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Stirling Scottish Chamber Choir: Ancient and Modern Music Stirling Castle, Old Town, 01786 450000. 7.30pm. £tbc. Works by James MacMillan and Scottish Renaissance composers.
Tuesday 24
Edinburgh FREE Duo Alterno Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Music for voice and piano by Donizetti, Puccini, Verdi, Piacentini and Berio.
Wednesday 25 Glasgow sound lab presents Edit-Point City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). New electroacoustic music.
Thursday 26
Glasgow FREE Christina Lawrie Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10–2pm. Works for solo piano by Bach (arr. Busoni), Ronald Stevenson, Chopin and Carl Vine. BBC SSO: Runnicles Conducts Mozart’s Requiem City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11– £24. Mozart’s unfinished masterpiece completed by Robert Levin, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein in Elgar’s meditative Cello Concerto.
concert based on Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen. Ages 6–12. Glasgow Unesco City of Music Family Day. FREE Red Note: Noisy Nights Jr City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2.30pm. Music written by secondary school students. Ages 12+. Glasgow Unesco City of Music Family Day. Scottish Chamber Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 3pm. £2. Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Ages 5–11. Glasgow Unesco City of Music Family Day.
✽ Llyr Williams and Elias String Quartet: Waldstein
and Rasumovsky City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15 (£13; under 26s £5). Beethoven’s Quartet No 8 and Piano Sonata No 21 ‘Waldstein’. Beethoven Festival.
Sunday 29
Glasgow Stephan Loges and Llyr Williams: An die ferne Geliebte City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3.15pm. £15 (£13; under 26s £5). Beethoven’s influential song cycle. Beethoven Festival.
✽ Llyr Williams and Elias String Quartet: Closing Concert City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15 (£13; under 26s £5). Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 22 and Piano Sonata No 33 ‘Appassionata’, and the complex String Quartet No 14 op 131. Beethoven Festival.
Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Choral Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Husie kyrkokör from Sweden. FREE Champagne Flutes Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. Flute trio. Concert supported by Live Music Now. Edinburgh BBC SSO: Runnicles Conducts Mozart’s Requiem Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 4pm. £10.50–£26.50. See Thu 26. FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. The Chalmers Ensemble plays Schubert’s Octet in F.
Greenock Scottish Opera: Rodelinda Beacon Arts Centre, Custom House Quay, 01475 723723. 7.30pm. £14. Handel’s tense tale of shifting allegiances, featuring Sarah Power, Andrew McTaggart and Sioned Gwen Davies. Stirling Cappella Nova: Coronation 500 Church of the Holy Rude, St John Street, 01786 475275. 7.30–9.30pm. £12 (£9). Massed choirs perform plainsong and epic works by Carver and Tallis.
Friday 27 Monday 30
Glasgow ✽ Llyr Williams and Elias String Quartet: The Tempest and the Harp City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15 (£13; under 26s £5). String Quartet No 1 and No 10 ‘Harp’, and Piano Sonata No 17 ‘The Tempest’. Part of Beethoven Festival.
Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh University Lunchtime Concert: John Kitchen Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Organ recital. Dundee St Petersburg String Quartet Marryat Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7.30pm. £12 (£6; children £1). Works by Franz Schubert, Shostakovich and Borodin.
Saturday 28 Glasgow RSNO: Steve and his Seriously Tall Ladder Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 10.30am & noon. Free but ticketed. Storytelling backed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ages 3–6. Booking essential. Part of Glasgow Unesco City of Music Family Day. Children’s Classic Concerts: Into the Ice Palace Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 11.15am–noon & 2–2.45pm. £2. Owen and Olly in an interactive
Edinburgh FREE Red Note: Noisy Nights Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, 228 1404. 8pm. Informal evening of new music. Perth Alisdair Hogarth Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 1pm. £6–£7 in advance; £8 on the day. Piano sonatas by Haydn, Ireland and Rachmaninov.
Tuesday 1
Glasgow FREE Choral Contemplations Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 6–7pm. Student choir sings selections from Bach. Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh Quartet Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 1.10pm. Haydn’s Quartet Op 74 No 1 and Dvorák’s Quartet No 13 Op 106.
Musselburgh Alisdair Hogarth The Brunton, Ladywell Way, 665 2240. 1pm. £6 (£12 inc. lunch). See Mon 30. Perth St Petersburg String Quartet St John’s Kirk, 31 St John Street, 01738 621818. 7.30pm. £11 (students £2). Quartets by Borodin, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.
Thursday 3
Glasgow Edinburgh Quartet Westbourne Music, 7 West George Street, 221 1876. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; students/children £4). Haydn’s Quartet Op 74 No 3 ‘Rider’ and Shostakovich’s grim Quartet No 8. FREE Tai Murray Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10–2pm. Emerging Chicago- born violinist plays Bach and Elliott Carter. Edinburgh Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Beatrice and Benedict Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£30 (£5–£28; under 16s free). Robin Ticciati conducts Berlioz’s last opera, based on Much Ado About Nothing. Sung in French. See preview, page 96.
Dundee Scottish Ensemble: From Russia with Love Caird Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7.30pm. £12 (students £5; accompanied children free). Works by Tchaikovsky and Jonathan Morton’s arrangement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 2. St Andrews St Andrews Voices Various venues, standrewsvoices.com Times vary. Prices vary. Eclectic festival of voice-led music drawn from opera, Lieder, folk, jazz, early music and contemporary genres.
Friday 4 Glasgow Boston Brass Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £10. World-renowned brass quintet. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Beatrice and Benedict City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £14–£28. See Thu 3.
Edinburgh ✽ RSNO: Oundjian Conducts ‘The Planets’ Usher Hall, Lothian
Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £11.50–£36 (students and under 26s £5; under 16s free). Peter Oundjian conducts Holst’s iconic suite, with works by Britten and MacMillan featuring Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano).
St Andrews Hagar in the Wilderness Holy Trinity Church, South Street, 01334 478625. 7.30pm. £16 (£13). The Scottish premiere of Hagar in the Wilderness, a new opera by Sally Beamish and Ciara McGlynn, plus songs by Beamish, Britten, Schubert and Debussy. George Vass conducts. St Andrews Voices. Saturday 5
Glasgow ✽ RSNO: Oundjian Conducts ‘The Planets’ Glasgow Royal
Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£35 (students and under 26s £5; under 16s free). See Fri 4. FREE BBC SSO: Hear and Now – Pintscher Conducts Boulez City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8–9.30pm. Matthias Pintscher conducts Boulez’s electrifyingly sensual Pli selon pli, featuring superb American soprano Marisol Montalvo.
Edinburgh The Edinburgh Singers Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7pm. £12 (£10; under 12s free). Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer plus songs by Vaughan Williams. Meadows Chamber Orchestra St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, 229 1142. 7.45pm. £11 (£9; students £5; children £1). Works by Caponnetto, Gershwin, Brahms and Joseph Swensen. Guest soloist: Svetoslav Todorov (piano). Peter Evans conducts.
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✽ RSNO: Oundjian Conducts ‘The Planets’
No holds barred for the RSNO as they open their winter season in full symphonic flow with Holst’s Planets Suite. War, peace and jollity are brought to great effect in Mars, Venus and Jupiter respectively. Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Fri 4 Oct; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Sat 5 Oct.
✽ Scottish Opera: Don Giovanni Sir Thomas Allen is back in the director’s chair, this time with Don Giovanni, a title role he made very much his own as a singer having performed it over 100 times. Knowing it from the inside bodes well for this new production of Mozart’s dark legend of seduction. And amid all the current stooshie about female conductors, Italian-born Speranza Scapucci is one to look out for as she makes her Scottish Opera main-stage debut. Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Tue 15, Fri 18, Sun 20 (mat), Tue 22, Thu 24, Sat 26 Oct; Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 14, Sun 17 (mat), Tue 19, Thu 21, Sat 23 Nov.
✽ Llyr Williams and Elias String Quartet An autumn
focus on Beethoven in the expert hands of Glasgow Concert Hall’s resident artists, Welsh pianist Llyr Williams and the Elias Quartet, encompasses not only top-flight concerts with the Waldstein and Tempest solo piano sonatas and Rasumovsky and Harp quartets, but also a variety of lectures and workshops. City Halls, Glasgow, Thu 26, Fri 27, Sat 28, Sun 29 Sep.
Sunday 6
Glasgow FREE The Orchestra of Scottish Opera in Concert St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 3pm. Emmanuel Joel-Hornak conducts orchestral music by Mozart, Britten and Shostakovich. Booking essential. Edinburgh Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 3pm. £12–£32. Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini performed by the award-winning Peter Donohoe, with Vladimir Fedoseyev also conducting Beethoven and Tchaikovsky’s respective symphonies No 4.
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