Music CLASSICAL
Wednesday 12
Glasgow Martin Aelred St Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church, 21 Kirriemuir Road, Bishopbriggs, 762 1154. 7.30–9pm. £5. See Fri 24. Edinburgh FREE Very Wednesday St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. See Wed 5.
Tranent Music at Winton Winton House, Pencaitland, 0131 473 2000. 3pm. £25 including afternoon tea. An afternoon of two concerts, as Ensemble Marsyas plays pieces by Handel, Zelenka, Vivaldi and Dowland in the ballroom, while Duncan Strachan (cello) and Simon Smith (piano) play Fauré’s Cello Sonata No 2 and Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No 4 in C in the drawing room. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Friday 14 Monday 17
Haddington Dunedin Consort: St John Passion St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 0131 473 2000. 8pm. £10–£25 (students £5). Nicholas Mulroy takes the role of Evangelist, Matthew Brook is Christus and John Butt conducts Bach’s great religious drama. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Saturday 15
Glasgow BBC SSO: Casablanca Live! City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15. Hard to believe that Casablanca is 70 years old – it seems to have been there since the dawn of time. See the cult film of all cult films with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing Max Steiner’s score live.
Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh Renaissance Band Museum of Edinburgh, Huntly House, 142 Canongate, 529 3963. 7–8.30pm. Enjoy this 12-piece band with a glass of wine as they play period music in a historical setting. Dunbar Fandango Quintet St Anne’s Episcopal Church, Westgate, 0131 473 2000. 11am. £10 (students £5). The Maxwell Quartet and guitarist Allan Neave team up for a string-y programme; Wolf’s Italian Serenade, Boccherini’s Guitar Quintet No 4, Brouwer’s Guitar Quintet and Haydn’s Quartet Op 20 No 5 in F minor. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Scottish Chamber Orchestra Dunbar Parish Church, Queen’s Road, 0131 473 2000. 3pm. £10–£20 (students £5). Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin and Mozart’s magnificent final symphony, No 41, bookend Rodrigo’s evergreen Concerto d’Aranjuez featuring Sean Shibe on guitar. Joshua Weilerstein conducts. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Guitar Night Out Belhaven Fruit Farm, Thistlycross, 0131 473 2000. 8pm. £10. Simon Thacker performs world/jazz fusion with Camera Ritmata, and Chris Day performs Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Sunday 16
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3–3.45pm. See Sun 26. Clarkston Martin Aelred St Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Mearns Road, martinaelred. info 7.30–9pm. £5 suggested donation. See Fri 24.
Musselburgh Master and Commander with Robert Hardy St Michael’s Parish Church, Inveresk, 0131 473 2000. 8pm. £10–£20 (£5). Renowned thesp Robert Hardy reads from Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin novels, while the Raeburn Quartet plays music of the sort O’Brian’s heroes used to relax to, including pieces by Mozart, Boccherini, Haydn and Beethoven. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
84 THE LIST 23 Aug–20 Sep 2012
8.30pm. £15 (students £5; under 16s free). This year’s Lammermuir site- specific event is set in the fabulous ruins of Tantallon Castle. Red Note Ensemble performs William Sweeney and Aonghas MacNeacail’s Tantallon! These Lands This Wall, a music and light show designed to bring to life the history of the location. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Tranent Music at Glenkinchie Glenkinchie Distillery, Pencaitland, 0131 473 2000. 5pm. £20. An informal concert of Scottish song, dance and instrumental music from the past 300 years, performed by Mairi Campbell, Mhairi Lawson, Adrian Chandler, Su-a Lee and Jan Waterfield. A distillery tour and dram are included. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Tuesday 18 Edinburgh Northern Lights: Emerging Artists Series Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 11am. £3 (free for students and schools). Award-winning wind quintet playing a diverse repertoire from avant-garde to TV classics. Part of the Emerging Artists Series. Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155.
Edinburgh Gaita: Music and Dance at Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, 225 9846. 11am–3pm. Entry included with cost of castle admission. Medieval tunes and dancing. Haddington Music at Yester Yester House, Gifford, 0131 473 2000. 11.30am. £20. Members of the Hebrides Ensemble play Debussy’s Cello Sonata and Ravel’s Piano Trio and Sonata for violin and cello. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
North Berwick Tantallon! These Lands This Wall Tantallon Castle, 0131 473 2000.
CLASSICAL FESTIVAL LAMMERMUIR FESTIVAL Various venues, East Lothian, Fri 14–Sun 23 Sep
Beautiful music in beautiful places is the strapline of East Lothian’s Lammermuir Festival and, actually, that pretty much sums it up. Delving further into just what that means reveals some pretty phenomenal venues and programmes that can only be offered in this particular part of Scotland. Where else could there be a music and light show in medieval castle ruins on a dramatic coastal outcrop? Or, how else could you make a legitimate visit to the magnificent Yester House, not so long ago the home of Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti who bought it for the acoustics of its impressive salon? Now in its third year, the Lammermuir Festival’s most striking event
for 2012 is Tantallon! These Lands This Wall, with a new work from composer William Sweeney and writer Aonghas MacNeacail, which promises to bring the building, its history and East Lothian’s past to life. Red Note Ensemble provide the music, which will be heard alongside images projected onto the castle’s walls.
‘With 2012 being the Year of Creative Scotland we wanted to do something to celebrate that,’ says festival director James Waters, ‘as well as Lammermuir’s roots of bringing the community together through high class classical music.’ (Carol Main)
1.10pm. £3. See Tuesday 4. With special guests. Dalkeith Martin Aelred St Mary’s Church, High Street, martinaelred.info 7.30–9pm. By donation. See Fri 24.
Haddington Spring in Song Holy Trinity Church, 0131 473 2000. 1pm. £10 (students £5). Andrew Kennedy (tenor) and Joseph Middleton (piano) perform songs on a spring-based theme by Fauré, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Bax, Wolf, Sibelius, Poulenc and Rachmaninov. The concert is being recorded by BBC Radio 3. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Sean Shibe at Lennoxlove Lennoxlove House, 0131 473 2000. 8pm. £25. Award-winning young guitar virtuoso plays Villa-Lobos’ Etude No 1, Albeniz’s Suite Española, Ginastera’s Sonata, Bach’s Prelude, Fugue & Allegro, Fennessy’s Rosewood and Britten’s edgy Nocturnal after John Dowland. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Wednesday 19 Edinburgh FREE Very Wednesday St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. See Wed 5.
Haddington Summer in Song Holy Trinity Church, 0131 473 2000. 1pm. £10 (students £5). The second in a series of four recitals based on the seasons, all featuring accompanist Joseph Middleton, this one has award-winning soprano Sophie Bevan performing summery songs by Finzi, Zemlinsky, Chaminade, Vaughan Williams, Berg, Rangström, Schoeck, Mahler, Aikin, Strauss, Somervell, Britten and Copland. Part of Lammermuir Festival. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 0131 473 2000. 8pm. £10–£25 (students £5). Andrew Gourlay conducts a packed programme, with Nielsen’s Overture ‘Helios’, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan joining in for Elgar’s Cello Concerto, and then Sibelius’ Kuolema: Scene with Cranes and the splendidly sub-Arctic Symphony No 5. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Thursday 20 Glasgow Scottish Opera: La Traviata Eastwood Park Theatre, Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. 7.30pm. £14 (under 26s £5). A new production of Verdi’s classic tale to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth, La Traviata tells the story of Violetta, who hopes to escape life as an escort after falling in love with Alfredo. Directed by Annilese Miskimmon (newly-appointed Artistic Director of the Danish National Opera).
Haddington Autumn in Song Holy Trinity Church, 0131 473 2000. 1pm. £10 (students £5). Joseph Middleton (piano) accompanies Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano) in a recital of autumnal songs by Britten, Wolf, Warlock, Fauré, Schumann, Pfitzner, Ives, Hahn, Delius and Quilter. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Musselburgh La Serenissima: The Four Seasons St Michael’s Parish Church, Inveresk, 0131 473 2000. 7.30pm. £10–£20 (students £5). The Grammy-winning baroque ensemble performs pieces by Albinoni and Vivaldi, including the latter’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, arias from L’Olimpiade and Motezuma and of course the famous Four Seasons. Featuring soprano Mhairi Lawson and Simon Munday on trumpet. Adrian Chandler (violin) directs. Part of Lammermuir Festival.