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Edinburgh Hebrides Ensemble: Rush Hour 2 St George’s West Church, 58 Shandwick Place, 668 2019. 6pm. £6–£10. See Glasgow, above. SCO: Emperor and Eroica Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £9.50–£28 (seniors £7.50–£26; students & children £5). Andrew Manze conducts Cherubini’s Overture: Démophoon, Beethoven’s Symphony No 3 and the Piano Concerto No 5 ‘Emperor’. Friday 10
Glasgow Trio Verlaine featuring Lorna McGhee Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £10.50 (£7.50). Music for flute, harp and piano featuring Scottish-born flautist McGhee. Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £9.50–£67. See Sat 4. Finzi Quartet Cairns Church, 11 Buchanan Street, Milngavie. 7.30pm. £10 (students £5; children free). The young but award-laden group plays quartets by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Debussy. SCO: Emperor and Eroica City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £12–£26 (£5; seniors £10–£24). See Thu 9.
✽✽ Tallis Scholars Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street,
276 9599. 8pm. £15–£20. Singing Allegri, Palestrina and Soriano. Edinburgh FREE Heather Slade-Lipkin St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, 668 2019. 1.10pm. Concert of solo harpsichord music by Martinu, Rameau, JS Bach and Scarlatti. RSNO: Romantic Valentine’s Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11–£34. Romantic classics including Mozart’s Piano Concerto K467, famous from Bo Widerberg’s 1967 weepie Elvira Madigan. Soloist is Simone Dinnerstein, with Christian Kluxen conducting.
Saints Church, Brougham Street, Tollcross, tickets on the door only. 7.30pm. £10 (£7). Handel’s Gloria, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos 2 & 3 and concertos by Handel and Avison.
Sunday 12
Glasgow Young Artists in Residence Recital Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Noon. £9 (£7). Student musicians play works by Bartok, Kurtág and Ligeti. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 5. Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 4pm. £9.50–£67. See Sat 4.
Monday 13 Glasgow RCS Song Studio: From Russia with Love Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £7 (£5). Student singers perform songs by composers such as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Tuesday 14
Glasgow Elgar/Spedding Memorial Prize Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 11am. £4 (£3). Student singers and accompanists sing German art songs. Edinburgh FREE Jean Murray & Audrey Innes Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 1.10pm. Music for flute and piano by Copland, Debussy and John Reid. Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.15pm. £10–£67.50. See Sat 4.
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Glasgow RSNO: Romantic Valentine’s Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£34; under 16s free. See Fri 10. Tallis Scholars Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 8pm. £15–£20. The Tallis Scholars perform works by Allegri, Byrd, Tallis and Carver. Edinburgh David Christophersen: Prokofiev War Sonatas 2 Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £16 (£9; schoolchildren free). Music for solo piano by Debussy, Ruders and Kabalevsky, plus Prokofiev’s 7th Sonata Op 83. Sospiro: Concertos by Bach, Handel and Avison St Michael and All
Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh Quartet Stewart’s Melville College, Queensferry Road. 4.30pm. Music for string quartet. Thursday 16
Glasgow BBC SSO: Heroic Strauss & Prokofiev Piano Concerto 4 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£23. Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche and Prelude to Act 1 of Guntram, Schumann’s Symphony No 3 and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 4 with soloist Denis Kozhukhin. RSNO: Naked Classics – Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, 353 8000. 7.30pm.
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Mark Padmore & Paul Lewis The centrepiece of New Town Concerts Society’s season is sure to be a remarkable experience. The tenor and piano duo of Padmore and Lewis won Gramophone’s ‘Vocal Solo’ award of 2010 for their interpretation of Schubert’s Winterreise and this is an unmissable chance to hear it in Edinburgh. Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Mon 6 Feb.
Tallis Scholars One of the world’s finest choirs, the Tallis Scholars, is set to soar in the glorious acoustic of Kelvingrove’s Grand Hall as they perform the Renaissance masterpiece that has become something of a signature piece for them – the Miserere by Allegri. It’s music that launched their road to stardom nearly 40 years ago, but this is the first time they’ve performed it in Glasgow. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Fri 10 & Sat 11 Feb.
Hebrides Ensemble: Rush Hour Two new commissions are unveiled in the course of a week. Peter Nelson’s Lost Landscapes for seven players is heard alongside Beethoven’s Septet, and The Black Tree by Alasdair Spratt is paired with the G major String Quintet by Brahms. St George’s West, Edinburgh, Thu 2 & Thu 9 Feb; Merchants House, Glasgow, Thu 9 Feb.
£11–£34; under 16s free. Classic ballet score with‘March of the Knights’, surely the only number used as walk-on music by both Iron Maiden and The Smiths. Edinburgh FREE Rudsambee Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. Choral concert. Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel Edinburgh Festival Theatre. See Sat 4.
Friday 17
Glasgow Corti on the Mediterranean Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £13.50 (£11). Francesco Corti conducts suites by De Falla and Respighi. Edinburgh FREE Oliver Hancock Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 650 2427. 1.10pm. Organ recital featuring works by JS Bach, Mendelssohn and Buxtehude. RSNO: Naked Classics – Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Usher Hall. See Thu 16.
Saturday 18
Glasgow Glasgow University Chapel Choir with Dunedin Consort & Players: St John Passion Bute Hall, University of Glasgow University Avenue, 330 4092. 7.30pm. £10 (£7). Scotland’s elite baroque unit teams up with student musicians. Edinburgh Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel Edinburgh Festival Theatre. See Sat 4. Abbandonata: Invocations of Heaven and Hell St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £17 (seniors £15; students & unwaged £5). Works by Corelli, Couperin and Handel.
Sunday 19 Glasgow Young Artists in Residence Recital Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Noon. £9 (£7). Student musicians’ recital includes Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge. Junior Conservatoire of Scotland – Composers’ Sunday Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £4 (£3). Music by the young composers of tomorrow. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 5.
Edinburgh Scottish Ensemble with Lawrence Power The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10. Works by Haydn, Mozart and Alwyn plus a new work by Luke Bedford entitled Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale with Power and Jonathan Morton as viola and violin soloists respectively.
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