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Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells For Two
Daniel Holdsworth and Aidan Roberts attempt to recreate one of the most influential albums of the 20th century, live on stage, with just four hands and four feet. Those crazy cats.
City Halls, Glasgow
Tue 28 May
£18–£21 / 0141 353 8000
- 19:30
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Mon 27 May
£22 (£20) / 01463 234234
Grand Opera House, York
Wed 19 Jun
£19–£21 / 0844 871 3024
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Scottish Opera: The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance was written in a hurry so that Gilbert & Sullivan could open it on Broadway and finally taste those sweet, sweet American royalties, but in spite of its mercenary origin it's one of the best-loved operettas ever written, a crazily sparkling farce with a bumbling but patriotic pirate crew, some…
Bristol Hippodrome
Tue 18 Jun
£14.75–£47.50 / 0844 847 2325
Wed 19 Jun
£15–£47.50 / 0844 847 2325
Thu 20 Jun
£15–£47.50 / 0844 847 2325
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Thu 6 Jun
Prices to be confirmed / 01463 234234
- 19:15
Fri 7 Jun
Prices to be confirmed / 01463 234234
- 19:15
Sat 8 Jun
Prices to be confirmed / 01463 234234
- 19:15
Edinburgh Festival Theatre
Tue 28 May
£17.50–£74.50 / 0131 529 6000
Thu 30 May
£17.50–£74.50 / 0131 529 6000
Fri 31 May
£17.50–£74.50 / 0131 529 6000
Sat 1 Jun
£17.50–£74.50 / 0131 529 6000
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Ulster Youth Orchestra: Judith Bingham, Dmitri Shostakovich, Modest Mussorgsky
- Directed by: Takuo Yuasa (cond)
- Written by: Modest Mussorgsky
Takuo Yuasa conducts Judith Bingham's Celticity, Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition and Shostakovich's Symphony No 12 In D Minor.
Ulster Hall, Belfast
Sat 24 Aug
£12 (£5) / 028 9032 3900
- 19:45
Alasdair Beatson, Alexander Janiczek and Philip Higham
Beatson, Janiczek and Higham play Schubert's Piano Trio D929.
Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow
Mon 3 Jun
The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines Scotland Concert Series
Military band concerts featuring a variety of styles, from big band to classical pieces. Also a chance to see the famed Royal Marines Corps of Drums.
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline
Thu 19 Sep
£13 (£11; Season £52 concession £44) / 01383 602302
- 19:30
Thu 17 Oct
£13 (£11; Season £52 concession £44) / 01383 602302
- 19:30
Thu 14 Nov
£13 (£11; Season £52 concession £44) / 01383 602302
- 19:30
Cambridge Philharmonic: Mozart, Mahler
- Directed by: cond)
- Written by: Mahler
Timothy Redmond conducts Mozart's Piano Concerto In D Minor and Mahler's Symphony No 4. With pianist Martin Roscoe and soprano Prudence Sanders.
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Sat 25 May
£15–£25 ( £10; Children £10 under 18s) / 01223 335184
- 19:30
Edinburgh Royal Choral Union: Brahms' Requiem
The ERCU collaborates with members of Dublin's Tallaght Choral Society in Brahms' great Requiem, plus selected choral works of Britten. For the Edinburgh performance, accompaniment is provided by Edinburgh Pro Music Orchestra. Michael Bawtree conducts, with Emily Mitchell and Trevor Bowes as guest soloists.
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Sat 25 May
£20 (£16; Students £5) / 0131 228 1155
Freya Goldmark And Alison Rhind: Beethoven, JS Bach, Paganini, Henryk Wieniawski, Ernest Chausson
- Written by: Ernest Chausson
The violinist and pianist duo performs Chausson's Poeme, Beethoven's Violin Sonata In A, Wieniawski's Theme Originale And Variations, Bach's Partita In D Minor and music by Paganini.
Uppingham Theatre
Sat 25 May
£9.50–£13.50 / 01572 820820
- 18:00
London Contemporary Orchestra: Imagined Occasions: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Claude Vivier, John Cage
- Directed by: Hugh Brunt (cond)
- Written by: John Cage
Hugh Brunt conducts Vivier's Glaubst Du An Die Unsterblichkeit Der Seele ('Do You Believe in the Immortality of the Soul?') as well as works by Harvey, Cage, Manoury, Feldman, Riddell and Stockhausen.
Aldwych Underground Station, London WC2R
Tue 21 May
£35 (£15) / 0843 222 1234
- 19:00 – 21:00
Fri 24 May
£35 (£15) / 0843 222 1234
- 17:30
Tue 28 May
£35 (£15) / 0843 222 1234
- 19:00 – 21:00
On Behalf of Nature
European Premiere: After receiving a 2010 Herald Angel Award for Songs of Ascension, US composer, singer, filmmaker and theatre artist Meredith Monk returns to the Festival with her latest music-theatre work, On Behalf of Nature. A poetic meditation on the environment, On Behalf of Nature evokes the Buddhist notion of…
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Fri 16 Aug
£10–£30 / 0131 473 2000
Sat 17 Aug
£10–£30 / 0131 473 2000
Dominic Alldis
With songs from the Great American Songbook, the vocalist performs mainstream jazz, classic swing and jazz standards alongside classical melodies.
The Pheasantry, London SW3
Thu 30 May
£12 / 020 7351 5031
- 20:30
Edinburgh Light Orchestra
From Coates to Ellis and from Wood to Sullivan, light music is enduringly popular and the Edinburgh Light Orchestra gives regular concerts celebrating this evocative repertoire.
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Sat 25 May
£6.50–£10 / 0131 334 3140
This concert features songs performed by baritone Bruce Graham as well as classics by Robert Farnon, Sidney Torch, Frederic Curzon, Peter Hope and Anthony Collins.
- 19:30 – 21:30
Edinburgh Singers: Haydn's 'Nelson' Mass
Haydn's Missa in Angustiis ('Mass in Troubled times') was written towards the end of its composer's long and amazingly fruitful career, during a time when his native Austria was threatened by Napoleon's expansion across Europe. What Haydn couldn't have foreseen was that, between his finishing the mass and its first…
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Sat 25 May
£10 (£8; under 12s free)
Ennio Morricone: Live from the Cannes Film Festival
The legendary, multiple Oscar-winning film scorer conducts a concert of his works, including selections from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso and The Untouchables.
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
Tue 21 May
Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra/Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir: Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams, Mussorgsky
- Directed by: Dane Lam (cond)
- Written by: Mussorgsky
Dane Lam conducts Mussorgsky's Night On A Bare Mountain, Vaughan Williams's Prologue, Spring, Summer And Autumn from Folk Songs Of The Four Seasons and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5.
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Sun 19 May
£9; £6 under 25s / 0151 709 3789
- 19:30
Martin Setchell
The organist performs a classical recital.
Salisbury Cathedral
Wed 19 Jun
£8 / 01722 555120
- 19:30
NYOS Summer Tour
Christopher Seaman conducts Dvořák's Carnival Overture, Bingham's Celticity, Glazunov's Violin Concerto and Shostakovich's Symphony No 10. Alina Pogostkina is the soloist.
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Thu 1 Aug
Prices to be confirmed / 0141 353 8000
- 19:30
Music Hall, Aberdeen
Wed 31 Jul
Prices to be confirmed / 01224 213800
RSNO: Dvořák Cello Concerto
Antonin Dvořák's Cello Concerto is one of the great concertos, odd since its composer claimed not to like the cello as a concerto instrument and always swore he'd never write one (and when he did, he promised the solo part to his cellist friend Hanus Wihan but then gave it to somebody else). Here, the soloist is Norwegian…
Caird Hall, Dundee
Thu 23 May
£12–£15 (£5–£7.50; under 16s free) / 01382 434940
- 19:30
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Sat 25 May
£11.50–£35 (£5–£17.50; under 16s free) / 0141 353 8000
- 19:30
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Fri 24 May
£11.50–£35 (£5–£17.50; under 16s free) / 0131 228 1155
Sampson Orchestra: Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Barber, Copland
- Directed by: Darrell Davidson (con)
- Written by: Copland
Darrell Davidson conducts Copland's Appalachian Spring, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1, Barber's Adagio and Shostakovich's Symphony No 1.
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Sat 15 Jun
£15 (£13; £5) / 01223 335184
- 19:30
Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus
The SCO Chorus, when not performing with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, gives infrequent performances of the classics of the choral repertoire.
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Sat 8 Jun
£12 (£8)
Gregory Batsleer conducts the chorus in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, MacMillan's Strathclyde Motets and Pärt's Beatitudes, along with organ music by Bach and Messiaen. Featuring Jake Arditti (countertenor), John Kitchen (organ), Sharron Griffiths (harp) and Tom Hunter (percussion).
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Mozart's 'Jupiter'
Richard Egarr may be an expert in period styles of performance, but it's all in the service of making the performances themselves sound as fresh as possible. Here he conducts from the piano in performances of Schubert's Symphony No 2, Haydn's Keyboard Concerto in D and Mozart's last and most expansive symphony, No 41…
City Halls, Glasgow
Fri 7 Mar
£14–£28 / 0141 353 8000
- 19:30
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Thu 6 Mar
£10–£30 (£5–£28; under 16s free) / 0131 668 2019
- 19:30
Younger Hall, St Andrews
Wed 5 Mar
£12.50–£21.50 / 01334 462226
- 19:30
St Giles' at Six
St Giles' Cathedral's regular 6pm concerts of rush hour music are always free.
St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
Sun 19 May
Free / 0131 226 0673
Glasgow University Chapel Choir performs Lionel Steuart Fothringham's Benedicite and Walton's Coronation Te Deum.
- 18:00
Sun 26 May
Free / 0131 226 0673
Milan's Canti Corum performs Vivaldi's Magnificat RV611 and Gloria RV589.
- 18:00
Sun 2 Jun
Free / 0131 226 0673
Organ recital from Malcolm Sim.
- 18:00
Turangalila: Opulence & Sensuality
Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila-symphonie Messiaen's great symphonic work, first presented after the Second World War, shocked audiences with its ecstatic music and opulent orchestrations. Inspired by the Tristan myth, it channels intense feelings of ecstasy and erotic love using a culmination of all the techniques…
Royal Festival Hall, London SE1
Thu 23 May
£6–£20 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£50) / 0844 875 0073
- 19:30
The Voice of Freedom
Outdoors ensemble singing.
Kelvingrove Bowl, Glasgow
Sun 9 Jun
Free / 0141 882 8825
Part of West End Festival.
- 17:45
Aberdeen Sinfonietta
The Aberdeen Sinfonietta is one of the leading musical ensembles in the North East, giving regular concerts and also providing orchestral support to choral societies in the area.
Music Hall, Aberdeen
Sun 26 May
£12 / 01224 641122
Summer Concert with conductor David Jones and clarinetist Julian Bliss presenting a programme which includes Mozart, Bizet, Schubert, and Debussy.






