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Music classical & opera listings
Fri 29 Edinburgh
I Cappella Nova - Tenebrae Greyfriars Kirk. Greyfriars Place. 668 2019. 9pm. £8 (£5). See Thu 28.
Saturday. 30
Glasgow
I Renfield Recitals Rent'ield St Stephen's Church Centre. 260 Bath Street. 332 2826. 1pm. Free. Saturday lunchtime concerts by various artists.
Edinburgh
I The Choir Of St Mary’s Cathederal St Mary‘s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. 225 6293. 7.30pm. £5 on the door. Programme for Holy Saturday. featuring works by Kenneth Leighton. Lotti and Gesualdo.
Glasgow
I Easter Bliss Cafe Cossachok. 1() King Street. 553 0733. 8.30pm. Free. Violinist Lev .Atlas performs a selection of popular classical melodies.
Wednesday 3
Edinburgh
I Napier University Organ Academy Showcase St Giles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 225 9442. 7.30pm. £6 (£4) on the door. Dr John Kitchen performs works from 18th century France. as part of Napier‘s annual organ academy.
Thursday 4
Edinburgh 0 BT Scottish Ensemble Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm.
£1 1 (£7). Twenty-six-year-old Edinburgh percussionist Colin Currie joins the orchestra for a programme of works writ- ten by composers during their younger days. Mendelssohn‘s Sinfonia No 10 and Nielsen‘s Lin/e Suite get the ball rolling. before Currie steps up to the marimba for Joe Duddell‘s new work. .S‘noii'blind. A pre-concert talk in which Colin Currie and Joe Duddell discuss Snow-blind will take place at 6.45pm. See preview.
Glasgow
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Hall. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £6-£18 (£2.50). Acclaimed Californian soprano Michelle de Young joins conductor Emmanuel Krivine and the orchestra for Berlioz‘s La Mort (10 C leoparre. Weber's Overture. Der Heist/rut: and Schumann's Symphony No 2 complete the bill.
G BT Scottish Ensemble Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 7.45pm. £11 (£7). See Thu 4.
Edinburgh
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra L'sher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £8.50—£22. Christoph Eberle conducts the RSNO‘s leader Edwin Paling in Vaughan Williams‘ The Lark Ascending. The programme also
features Mozart '3 Symphony No 2 9 and
Mahler's Symphony .Vo l.
I Edinburgh International Harp Festival Merchiston Castle School. 294 Colinton Road. 0772 0831 383. Annual five-day festival. featuring classes for all ages and standards in a variety of harp styles. plus workshops. concerts. ceilidhs and a large harp makers exhibition.
I Napier University Organ Academy Showcase Reid Concert Hall. Edinburgh University. Bristo
BT SCOTTISH
Clio Gould, Artistic Director
with COllI‘I Currie, percussion
Joe Duddell - PREMIERE Snowblind Percussion concerto
Mendelssohn Sinfonia & Octet
Nielsen Little Suite
INVERNESS
ensemble marimba!
Wed 3 April -01463 234234
Eden Court TllOi-ill’O, 8pm
EDINBURGH
Thur 4 April -0131 668 2019
Queen’s Hall, 7.45pm
GLASGOW
Fri 5 April -0141 353 8000
Strathclyde Suite, GRCH, 7.45pm
PERTH
St John's ABERDEEN
Sat 6 April -01738 621818
Kirk, 7.30pm
Mon 8 April -01224 641122
Music Hall, 7.30pm
DUNDEE
Tue 9 April -01382 434941
Marryat Hall, 7.30pm DUNFERMLINE Wed 10 April -01383 314000 Carnegie Hall, 7.30pm
Tickets £11(£7) Children £3 v FREE PRE-CONCERT TALKS lnverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow
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Square. 455 6200. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Toulouse-based organist Jan Willem Jansen performs works by Bach. Buxtehude and some renaissance and baroque dance pieces. Tickets on the doon
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10.50—£23. See Fri 5.
I Mo’s Company Gallery Of Modem Art. Queen Street. 229 1996. 3—4pm. Free. Violinist Hector Scott and clarinettist Shinobu Miki continue their series of informal afternoon concerts. filling GOMA with the sounds of contemporary Scottish composers. all of whom will be present to speak about their work.
I Renfield Recitals Renfield St Stephen's Church Centre. 260 Bath Street. 332 2826. 1pm. Free. See Sat 30.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6—£20 (£2.50). See Fri 5.
I Edinburgh International Harp Festival Merchiston Castle School. 294 Colinton Road. 0772 0831 383. See Fri 5.
Glasgow
I Tango Tango Cafe Cossachok. Russian Cultural Centre. 10 King Street. 553 0733. 8.30pm. Free. Dramatic sounds from violin and guitar duo Lev Atlas and Peter llkey.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh International Harp Festival Merchiston Castle School. 294 Colinton Road. 07720831 383. See Fri 5.
Monday 8
Glasgow
I Paragon Ensemble Tron Theatre. 63 Trongate. 552 4267. 8pm. Free. The contemporary ensemble presents ‘Whatever Happened To The Music‘.". a bi-monthly night showcasing new music from emerging composers.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh International Harp Festival Merchiston Castle School. 294 Colinton Road. 0772 0831 383. See Fri 5.
Tuesday 9
Glasgow
I The Romantic Horn Hutchesons‘ Hall. 158 Ingram Street. 552 8391. 1.15pm. £2.50. .\'eil Mitchell and Rebecca Woolcock. on French horn and piano respectively. perform works by Saint-Saens. Schumann and Malcolm Arnold.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh International Harp Festival Merchiston Castle School. 294 Colinton Road. 0772 0831 383. See Fri 5.
Wednesday 1 0
Glasgow
0 Madama Butterfly Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £5.50—£50. Scottish ()pera cele- brates its 40th birthday with this re-stag- ing of David McVicar's acclaimed 2000 production. Puccini's classic tale of a beautiful geisha and her American lover was the company's inaugural opera back in 1962. when Sir Alexander Gibson was at the helm.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh International Harp Festival Merchiston Castle School. 294 Colinton Road. 0772 0831 383. See Fri 5.
BT Scottish Ensemble
Young talent comes under the spotlight as the Ensemble play works by Mendelssohn and Nielsen written when they were i just fourteen and 23. Young percussion gun Colin Currie joins them for a world premier by Steve Martland protege. Joe Duddell.
,3 Queen ’3 Hall, Edinburgh, Thu 4 V :1 Apr; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, '7 Fri5Apr. Madama Butterfly Forty years old and still fresh as a daisy. >, Scottish Opera celebrate their anniversary with the same Puccini classic that got the ball rolling back
in 1962. Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 4 Wed 70&Sat 73Apr. ;; ‘r::=s' Scottish Chamber Orchestra Widely regarded as one of the finest pianists of his generation. 32-year-old Polish wonder Piotr Anderszewski (pictured) has been described as ‘daring‘ and ‘revelatory'. Let's see what he does with Ravel‘s Piano Concerto. Queen '3 Hall, Edinburgh, Thu 77 Apr; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Fri 72 Apr.
Dunfermline
I BT Scottish Ensemble Carnegie Hall. East Port. 01383 314000. 7.30pm. £11 (£7). See Thu 4.
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £7.50—£12.50. Dynamic young conductor Garry Walker is at the baton for Britten‘s I’our Sea Inter/tales. Walton's Cello
(‘oni arm (with guest soloist Tim Hugh). and Turnage's Drowned ()m.
I Christopher Underwood and Julia Lynch Merchants House. 7 West George Street. 334 9757. 12.45pm. £4.50 (£1 .50—£4). Baritone L'nderwood performs ‘Beast-ly Songs‘. works with animal connections by Chabrier. Ravel and Poulenc. Lynch accompanies on the piano.
Edinburgh
0 Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6—£20 (£2.50). The devilishly talented young Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski joins conductor limmanuel Krivine and the orchestra for Ravel's Plano ('olti‘t'l'lo. iiilllrc's l’i’llt’as (’l lie/[sandy and Straviiisky‘s Pulcinella Suite also feature.