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free). Wind chamber concert featuring Beethoven’s Wind and Piano Quintet, Summer Music by Samuel Barber, Three Shanties by Malcolm Arnold and Hindemith’s Kleine Kammermusik amongst others. A glass of wine is included in the ticket price. ■ The Da Vinci Piano Trio Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. 7.30pm. £23.50 (£21.50). The revered violin, cello and piano combo perform Brahms’ Piano Trio No 3 in C Minor and Eddie McGuire’s Elegy for Piano Trio alongside a selection of popular duos from Ravel, Elgar and Cassado. The ticket price includes a light supper. ■ The Quodlibet Chorale Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.30pm. £8 (students £5). Rachmaninov’s gorgeous and gentle All-Night Vigil (Vespers) headlines the programme for an evening of beautiful choral pieces by leading lights Tavener, MacMillan, Gorecki and Martin.
Sunday 6
Glasgow ■ In Time St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 3pm. £7 (£5). Multimedia concert exploring the idea of the movement of cultures and diaspora communities, featuring visual artist Lin Li alongside the Filip-Kimho Duo and Russian vocal ensemble Russkaya Cappella. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists. Edinburgh FREE Nicholas Wearne St Mary’s Cathedral, 23 Palmerston Place, 225 6293. 4.30pm. Organ works by Leighton. ■ Rupert Jeffcoat St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Retiring collection. The evening’s programme includes music by Byrd, Bach, Leighton, Parry, Ridout and Schmidt.
Monday 7 Perth ■ Philip Higham Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 1pm. £6.50 (£5.50) in advance; all tickets £7.50 after 11am on the day. The accomplished Edinburgh-born cellist and prime contender for most handsome classical musician on the block performs all of Bach’s Cello Suites in three lunchtime concerts.
Tuesday 8 Edinburgh ■ First Battalion Scots Guards Pipes and Drums Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.30pm. Retiring collection. A performance from some of the military’s finest musicians, with a
retiring collection taken for the Colonel’s Fund, a charity which provides rehabilitation to Scots Guardsmen injured in Afghanistan and the families of those left behind.
Wednesday 9
Glasgow ■ Hutchesons’ Grammar School: Shall Brothers Be City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £12.50. Pupils from the school are joined by singer and broadcaster Jamie MacDougall in a celebration of international brotherhood with Wagner’s Overture: Die Meistersinger and excerpts from Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 alongside music by John Rutter, Alexander L’Estrange and a stirring Burns-inspired finale.
Edinburgh ■ Chinese New Year Gala Performance Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£30. A gala concert to celebrate the start of the Year of the Rabbit, entitled ‘Cultures of China, Festival of Spring’. Leading Chinese soloists Song Zuying, Yan Weiwen and Cai Guoqing are on the billing alongside dancers from Mongolia and Tibet and leading ethnic folk musicians. Perth ■ Paul Lewis Plays Schubert Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £10–£20 (£8–£18). Fresh from his triumphant Proms performance, the pianist sets forth to conquer three pieces by Schubert – the Piano Sonata in C D840, the Piano Sonata in D D850 and Drei Klavierstücke D946.
St Andrews ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Stravinsky’s Chamber Ballets II Younger Hall, North Street, 01334 462226. 7.30pm. £10.50–£19.50. In the second in the series of concerts exploring the ballet music of Stravinsky, Robin Ticciati conducts the SCO through Haydn’s Scena di Berenice and Symphony No 96 ‘Miracle’, Stravinsky’s Apollon Musagète, and the world premiere of Colin Matthews’ orchestration of Fauré’s Melodies. Featuring world-class soprano Sally Matthews.
Thursday 10 Glasgow ■ Benn Artair Trio Westbourne Music, 7 West George St. 12.45pm. £7 (£6; students/children £3). A new Scottish piano-based outfit presents a programme of classic chamber music including Mendelssohn’s Trio in D Minor. FREE Mhairi Lawson and Jan Waterfield Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10–2pm. A sonic voyage from Venice to Glasgow with soprano Lawson performing songs by Rossini, Fauré,
Ravel, Schubert, Scott, Sweeney and Beethoven. ■ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Sacred and Profane 2 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£23 (concessions available). Vocal soloists Helena Juntunen and Matthew Worth and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus join the BBC SSO for Brahms’ hair-raisingly powerful Ein Deutsches Requiem, written when the composer was mourning the death of his mother. The theme of mortality is present from the outset, with Haydn’s Symphony No 44 (‘Trauer’) – the ‘mourning’ symphony. Donald Runnicles conducts.
Edinburgh ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Stravinsky’s Chamber Ballets II The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £9–£27. See Wed 9. Perth ■ Scottish Ensemble: Side by Side Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £9–£14.50 (students/Young Scot cardholders £5). The Ensemble is once again joined by senior students from the RSAMD in a concert celebrating the work of British composers, including the première of Joe Cutler’s new work for solo violin, ensemble and electronics. Also on the programme are Britten’s Prelude and Fugue and Tippett’s Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli among others.
Friday 11
Glasgow ■ Donald Runnicles and the RSAMD Symphony Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £10.50 (£7.50). A concert celebrating the bestowal of an honorary doctorate upon the noble brow of master baton-wielder Donald Runnicles, who is both principal conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and RSAMD International Fellow in Conducting. The programme features music by Elgar and is led by Runnicles himself alongside Jessica Cottis. ■ Louise Collett and Christopher Baxter Milngavie Music Club, Cairns Church, 11 Buchanan Street, Milngavie, 942 3102. 7.30pm. £10 (students £5; schoolchildren free). Young RSAMD graduate and Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, mezzo-soprano Louise Collett performs music by Handel, Mendelssohn and Brahms along with songs by Vaughan Williams, Debussy, Chausson and Britten. She is accompanied by fellow RSAMD graduate Christopher Baxter on the piano. ■ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Stravinsky’s Chamber Ballets II City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£25. See Wed 9.
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✽✽ Sites and Sounds Matching music with its ideal performance space can bring incredible results. In Glasgow’s new Sites and Sounds initiative, the magnificent grandeur of Kelvingrove Gallery’s central hall is just the place for the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in the mystic sounds of their countryman Arvo Pärt and Britain’s John Tavener. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Fri 11 & Sat 12 Feb. ✽✽ Orlando One of Handel’s greatest achievements but not often performed, Orlando is an adaptation from the 16th century romantic epic, Orlando Furioso. In this new Scottish Opera production, updated by director Harry Fehr to 1940, Orlando is a RAF pilot and war hero being treated in a London private hospital. Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Tue 15, Sat 19 & Sat 26 Feb; Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 3 & Sat 5 Mar. ✽✽ SCO: The Voice of a City An afternoon musical portrait of Edinburgh complete with the One O’clock Gun, Miss Jean Brodie, Sean Connery and 300 local singers of all ages, which was written by the late Edward Harper in 2003 to celebrate the first phase of the Usher Hall refurbishment and its organ. Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 5 Feb. 3–17 Feb 2011 THE LIST 81