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Wednesday 13 CLASSICAL
Glenrothes ■ Cannon, Campbell, Watchorn and O’Connor Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, 01592 611101. 7.30pm. £19.50. See Fri 8.
Thursday 14
Glasgow FREE Music in the University: Joyce Terret & Hardeep Deerhe Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10–2pm. A concert of Indian music featuring Terret (sarangi) and Deerhe (tabla). Falkirk ■ Cannon, Campbell, Watchorn and O’Connor Falkirk Town Hall, West Bridge Street, 01324 506850. 7.30pm. £18. See Fri 8.
Friday 15
Glasgow ■ Cannon, Campbell, Watchorn and O’Connor Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £20 (£18.50). See Fri 8. Edinburgh ■ Ceilidh Club with Teannaich The HMV Picture House, 31 Lothian Road, 0844 847 1740. 7pm. £10 (£8). Join in a lively ceilidh evening where dances are taught on the night, so all abilities are welcome. ■ Whisky Kiss The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7.30pm. £9. A cool take on traditional Scottish dancing with the ‘ceilidh in a club’ featuring Highland Hotties, breakdancers, trad folk and DJ Grum Stone playing club classics and contemporary house (with the band giving the house hits a ‘tartan twist’). Valentine’s special. ■ Margaret Stewart and Nell Ní Chróinin The Canon’s Gait, 232 Canongate, 556 4481. 8pm. £5. A double bill of sean-nós Gaelic singers.
Saturday 16 Glasgow ■ McGinn Meets Seeger and MacColl Eastwood Park Theatre, Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. 7.30pm. £13 (£11; students £9). The scene-changing folk music of Matt McGinn, Pete Seeger and Ewan MacColl is celebrated in an evening song, with Johnny and Duncan Cameron, Andy Hamilton, Ian Rennie, Gus Simpson and Raymond McGuire taking the stage. ■ Fred Eaglesmith and AJ Roach Stereo, 20–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 8pm. £13. Canadian singer/songwriter/ comedian drawing on early era country and roots, chucking in the odd one liner between tightly crafted tunes.
Sunday 17 Edinburgh ■ Roots Showcase The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Roots, R&B and blues from Toby of Black Diamond Express and friends. Featuring Jack Rabbit’s Foot Minstrels.
Tuesday 19 Glasgow ■ Dave Gibb St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £8. Folkster Gibb presents an original mix of wit and tunes.
Events are listed by date, then by city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to classical@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Alex Johnston and Carol Main. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
Thursday 24 Glasgow Kiryl Keduk The Merchants House, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; students/children £4). Belarussian pianist in recital. FREE Kandinsky Piano Trio Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10pm. The trio plays Schubert’s Piano Trio No 1 D898. BBC SSO: Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ Symphony City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2pm. £7–£9. Schubert’s Overture to ‘Rosamunde’, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 3 featuring young violin virtuoso Stefan Jackiw; Rossini’s ’Italian Girl in Algiers’ Overture and finally Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’. Gerard Korsten conducts.
Friday 25
Glasgow French Fancy: Fauré Chamber Music I Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £9.50. Jacqueline Shave (violin), Robert Irvine (cello) and Aaron Shorr (piano) play chamber music by Fauré. Scottish Opera/RCS: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £6–£22. Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears skilfully converted Shakespeare’s play into an opera using mostly scissors. A co-production with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, conducted by Timothy Dean and directed by Olivia Fuchs. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Romantic Century City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £13–£27 (£5–£25; under 16s free). Mendelssohn’s Trumpet Overture and Schumann’s Cello Concerto with soloist David Watkin are followed by Martinsson’s tribute to Arnold Schoenberg, AS In Memoriam Op 50a and Beethoven’s Symphony No 1. Andrew Manze conducts. Edinburgh FREE John Kitchen Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Solo recital of organ music by Johann Ludwig Krebs. RSNO: Dvorák Eight Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (£5–£17.50; under 16s free). See Thu 24.
Saturday 26
Glasgow Scottish Opera/RCS: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £6–£22. See Fri 25. RSNO: Dvorák Eight Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (£5–£17.50; under 16s free). See Thu 24. Edinburgh Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Romantic Century The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10–£29 (£5–£27; under 16s free). See Fri 25.
Sunday 27
Edinburgh ■ Ceilidh Club Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. 8pm. £6. Ceilidh dancing, furious fiddlers and callers to lead you through the steps. Featuring Heeliegoleerie.
Glasgow ✽Verdi and Wagner Gala with Scottish Opera City Halls,
Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3pm. £13.50 (£11). Richard Wagner was odd: plenty of men pluck their own eyebrows but
most don’t save the hairs. The RCS Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera pair him with his great contemporary Verdi, in Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin, Wesendonck Lieder and Tannhäuser Overture plus Verdi’s Overture to La forza del destino and scenes from Simon Boccanegra. Francesco Corti conducts, with Judith Howarth as guest soprano. Edinburgh Artisan Trio St George’s West Church, 58 Shandwick Place, 225 7001. 1pm. £10 (£5). The trio, with clarinettist Peter Furniss, play Messiaen’s epic and ecstatic Quatuor pour la fin du temps. FREE St Giles’ at Six: The Kevock Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. A concert for the Bethany Christian Trust. Graham Lovett directs choral works by Fauré, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Rutter, and selected folksongs.
Monday 28
Glasgow Clarinets on Show Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £6 (£4). Clarinet students play new music by Claire McCue, Jay Capperauld, Oliver Searle, Donagh Marnane, Richard Greer and Rory Boyle. Edinburgh Auricle Ensemble: The City Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. 8pm. £12 (£10; under 26s £8). A screening of Steiner & Van Dyke’s 1939 documentary The City, with Lewis Mumford’s narration recited by actor Crawford Logan and Aaron Copland’s score performed live by Auricle Ensemble, directed by Chris Swaffer. Booking essential. See preview, page 96.
Tuesday 29
Edinburgh FREE Brian Bannatyne-Scott and Jan Waterfield Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Songs by Poulenc, Ibert and Mussorgsky. Wednesday 30
Glasgow Jock Holden Memorial Mozart Prize Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 5.30pm. £3. Students present Mozart’s great Piano Concerto No 25 K503. Perth Scottish Chamber Orchestra: MacMillan Oboe Concerto Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30–10.30pm. £10.50–£24.50. Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite, Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’ and the Scottish premiere of MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto. Francois Leleux is the soloist and Thierry Fischer conducts.
Thursday 31 Glasgow FREE Jamie MacDougall & Sharron Griffiths Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10–2pm. Tenor and harpist perform Britten’s A Birthday Hansel. BBC SSO: Runnicles Conducts Beethoven’s Fifth City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10.50–£23.50. Strauss’s Blue Danube; Berg’s heartrending Violin Concerto with soloist Julian Rachlin; Webern’s intimate arrangements of Schubert’s German Dances, and Beethoven’s Symphony No 5 with its famous opening phrase, classical music’s equivalent of ‘OMG!’
Folk | MUSIC
Edinburgh Scottish Opera/RCS: A Midsummer Night’s Dream King’s Theatre, 2 Leven Street, 529 6000. 7.15pm. £19.50–£23.50. See Fri 25. Bergen Philharmonic Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£30. Legendary orchestra plays Delius’ On the Mountain, Grieg’s Piano Concerto with soloist Christian Ihle Hadland and Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben. Andrew Litton conducts. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: MacMillan Oboe Concerto The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10–£29 (£5–£27; under 16s free). See Wed 30.
Friday 1
Glasgow Women in the Shadows: Mendelssohn Duets Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £9.50. The music of brother and sister Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, with Sophie Daneman (soprano), Stephan Loges (bass-baritone) and pianist Simon Lepper. Allan Neave & Spotlight Young Artist Kilmardinny House, Kilmardinny Crescent Bearsden. 7.30pm. £5–£10. Solo guitar music by Bach, Weis, Tarrega, Piazolla, Alasdair Nicholson and Peter Maxwell Davies. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: MacMillan Oboe Concerto City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £13–£27. See Wed 30. Edinburgh FREE Herschel Trio St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, 668 2019. 1.10pm. Music for flute/viol/harpsichord trio by Leclair, Marais, Forqueray, Morel, Hotteterre and Rameau. Scottish Opera/RCS: A Midsummer Night’s Dream King’s Theatre, 2 Leven Street, 529 6000. 7.15pm. £19.50–£23.50. See Fri 25.
Saturday 2 Edinburgh FREE Jeremy Cull St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, 229 1142. 12.30pm. Organ music by lesser-known French romantics. Edinburgh Charity Orchestra Canongate Kirk, Royal Mile. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £10 (£6). Chris George conducts Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Brahms’ Symphony No 2. Fiona Dalzell is the soloist.
Sunday 3 Edinburgh Gilbert & Sullivan Society Gala The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10. Savoy Opera highlights directed by Alan Borthwick with musical direction by David Lyle.
Monday 4
Edinburgh Heath Quartet with Isabel Charisius The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £12–£21. Mozart’s Quartet in E flat K428 and Berg’s Quartet Op 3, and Mendelssohn’s String Quintet No 2 with Isabel Charisius (viola).
Tuesday 5
Edinburgh FREE Hebrides Ensemble Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Ravel’s Violin and Piano Sonata and Piano Trio, bookending Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Sleep On for cello and piano. FREE Emanuele Cardi St Mary’s RC Cathedral, York Place. 7.30pm. Organ recital on the theme of the Italian organ in America, including music by Pietro Yon. 24 Jan–21 Feb 2013 THE LIST 95