CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
current La 'I‘rai'iata). Claire Bradshaw. Richard Coxon and Stephen Gadd. Music Director lan Shaw provides the musical accompaniment. Other dates this issue include Lorne and Lowland Church Hall. Campbeltown (01586 552056) on Tue 12; Adam Smith Theatre. Kirkcaldy (01592 260498) on Thurs 14; and Memorial Hall. Lanark (1555 665383) on Sat 16.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Choir Old St Paul's Church. Jeffrey Street. 8pm. £5 (£4) from Queen's Hall. Usher Hall. Assembly Rooms and McAlister Matheson Music Ltd. The Choir perform Byrd's Mass For Four Voices and Schiitz's rarely heard Saint Luke Passion: lain ()gg. the choir's accompanist. will also play music by J. S. Bach.
SUNDAY 10
Glasgow
I Music-Makers Young Musicians Platform Cottier Theatre. l-lyndland Street. 357 3868. lptn. £5 (£4). As part of the Musical Fingers series. Claire Harslin (piano). Helen llossack (violin) and Charlotte Brennand (piano) play music by Debussy. Ravel. Franck. Chopin and Prokofiev.
I Organ Recital Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 221 9600. 2.30pm and 3.30pm. Free. Dennis Townhill front St Mary's Cathedral. Edinburgh. plays orgatt music itt this Sunday promenade. I Glasgow University Choral Society and Chamber Orchestra University Chapel. University ofGlasgow. 330 4092. 7.30pm. £5 (£2) on the door. Myra Sotttar conducts the Choral Society and Chamber Orchestra iit Vaughan Williams's The Old Hiau/rei/t/i aitd 'Iowart/s The Unknown Region aitd Puccini's .llessa (ll (i/oria.
Edinburgh
I SCO Chamber Ensemble Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 201‘) (credit card hotline 667 7776). 2.30pm. £4410 (£3.50). Pianist Peter Donohoe joins the SC() Quartet for Militaud‘s Suite For Violin, Clarinet .‘illt/ Piano. Ravel's I)uo For Violin Ant! Cello and lilgar‘s I’iano Quartet.
I Meadows Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 201‘) (credit card hotline 667 7776). 7.45pm. £6 (£3.50). Conductor Peter Fvans gets things underway with Beethoven's [fig/non! ()t-erture. which is followed by Raymond l.)odd's recently completed Bassoon Coneerto (with Ursula Leveaux). Kodaly's Danees ()j (Ia/aura and Braltms's l’io/in ('oneerto (with Andrew Haveron making his Scottish concerto debut).
Linlithgow
I Scottish Chamber Choir St Michael's Parish Church. 7.45pm. See Sat 9.
MONDAY 11 Edinburgh
I Mystére Oes Voix Bulgares Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 52‘) 6000. 7.30pm. £7.50——£ l 2.50 (£5.50—£ 10.50). The Bulgarian State Television Female Choir. ntade famous in the UK with their album on the 4Al) label some years ago. make their Scottish debut with a T programme of Bulgarian vocal music. See preview.
I Grieg Piano Trio Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 20l‘) (credit card ltotlitte 667 7776). 7.45pm. £5—£l2 (£3-£7). Norwegian threesome Solve Sigerland (violin). lillen Margrete Flesjo (cello) and Vebjorn Anvik (piano) play Beethoven's Trio in [5 Flat 0/) l//. Halvor Haug‘s recently composed Piano Trio and Mendelssohn‘s Trio in 1) Minor 0/) 4‘).
TUESDAY 12
Glasgow
I Triptych Hutchesons‘ Hall. 2 John Street. 1.15pm. £2 on the door. A lunchtime concert from the oboe/bassoon/piano trio. with music by Mozart. Beethoven. Poulenc and Marcus Blunt.
Edinburgh
I Talisker Trio Nelson Hall. McDonald Road Liberary. 225 5584 ext 233. 7.45pm. Free. Two singers and piartist/trumpeter perform a programme of music ttttder the Live Music Now! banner.
Glasgow I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. 7.30pm. Free tickets by postal application (enclosing sae) to BBC SS() Concerts Secretary. BBC Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow. G l 2 8DG. Two Scottish premieres forth the core of tonight‘s programme: Piers Hellawell’s i'l/Ieinorial Cairns arid Minna Keal‘s Cello ('oneerto. with Alexander Baillie. To round the concert off. Martyn Brabbins conducts the Orchestra itt Haydn‘s .S'.\'IIt/)/1()Itl\' No 9‘).
Edinburgh
I Talisker Trio Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 201‘) (credit card hotlitte 667 7776). 3pm. £4.50 (including afternoon tea). The trio present a diverse programme that ranges front Purcell‘s Sound The Titan/re! to Lloyd Webber's l’ie Jesu and a selection of songs front My Fair Lat/y. Presented iit association with Live Music Nowl.
I Saltire Quartet Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 201‘) (credit card hotline 667 7776). 7.30pm. £6 (Ll/£2). Presented as part of the Queen's Hall‘s liducation Programme. the quartet-iii-residence play Mozart's Quartet K56“). Kenneth Dempster’s Under The Hammer. Barber's Adagio and Mendelssohn‘s Quartet in A illlltm' 0/) I3.
THURSDAY 14
Glasgow
I Almira String Ouartet Merchants' House. West George Street. 63‘) 3176. 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3/£l ). The four-year-old quartet combine the neglected lilgar Quartet in If Mirror with the ever-popular Dvorak .-tineriean Quartet.
I Piano Recital Concert Hall. University ofGlasgow. 330 4092. 1.15pm. Free. Stevett ()sborne plays Liszt‘s Harmonies- l’oetir/ues et Relic/eases [VHS 5 A" 6 atttl the little/stein Sonata by Beethoven.
I RSAMO Chamber Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMI). Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). The Academy Cltantber ()rchestra play Haydn‘s Symphony No 8.8. the ‘x‘xdagietto‘ from Mahler‘s Svnip/iony No 5 and Mendelssohn's Symphony No 4 l'ltttlltltt'l.
I John Currie Singers City Hall. Cattdleriggs. 227 5511. 8pm. ill—£8. Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. a masterpiece of early baroque. performed with the combined resources of the John Currie Singers and the Scottish Chorus plus the choir of St Columba's School. Tickets are also available on the door.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 201‘) (credit card hotline 667 7776). 7.45pm. £4.50—£ 16.50 (£5/£3). Soloist Robiit Williams joins the SC() for Marcello's ()lme Concerto attd Bach’s Double ('oneerto For l'iolin .‘tllt/ ()boe. with director/violinist James Clark. Tlte rest of the programme consists of
Handel's ('Ultt'erm (Irwin) ()p 6 No l/.
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