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CLASSICAL CONCERT SERIES LAMMERMUIR FESTIVAL Various venues, East Lothian, Fri 12–Sun 21 Sep
Five years is hardly any time for a new festival to get itself established, but since it launched in 2010, it’s difficult now to imagine Scotland’s classical music landscape without the Lammermuir Festival. Each year has brought something new and year five is no exception. For the first time, opera will feature in the programme and five new venues are added to the mix of locations which host ‘beautiful music in beautiful places’. In a new production as part of a collaboration with Ryedale Festival in Yorkshire, the glorious sounds of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea can be heard in the Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh for one night only.
New on the venue list are the upmarket Gilmerton House (pictured), not normally open to the public, and the Victorian Power House, now part of the colliery museum at Prestongrange. Threads of continuity are the impressive medieval St Mary’s Church in Haddington, where the festival opens on 12 September with the first of four concerts featuring the celebrated oboist François Leleux, and the Dunedin Consort, who have performed at the festival every year. This time, they bring their version of Handel’s musical drama Acis and Galatea, performing the original version of the piece under the direction of baroque music expert John Butt. Other highlights are Grammy Award-winning American soprano,
Christine Brewer, who sings Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for the festival’s closing weekend. The National Youth Choir of Scotland returns with the Duruflé Requiem. ‘We’re tremendously excited about this year’s programme,’ say artistic directors Hugh Macdonald and James Waters. ‘We feel sure that people will come from far and wide to enjoy great music performed by some of the world’s finest musicians.’ (Carol Main)
5040. 7.30–10pm. £13.50 (£7.50). Open- air concert with the BBC SSO and a host of special guests including Katherine Jenkins. Edinburgh FREE Lunchtime Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. St Giles’ Gule Blandakor, a choir from Norway.
Dirleton Heath Quartet Dirleton Kirk, Manse Road, heathquartet.com/index.php 11am. £15 (students £10; schoolchildren £7.50). Beethoven’s Quartet in F Minor Op 95 ‘Serioso’, Bartok’s thorny String Quartet No 3 and Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat Op 44, featuring Tom Poster. 3Lammermuir Festival.2
Haddington Royal Northern Sinfonia St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 01620 829354. 8pm. £12–£25 (students £7–£20; schoolchildren £6–£12). William Conway conducts Mozart’s Figaro Overture, Richard Strauss’ Oboe Concerto with soloist Francois Leleux, and Mozart again with Symphony No 38. Part of Lammermuir Festival. Perth Scottish Chamber Orchestra Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621 031. 8pm. £16 (£14; under 26s £5; under 16s free). See Thu 11.
Saturday 13
Glasgow Scottish Ensemble: 20th Century Perspectives – City Spaces and Strings Secret Location, scottishensemble.co.uk 6.30pm. £15. See Fri 12.
✽ BBC Proms In The Park Glasgow Green, Greendyke Street, 0845 401
bad triumph and the virtuous are booted out of town. Christopher Glynn conducts. Lammermuir Festival.
Sunday 14
Glasgow Hebrides Ensemble The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2pm. £5. In celebration of Peter Maxwell Davies’ 80th birthday, his Duo for Violin and Cello, String Trio and Oboe Quartet.
✽ Max at 80: A Celebration – Hill Runes City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3.30pm. £5. In further celebration of the 80th birthday of Peter Maxwell Davies, Sean Shibe (guitar) plays Hill Runes Op 96 and Timothy Walker’s arrangement of Farewell to Stromness. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Max at 80 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 5pm. £5. A group of works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as he goes into his ninth decade: Last Door of Light, Ebb of Winter and An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise. Ben Gernon conducts, with the composer himself present.
Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Philomusica of Edinburgh, directed by Lawrence Dunn, plays music for string orchestra by two contemporary Edinburgh-based composers, Stuart Taylor and Neil MacKay.
Haddington François Leleux Lennoxlove House, francoisleleux.com 2.30pm. £28. The leading oboist of his generation plays works for solo clarinet by Telemann, Dorati, Berio, Silvestrini and Bach. Lammermuir Festival. National Youth Choir of Scotland St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 01620 829354. 7.30pm. £12–£20 (students £7–£13; schoolchildren £6–£10). Arvo Pärt’s Summa and Fratres; de Grigny’s ‘Veni Creator’ (from Livre d’Orgue); and Duruflé’s Requiem. Lammermuir Festival.
Tuesday 16
Edinburgh Get Organised: John Kitchen Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 1.10pm. £3. See Tue 2. Live Music Now: Fraser Langton and Juliette Philogene Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 4pm. £3 (students and schoolchildren free). Clarinet and piano recital. Dunbar Heath Quartet St Anne’s Episcopal Church, Westgate, heathquartet.com/ index.php 3pm. £12 (students £7; schoolchildren £6). Tippett’s Quartet No 2 in F sharp and Beethoven’s Quartet in C minor Op 18 No 4. Lammermuir Festival. Tenebrae St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitekirk, tenebrae-choir.com 7.30pm. £12–£20 (students £7–£15; schoolchildren £6–£10). The choir sings Tallis’ Lamentations of Jeremiah. Lammermuir Festival.
Wednesday 17
Edinburgh FREE Will Pickvance: Piano Speak St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. See Thu 21.
✽ Jamie Barton The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £15–£20 (£12.50–£17.50). American operatic mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton accompanied by acclaimed pianist Llyr Williams.
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✽ BBC Proms in the Park The BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra is joined by the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins and tenor Noah Stewart for Scotland’s contribution to the Last Night of the Proms. Take your picnic and your deckchair and warm up the vocal cords to join in a new nationwide singalong initiative. Glasgow Green, Glasgow, Sat 13 Sep.
✽ Max at 80 Three concerts celebrating the 80th birthday
of British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (pictured, above) start with his chamber music performed by Hebrides Ensemble, followed by the brilliant young Edinburgh-born guitarist Sean Shibe in an arrangement of the popular ‘Farewell to Stromness’ and finish up with the SCO plus piper in Max’s portrayal of an Orkney wedding. Various venues, Glasgow, Sun 14 Sep.
✽ Jamie Barton What a coup to have the American mezzo who won the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition make her Scottish debut with pianist Llyr Williams. The past few years have seen her rise professionally to sing in opera houses around the globe and she is already regarded as one of the great voices of her time. Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Wed 17 Sep.
and Golovanov. Lammermuir Festival. Humbie Heath Quartet Humbie Kirk, Humbie Water, 01620 810515. 3pm. £12 (students £7; schoolchildren £6). Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet and Concertino, followed by Schubert’s mounrful Quartet in D Minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’.
Thursday 18 North Berwick Tenebrae Gilmerton House, Athelstaneford, 01620 880342. 7.30pm. £28. Madrigals by the English masters of the form: Byrd, Gibbons, Morley, Weelkes, Wilbey and others, plus John Kitchen (harpsichord) plays keyboard music by Byrd, Purcell, Handel, Blow, Philips and Kinloch. Lammermuir Festival.
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Musselburgh Ryedale Festival Opera: The Coronation of Poppea The Brunton, Ladywell Way, 665 2240. 7pm. £25–£35 (students £20–£30; schoolchildren £7.50– £17.50). Monteverdi’s opera in which the Haddington Tenebrae St Mary’s Parish Church, The Sidegate, 01620 829354. 8pm. £12–£25 (students £7–£18; schoolchildren £6–£12.50). Music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Grechaninov, Chesnokov