MUSIC | Classical Saturday 11
Glasgow Sound of Thought CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Times vary. Prices vary. See Fri 10. BBC SSO: Hear and Now 3 – MacMillan conducts MacMillan City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8–10pm. Free but limited to four per application. World premieres of The Keening and the hitherto unperformed Symphonic Study. Johann Strauss Gala: A Viennese Party Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 3pm & 7.30pm. £18.50–£30. Rainer Hersch conducts Straussian waltzes and polkas.
Sunday 12
Glasgow Sound of Thought CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Times vary. Prices vary. See Fri 10. Edinburgh Johann Strauss Gala: A Viennese Party Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 3pm. £22. See Sat 11.
Wednesday 15 Edinburgh Edinburgh Quartet St Andrew’s and St George’s Church, 13 George Street, 225 3847. 5.30pm. String quartets by Mendelssohn.
Thursday 16 Glasgow Walcer Prize for Violin Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 9.30am. £4 (£3). Student competition. Amici Cello Trio Westbourne Music, 7 West George Street, 221 1876. noon. £8 (£7; students and children £4). Music for three cellos by Cervetto, Beethoven, Kodaly and Pärt. FREE Peter Fisher and Peter Hewitt Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10–2pm. Works for violin and piano by Cecilia McDowall and Brahms. BBC SSO: Grieg Piano Concerto City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£24. Donald Runnicles conducts works by Aaron Kernis and Shostakovich, plus Grieg’s Piano Concerto featuring Lars Vogt.
Friday 17
Glasgow ✽ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: A Night in Italy City Halls,
Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £14– £28. Enrique Mazzola conducts Renata Pokupic in extracts from Respighi, Rossini and Menotti.
Edinburgh Northern Lights The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8pm. £12. Six musicians (Brian Finnegan, Niall Vallely, Ailie Robertson, Donald Grant, Nikolaj Busk and Ale Carr) bridge the gap between classical and folk. Saturday 18
Glasgow Junior Conservatoire: Beethoven Piano Prize Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 3.45pm. £4 (£3). Young pianists competition. La clemenza di Tito (RCS) Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50– £21.50. Timothy Dean and Fergus Macleod conduct, and Ashley Dean directs, Mozart’s last opera.
Edinburgh ✽ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: A Night in Italy The Queen’s
118 THE LIST 12 Dec 2013–23 Jan 2014
LIVE PAINTING/PERCUSSION ANIMOTION St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, Sat 14 Dec
Doyenne of percussionists Evelyn Glennie beats out a panoply of driving rhythms on side drum while Russian artist Maria Rud paints a vivid golden cockerel in real time beside her. It’s projected on to a large screen, and everyone in the audience is enthralled as it takes on shape and colour. Or Glennie might be playing the rippling-toned marimba with Rud making bold strokes in oils to create a landscape, or maybe an animal or houses. In a unique collaboration of art, music and digital technology, AniMotion is a concept that started as an experiment, but has captured people’s imaginations, particularly through the performance that took place at the National Museum of Scotland back in April. Rud now returns to Edinburgh with Glennie and projection artist Ross Ashton, but this time to St Giles’ Cathedral.
In a world-premiere performance, Rud will paint live to music across an impressive range of styles from Debussy to David Heath and Dolphin Boy, Gavin Bryars and Glennie herself. Uniting music and painting through a video screen is, of necessity, improvisatory. ‘You can never repeat the same thing twice,’ says Rud. ‘There is always an element of improvisation and each time it is fresh and new.’ In St Giles’, the enlarged images of her artworks will be projected on to the interior of the cathedral using the latest video- mapping technology. Rud is thrilled with this most recent development. ‘My first performance in St Giles’ involved a single projector and a screen for images that were painted to a recital by vocal ensemble Canty. Since then, the whole process has evolved significantly so that I can use the building itself as a blank canvas to highlight the architecture.’ Look out for the next stops in her sights – King’s College, Cambridge, Sydney Opera House and Edinburgh Castle. (Carol Main)
Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10–£30 (£5–£28; under 16s free). See Fri 17. Ensemble Meridiana: Leipzig Connections St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £18 (seniors £16; students and unwaged £5). Music by JS Bach and his contemporaries. Sunday 19
Glasgow Junior Conservatoire: Pre-Juniors Concert Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 3pm. £4 (£3). Showcase for young students. La clemenza di Tito (RCS) Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50– £21.50. See Sat 18.
Edinburgh ✽ Academy of St Martin in the Fields Usher Hall, Lothian Road,
473 2000. 7.30pm. £12–£32. Joshua Bell conducts and leads the world-famous ensemble in concertos by Brahms and Bach (with co-soloist Harvey de Souza) and Beethoven’s Symphony No 1.
Tuesday 21
Glasgow La clemenza di Tito (RCS) Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50–£21.50. See Sat 18. Edinburgh Olga Jegunova Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 11am. £3 (students & schoolchildren free). Latvian-born pianist in recital.
Monday 20 Wednesday 22
Glasgow La clemenza di Tito (RCS) Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50– £21.50. See Sat 18. Glasgow La clemenza di Tito (RCS) Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50–£21.50. See Sat 18.
Andrei Bondarenko and Gary Matthewman Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 0844 493 2202. 7.30–9.30pm. £12 (students £5). Songs by Schubert and Soviet neoromantic Georgy Sviridov. Thursday 23
Glasgow FREE Pellingman’s Saraband Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10–2pm. Susanna Pell (viol) and Jacob Heringman (lute) play 16th and 17th century music with an improvisatory component. La clemenza di Tito (RCS) Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £16.50–£21.50. See Sat 18. Edinburgh Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Meditations on the Sea The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10–£30 (£5–£28; under 16s free). Garry Walker conducts works by Kodály, Sibelius, Kevin Volans and James MacMillan, with guest soloist Maximiliano Martin (clarinet).