Music CLASSICAL
RCS: Die Zauberflöte Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £19. See Sat 9. JS Bach’s Jesu meine Freude St Bride’s Episcopal Church, 69 Hyndland Road, westendfestival.co.uk 7.30pm. £5. Choirs of St Mary’s Cathedral sing baroque. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh FREE Peter Backhouse St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Organ recital. FREE Kingwood Chorale: An American Portrait St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 020 8568 5486. 3–4pm. Music from Texas and beyond.
Friday 15
Glasgow Daniel’s Beard Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door (students £5; under 16s free). Pieces by Bartók, Martinu and Janácek. CCP. AiDADUO: The FaceBach Project Barony Hall, Rottenrow East, strathstudents.com 7.30pm. £10 (£5; students £2). Organ music by Bach plus piano and organ improvisations in a multi-media work. sound lab presents Edit Point City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £6. Experimental clarinet music, featuring Cameo Clarinet Quintet and Alastair MacDonald. Edinburgh FREE Christ Congregational Chancel Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Choir from Maryland. FREE Kaneland Madrigal Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 3pm. Choir from Chicago high school. Drake Music Scotland: Technophonia The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10 (£5). A new work by Oliver Searle. Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Saturday 16
Glasgow FREE Live Music Now: Fraser Langton & Juliette Philogene Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle St, 276 9599. 11.45am–12.30pm. Pieces for clarinet and piano by Debussy, Gershwin, Finzi and others. Part of Refugee Week. Daniel’s Beard: Hear My Music Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 4pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door (students £5; under 16s free). Works by Sayers, Martin and Prokofiev. CCP. Alba Brass Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door (students £5; under 16s free). World premiere of Gough’s Bagatelle Suite; Scottish premiere of McGuire’s Auriga and other pieces. CCP. Da Capo Alba St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, booking via wegottickets.com 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Guitar and mandolin music. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh Calton Consort: Ein Deutsches Requiem Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Jason Orringe directs Brahms, with soprano Emma Morwood, baritone Nicholas Morris and pianists Ingrid Sawers and Andrew Johnston. Edinburgh Bach Choir St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, 229 1142. 7.30pm. £14 (£12; students £5; children free). Works by Parry, Gorecki, Tavener, Palestrina and MacMillan. New Edinburgh Orchestra St Serf’s Parish Church, 280 Ferry Rd, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £9 (£6; children £1). Tim Paxton conducts David Horne, Elgar and Dvorák. Susanne Ehrhardt & John Kitchen
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Monday 18
Glasgow Red Note Ensemble: From Reels to Ragas Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door (students £5; under 16s free). Music by Weir, Bhamra, Swayne, Sheng, Shave, Lutoslawski and the late John Mayer. Edinburgh FREE Tveiteraas Skolekorps St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Norwegian band.
Tuesday 19
Glasgow Daniel’s Beard Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door (students £5; under 16s free). Shostakovich and Beethoven quartets. Edinburgh FREE Trinity UCCSA Church Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Church choir from Botswana. Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. See Tue 12. FREE St Mary’s Music School Directors’ Recital Prize St Mary’s Cathedral, 23 Palmerston Place, 225 6293. 7.30pm. Student competition.
Wednesday 20
Glasgow Csengele Quartet Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door (students £5; under 16s free). Wilson’s Quartet No 4 and Schumann’s Piano Quintet with Pearl- Lynne Chen on piano. CCP. Gloria X Wellington Church, 77 Southpark Avenue (off University Avenue), 334 0454. 7.30pm. Entry by donation. Pieces by Parry, Handel and Vaughan Williams, plus hymns. Part of the West End Festival. Wilma MacDougall & Paul Keohone The Mackintosh Church, Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, 946 6600. 7.30pm. £10 (£5). Songs by Burns, Mendelssohn and Mozart, plus showtunes. Geoffrey Tanti (piano) accompanies. West End Festival. Edinburgh FREE Very Wednesday St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. See Wed 30.
Thursday 21
Glasgow Sax Ecosse Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door (students £5; under 16s free). Works by Dove, Dubois, Cutler, Pierne and Escaich. CCP. David Hamilton: Widor Organ Symphonies St Bride’s Episcopal Church, 69 Hyndland Road, westendfestival.co.uk 7.30pm. £5. Widor’s ninth and tenth Organ Symphonies. West End Festival. FREE Midsummer Reflections: Fauré’s Requiem Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 9pm. University Chapel Choir, directed by James Grossmith. Organist Kevin Bowyer accompanies. West End Festival.
Edinburgh FREE Brigitte Harris St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Baroque organ recital. Stirling Big Noise: The Big Concert Raploch Community Campus, Forth Valley College, Drip Road, 0844 477 1000. 7.45pm. £12–£25 (under 16s £5). Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra with a special appearance by Big Noise, the UK’s first el sistema orchestra.
CHORAL, SAX AND ORGAN RECITALS WEST END FESTIVAL Various venues, Glasgow, Fri 1–Sun 24 June; Sax Ecosse, Cottier Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 21 Jun
Classical music always has a strong presence at Glasgow’s West End Festival these days, but this year is extraordinary. Not only does the Cottier Chamber Project make a big-style return visit with small-scale music, but no less than nine choirs form what amounts to a new mini- choral festival. Organ recitals sit alongside music from Broadway; Ukranian soprano Oksana Mavrodii performs Slavonic music hot on the heels of an evening of Gaelic song; composers’ birthdays are celebrated and international visitors are welcomed.
Chamber groups in the Cottier line-up are proud to be the usual
suspects in one big happy Scottish chamber music family. Mr McFall’s Chamber, Hebrides Ensemble, Dunedin Consort, SCO Winds, the Scottish Ensemble and Red Note, for instance, are programmed alongside younger groups such as Alba Brass and saxophone quartet Sax Ecosse. ‘It’s so good for us to have been asked back to play by the Cottier Project,’ says Karen Dufour, who plays soprano saxophone with the quartet. ‘It’s our fourth time at the West End Festival. For three of the members, Glasgow is our home town and we all studied here, so it’s great to be doing something local. Also, we’ve got free rein with our programme, so we get to choose music that we really enjoy.’
Sax Ecosse’s programme is a good example of some of the more unusual gems of the chamber music repertoire that’s not often heard, all of it written originally for saxophone quartet, so no transcriptions or arrangements. ‘The Festival really helps us build our reputation,’ says Karen Dufour, ‘and, for us, it’s been a fantastic way of getting experience, building up our repertoire and our fan base.’ Their music is a mixture of French traditional through to new American, at times theatrical, but also virtuosic, light-hearted and inspired by tango and jazz. (Carol Main)
St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £14 (seniors £10; students and unwaged £5). Baroque works for woodwinds and harpsichord. Sunday 17
Glasgow FREE Choral Eucharist St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Gt Western R=d, 337 2862. 10.30am. Including Vaughan Williams’ The Song of the Tree of Life. Part of the West End Festival. RSNO: Chamber Series – Italian Baroque Gems St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, 337 2862. 2.30pm. £12 (disabled £6; under 26s £5; under 16s free). See Sun 10. Part of the West End Festival Music for the Jubilee Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church, Observatory Road, 334 2788. 4pm. Entry by donation. Choral pieces by Blow, Purcell, Handel and Parry. Part of the West End Festival. Antonine Trio Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door (students £5; under 16s free). Violin, horn and piano trio with guest baritone play Spedding and Plog and the world premiere of Turner’s Six Lives of Jack McBride. CCP.
FREE Choral Evensong St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, 337 2862. 6.30pm. Features world premiere of Maxim’s First Evening Service. Part of the West End Festival. Russkaya Capella: Images of Russia in Choral Music St Peter’s RC Church, 46 Hyndland St, westendfestival.co.uk 6.30pm. £6 (£4). Sacred and secular Russian music. Part of the West End Festival. Mackintosh Choir Summer Concert Mackintosh Church, Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Rd, 946 6600. 7pm. £5 (£2). Modern and classical songs. Part of the West End Festival. FREE Big Hymn Sing-In Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 7.30pm. University Chapel Choir and organist Kevin Bowyer lead a sing-in. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six: Cantica Alba St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Madrigals, part-songs and folksong arrangements. Sospiro: Bach and Handel Church of St Mary Star of the Sea, 106 Constitution St. 7.30pm. £10 (£7). Bach’s Magnificat and Handel’s Coronation Anthems.