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Edinburgh Resonate: Symphonic Finale The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £7 (£3). Student musicians. Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers: In Jejunio et Fletu Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.45–9.30pm. £8 (£5). Choral works by Byrd, Gesualdo, Palestrina and Tallis. Friday 22
Glasgow Song Studio: Scottish Opera Emerging Artists Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £10.50 (£7.50). Showcase for emerging singers. FREE BBC SSO/RCS Concerto Concert City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 1.30pm. Music students perform with the BBC SSO. The Benedetti Sessions: Intermezzo City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 6.30pm. £5. Violin virtuoso Nicola Benedetti plays the ‘Intermezzo’ from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana with a string section made up of members of the public. Opera Scenes Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £13.50 (£11). See Thu 21. FREE RCS Chamber Choir: Britten @ 100 Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, 332 5057. 7.30pm. Choral works by Purcell and Britten. Booking essential. Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Choral Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Choir of St Anselm’s Prep School from Bakewell, Derbyshire. FREE Susan McKenzie & Ingrid Sawers Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Music for saxophone and piano, including Gabriel Jackson’s The Coral Sea and Graham Fitkin’s Gate. Edinburgh University Music Society Symphony Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, eums. eusa.ed.ac.uk 7.30pm. £8 (£5). Student musicians play Brahms and MacMillan. RSNO: Oundjian Conducts Má vlast Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (£5–£17.50; under 16s free). Peter Oundjian conducts Smetana’s symphonic poem, with specially commissioned visuals by James Westwater.
Saturday 23
Glasgow SMC Composition Marathon The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. 3pm. £12 (£10). New music composed over the previous 24 hours. Dunedin Consort, Glasgow University Choral Society and Chapel Choir Bute Hall, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, 330 4092. 7.30pm. £10 (students £7). The Consort, student musicians and members of the public perform Mozart’s Requiem. Glasgow Chamber Choir: Bach X 4. Hyndland Parish Church, 79–81 Hyndland Road, glasgowchamberchoir. org.uk 7.30pm. £10 (£7). Music by Bach and his family. Milngavie Choir New Kilpatrick Parish Church, 28 Kirk Place, Bearsden, milngavie-choir.btck.co.uk 7.30pm. £12 (£10; students & children £5). Mozart’s Requiem, with guest soloists and organist Christopher Nickol. Razvan Luculescu conducts. RSNO: Oundjian Conducts Má vlast Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (£5–£17.50). See Fri 22. Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Choral Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. St Giles’ Norway’s Tynes Musikklag.
David Watkin: Bach Cello Suites Performed, Introduced and Explored Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. 7.30pm. £12.00. SCO principal cellist plays and talks Bach. Edinburgh University Brass Band Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Student musicians conducted by Angus Tully. Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools: Verdi’s Requiem Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30–9.30pm. £13 (children £9). Jason Orringe conducts young musicians and guest soloists. The Scottish Mandolin Orchestras Joint Concert St Mark’s ArtSpace, 7 Castle Terrace, 659 7600. 7.30–9.30pm. £7. Classical, popular and folk pieces. Fitzwilliam String Quartet and Steven Devine: Fiddler Tam’s Grand Piano Party St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £17 (£15; students £5). Quintets by Mozart and Haydn. Presented by the Georgian Concert Society. Edinburgh University Chamber Choir Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 8pm. £8 (£5). Choral works by Handel and Schubert. Eric von Ibler conducts. Gabriel Prokofiev and Peter Gregson The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8pm. £15 (£12). Composer/producer Prokofiev and cellist Peter Gregson present the Scottish premiere of Cello Multitracks.
Sunday 24
Glasgow The Benedetti Sessions: Divertimento City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3.30–4pm. £5 per child; free for one accompanying adult. Nicola Benedetti, guest players and student musicians play Bartok’s Divertimento with Gordon Bragg conducting. Scottish Opera Connect: A Kurt Weill Double Bill Scottish Opera, 40 Edington Street, 332 9000. 3.30pm & 7pm. £5. Young singers perform Der Jasager and Down in the Valley. RCS Junior Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10.50. Orchestral works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, Elgar and Gershwin, with student soloist Hebba Benyaghla. Nigel Boddice conducts. Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Gabriel Jackson’s Requiem.
Monday 25
Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Choral Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Vernon Hills High School Choir of Chicago, Illinois. FREE The Margaret Fletcher Schola Cantorum of Edinburgh Lieder Prize Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 2pm. Competition for music students. Alfie Boe: The Bring Him Home Tour The Edinburgh Playhouse, 18-22 Greenside Place, 0844 871 3014. 7pm. £25–£47.50. West End hits and operatic pop. Perth Benjamin Grosvenor plays Brahms Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £10.50– £20.50 (£8.50–£18.50). Gramophone award-winning pianist Grosvenor and the Maxwell Quartet play Brahms, Beethoven and Bach.
Tuesday 26 Edinburgh FREE James Willshire Reid Concert
Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Works for solo piano by Ronald Stevenson, Chopin and Ravel. Love Music Community Choir Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7–9pm. £5. Community choral concert. Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra and Chorus Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Yati Durant conducts music from films and video games. St Mary’s Music School St Mary’s Cathedral, 23 Palmerston Place, 225 6293. 7.30pm. £10 (£7; schoolchildren £3). Young music students play Mozart.
Wednesday 27
Glasgow Alfie Boe: The Bring Him Home Tour SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. 7pm. £25–£47.50. See Mon 25. Edinburgh FREE The Blank Canvas St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Banter and music from Will Pickvance, Balazs Hermann and special guests. Edinburgh Quartet The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £15 (£12; children & students £5). Quartets by Haydn, Britten and Brahms.
Friday 29
Glasgow Nicola Benedetti: The Silver Violin Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15–£32. Nicola Benedetti, Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) and Alexei Grynyuk (piano) play classic film music. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Wind Band Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 7.30pm. £5. Student musicians conducted by Morven Bell.
Saturday 30 Glasgow Glasgow Wind Band: An Outrage for Concert Band Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10 (£6). Music for wind band by Philip Sparke and Eric Whitacre. Kevin Price conducts. RSNO: Handel’s Messiah Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £12.50–£34 (£5–£17; under 16s free). Paul Agnew conducts Handel’s oratorio.
Sunday 31 Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Dorothea Harris (organ) plays music by Bach, Liszt and Duruflé.
Tuesday 2
Edinburgh Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. Organ recital with guest performers. Wednesday 3
Glasgow sound lab presents Sonic Bothy City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8pm. £6. New music.
Thursday 4 Glasgow Allan Neave The Merchants House, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm.
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✽ BBC SSO: Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Act III Final gripping instalment of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s three-part version of Wagner’s monumental music-drama features the über- passionate Liebestod, sung by Viennese soprano Petra Maria Schnitzer. City Halls, Candleriggs, Thu 11 Apr; Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Sun 14 Apr.
✽ Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Pictured,
above) Founded in 1896, the illustrious Czech Philharmonic appears in Edinburgh for their only Scottish date in a six-city UK tour, each concert featuring music by Czech masters under the baton of chief conductor Jirí Belohlávek Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 13 Apr.
✽ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Britten100 The SCO joins the celebrations for the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth with two weeks of concerts featuring his music. First up is Richard Egarr conducting SCO and SCO Chorus in Britten and one of the composers he most admired, Henry Purcell. Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Thu 18 Apr.
£8 (£7; students/children £4). Pieces for solo guitar and works for guitar and cello. NYCoS National Boys Choir City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3pm. £12. Boys aged 10–16 sing choral works. FREE Scottish Opera: Flying Dutchman Unwrapped Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 6pm. Free, hour-long introduction to Wagner’s opera. See preview, page 96. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £9–£70. Francesco Corti conducts and Harry Fehr directs Wagner’s briny masterpiece. See preview, page 96. Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh University Composers’ Orchestra: ‘Holy Cage! I Can’t Believe It’s Not Mahler’ Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 7.30pm. Michael Graham conducts new work by student composers. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Ticciati conducts Berlioz Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£29 (£5–£27; under 16s free). Romantic works by Weber, Schumann and Berlioz, featuring soloist Antoine Tamestit. Robin Ticciati conducts.
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