Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers McEwan Hall, Bristo Square, 650 4381. 1.10pm. Free. Noel O’Regan directs the singers in Guerrero’s Missa Sancta et Immaculata.
WEDNESDAY 24 Glasgow
I Academy Brass Concert RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). The Academy’s brass and big bands join forces under the direction of Bryan Allen. They are joined by David Taylor, one of America’s leading lights on bass trombone.
Edinburgh
I Hallam Macleod Guitar Duo Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 3pm. £5. These two exponents of the classical guitar play pieces by Telemann, Jcariatti, Vivaldi, Sor, Granados and de Falla. Presented by Live Music Now!
I Martin Cousin Royal Over-Seas House, Landings Gallery, 100 Princes Street, 225 1501. 6.30pm. £7.50 (£5). Pianist Martin Cousin performs a varied programme of music to mark the opening of a new exhibition of paintings by Derek McGuire.
THURSDAY 25
Glasgow
I Masterclass RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 10am. Free. Oleg Marshev leads this piano masterclass.
I Allan Neave John McIntyre Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10—2pm. Free. Guitarist Neave performs a selection of music including Scarlatti’s Two Sonatas, Assad ‘s Aquarelle, McPherson’s Brevity Can Save The Nation and Barrios’s Madrigal, Gavota and La Catedral.
I Alison Smart and Katharine Durran Recital Studio, University of Strathclyde, 76 Southbrae Drive, 950 3476. 1.15—2pm. Free. Soprano Alison Smart and pianist Katharine Durran perform a selection of songs by Poulenc and Faure.
I Masterclass RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 2pm. Free. Two afternoon classes, one on the double bass led by Duncan McTicr and the other on the trombone, led by the star of last night’s concert at the Academy, David Taylor.
I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra City Hall, Candleriggs, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7-£16 (concs available). Osmo Vanska finds his dance card more than full as he conducts the orchestra in an evening of such toe-tapping tunes as Bernstein’s On The Town: Three Dance Episodes, Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue, Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances and Schoenber ’5 Music F orA Film Scene.
I Festiva Encore Henry Wood Hall, 73 Claremont Street, 204 4540. 7.30pm. £4 (£3). Performers from the 1999 Glasgow Music Festival come together for an evening concert, with contributions from the Westerton Male Voice Choir, Jordanhill Senior School Concert Band and Rosalind Sangster.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5.50—£18.50. A programme featuring a suite from Rameau’s Nais and Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, both written to celebrate the Anglo-French peace accord, as well as Arne and Chilcot’s Shakespeare Settings and Handel’s arias from Semele. Conductor Nicholas McGegan will give a pre-concert talk at 6.30pm about the evening’s programme.
Paisley
I Glasgow Phoenix Choir Paisley Town Hall, Abbey Close, 887 1010. 7.30pm. £5. The choir perform a special concert in celebration of St Andrew’s night for the Erskine 2000 Appeal.
FRIDAY 26
Glasgow I John Mark Ainsley & Roger Vignoles RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057.
1pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Tenor Ainsley and pianist Vignoles serve up a selection of works by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Schumann.
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Hall, Candleriggs, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £5.50—£16.50. See Thu 25. The pre- concert talk will be at 6.45pm.
Edinburgh
I John Kitchen Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Organist John Kitchen performs four works by Krebs.
SATURDAY 27
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £10—£22 (concs available). Conductor Walter Weller celebrates his 60th birthday with a gala concert featuring Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel and Beethoven‘s Symphony No 9. Joining them for the party is the RSNO Chorus, soprano Rosalind Sutherland and tenor John Daszak.
I Glasgow Grand Opera Society Adelaide’s, 209 Bath Street, 248 4970. 7.30pm. The amateur operatic society perform a programme entitled Shakespeare In Love, retelling the story of Romeo and Juliet through various opera pieces and music from West Side Story.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £7 (£5). The orchestra perform a varied programme including Hovhannes’ The Mysterious Mountain, Debussy ’s Prelude a I ’apres-midi d ’une faune and Mahler’s [)as1.ied Von Der Erde, with conductor Alasdair Mitchell.
I Edinburgh Univeristy Contemporary Music Ensemble Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2423. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). Peter Nelson conducts the ensemble in six new works. I The Brian Irvine Ensemble Edinburgh College ofArt, Lauriston Place, 221 6000. 7.45pm. £9 (£4). Belfast composer Brian Irvine directs this fourteen-strong ensemble in an original programme of improvisational jazz and contemporary music, with saxophonist Paul Dunmall.
I The Clerks' Group Canongate Kirk, Canongate, 8pm. £10. Specialists in the Flemish repertoire of the late 15th century, The Clerks’ Group perform a programme of music by Ockeghem and Josquin.
SUNDAY 28 ‘
Glasgow
I Strathclyde University Chamber Choir Hutcheson’s Ilall, 158 Ingram Street, 552 8391. 6.30pm. Free. Alan Tavener conducts the choir in their annual Advent carol service, featuring plainsong and music by renaissance and 20th century composers.
I Scottish Massed Male Voice Choir Royal Concert Ilall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £6—£10. Five hundred male voices, drawn from thirteen Scottish choirs, perform traditional music and song, alongside the Kirkintilloch Band and acclaimed percussion group, Backbeat.
I Universrty Of Glasgow Orchestra Bute Hall, University of Glasgow, University Avenue. 330 4092. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Conductor Julian Clayton guides the orchestra through a programme which includes Mussorgsky’s Night On A Bare Mountain and Brahms’ Symphony No 4.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Palm Court Orchestra Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 2.30pm. £7.50—£6 (£4). An afternoon of nostalgic musical memories with soprano Elizabeth McKeon and pianist David Lyle. I Advent Carol Service St Mary’s Cathedral, 23 Palmerston Place, 225 6293. 6.30—7.30pm. Free. Carol service featuring the choir of St Mary’s Cathedral.
I Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2423. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Edward Harper conducts
the orchestra in Bartok’s Hungarian Peasant Songs, Liszt ’5 Piano Concerto No l, Beethoven’s Symphony No 5 and a special EUCO commission by Karen Smith entitled Adhesive Retrospection.
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Festival Theatre, 13—29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8—£21 (£6—£19). See Sat 27.
TUESDAY 30
Glasgow
I Claire Latto, Cliona Warren and Andrew Nicol Hutcheson’s Hall, 158 Ingram Street, 552 8391. 1.15—2pm. £2.50. This trio of musicians perform three pieces of music by Poulenc on oboe. bassoon and piano.
I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra City Hall, Candleriggs, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7—£16 (concs available). Osmo Vanska is joined by guest pianist Boris Berezovsky for Bartok’s Piano Concerto No 2, in a programme which also features Rimsky- Korsakov’s Sadko: Suite and Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 3.
Edinburgh
I Ronan O'Hora Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Pianist O’Hora performs Schoenberg’s Six Little Pieces and Beethoven’s Sonata No 29 in B flat Op [06.
Glasgow
I Masterclass RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 11.30am. Free. Ian Bousfield directs this trombone masterclass.
I Glasgow Symphony Orchestra Adelaide’s, 209 Bath Street, 248 4970. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). Tommy Fowler conducts the orchestra in a programme of music with a Scottish theme, including Berlioz’s Rob Roy, Strutt’s Ceilidh, Short’s Variations On A Scottish Theme, Alwyn’s Suite 0f Scottish Dances and Mcndclssohn’s Symphony No 3 ‘Schottishe ’.
I Academy Wind Concert RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Nigel Boddice and Bryan Allen
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I London Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22. The newly appointed principal conductor Kurt Masur leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No 1 and Bruckner’s .S‘ymphony No 7 as pan of the International Series.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers Swann Buildings, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Noel O’Regan directs the singers in Guerrero’s Missa Sancta et Immaculata.
THURSDAY 2
Glasgow
I Geoffrey Haydock and Penelope Smith Merchants House, 7 West George Street, 639 3176. 12.30pm. £4.50 (£1.50—£4). The husband and wife duo, on clarinet and piano respectively, perform works by Schubert, Weber and Edward German.
I Nicoline Kraamwinkel University of Glasgow Chapel, University Avenue, 1.10—2pm. Free. Violinist Kraamwinkel performs a lunchtime concert featuring music by Bach.
I Dunedin Consort Glasgow Cathedral, Cathedral Street, 552 8198. 7.30pm. £6—£9 (£3—£7). The consort perform a varied programme of medieval and contemporary music including Britten’s Ceremony Of Carols and Stevenson’s Sapphic Fragments and Plainsong And Medieval Polyphony. There will also be music for female voices and harp composed by Tommy Fowler and John Hearne, featuring harpist Pippa Tunnell.
Edinburgh
I Childline Scotland Christmas Concert Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). A variety of musical groups including Edinburgh Schools Classical Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Orchestra and Concert Band perform in an evening of carol singing and Christmas music.
Sunday
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