CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
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Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical & Opera listings compiled by Alan Morrison.
FRIDAY 12
Glasgow 1 I Academy llow! RSAMD. 332 5057. lpm. David Davies conducts the student contemporary music ensemble in Edward McGuire's Rebirth. Gordon McPherson’s Hey! Voltaire! and De’rive by Pien‘e Boulez.
I Hansel and Gretel Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£45. Engelbert Humperdinck (no. not that one — the 19th century German composer) brought together folk tales by the Brothers Grimm and ingredients from popular German songs for this accessible opera. sung in English. Mark Tinkler directs the Scottish Opera company. with Claire Bradshaw as Hansel. Catriona Smith as Gretel and Scottish soprano Lisa Milne as The Dew Fairy. See preview.
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4.50—£14.50 (£2.50). Ivor Bolton conducts the SCO in Haydn‘s .Symphony No 82 (‘The Bear') and Mozart's Symphony No 40. In between come Britten‘s Phaedra and Schonberg's Song ofth Wood Dove. with soprano Ann Murray.
Edinburgh
I Royal Scottish llatlonal Orchestra Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £6—£l9.50. Conductor Walter Weller gets things underway with Caplet‘s arrangement of Debussy's Children ’s Comer before the infant theme is picked up by mezzo soprano lrina Tchisjakova for M ahler's K indertotenleider. Prokofiev‘s stirring music for Eisenstein's : film Alexander Nevsky closes an excellent 1 programme. i
l M! Edinburgh ; I Music At St Mark’s Castle Terrace. Tickets from Queen's Hall (credit card hotline 667 7776). Usher Hall and St Mark‘s. 6pm. £5 (£3). An evening of music for flute. piano and strings. including Brahms‘s Piano Quartet No 3. i
MONDAY 15 ; Edinburgh 1 I Academy llow! Queen's Hall. Clerk ! Street. 668 2019. lpm. £3 ' (£1.50/schoolchildren free). See Fri 12.
1 I Organ Recital St John's. Princes Street. 5.30pm. Free. The monthly trip through 1
the organ alphabet reaches its penultimate point at John Croyle plays music by con‘posers with the initials V and W.
I Exotica Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019; credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £5—£12 (£3—£7). Soprano Sandra Porterjoins the Chamber Group of Scotland for a programme of French music (Ravel and his contemporaries Falla. Roussel. Chausson and Delage). which brings the Auld Alliance up to date with the inclusion of Edward McGuire's F lute Sonata.
TUESDAY 16
Edinburgh
I The Edinburgh Ouartet Reid Concert
Sitting pretty: Barblcan Plano Trio play Beethoven, Edinburgh, Sun 21 Hall. Bristo Square. 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Dvorak‘s String Quartet No 9 in D minor is the fare for today.
WEDNESDAY 17
Glasgow
I Hansel and Gretel Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£45. See Fri 12.
Edinburgh
I The Edinburgh Quartet The Glass Arcade. Edinburgh School of Agriculture. King‘s Buildings. 1.10pm. Free. but entry by ticket only from the Faculty of Science and Engineering in the Weir Building or on the door from 12.45pm. See Tue 16.
THURSDAY 18
Glasgow
I Scottish Wind Ensemble Concert Hall. University ofGlasgow. 330 4092. 1.15pm. Kirsty Logan (oboe). Lawrence Gill (clarinet). Julian Robert (bassoon) and David McClenaghan (horn) play Neilsen‘s Wind Quartet and Hindemith’s K leine Kammennusik, 0p 24/2.
Edinburgh
I Zanlonla Trio Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 650 2423. 1.10pm. Kyra Humphreys (violin/viola). Barnaby Robson (clarinet) and Fiona Harris (piano) — winners of the John Tunnell Trust chamber music competition — play Ruders's Vox in Rama. lves's Largo. the suite from Stravinsky's ballet The Soldier's Tale and The Under Side of Green by Rebecca Saunders. currently a postgraduate composition student at Edinburgh University.
FRIDAY 19
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Rupert Jeffcoat plays music by Bach. Festing. Dupré. Tournemire and German.
l I Royal Scottish llatlonal Orchestra
Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £6—£l9.50. Walter Weller takes
- the RSNO through a Haydn double bill — ' Symphony No 83 ‘The Hen' and Trumpet Concerto with soloist John Gracie (RSNO
Principal Trumpet) - and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4.
SATURDAY 20
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish llatlonal Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £6.50—£19.50. See Fri 19.
I la Finta Clardlniera New Athenaeum. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Mozart's operatic comedy is tinged with high drama and tragedy.
Edinburgh
I The Rowallan Consort St Cecilia's Hall, Cowgate. Tickets: 229 8108. 7.45pm. £8 (£2—£5). The Rowallan Consort. an innovative ensemble specialising in the early Scottish repertoire. presean a programme that explores 250 years of Scottish songs and instrumental music from Montgornerie to Burns played on lute.c1arsach. guitar and viola da gamba. I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019; credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £4.50—£l6.50 (£3—£5). Guitarist Sharon lsbin joins the SCO under conductor Jose Serebrier for Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and other music by Serebrier. Turina. Fauré and Falla.
SUNDAY 21 i '
Edinburgh
I Barbican Piano Trio Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019; credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £7.50 (£4.50). Continuing their Beethoven Piano Trio Cycle. Sophie Barber (violin). Robert Max (cello) and James Kirby (piano) take on Trio in E Flat 0p 44, Trio itt G 0,) I No 2 and Trio in E Fla! 0p 70 No 2.
MDNDAY 22
Edinburgh
I Juliane Banse Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019; credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £5—£12 (£3—£7). The German-bom soprano is one of the rising stars of European opera. having performed Zerlina in Don Giovanni at Glyndeboume last year. A member of the Vienna State Opera. she makes her Scottish debut recital with songs by Debussy and Lieder (including Wte Melodien and Feldeinsamkeit) by Brahms and Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck.
TUESDAY 23
Glasgow
I La Flnta Glardlnlera New Athenaeum. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. See Sat 20.
Edinburgh
I Vocal Recital Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Neil Mackenzie (tenor) sings Beethoven's An Die F erne Geliebte and Britten's Winter Words. with John Kitchen at the piano.
I Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group Church Hill Theatre. Morningside Road. Info: 229 4194/225 6963. £25. This special gala evening in aid of Chest. Heart and Stroke Scotland begins with a performance of l’eomen Of The Guard at Church Hill Theatre. and is followed by a grand ball at City Chambers. complete with food. entertainment and dancing to the Savoy String Orchestra. Transport
between venues will be provided. and dress is formal.
WEDNESDAY 24
Glasgow
I La Travlata Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£45. Scottish Opera's Verdi favourite. in Nuria Espert’s original production. is revived for 1996 by director Peter Watson. Richard Armstrong conducts. with Claire Rutter in the spotlight as Violetta (a role she has previously performed with Welsh National Opera). Sung in ltalian with English surtitles.
THURSDAY 25
Glasgow
I Discoveries Concert Hall. University of Glasgow. 330 4092. 1.15pm. Part ofa series of short recitals of electro-acoustic music selected from international festivals and studios from around the world. This music will be prepared and diffused by final-year students on the B.Eng. (Electronics with Music) course.
I Hansel and Gretel Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£45. See Fri 12.
I La Flnta Glardlnlera New Athenaeum. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. See Sat 20.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019; credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £4.50—£16.50 (£3-£5). Michael Collins is the soloist in conductor Mikhail Pletnev's arrangement for clarinet of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Pletnev himself sits at the keyboard for Mozart's Concerto Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in D major. and the programme is completed by Schubert’s Symphony No 5.
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