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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Sean Rafferty presents a concert to be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' programme. Stefan Solyom conducts a mixed bag of popular classics and obscure works, joined by a very special guest star. Max four tickets per application. Early booking is recommended.
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26 Feb 5.00 City Halls, Glasgow
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Afternoon Performance
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Christoph König and Martyn Brabbins conduct an afternoon performance to be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3, opening with Hungarian composer Carl Goldmark's 'Overture: Im Fruhling'. Ailsa Weilerstein is soloist in Schumann's 'Cello Concerto' and lastly, Tchaikovsky's 'Symphony No 1 ('Winter Daydreams')'.
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18 Feb 2.00 City Halls, Glasgow
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: North by North-East 1
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Conductor Richard Farnes makes his BBC SSO debut in a celebration of British music. Britten's 'Four Sea Interludes' from the opera 'Peter Grimes' is followed by Thea Musgrave's magical 'Songs for a Winter's Evening', a setting of seven Burns poems sung by soprano Lisa Milne. Finally, a triumphant finale with Elgar's much-loved 'Enigma Variations'.
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11 Feb 7.30 City Halls, Glasgow
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: North by North-East 2
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Classical superstar Nicola Benedetti exhibits her considerable skills in Sibelius' fearsome 'Violin Concerto'. Opening the concert, Swedish composer Benjamin Staern's 'Jubilate' receives its UK premiere and finally, Shostakovich's intense 'Symphony No 10', composed shortly after Stalin's death and said to be strongly connected with the composer's feeling about the dictator. Stefan Solyom conducts.
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25 Feb 7.30 City Halls, Glasgow
Edinburgh Quartet
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The Quartet performs Haydn's 'Quartet in G major' and Howard Blake's 'Spieltrieb'.
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25 Feb 1.10 Glasgow University Concert Hall, Glasgow
Kelvin Ensemble
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The university's student-run orchestra performs Howard Blake's 'Diversions', a concerto for marimba by Howard Blake, Prokofiev's 'Symphony No 5' and John Adams' 'Lollapalooza'.
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27 Feb 7.30 Bute Hall, Glasgow
Kelvingrove Organ Recitals
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Free lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists.
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3 Jan–28 Feb, not Sundays 1.00 Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow
Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals
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Sunday promenade concerts with different organists.
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Sundays 3.00–3.45 Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow
Lev & Friends
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Violinist Lev Atlas presents this Russian, Hungarian, Gypsy, jazz, classical and folk fusion.
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21 Feb 9.00 Café Cossachok, Glasgow
Many Happy Returns
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Pianist Katharine Durran and cellist Veronica Henderson perform works by Chopin and Schumann in the year of both composers' bicentenaries.
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16 Feb 1.15 Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow
The Merchant Voices
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Community choir with weekly classes, led by tenor and conductor Dominic Peckham and covering a broad vocal repertoire. Open to adults of all ages, no previous musical experience is required - just lots of enthusiasm!
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Wednesdays 6.30–8.30 City Halls, Glasgow
Music for Early Ears
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These creative music classes for young children and their parents/carers aim to encourage learning through creative play. Ages 18 months-2 yrs at 1.30pm; 3-4 yrs at 2.30pm. The ten-week term starts on Sat 16 Jan, with no class on Sat 13 Feb.
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Saturdays (Times vary) City Halls, Glasgow
Music in the University: Laurina Sableviciute
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A lunchtime piano recital featuring excerpts from S Vainiunas' 'Eight Moods for piano' A Savanenkovaite's 'A Journey of the Heart', works by Brahms, Chopin and Liszt, and Morricone's 'Rag in Frantumi'.
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18 Feb 1.10 Glasgow University Concert Hall, Glasgow
Organ Recital: Kevin Bowyer
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Kevin Bowyer continues Vierne's '24 Pièces en Style Libre' with numbers 13-18.
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16 Feb 1.10 Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, Glasgow
Organ Recital: Kevin Bowyer
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The final instalment in Kevin Bowyer's performances of Vierne's '24 Pièces en Style Libre', with numbers 19-24.
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23 Feb 1.10 Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, Glasgow
RSAMD Song Studio: She Loves Me (Not)
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An illustration of the many facets of love - the good, the bad and the ugly - in a musical celebration of Valentine's day.
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15 Feb 1.00 RSAMD, Glasgow
RSAMD String Ensemble with Elizabeth Layton
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The BBC SSO Leader Elizabeth Layton is a guest performer in Mozart's 'Divertimento' and Shostakovich/Barshai's 'Symphony in C minor'.
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12 Feb 1.00 RSAMD, Glasgow
RSNO: A Roman Spectacular
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Berlioz' 'Roman Carnival Overture' provides a bombastic opening to this concert, which sees internationally acclaimed Russian pianist Nicolai Lugansky perform Beethoven's 'Piano Concerto No 3' and also includes Guillaume Connesson's 'A Glimmer in the Age of Darkness' and Respighi's lush symphonic poem, 'Pines of Rome'.
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25 Feb 7.30 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
RSNO: Järvi conducts Tristan and Isolde
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A theme of doomed love suffuses this concert, conducted by the great Neeme Järvi, and which opens with Sibelius's 'Pelléas and Mélisande'. Next, after the success of his epic orchestral version of Wagner's 'Ring' two seasons ago, Henk de Vlieger has turned his hand to 'Tristan and Isolde', compressing the opera, and its intense emotional landscape, into a symphonic work - no mean feat.
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20 Feb 7.30 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Leschenko plays Chopin
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Russian pianist Polina Leschenko performs Chopin's enchanting 'Piano Concerto in F minor', along with the music of two of his contemporaries: a rare performance of Clara Schumann's 'Romance in A minor', and Mendelssohn's 'Symphony No 3 ('Scottish')', inspired by his 1829 visit to Scotland, the same year as Chopin began his concerto aged 19.
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12 Feb 7.30 City Halls, Glasgow
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Travels in Eastern Europe
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A concert with an exotic flavour. Contrasting works by two Hungarian exiles - Bartók's 'Rumanian Folk Dances' and Ligeti's 'Ramifications' - are performed alongside Mozart's ''Prague' Symphony', composed in honour of his special relationship with the city, and his 'Bassoon Concerto', performed by Peter Whelan. Robin Ticciati conducts.
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19 Feb 7.30 City Halls, Glasgow
Scottish Ensemble: Toby Spence sings Jacques Brel
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Tenor Toby Spence, a frequent performer with the Ensemble, sings a selection of songs by Brel accompanied by accordion, piano, percussion and strings. Also with Kurt Schwertsik's 'Adieu Satie', two of Satie's 'Gnossienes' and Artistic Director Jonathan Morton's arrangement on Debussy's 'Suite from Children's Corner'.
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13 Feb 7.30 The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
Scottish Opera: La Bohème
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Tony award-winning director Stewart Laing's modern twist on this perennial masterpiece of Italian opera sees Paris' vibrantly shabby bohemian quarter relocated to 21st-century New York. Puccini's lusciously scored romantic tragedy tells the story of a group of penniless artists and the poet Rodolfo's love affair with the terminally ill Mimi. Conducted by Francesco Corti and featuring soloists Celine Byrne, Avi Klemberg and Nadine Livingston.
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27 Feb 7.15 Theatre Royal, Glasgow
University Mass for Ash Wednesday
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Strathclyde University Chamber Choir performs a specially written motet by James MacMillan, along with some music from the Scottish renaissance.
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17 Feb 7.00 St Columba's Church, Glasgow
Violin Makers Scotland: Showcase and Reception
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Hear performances by RSAMD students, view and try the violins and meet the makers over some light refreshments.
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14 Feb 11.30am RSAMD, Glasgow

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