Music CLASSICAL
Kate McDermott & James Willshire Kilmardinny Arts Centre, 50 Kilmardinny Avenue, Bearsden, 931 5083. 7.30pm. £10 (children & students free). Music for clarinet and piano. Edinburgh FREE Mark Bailey & John Kitchen Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Sq, 650 2427. 1.10pm. Bailey (cello) and Kitchen (harpsichord) play JS Bach’s Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord BWV 1027-29. FREE Soundings: Trevor Wishart Alison House, Nicolson Square, 650 9352. 7pm. Veteran sound artist performs his new work Republic. RSNO: Tasmin Little’s Elgar Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11–£34. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the master violinist in Elgar’s Violin Concerto. FREE Soundings: John Kenny & Martin Parker Alison House, Nicolson Square, 650 9352. 8.30pm. New music for trombone and electronics.
Saturday 4
Glasgow Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £9.50–£67. Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel is a darkly funny folktale starring Kai Rüütel, Ailish Tynan and Leah-Marian Jones. RSNO: Tasmin Little’s Elgar Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£34. See Fri 3. Edinburgh FREE Caroline Cradock St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, 229 1142. 1.30pm. Organ recital. FREE Georg Katzer Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 6pm. Solo concert by German composer. FREE Trevor Wishart Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 8pm. Solo concert by veteran sonic artist.
Sunday 5
Glasgow Young Artists in Residence Recital Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Noon. £9 (£7). Concert by student musicians including a baroque bassoon programme. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists. FREE Jean-Luc Guionnet The Chapel, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, 330 4095. 8pm. Experimental improvised organ music. Edinburgh SCO: Chamber Concert The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 3pm. £12 (£5; seniors £10). Llyr Williams (piano), Maximiliano Martín (clarinet) and
106 THE LIST 2 Feb–1 Mar 2012
ARIKA12, Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Did January’s dark abyss suck you under, down into a chasm of nihilistic despair? Do you yearn for a rewarding discussion of pessimism, negativity and what we consider to be ‘ourselves’? You’re in luck. Arika have organised a weekend ‘salon’, raising questions on nihilism through a programme of film screenings, performance art and live experimental music (Japanese noise musician Keiji Haino plays on the Sunday, and anti-composer Walter Marchetti’s ‘last ever composition’ will be performed on the Friday). ■ CCA, Glasgow, Thu 24–Sun 26 Feb. See arika.org.uk for more info.
Jane Atkins (viola) play works by Brahms and Kurtág. Scottish Sinfonia St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Rd, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £12 (£10; children free). Neil Mantle conducts Vaughan Williams’ Pastoral Symphony and Elgar’s Violin Concerto.
Monday 6
Glasgow RCS Brass Department Recital Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £7 (£5). Showcase concert for student brass. Governors’ Recital Prize for Brass Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 2.30pm. £4 (£3). Brass students compete for gubernatorial award.
Edinburgh ✽✽ Mark Padmore & Paul Lewis The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £12–£21 (£11–£19). Tenor and pianist perform award-winning interpretation of Die Winterreise.
Tuesday 7 Glasgow FREE University of Glasgow
Chapel Choir: Choral Contemplations Candlemas Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 6–7pm. Choir sings sacred works by Tallis, Byrd and Rachmaninov. Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh Quartet Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 1.10pm. The quartet plays Haydn’s Op 76 No 3 and Beethoven’s Op 95. Benjamin Saunders St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Broughton Street, 556 1798. 7.30pm. Retiring collection. Organ recital. Dunedin Consort: Brandenburg Series II The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £9.50–£22 (£8–£20). John Butt conducts JS Bach at his most experimental, in Brandenburg Concerto No 6 and Cantata BWV 106.
Wednesday 8 Glasgow Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £9.50–£67. See Sat 4. James Clark Leadership Course Concert Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10.50 (£7.50). Student chamber musicians play Mendelssohn and Debussy. Thursday 9
Glasgow Hebrides Ensemble: Rush Hour 2 Westbourne Music, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £4–£8. Brahms’ String Quintet No 2 Op 111 and Alasdair Spratt’s newly commissioned quintet The Black Tree. FREE Edinburgh Quartet Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10pm. Music for string quartet. BBC SSO: Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2pm. £7–£9. Martyn Brabbins conducts Thomas Wilson’s St Kentigern Suite, Borodin’s First Symphony and Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with soloist Nicolas Altstaedt. FREE Jean-Luc Guionnet & Seijiro Murayama Kinning Park Complex, Cornwall Street, 419 0329. 8pm. Experimental music for organ and percussion.
Opera. Worth a second look. Get £10 tix if you’re under 26. Any seat. Any performance.
Hansel & Gretel 4 -18 February Glasgow • Edinburgh