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Thursday 3
Edinburgh
FREE Vokalensemble Kolner Dom St (iiles' Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 12.15pm. Lunchtime concert.
Isle of Mull
I Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Various Venues. ()168 830 l 108. Times vary. Prices vary. Set tip by celebrated violinist Leonard Friedman. this week- long festival of chamber music sees young musicians work alongside experienced professionals on a varied programme to give them a taste of what they will face in their future careers. In addition to Mendelssohn. works by Shostakovich. Brahms and Haydn will also be performed.
St Andrews
I Thursday Evening Summer Concert Series St Salvator's Chapel. North Street. ()1334 462226. 8pm. £4 (£3). With saxophonist Richard Ingham and friends.
Edinburgh
I Cappella Nova St (Eiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 668 201‘). 8pm. £10 (£7). A tribute to the Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson titled ‘Voices of Scotland'. It features settings of Scottish poetry composed 597-1570 set to music from
1 100-2001 and marks the end of the 12th International Triennial Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. Tickets also available at the door. See preview. right.
Cellardyke
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Viennese Winds Cellardyke Church. Toll Road. 473 2000. 4pm. £12. The SC() Wind linsemble performs Part's I-'ratres. Schubert's Serenade and Beethoven's ()etet. ()p [03 and Rondino, ll'o() 25. Part oft/1e [fast .Veuk I'estii'al.
Isle of Mull
I Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Various Venues. ()168 830 1 108. Times vary. Prices vary. See Thu 3.
Saturday 5.
Glasgow
I Sandie Bishop and Gusztav Fenyo St Mary’s lipiscopal Cathedral. 300 (ireat Western Road. 337 2862. 7.30pm. £5 (under 16s free). The Baroque violinist is joined by pianist lienyo for sonatas by Mozart. l’ranck and Beethoven as well as Bartok's First Rhapsody. Tickets available on the door.
Edinburgh
FREE Organ Recital Murrayfield Parish Church. ()rmidale Terrace. 337 1091. 1 lam. A recital by Chris l)yter with a programme titled ‘The Best of British'. I Three Blows St Cecilia's Hall. Niddry Street. 473 2000. Times vary. £16 (£14: weekend pass £25.50 £29.50). A weekend of all sound acoustic performance by contemporary visual artist and musicians for the inaugural year of Three Blows.
FREE Thinking Music Part I St Cecilia's Hall. Niddry Street. 473 2000. 2pm 8: 4pm. Ticketed. (iuided tours of St Cecilia's Hall Museum of Instruments. Part of Three Blows.
I For the Voice St Cecilia‘s Hall. Niddry Street. 473 2000. 7pm. £16 (£14;
weekend pass £25.50-£2‘).50). The first day of this festival has the theme ‘vocal techniques'. Some of the musicians performing are Tattie Toes. Correcto. Richard Youngs and Mayo 'l‘honipson. I’art of’Tliree Bloii's.
Kenchington. Tony Swain. Rude Pravo and Keith Row will all be using instruments in an unusual way in this strand of the inaugural Three Blows music event. I’art of'l'hree Blows.
Lochearnhead
I Balquhidder Summer Music: Sunday Evening Concert Balquhidder Church. Balquhidder. ()1877 384338. 7pm. £7 (£6). liight vocal students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama perform classical works.
Wednesday 9 _
Edinburgh
I Celebrity Organ Recital St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 8pm. £7 (accompanied children free). Leeds organist superstar (iraham Barber plays Vivaldi/Bach's Coneerto in C Bll'l' 594. Lemare's Allegretto in B mlttot‘. Thalbeii- Ball's lariations on a theme o/‘I’aganini'. Whitlock’s Spade and Bueket Polka and Lis/t‘s I'antasia and Fugue on Ad nos. ad .wilutareni undam.
Thursday 10 .
Edinburgh
"155 Aisling Agnew and Matthew McAllister National (iallery of Scotland. The Mound. Princes Street. 624 6200.
Isle of Mull
I Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Various Venues. 0168 830 1 108. Times vary. Prices vary. See Thu 3.
Sunday 6
Edinburgh
I Three Blows St Cecilia‘s Hall. Niddry Street. 473 2000. Times vary. £16 (£14: weekend pass £25.50 £29.50). See Sat 5.
FREE Thinking Music Part II St Cecilia’s Hall. Niddry Street. 473 2000. 2pm. Ticketed. Discussion with Mayo Thompson and Keith Rowe. chaired by Sarah Lowndes. I’art of'l'liree Blows.
F 55 St Giles’ at Six: Hereford Cathedral School Chamber Choir St (iiles' Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 6pm. A varied programme of choral and instrumental music including Bruckner. Chilcott. liaure. Pin/i. Kodaly. Leighton. Rutter and Walton.
I Imaginary Landscape St Cecilia‘s Hall. Niddry Street. 473 2000. 7pm. £16 (£14: weekend pass £25.50-£2‘).50). Sarah
CLASSICAL CAPELLA NOVA - VOICES OF SCOTLAND St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, Fri 4 Jul
A fascinating concert of sung Scottish texts from the 6th to the 16th centuries seems the ideal way to close an international conference on the language and literature of Scotland in mediaeval and Renaissance times. Not that all of Cappella Nova’s Voices of Scotland performances for number twelve of these triennial conferences will be music from the distant past. More modern settings of ancient texts are by Scottish composers Rebecca Rowe and Ronald Stevenson, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year.
Long time champions of his music, Cappella Nova had a wide choice of the many settings Stevenson has made of Scottish poems throughout his career. For the purposes of the conference, which is hosted by Edinburgh University’s School of Literatures, Languages and Culture, his Mediaeval Scots Triptych, from 1965, will give delegates the chance to hear the words of 15th and 14th century writers Blind Harry and John Barbour, who tell of the suffering, heroism and idealism of the Wars of Independence between 1296 and 1314. Stevenson, who was born in Lancashire of Scots and Welsh parents, and is proud of his Celtic roots, came across his texts in the anthology of Scottish poetry, Golden Treasury, edited by Hugh MacDiarmid.
Rebecca Rowe’s setting, composed in 2000, is an Elegy for Colum Cille, and is framed by the atmospheric plainsong chants for St Columba, originally from the abbey at Inchcolm - island of Columba - and for St Kentigern, patron saint of Glasgow. Another saint to be featured is St Magnus of Orkney with the 12th century hymn Nobilis, humilis. From Renaissance Scotland comes David Peebles exquisite Si quis diliget me, written just prior to the Reformation.
Altogether, no less than 15 Scottish writers, including Mary Queen of Scots, will be heard in this remarkable celebration of the nation’s language and music. (Carol Main)
6-6.30pm. Performances on flute and guitar from their debut album. Recital.
St Andrews
I Thursday Evening Summer Concert Series St Salvator’s Chapel. North Street. 01334 462226. 8pm. £4 (£3). With tenor .loe Timmons and pianist William Stevenson.
Dundee
I The Katona TWins Marryat Hall. City Square. 01382 434941. 7.30pm. £12 (£8). Classical guitar recital from the llungarian-born twins. Part of the Dundee (iuitar I'estii'al.
St Andrews I National Youth Choir of Scotland ’ounger Hall. North Street. 01334 462226. 7.30pm. £10 (£8: schoolchildren £2). Summer concert from 100 of Scotland's finest young singers in a varied programme from Vaughan Williams I'll't’ .llvsti'eal Songs to Karl Jenkins‘ popular Armend Man and with music by Lauriden and Whitacre completing the bill.
Saturday 12
Glasgow
I National Youth Choir of Scotland City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 3pm. £10(£8: schoolchildren £2). See Fri 1 l.
Dundee
I Andrzej Mokry Marryat Hall. City Square. ()1382 434941. Ipiii. £8 (£5). Classical guitar from experienced Polish musician Andr/ej Mokry. l’arr oft/1e Dundee (iuitar I'estii'al.
Edinburgh
FREE St Giles’ at Six: The CenturyMen St (iiles' Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 6pm. Buryl Red directs a performance of this male voice choir. entitled "The Heritage of ()ur Hymns’.
Dundee
I DGF Guitarist’s Platform Marryat Hall. City Square. 01382 434941. 1pm. Donations. Students from the festival perform some fine classical ditties in this fundraising concert for the Maggie's Centre. I’art oft/1e Dundee (iuitar l-estii-al.
I Forfar Instrumental band Baxter Park. Arbroath Road. 01382 433104. 2pm. linjoy an afternoon in the park with l‘orfar’s finest musicians.
Lochearnhead
I Balquhidder Summer Music: Sunday Evening Concert Balquhidder Church. Balquhidder. ()1877 384338. 7pm. £7 (£6). See Sun 6.
Monday 14,
Edinburgh
FREE Laudation Choir of First United Methodist Church St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 12.15pm. Lunchtime concert by a choir from Pasadena. Texas.
Wednesday 16
Edinburgh
I Celebrity Organ Recital St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 8pm. £7 (accompanied children free). Michael Harris plays Couperin’s ()[Ii'i'toire pour les (irands Jeux. JS Bach's Sei gegrr’isset. Jesu grille. liranck‘s I'antui'sie in :1. Messiaen's Combat de la mort et de la l‘lt’ and llakim’s lit/rations on two themes.
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St Andrews
I Thursday Evening Summer Concert Series St Salvator‘s Chapel. North Street. 01334 462226. 8pm. £4 (£3). With guitarist Matthew McAllister.
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