Music CLASSICAL
Thursday 15 Edinburgh The Edinburgh Quartet Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. 7.30pm. £13.75 (£11.75); with supper £23.75 (£21.75). The quartet tackle Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
Stenton Hebrides Ensemble Stenton Parish Church, 0131 473 2000. 3pm. £12 (students £8). The Hebrides Ensemble plays Schubert’s Trio in B Flat D471, Kurtág’s Signs, Games and Messages and Mozart’s much-loved Divertimento in E Flat K563. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Friday 16 Monday 19
Haddington SCO: Lammermuir Festival Opening Concert St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 01620 823738. 8pm. £10–£20 (students £8). Mozart’s coffee-shop favourite, the Clarinet Concerto, plus Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’, Arriaga’s Overture ‘Los Esclaves Felices’ and Barber’s Canzonetta for Oboe and Strings. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Saturday 17
Glasgow FREE Barony Hall Open Day with Organ Music Barony Hall, Rottenrow East, 353 8000. 10am–4pm. Free performances from John Butt, Colin Mackay, George Wilson, David Hamilton, Christopher Nickol and Michael Harris. BBC SSO: Hitchcock’s Psycho: Live City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £12. Bernard Herrmann’s music for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is a classic of movie scoring. The BBC SSO accompanies a full screening of the movie with the live score. Over 15s only. Glasgow Phoenix Choir Diamond Jubilee: Coronation, Requiem & Gloria Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £8–£15. Glasgow’s venerable choir sings it up with a programme that includes Handel’s royal-tastic Zadok the Priest and Fauré’s ever-popular Requiem. With special guests. Musselburgh NYCoS: Choral Music at Inveresk St Michael’s Parish Church, Inveresk, 473 2000. 3pm. £12 (students £8). An impressive programme of French and British music, with highlights being works by Fauré, Poulenc and Alain. Christopher Bell conducts with Stephen Doughty on organ. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Sunday 18
Glasgow BBC SSO: Music to be Murdered By City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3pm. £12. A celebration of the centenary of the great Bernard Herrmann. Conducted by John Wilson. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 28. Edinburgh RSNO: Chamber Series – A Woodwind Serenade Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. 2.30pm. £12 (concessions available). See Sun 11. FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Emma Versteeg (soprano) and Chris Bragg (organ) play Andriessen’s Miroir de Peine and Stanford’s Bible Songs.
North Berwick Red Note Ensemble: 1000 Airplanes On The Roof National Museum of Flight, East Fortune Airfield, 0131 473 2000. 8pm. £15 (students £8). Philip Glass and David Henry Hwang’s music drama about alien abduction is staged with dazzling visuals by original designer Jerome Sirlin. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
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Tuesday 20
Edinburgh Get Organised!: Great Melodies on the Organ Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. John Kitchen (organ) plays popular classics including Mozart, Dvorák, Sullivan and others. Haddington Jennifer Koh: Bach at Lennoxlove Lennoxlove House, 0131 473 2000. 7.30pm. £20. A programme for solo violin, with works by Bach, Ysaÿe, Carter, Saariaho and Salonen, and climaxing after the interval with Bach’s mighty Partita No 2 in D Minor. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Wednesday 21 Dunbar Mozart Wind Music Dunbar Parish Church, Queen’s Road, 0131 473 2000. 7.30pm. £12 (students £8). The Stevenson Winds of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, under the direction of the RSNO’s John Cushing, play works by Stravinsky, Weber, MacMillan and Beethoven but above all Mozart, including an arrangement of
tunes from La nozze di Figaro and the Serenade in E flat K375. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Thursday 22
Glasgow Edinburgh Quartet Westbourne Music, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £3–£6. The quartet in recital. Michel Doneda & Jonas Kocher/Lambs Gamble Street Level Photo Works, Trongate 103, 552 2151. 7pm. Entry by donation. Experimental music from French improvising sax player Doneda and Swiss accordionist Kocher, plus more free playing from drummer Fritz Welch, guitarist Eric Boros and bassist George Cremaschi. Haddington BBC SSO: Rossini, Menotti and Dvorák St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 0131 473 2000. 8pm. £10–£20 (students £8). The BBC SSO dons its collective stetson for Rossini’s cowboytastic William Tell Overture and Dvorák’s ‘New World’ Symphony. Also Menotti’s Violin Concerto with soloist Jennifer Koh. Part of Lammermuir Festival
Glasgow Nigel Kennedy SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. 7.30pm. £35–£45. The violinist performs a programme including Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, accompanied by the Orchestra Of Life and The Nigel Kennedy Band. Haddington Stile Antico: Victoria – The Immortal Glory of Spain St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 0131 473 2000. 8pm. £10–£20 (students £8). Award-winning vocal group Stile Antico performs works by Tomás Luis de Victoria and some of his peers, including Janequin, Palestrina and Morales. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
PREVIEW TRIPLE BILL OF SATIRE AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY SCOTTISH OPERA The Seven Deadly Sins, HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, 29 Aug & 3 Sep; O2 ABC, Glasgow, 31 Aug & 1 Sep; Greek, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1 & 2 Sep; Orpheus in the Underworld, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 8, 10, 11 Sep. See scottishopera.org.uk for info.
Scottish Opera-goers are spoiled for choice in early September as the company puts on no less than three different productions in the space of just over a week with one of them, Orpheus in the Underworld, then heading off on tour all around Scotland. But, with a little help from their friends, it seems that anything is possible for Scottish Opera these days, especially if it is all done in the interests of serving their audiences. In co-productions with Company Chordelia, Music Theatre Wales and Northern Ireland Opera, the three
operas on stage are, respectively, Kurt Weill’s 1930s satire The Seven Deadly Sins, Mark Antony Turnage’s Greek, a modern retelling of the Oedipus story and, turning again to ancient mythology but completely different in style, Orpheus complete with a new libretto from Rory Bremner. ‘It’s our duty as a national company to get as much on stage as possible’, says Alex Reedijk, general director. ‘In this day and age, the only way to do so is in partnership with other people. We are taking advantage of tiny pockets of money to squeeze out extra performances.’ The partners are all known collaborators to Scottish
Opera and share their aims for high quality. ‘We have to be a bit chameleon-like,’ says Reedijk, ‘and it’s very much about figuring out how to talk to each other in a common language, even making sure that we all know what we mean by ‘opera.’. Ultimately, it’s for the benefit of all of our audiences.’ (Carol Main)