7 on the door. £6 in advance. £4 schoolchildren. The BBC SSO present a programme with Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni and Bruckner’s Symphony No 4. Stephen Cleobury. organist and director of music at King’s College. Cambridge. is the solo organist in Haydn’s Organ Concerto No l. Takuo Yuasa conducts.
~I Madame Butterfly King’s Theatre.
Leven Street. 229 1201. 7.15pm. £8-£35 plus concs. See Tue 11.
FRIDAY 14
Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 332 5057. lpm. £2.50 (£1.50). Anthony Plog on the trumpet and John Langdon on the organ and piano give a recital of music by Pietro Baldassare. Alan Hovhanness. William Schmidt. Alexander Goedicke. Robert Erickson and 0.8. Viviani.
I Fidelio Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. See Tue 11.
I Milngavie Music Club Milngavie Town Hall. 7.30pm. Yonty Solomon gives a piano recital.
Edinburgh
I Samson et Dalila King’s Theatre. Leven Street. 229 1201. 7.15pm. £8—£35 plus concs. Proving once more that cosmopolitan art exists after the glut of the Festival. the Romanian National Opera continue their run with the biblical tale of one woman’s dislike of her husband‘s haircut set to Saint-Saén’s powerful music. Sung in Romanian with English surtitles.
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £6—£19. Jansug Kahidze launches the Faust series with Belioz’s The Damnation of Faust. Fiona lanes takes up the role of Marguerite. David Wilson-Johnson that of Mephistopheles. John Horton Murray plays the title role.
SATURDAY 15
Glasgow
I Mary Stuart Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. See Fri 7.
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £6—£19. See Fri 14.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £3.50—£15 (£3, £5). This evening’s performance includes Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante which is scored for the violin. oboe. cello and bassoon. The SCO principals, James Clark. Ursula Smith. Robin Williams and Usula Leveaux play these parts respectively. The other works on the programme are Mozart’s Divertimento K138 and Symphony No 37 as well as Haydn’s Symphony No 101.
I iiabucco King’s Theatre. Leven Street. 229 1201. 7.15pm. £8-£35 plus concs. See Wed 12.
SUNDAY 16
I Mark Anderson Merchant’s House. 7 West George Street. 7.30pm. £8 (£5). Rising American star. Anderson. won the 1993 International Piano Competition with his performance of Brahms' Piano Concerto No 1. This is your opportunity to see him perform Haydn’s Sonata No 53. Liszt’s Dante Sonata and Brahms’ Sonata No 3.
Edinburgh
I St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral. 225 9442. 6pm. Free. Mezzo soprano Mairi Macleod and guitarist. Malcom Watson give a recital.
MONDAY 17 Edinburgh
I Plano Circus Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £7.50 (£3). Playing as part of the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust this six-piano group (count them) will perform a programme that includes no fewer than three world premieres. The works on the programme are Dominy Clement's Two Lagrangian Functions. Julia Wolfe’s my lips from speaking. Arvo Part’s Pari Intervallo. Graham Fitkin’s Log and Louis Andriessen’s de Staat.
I O’Oyly Carte King’s Theatre. Leven Street. 229 1201. 7.30pm. £6.50-£17.50 plus concs. After the succes of last year's production of Orpheus in the Underworld. D’Oyly Carte return with Strauss' Die
F ledermaus aka The Revenge ofthe Bat.
TUESDAY 18 -
I lunchtime Recital Hutcheson's Hall. John Street. 1.15pm. £1.60. As part of the University of Strathclyde Music Society‘s season of lunchtime concerts. tenor Jeremy Taylor and guitarist. Peter Argondizza will perform Seiber‘s Four French F olksongs. Three Lute Songs by Dowland. Mozart's Variations on a Theme (Op 9 Sor) and Britten’s Folksong Arrangements.
Edinburgh
I London Symphony Orchestra Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £5—£22. The LSO hit Edinburgh on their five-date UK tour bringing with them a programme comprising Beethoven‘s Overture to leonore No 3. Britten’s The Young Person '3 Guide to the Orchestra and Mahler's Symphony No 1. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts.
I Piano Recital Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free. As part of Edinburgh University’s lunch-hour recital series Peter Evans takes the stage.
I Violin and Piano Recital Nelson Hall. McDonald Road Library. 7.45pm. Free. Neil MacFarlane on the piano and violinist Hector Scott play music by Vivaldi. Leighton. Beethoven and Faure.
WEDNESDAY 19
I lunchtime Recital ln-Service Suite. Jordanhill Campus. 12.30pm. £1.60. Programme and performers as for Tue 18 at Hutcheson’s Hall.
I Tokyo Phllhannonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £10.50—£21.
A Michael Tilson Thomas. Principal Conductor oi the LSO. who will appear as part of their 90th birthday season at the Usher Hall on Tuesday 18.
Top-notch strings wizard. Raphael Oleg. is the solo violinist in Prokofiev‘s Violin Concerto No2 and Kazushi Ono conducts the orchestra in Matsuo's Phonosp/lere l for Shakuhachi and Rimsky-Korsakov's She/terazade.
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3.50—£l3. Romanian pianist. Radu Lupu. makes a rare appearance in Britain to perform Mozart‘s Piano Concerto No 27. Gilbert Varga conducts the SCO in the opening piece. Kodaly‘s Summer Evening and Dvorak’s Czech Suite completes the evening.
Edinburgh
I Afternoon Tea Concert Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 3pm. £4.50 including afternoon tea! Graeme McNaughton the piano and mezzo soprano. Sandra Porter. present Bizet’s Songs. Schumann‘s Frauenliehe und-leben. Thomas Wilson’s The iVlllUit‘ Branches and Manuel de Falla’s Siete caciones pUplt tres espanolas.
I Music tor Two Violins Scottish National Portrait Gallery. 1 Queen Street. 12.45pm. Free. Clio Gould. artistic director of the Scottish Ensemble and Hector Scott play music for two violins by Leciaire, Mozart. The Earl ofKelly and Niel GUH'.
THURSDAY 20
Glasgow
I Mary Stuart Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. See Fri 7.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £3.50—£15 (£3. £5). See Wed 19.
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