Music Classical
■ Schubertiad: Die Schöne Mullerin Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £8–£25 (£10–£21.50). Celebrated British pianist Paul Lewis returns to the Schubertiad with tenor Allan Clayton for the tragic song cycle. Schubert’s mastery of the lied shines out in this story of a man’s doomed love for the ‘beautiful mill girl’.
Monday 12
Glasgow ■ Piano Prize Winners RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £5 (£3). A concert featuring Sylvia Sze-hua Jen and Artem Akopyanthe, winners of two of the RSAMD’s prestigious prizes for pianists. Edinburgh FREE Noisy Nights Traverse Bar Café, Cambridge Street, 228 1404. 8pm. The Red Note Ensemble continues its series of chamber concerts showcasing just-written music by new and emerging composers. Tonight’s batch is for the combination of trumpet, viola and French horn.
■ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Maestros’ Choice 2 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£23 (£8–£21). Donald Runnicles conducts a longtime BBC SSO favourite, James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, and pianist Shai Wosner joins the orchestra for Mozart’s bold, majestic Piano Concerto No 25. Finally, Ravel’s magical Daphnis et Chloe with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. With a Pre-Concert Prelude at 6.45pm and a Post-Concert Coda. Edinburgh ■ Organ Recital: Susan Harrington St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Retiring collection. A lunchtime recital of works by Couperin, Buxtehude, Bach, Messiaen and Franck. FREE Roskilde Studiekor National Gallery Complex, The Mound, 624 6200. 6pm. The Danish choir performs works by fellow Danes. ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven Five The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £8.50–£26 (concessions available). See Wed 14.
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Glasgow FREE Organ Recital: Kevin Bowyer Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, The Square, off University Avenue, 1.10pm. The organist performs the second suite from Louis Vierne’s Pièces de Fantaisie. ■ Fujita Piano Trio Ramshorn Theatre, 98 Ingram Street, 548 3444. 1.15pm. £4. See Sat 10. Tickets on the door. Edinburgh FREE Boreus Reed Ensemble Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 1.10pm. The group, comprising reed instruments from the oboe to the huge contrabassoon, performs a varied programme, featuring Bach, John Williams and Piazzolla. ■ 20th Century British Organ Music (1951–2000) St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, 229 1142. 7.30pm. £tbc. Edinburgh Society of Organists’ president Andrew Caskie is joined by organist Jeremy Cull for the first of a two-part exploration of 20th century British organ music. ■ Paul Potts Playhouse, 18–22 Greenside Place, 0844 847 1660. 7.30pm. £27.50. See Sun 11.
Wednesday 14
Edinburgh ■ Edinburgh Quartet Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 7.30pm. £12 (£2–£8). The leading chamber ensemble performs quartets by Shostakovich, Schumann and Mozart. St Andrews ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven Five Younger Hall, North Street, 01334 475000. 7.30pm. £10–£19 (concessions available). Beethoven’s instantly recognisable symphony provides a big finale to this concert, which opens with Borodin’s symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and features Henning Kraggerud as soloist in Sibelius’ formidable Violin Concerto. Joseph Swensen conducts.
Glasgow ■ RSAMD Wind Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £9 (£6). Works by contemporary Scottish composers. ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven Five City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£24 (concessions available). See Wed 14.
Edinburgh FREE Harpsichord Recital: John Kitchen St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, 650 2427. 1.10pm. John Kitchen performs works by Handel, including the overture to Rinaldo and the Suite in E (‘Harmonious Blacksmith’). ✽✽ RSNO: Angelic Memories Usher 7.30pm. £10–£32 (concessions available). Stéphane Denève conducts a lyrical and romantic programme of Ravel’s elegiac Pavane pour une infante défunte and Dvorák’s Symphony No 7, and Leonidas Kavakos performs Berg’s Violin Concerto, one of the serialist movement’s more accessible works. With a pre-concert talk at 6.45pm. Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155.
Perth ■ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Daphnis et Chloe Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £8.50–£22. See Thu 15.
Saturday 17
Glasgow ✽✽ RSNO: Angelic Memories Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall
Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£32 (concessions available). See Fri 16.
Edinburgh ■ Organ Recital: Christopher Dyter Reid Memorial Church, 182 West Saville Terrace, 662 1203. 7.30pm. £6. A programme of romantic works, including Widor’s fantastic Third Symphony. ■ Trio Ecossaise Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 7.30pm. £8 (£2–£6). A charity concert of works by Brahms, Beethoven and Muczynski in aid of MS Society Scotland.
Thursday 15 Sunday 18
Glasgow ■ Westbourne Music Merchants House, 7 West George Street, 0141 649 5347, 12.45pm. £7 (£3–£6). The Edinburgh Quartet in an hour long recital featuring Mozart’s The Dissonance and Shostakovich’s intensely powerful Quartet No 8. FREE Fujita Piano Trio Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10pm. See Sat 10. Glasgow ■ NYOS Futures and the BBC SSO City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2.30pm. £5 (£2). NYOS’ contemporary ensemble is joined by members of the BBC SSO in a journey through the ethereal tranquility of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Die Assumptione Beata Maria Virgine, an expression of the Virgin Mary’s bodily assumption into heaven. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ
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Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3pm. See Sun 11.
✽✽ Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Orchestra Royal
Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15–£28. The maestro returns to Scotland to lead the orchestra and soprano Anastasia Kalagina through Dutilleux’s fascinating song cycle Correspondences, a setting of letters from figures ranging from Van Gogh to Rostropovich and Russian luminaries. A climactic conclusion follows with Shostakovich’s political Symphony No 7 (‘Leningrad’), composed during the siege of the city in 1941.
Edinburgh ■ St Giles’ at Six: Coro Edina St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Retiring collection. Works by Parsons, Stanford, Victoria, Palestrina and more.
Monday 19 Glasgow ■ Carnyx Brass Trio RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £5 (£3). Three of Scotland’s most talented brass players explore repertoire for brass trio including music by Poulenc and Timothy Cooper. ■ A Rough Guide to Singing James Weir Building, 75 Montrose Street, 548 2682. 5pm. £8 (£6; students free). So you have the singing voice of a strangled cat? Fear not: Alan Tavener and Philip Gault believe anyone can learn to sing. Must be booked in advance.
Tuesday 20
Edinburgh FREE Auricle Ensemble: Pierrot Lunaire Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 1.10pm. Christopher Swaffer conducts Schoenberg’s landmark setting of ‘three times seven poems’ by Albert Guiraud for chamber ensemble and soprano. ■ Organ Recital: Sarah Baldock St Mary’s Cathedral, 23 Palmerston Place, 225 6293. 8pm. £5. The prize winning organist gives a recital.
Wednesday 21 Glasgow ■ Scottish Opera: The Italian Girl in Algiers Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0870 060 6647. 7.15pm. £8.50–£63 (concessions available). Wyn Davies conducts this co-production with New Zealand Opera that brings Rossini’s spirited, fast-paced opera into the 21st century. Soloists include bass Tiziano Bracci in his UK debut and Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. Sung in Italian with English supertitles. See preview, page 81. ✽✽ The Sixteen: The Choral Pilgrimage 2009 Glasgow Cathedral, Castle Street, 552 4267. 7.30pm. £10–£14 (£5–£7). One of the world’s leading early music ensembles, The Sixteen celebrates its 30th anniversary with music by two British composers with outstanding legacies: Henry Purcell and James MacMillan. ■ Duende! and Pure Brass Adelaides, 209 Bath Street, 07784 942055. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Duo of flute and guitar and brass quintet perform in aid of the Make-a-Wish Foundation which supports children with terminal illness.
Thursday 22 Glasgow FREE Glasgow Music Festival Prizewinners 2009 Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10pm. A showcase of the skills of pianist Sarah Ayoub and flautist Helena Gourd in a programme of works by Debussy, Liszt, Liapunov and Fauré.
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✽✽ Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Orchestra A spectacular opening to Glasgow’s International Classical Season with legendary Russian conductor and orchestra in one of Russia’s greatest pieces of symphonic writing, Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony, a work which is very close to Gergiev’s own heart. Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Sun 18 Oct. ✽✽ The Sixteen: The Choral Pilgrimage 2009 One of the world’s leading early music ensembles, The Sixteen, celebrates its 30th anniversary with music by two British composers with outstanding legacies: Henry Purcell and James MacMillan. Glasgow Cathedral, Wed 21 Oct. ✽✽ RSNO: Angelic Memories Stéphane Denève conducts a lyrical and romantic programme of Ravel’s elegiac Pavane pour une infante défunte and Dvorák’s Symphony No 7, and Leonidas Kavakos performs Berg’s Violin Concerto, one of the serialist movement’s more accessible works. With a pre- concert talk at 6.45pm. Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Fri 16 Oct; Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Sat 17 Oct.
■ Cello Masterclass RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 2pm. £3 (£2). Benefit from the expertise of acclaimed cellist Anner Bylsma.
Edinburgh FREE Organ Recital: Isolde James- Griffiths and Michael Harris St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Retiring collection. The duo performs Mozart’s Laudate Dominum and works by Bach, Haydn and Handel. ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: German Romantics The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £8.50–£26 (concessions available). SSpohr and Weber were pioneers of German Romanticism: hear the former’s Symphony No 2 and the latter’s sparkling Clarinet Concerto, with clarinettist Maximiliano Martin, followed by Mendelssohn’s youthful first symphony. Nicholas McGegan conducts. Perth ■ RSNO: The Firebird Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £8.50–£22. Conductor Stéphane Denève leads Henri Dutilleux’ Symphony No 1. Star Norwegian pianist Lief Ove Andsnes, whose performances of Rachmaninov’s piano concertos have won widespread critical acclaim, performs the passionate fourth, and Stravinsky’s lush Firebird.