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Kirkcaldy Opera Bohemia: Madame Butterfly Kirkcaldy Old Kirk, Kirk Wynd, 01592 596 904. 7.30–9.30pm. £12 (£10; under 18s £5). Puccini’s tale of heartbreak features Catriona Clark as Cio-Cio San, Alistair Digges as Pinkerton and is directed by John Wilkie.
Friday 24
Edinburgh Daniil Trifonov The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 11am–1pm. £8–£29. Acclaimed Russian pianist plays Scriabin, Medtner, Guido Agosti, Debussy and Chopin. EIF. Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 8–10.10pm. £12–£42. Exceptional under- 26s from around Europe play Wagner and Mahler. EIF. Clydebank Martin Aelred Our Holy Redeemer Church, Glasgow Road, martinaelred.info 7.30–9pm. Entry by donation. Charity concert featuring acclaimed tenor singing classical, Neapolitan and contemporary songs in aid of Mary’s Meals, a charity that feeds disadvantaged children worldwide.
Saturday 25
Glasgow National Youth Orchestra of Iraq Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £12 (£8). The National Youth Orchestra of Iraq makes its historic first ever visit to the UK in a series of concerts featuring Julian Lloyd Webber, oud maestro Khyam Allami and conductor Paul McAlindin. The programme includes pieces by Schubert, Fauré and the premiere of a new oud concerto by Gordon McPherson. Opera Bohemia: Madame Butterfly St John’s Renfield Church, Beaconsfield Road, Kelvindale, 01592 596 904. 7.30–9.30pm. £12 (£10; under 18s £5). See Thu 23. Edinburgh Anne Schwanewilms, Malcolm Martineau The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 11am–12.45pm. £8–£29. The German lyric soprano is joined by pianist Martineau to perform Wolf’s settings of poems by Mörike. EIF. FREE Gordon Ferries: La Royalle Blackwells, 53–59 South Bridge, 622 8222. 2.30pm. The baroque guitar player launches his new album of early guitar music. The Nutcracker Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 7.30–9.30pm. £12–£42. Josep Pons directs the BBC SSO in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s complete ballet score. EIF.
Sunday 26
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists. Glasgow Schools String Ensemble City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £9. Some of the city’s most talented young string players. Edinburgh FREE Duo da Chiesa St Michael and All Saints Church, Brougham Street, Tollcross. 4–5pm. With retiring collection. Andrea Kuypers (flute) and Philip Sawyer (organ) play the premiere of a new work by Jake Spence and also pieces by Badings, Corelli, Ilari Laakso, Eddie McGuire and Telemann. Budapest Festival Orchestra Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 7.30–9.45pm. £12–£42. Feisty Hungarian orchestra plays Bartók’s Hungarian Peasant Songs and Violin Concerto No 1, and with Mahler’s Symphony No 5. EIF.
National Youth Orchestra of Iraq Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, nyoiraq. com 7.30–9.15pm. £12 (£8). See Sat 25.
Monday 27
Edinburgh Dietrich Henschel, Steven Osborne The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 11am. £8–£29. Wolf, Korngold, Martin and Mahler for baritone and piano. EIF. King Arthur Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 7.30–9.40pm. £12–£42. Choir The Sixteen presents spectacular Restoration drama King Arthur. EIF.
Tuesday 28
Edinburgh Francesco Piemontesi The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 11am–1pm. £8–£29. Swiss pianist performs works by Mozart, Schumann, Webern and Schubert. EIF. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 8–9.45pm. £12–£42. Finnish greats, with Latvian-born Baiba Skride on first violin. EIF.
Wednesday 29 Edinburgh Toby Spence, Julian Milford The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 11am–12.45pm. £8–£29. A morning recital of Beethoven, Mahler and Schumann by the lyric tenor. EIF. The English Concert, David Daniels Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 7.30–9.15pm. £12–£42. Countertenor David Daniels joins period instrument ensemble The English Concert for pieces by the baroque greats. EIF.
✽ Scottish Opera: The Lady from the Sea King’s Theatre, 2 Leven
Street, 473 2000. 8pm. £12–£25. A re-telling of Ibsen’s beautiful drama from author Zoe Strachan and film composer Craig Armstrong. EIF. See preview, page 98.
Thursday 30 Edinburgh Ll_r Williams The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 11am–12.45pm. £8–£29. Prolific virtuoso pianist plays Liszt. EIF. FREE Live Music Now: Tom Poulson and Chris Baxter Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. Poulson (trumpet) and Baxter (piano) perform pieces by Bach and Geddes and a selection of Scottish folk tunes. Philharmonia Orchestra Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 8–9.55pm. £12–£42. Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the orchestra in Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony. EIF. Scottish Opera: In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, 473 2000. 8pm. £25. A double bill exploring the power of the mind, from a locked door that sparks an obsession to a modern bar where three people trying to escape their past meet and uncover a terrible secret. EIF.
Friday 31 Edinburgh Australian Chamber Orchestra The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 11am–12.45pm. £8–£29. Grieg’s heartfelt String Quartet forms the climax of this concert. EIF. FREE Quartet94 City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, 529 3962. 7–8.30pm. Young string quartet plays pieces by Mendelssohn, Elgar and Puccini. Booking essential. Scottish Chamber Orchestra Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 7.30pm. £12–£42. Robin Ticciati conducts a programme of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Mahler and Britten. EIF.
CLASSICAL Music
Scottish Opera: Clemency King’s Theatre, 2 Leven Street, 473 2000. 8pm. £12–£25. Clemency offers a contemporary twist on the Biblical tale of Sarah and Abraham. Written for string orchestra and five voices it re-unites composer James MacMillan and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts. EIF. Saturday 1
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Glasgow Scottish Opera: In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). See Thu 30.
Edinburgh Emerson String Quartet The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 11am–12.45pm. £8–£29. Two late masterpieces from Mozart and Beethoven, complemented by a fresh work by Thomas Adès. EIF. Scottish Opera: In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, 473 2000. Noon. £25. See Thu 30. Scottish Opera: Clemency King’s Theatre, 2 Leven Street, 473 2000. 4pm. £12–£25. See Fri 31. Belshazzar’s Feast Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 473 2000. 8–9.40pm. £12– £42. The EIF all but concludes for 2012 with a rousing finale from Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Edinburgh Festival Chorus. EIF.
✽ Scottish Opera: The Lady from the Sea King’s Theatre, 2 Leven Street, 473 2000. 9pm. £12–£25. See Wed 29.
Sunday 2
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 26. Glasgow Schools Symphony Orchestra City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30–9.30pm. £9. Eric Dunlea conducts some of the best young Glasgow musicians in Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne, Smetana’s Vltava, Sibelius’ Symphony No 1 and Glasgow composer John Maxwell Geddes’ Dances at Threave. Edinburgh Scottish Opera: In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, 473 2000. 3pm. £25. See Thu 30. Virgin Money Fireworks Concert Princes Street Gardens, 473 2000. 9pm. £12.50 standing; £17.50 standing, priority entry; £27.50 Ross Theatre, seated. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra soundtracks the pyrotechnics as another festival season draws to a close. EIF.
Tuesday 4 Edinburgh Flercussion Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 11am. £3 (free for students and schools). Flercussion are a new duo featuring Jo Ashcroft on flute and Calum Huggan on, you’ve guessed it, percussion. Part of the Emerging Artists Series. Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. Organist John Kitchen is joined this time by baritone singer Paul Grant, who performs works by Handel and Vaughan Williams as well as a selection of traditional Scottish songs.
Wednesday 5 Edinburgh FREE Very Wednesday St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Will Pickvance (piano) and guests play classical favourites and new material. Four Corners: Mr McFall’s Chamber with Special Guests Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. 7.30pm. £14 (£12). Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle), Fraser Fifield (pipes/whistles/sax), Corrina Hewat (harp) and James Ross (piano) have each written a new piece inspired by their native corner of Scotland,
Friday 7
Glasgow Scottish Opera: In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). See Thu 30. RSNO: A Night at the Opera Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 8pm. £11.50– £35 (£5–£17.50; under 16s free). An evening of opera arias and choruses, featuring the ‘Triumphal March’ from Aida and ‘Va pensiero’ from Nabucco. Enrique Mazzola conducts, with the RSNO Chorus.
Saturday 8 Glasgow Scottish Opera: Clemency Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 2.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). See Fri 31.
✽ Scottish Opera: The Lady from the Sea Theatre Royal, 282 Hope
Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). See Wed 29. Arunda Wind Trio Lillie Art Gallery, Station Road, Milngavie, 578 8847. 7.30pm. £10 (students £5; schoolchildren free). Wind trio plays pieces by Ibert, Tansman, Mozart and Schulhoff. BBC SSO: Proms Last Night Celebrations in Scotland City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10. A jazz-flavoured prom, featuring Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the great Joanna MacGregor on piano; and arias and songs by Mozart, Bizet, Noel Coward, Richard Rodgers and others, sung by guest soprano Carolyn Sampson. Special jazz guest is the SNJO’s own Tommy Smith. Stephen Bell conducts and Jamie MacDougall presents. RSNO: A Night at the Opera Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 8pm. £11.50– £35 (£5–£17.50; under 16s free). See Fri 7.
Sunday 9
Glasgow ✽ Scottish Opera: The Lady from the Sea Theatre Royal, 282 Hope
Street, 0844 871 7647. 2.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). See Wed 29. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 26. Scottish Opera: Clemency Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). See Fri 31.
Monday 10
Glasgow Portraits and Reflections City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30–9.30pm. £16 (£12). A classical celebration of friendship, featuring Graeme McNaught playing Elgar’s rarely heard piano transcription of Enigma Variations, each of which was inspired by a friend of the composer. Soprano Jane Irwin and violist Jiri Kabat join in with songs of the German Romantics and music by Piazzolla and Edward McGuire.
Tuesday 11
Edinburgh Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. See Tuesday 4. Featuring guest performers. 23 Aug–20 Sep 2012 THE LIST 83