Music Folk
Edinburgh
I Runrig Castle Esplanade. Edinburgh Castle. Royal Mile. 0870 169 0100. 7pm. £35. The world’s biggest-selling Celtic rock band with their big outdoor show.
Edinburgh
I Scocha The Liquid Room. Victoria Street. 225 2564. 7pm. £10. 'l'raditional Bagpipes and ‘lecky guitar. Scottish music with a rock'n’roll attitude.
I Rachel Harrington and Zak Borden Leith Folk Cltib. The Village. South Fort Street. 478 7810. 7.30pm. £8. From the north-west L'S. Harrington performs an accomplished blend of country. folk and bluegrass.
Stirling
FREE Highland Dancing and Pipe Band Display Stirling Castle Esplanade. 01786 274000. 7158 15pm.
See Tue 22.
Glasgow
I Bob Cheevers St Andrew‘s in the Square. St Andrew's Square. 559 5902. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Americana and Delta blues from the Nashville’s songwriter who cites Elvis. Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis amongst his influences.
99. Mon—Sat. 1pm. Free lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists.
Edinburgh.
I Rod Clements and Jacob’s Pillow Cabaret Voltaire. Blair Street. 220 6176. 7pm. £9. A little bit of blues. folk and rock from the founding member of Lindisfarne.
Classical
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Thursday 1 7 .
Glasgow
FREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery 8; Museum. Argyle Street. 276 9599. Mon—Sat. 1pm. Free lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists.
Friday 18.
Edinburgh
FREE International Presbyterian Choral Ensemble St (iiies‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 12.15pm. Lunchtime concert by a choir from Atlanta. (icorgia.
Berwiok Upon Tweed
I Music at Paxton Festival Paxton
House. Paxton. 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £16 (£8). A series of summer evening concerts in the magnificent picture gallery. featuring an international line-up of artists. First off the bat is Virtuoso pianist Cedric Tiberghien with a programme of Liszt. Bartok and Brahms.
Saturday 1 9
Berwmk Upon Tweed
I Music at Paxton Festival Paxton House. Paxton. 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £16 (£8). Violin and piano duets from Alina lbragimova and Cedric Tiberghien.
Glas ow
FRE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art (iallery & Museum. Argyle Street. 276 9599. 3-—3.-15pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists.
I Classical Solos Cafe Cossachok. Russian Cultural Centre. 38 Albion Street. 553 0733. 9pm. £6. A programme of light opera and classical favourites from Lev Atlas on violin.
Edinburgh
FREE St Giles’ at Six: Mostly Mozart St (iiles' Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 6pm. Mozart with a little bit of Schubert thrown in by Alison Cook (soprano). Susan McNaught (soprano) and Vaughan Townhill (clarinet).
Berwiok Upon Tweed
I Music at Paxton Festival Paxton House. Paxton. 01289 386291. Times vary. Prices vary. A teatime performance of Straviiisky‘s 'l'he Soldier 's 7ale and an evening concert by the St Petersburg Quartet.
Tuesday 22 f
Ben/Vick Upon Tweed
I Music at Paxton Festival Paxton House. Paxton. 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Shona Mooney and Friends perform some traditional fiddling music.
Wednesday 23 '
Edinburgh
FREE Bells in Motion St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 12.15pm. Lunchtime concert by a group from Springfield. Illinois.
I Celebrity Organ Recital St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 8pm. £7 (accompanied children free). With Simon Harden. winner of the 2007 International Schnitger ()rgan Competition. Alkmaar. and a programme of J S Bach‘s Prelude and Fugue in a minor 13 W V 543 and Alleitt (ion in (fer Holt .vei 15hr BWV 662. Franck‘s Choral II in If minor. Messiaen's Communion and .S'ortie (Messe (1e la I’enteeote) and Alain‘s 'I'rois natives.
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Music at Paxton
Established just a couple of years ago, Music at Paxton hasn’t taken long to realise its ambition
of presenting high quality chamber music, whether home-grown or from further afield, within the impressive splendour of Paxton House, just outside Berwick-upon-Tweed. Opening concert to this year’s 10-day festival will be given by one of the most exciting pianists to emerge from France in recent years, Cédric Tiberghien (pictured), who plays Liszt,
Bartok and Brahms. (Carol Main)
I Music at Paxton, Paxton House, Berwicksh/‘re, Fri 78-Sun 27 Jul.
Ben/Vick Upon Tweed
I Music at Paxton Festival Paxton House. Paxton. 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £10 (£5). Works by composers including Shostakovich and Britten performed by Jessica Beeston (viola). Andrew Johnston (piano) and Sax Ecosse.
Edinburgh
FREE Live Music How: Emma Harper and David Higham National Portrait (iallery. 1 Queen Street. 624 6200. 6--6.30pm. 1930s Hollywood recreated on the piano and by soprano Emma Harper in a programme inspired by the Vanity Fair Portraits exhibition.
BerWiok Upon Tweed
I Music at Paxton Festival Paxton House. Paxton. 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £16 (£8). The Edinburgh Quartet are
joined by pianist Nicolas Ashton for a
programme that includes Shostakovich's Piano Quintet.
Friday. 25‘ .
Ben/Vick Upon Tweed
FREE Music at Paxton Festival Paxton House. Paxton. 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £16 (£8). The Hebrides Ensemble play Dvorarak's Piano Trio in 1" minor and Messiaen‘s Quartet/or the [and of Time.
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Edinburgh
I The College of the Siskiyous Concert Choir St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 12.15pm. Lunchtime concert by a choir from Weed. California.
Berwiok Upon Tweed
I Music at Paxton Festival Paxton House. Paxton. 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £16 (£8). Classical and romantic pieces by the Primrose Piano Quartet. including the Scottish premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies‘ Piano Quartet.
Edinburgh
I The Royal Opera: Le Nozze Di Figaro Cameo. 38 Home Street. 0871 70-1 2052. 3.30pm. £12.50 (£10—£1 1; under 16s £3). A chance to catch David McVicar's production of Mozart‘s
masterpiece I.e .'\"o:,:(’ (Ii Figaro. better known to you and me as The Marriage o/‘l’igaro. It was staged by The Royal Opera in 2006 to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth and recorded by the BBC.
FREE St Giles’ at Six: Albion String Quartet St Giles Cathedral. Royal Mile. 2260673. 6pm. Mozart's Quartet in Bflat K458 “The Hunt' and Mendelssohn's Quartet in A minor ()p [3.
Berwnok Upon Tweed
I Music at Paxton Festival Paxton House. Paxton. 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £16 (£8). The festival closes with the period instrument orchestra of Avison Ensemble.
Edinburgh
F REE Chester Cathedral Have Choir St (iiles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 12.15pm. Lunchtime concert.
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Edinburgh
I The Royal Opera: Le Houe Di Figaro Cameo. 38 Home Street. 0871 704 2052. 6pm. £12.50 (£10—£1 1; under 16s £3). See Sun 27.
Edinburgh
I Celebrity Organ Recital St (liles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 8pm. £7 (accompanied children free). With Birmingham’s Henry Fairs. playing lilgar's x’lllegt'o maestoso (Sonata in (i). Buxtelttide‘s l’raeliulium in I) minor Buxll’l" [41). Vivaldi/Bach's ('oneerto in A minor BWV 593’. Reger's Sonata II in I) mirror ()1) ()0 and Messiacn‘s
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Haddington
I Bernard D’Ascoli Holy Trinity Church. 01620 823738. 8pm. £15 (£12; students £5; schoolchildren free). The French pianist performs Lis/t‘s .leu.v (l'euu a /u i'i/la (I'lfste 1x1 Ix’ggiereiiu. Schumann's Arabesque in (‘ major 0,) IS and Nine ,m~i»x-)t-(mi ‘Bunte Blatter'. ()p 9‘). Mendelssohn‘s Mutations“ .vr‘rieuses ()p 54 in D major and Chopin's Ballade No l in (i minoi: ()p 23’. Five eludes and Polonaise in a flat majot: ()p 53.