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Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to suzanne@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Tasmin Campbell and Carol Main. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry Thursday 18
Glasgow FREE Music in the University: Laurina Sableviciute Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10pm. A lunchtime piano recital featuring excerpts from S Vainiunas’ Eight Moods for piano, A Savanenkovaite’s A Journey of the Heart, works by Brahms, Chopin and Liszt, and Morricone’s Rag in Frantumi. ■ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Afternoon Performance City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2pm. £7 (£6 in advance). Christoph König and Martyn Brabbins conduct an afternoon performance to be recorded for BBC Radio 3, opening with Hungarian composer Carl Goldmark’s Overture: Im Frühling. Ailsa Weilerstein is soloist in Schumann’s Cello Concerto and lastly, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 1 (‘Winter Daydreams’). Edinburgh ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Travels in Eastern Europe The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £8.50–£26. A concert with an exotic flavour. Contrasting works by two Hungarian exiles – Bartók’s Rumanian Folk Dances and Ligeti’s Ramifications – are performed alongside Mozart’s ‘Prague’ Symphony and Bassoon Concerto, performed by Peter Whelan. Robin Ticciati conducts.
Perth ■ RSNO: Järvi conducts Tristan and Isolde Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01783 621031. 7.30pm. £8.50–22. The great Neeme Järvi leads a concert steeped in doomed love, opening with Sibelius’s Pelléas and Mélisande. After the success of his epic orchestral version of Wagner’s Ring two seasons ago, Henk de Vlieger has turned his hand to Tristan and Isolde, compressing the opera’s intense emotional landscape into a symphonic work – no mean feat.
Friday 19 Glasgow ■ Karen Cargill, Maximiliano Martin and Simon Lepper RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £9 (£6). The mezzo, clarinet and piano trio performs works by Spohr, Brahms, Schumann and Mozart. ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Travels in Eastern Europe City
Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£24 (concessions available). See Thu 18.
Edinburgh FREE Organ Recital: Nigel Cockburn Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 1.10pm. Works by Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Bach, Couperin and Frescobaldi. ■ Edinburgh Quartet: 50th Anniversary Gala Concert The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £12 (£4–£8). A mainstay of the classical music scene in and around Edinburgh, the foursome is joined by tenor Philip Langridge and pianist Terence Allbright for its 50th birthday concert. ✽✽ RSNO: Järvi conducts Tristan Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£32. See Thu 18. and Isolde Usher Hall, Lothian
Ayr ■ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Town Hall, Carrick Street, 01292 611222. 7.30pm. £3–£20 (concessions available). See Thu 18.
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Glasgow ✽✽ RSNO: Järvi conducts Tristan and Isolde Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£32 (concessions available). See Fri 19. Edinburgh ■ Meadows Chamber Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £10 (£1–£8). Mozart’s famous Symphony No 41 (‘Jupiter’) rubs shoulders with Beethoven’s Symphony No 1 and Haydn’s Representation of Chaos (from The Creation), and horn player Adrian Uren is soloist in Mozart’s Horn Concerto. David Watkin conducts. ■ The Gonzaga Band: Vespers à 4 Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 8pm. £14 (£5–£11). Specialists in 16th- and 17th-century performance, presented by the Georgian Concert Society.
Helensburgh ■ Helensburgh Music Society Victoria Halls, Sinclair Street, 01436 673275. 7.45pm. £9–£11 (£1–£5). Two fantastic pieces of music: Thomas Guthrie sings Schubert’s tragic song cycle Die schöne Müllerin accompanied by Sharona Joshua, who also performs Chopin’s wonderful Ballade in G minor.
Sunday 21 Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists.
■ Romantic Bach: Joanna MacGregor in Recital City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3pm. £12. Perhaps best associated with innovative arrangements and contemporary music, MacGregor is equally recognised as a masterful classical pianist, as she demonstrates in Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations. Edinburgh ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Chamber Concert featuring Karen Cargill The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 2.30pm. £12 (£10). Karen Cargill features prominently in the SCO’s 2009/10 season, and here appears alongside a small chamber group in an intimate, close-up performance of a wide range of works. ■ NYOS Futures Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square. 0141 332 8311. 2.30pm. £5. Latest instalment in a series of contemporary pieces dissected, explained and performed, today focusing on Italian Luigi Dallapiccola and a piece from his early career, Tre Laudi. ■ Quator Diotima Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, 315 3054. 3pm. £5 (students/children free). ecat presents the French string quartet in performance of Helmut Lachenmann’s Grido, with a discussion of the work led by the University of Edinburgh’s Professor Peter Nelson. ■ St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Retiring collection. Leith Community Concert Band performs music by F von Suppé, Tchaikovsky, Gluck and Ponchielli.
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Glasgow ■ RSAMD String Department: Guitars RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £5 (£3). The RSAMD’s guitar students give a lunchtime concert. Edinburgh ■ Quatuor Diotima The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £10 (£7). ecat welcomes back the dynamic young string quartet for a concert of contemporary works including George Crumb’s Black Angels and music by young French post-Modernist, Gerard Pesson. FREE Noisy Nights Traverse Bar Cafe, Cambridge Street, 228 1404. 8pm. Experimental new sounds from emerging, underground and established musicians with the Red Note Ensemble.
Tuesday 23 Glasgow FREE Organ Recital: Kevin Bowyer Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, The Square, off University Avenue, 1.10pm. The final instalment in Vierne’s 24 Pièces en Style Libre, with numbers 19–24.
■ Piano & Strings Ramshorn Theatre, 98 Ingram Street, 548 2558. 1.15pm. £4. The Edington Ensemble presents a mixed bag of chamber works, including arrangements on Elgar and a rare outing for Eddie McGuire’s Duet for Viola and Cello. ■ Carducci Quartet Pollok House Art Society, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 07703 131457. 7.30pm. £15 (£10 for first concert). Pollok House Arts Society presents the Carducci Quartet, whose performances have been met with enthusiastic international acclaim, in Haydn’s Quartet No 30 (‘Joke’), little-known English composer Ernest John Moeran’s Quartet No 2 and Dvorák’s Quartet No 12 (‘American’). Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh Quartet Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 1.10pm. A lunchtime concert of string quartets by Haydn and Schumann.
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Edinburgh ■ Hans Gál Society Canongate Kirk, Royal Mile. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Pianists Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow play music for four hands in a recital of piano duos by Gershwin, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Hans Gál. Dundee ■ RSNO: A Roman Spectacular Caird Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7.30pm. £12.50 (children free). Berlioz’ Roman Carnival Overture provides a bombastic opening to this concert, which sees world-famous pianist Nicolai Lugansky perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3 and includes Guillaume Connesson’s A Glimmer in the Age of Darkness and Respighi’s lush symphonic poem, Pines of Rome.
Thursday 25 Glasgow ■ Westbourne Music The Merchant House, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £7 (£3–£6). Cellist Philip Higham and pianist Simon Lane give a chamber concert featuring works by Beethoven, Britten and Mendelssohn. FREE Edinburgh Quartet Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10pm. Haydn’s Quartet in G major and Howard Blake’s Spieltrieb. ■ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: North by North-East 2 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£23 (£8–£21). Classical superstar Nicola Benedetti exhibits her considerable skills in Sibelius’ fearsome Violin Concerto. Swedish composer Benjamin Staern’s Jubilate receives its UK premiere and finally, Shostakovich’s
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