City Halls

Events at City Halls (Candleriggs, Glasgow)

The Acoustic Affair: Callum Baird

Location	Date	Tickets
	Young Glaswegian singer-songwriter poised for breakout. View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 10 Feb 8pm	0141 353 8000 £10

The Acoustic Affair: Dave Anderson

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	Veteran actor and musician presents his songwriting side. View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 24 Feb 8pm	0141 353 8000 £14

Ars Nova Copenhagen: In C

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	Paul Hillier directs Ars Nova Copenhagen in a performance of Terry Riley's chill-out classic, along with Andriessen's Flora Tristan and a new work from Steve Martland. Part of minimal. View full details
City Halls	25 Mar 7pm	0141 353 8000 £15

BA Applied Music Super Combo

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	Performance by students from the BA Applied Music course (which the university is threatening to bring to an end). View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 14 Feb 5.30pm	0141 353 8000 £4

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Rhapsodic Brahms

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	An evening of towering German melancholy, with Schumann's original version of the Symphony No 4, Brahms' Symphony No 1 (which was sometimes referred to by contemporaries as 'Beethoven's Tenth'), and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and the men of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus on Brahms' moving Alto Rhapsody. View full details
City Halls	22 Mar 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £10–£23

BBC SSO Afternoon Performance 5: Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations

Location	Date	Tickets
	Stefan Blunier conducts William Wallace's The Passing of Beatrice, Lyadov's Eight Russian Folk-Songs, Shostakovich's Symphony No 1 and Tchaikovsky's Variations on a rococo theme for cello and orchestra with soloist Gemma Rosefield. View full details
City Halls	Grand Hall 29 Mar 2pm	0141 353 8000 £7–£9

BBC SSO: Bruch's First Violin Concerto and Dvořák 8

Location	Date	Tickets
	Stefan Solyom conducts Liszt's Mazeppa, Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 and Dvořák's Symphony No 8. Alexandra Soumm (violin) is the soloist. View full details
City Halls	Grand Hall 23 Feb 2pm	0141 353 8000 £7–£9

BBC SSO: Heroic Strauss & Prokofiev Piano Concerto 4

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	Richard Strauss' Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, the musical depiction of a high-spirited trickster that surely inspired more than one generation of cartoon music composers, is in the first item on a weighty programme. Denis Kozhukhin solos on Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 4; Richard Strauss' Prelude to Act 1 of Guntram is as much as most of us will ever get to hear of Strauss' seldom-played first opera; while Schumann's Symphony No 3 (Rhenish) is a virtuoso rendition of the composer's… View full details
City Halls	16 Feb 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £10–£23

BBC SSO: Manze & The Best of British

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	Andrew Manze has orchestrated three string pieces by Purcell, the Fantasia upon one note, the Pavan in B flat minor and the Chacony in G minor, to open a programme that challenges any notion that English music tends to be pastoral and unchallenging: Britten's Cello Symphony was written for the great Msistlav Rostropovich and its brooding intensity suggests Britten and Rostropovich's mutual friend Shostakovich; Purcell's In nomine (in seven parts) provides a brief interval before Vaughan… View full details
City Halls	8 Mar 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £10–£23

BBC SSO: Runnicles Weekend Closing Concert

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	The final concert of Donald Runnicles' weekend of events highlighting new talent in Scotland features Martin Storey on cello performing Osvaldo Golijov's Mariel, followed by Bruckner's monumental and haunting Symphony No 7. Runnicles, naturally, conducts. View full details
City Halls	7 May 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £10–£23

BBC SSO: Shostakovich's Fifth and Prokofiev Piano Concerto 5

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	Bohuslav's Memorial to Lidice commemorates the victims of a Nazi atrocity. Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 5, featuring Denis Kozhukin, was the last piano concerto the composer ever completed. Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 is perhaps the most controversial of all its composer's works: was Shostakovich buckling under official pressure, or was he encoding irony into its apparently bombastic themes? Ludovic Morlot conducts. In a post-concert coda, Denis Kozhukin plays Prokofiev's Sonata No 5 in C… View full details
City Halls	5 Apr 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £10–£23

BBC SSO: The Lark Ascending & Vaughan Williams Symphonies

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	Andrew Manze as conductor brings together two of Vaughan Williams' greatest works, the dissonant and troubled Symphony No 4 and the serene and tranquil Symphony No 5, along with undoubtedly the composer's most famous work: The Lark Ascending. The soloist is the outstanding young violinist Jennifer Pike, who kicks it all off on her own with JS Bach's Sonata No 1 for unaccompanied violin BWV 1001. View full details
City Halls	19 Apr 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £10–£23

Boesch & Martineau: The Schubert Song Cycles III

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	Baritone Florian Boesch and accompanist Martin Martineau perform Schubert's engrossing song cycle Winterreise, settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller. View full details
City Halls	20 May 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £15

Charlie Landsborough

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	Septuagenarian country singer who is as entertaining on stage as he is melodic. View full details
City Halls	Grand Hall 18 Mar 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £16–£18

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

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	The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra celebrate their tenth year with this improvised chamber performance. View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 21 Mar 8pm	0141 353 8000 £6

Glasgow International Jazz Festival

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	A festival that does exactly what it says on the tin, the Glasgow International Jazz Festival celebrates all genres of jazz from around the world. Present at the 2011 festival were Lee Konitz, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Michel Legrand, Zu and the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. View full details
City Halls	27 Jun–1 Jul Times vary	0141 353 8000 Prices vary

Glass/Flux: Music from Einstein on the Beach

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	Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's opera Einstein on the Beach contains some of Glass's most viscerally exciting music, especially in the 'Knee Plays'. Here, the Einstein Knee Play music is performed alongside composers associated with the legendary art group Fluxus, including La Monte Young and Terry Riley. Paul Hillier directs Ars Nova Copenhagen, with the Scottish Ensemble's Jonathan Morton taking the solo violin spot. Part of minimal. View full details
City Halls	24 Mar 6pm	0141 353 8000 £12

Hebrides Ensemble: Pierrot Lunaire

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	Arnold Schoenberg's quirky 1912 melodrama for voice and chamber ensemble is full of paradoxes: is it for the concert hall or the theatre stage? Is it high art or cabaret? Why is the male central character apparently written for a soprano? It's one of his most entertaining and accessible pieces, and a defining work of 20th century music; the Ensemble got four-star reviews for its 2010 performance. View full details
City Halls	31 May 6pm	0141 353 8000 To be confirmed

Jim McKenna

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	McKenna shows off his musical wares performed on his collection of vintage analogue synths. View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 9 May 8pm	0141 353 8000 £6

Little Match Girl Passion

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	Hans Christian Andersen's story has inspired many retellings, notably Aki Kaurismaki's sardonic movie The Match Factory Girl. David Lang's moving The Little Match Girl Passion won a Pulitzer Prize and is performed here with a new Lang work and his 2008 score Pierced by Bang On A Can, the Smith Quartet, Theatre of Voices and soprano Else Torp. Part of minimal. View full details
City Halls	24 Mar 4.30pm	0141 353 8000 £12

Pavel Haas Quartet/Llŷr Williams

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	Janáček and Smetana, two great Czechs who didn't quite balance: the former fell in love with a woman who was forty years younger, while the latter spent his last years in an asylum. The Haas quartet plays Smetana's forceful String Quartet No 1 and Janáček's equally strong and personal Quartet No 2, plus pianist Williams plays Janáček's From an Overgrown Path for solo piano. View full details
City Halls	13 May 3pm	0141 353 8000 £15

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Emperor and Eroica

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	Beethoven admired Cherubini more than any other of his contemporaries, so it's fitting that Cherubini's Overture: Démophoon should set the stage for two works that display Beethoven at his most Promethean: the Piano Concerto No 5 'Emperor' and the Symphony No 3 'Eroica'. Llŷr Williams, who recently completed the entire cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas at Greyfriars Kirk, brings his authority to the solo spot. Andrew Manze conducts. View full details
City Halls	Grand Hall 10 Feb 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £12–£26 (£5; Seniors £10–£24)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Serenade

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	Berlioz's Love Scene from Romeo and Juliet and Brahms' Serenade frame soloist Lars Vogt in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1, just before the SCO goes on a tour of Germany. Robin Ticciati conducts. View full details
City Halls	Grand Hall 24 Feb 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £12–£26 (Seniors £10–£24 ; Children/Unemployed/Students £5)

Scottish Ensemble with Lawrence Power

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	Haydn's Symphony No 44 and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante K364 bookend Alwyn's Pastoral Fantasia and a new work by Luke Bedford entitled Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale, specially written for violist Power and the Ensemble's leader Jonathan Morton (violin). View full details
City Halls	23 Feb 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £10

Spaghetti Western Orchestra

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	Five comedians bring to life the music of Ennio Morricone from the iconic Eastwood films featuring the Man With No Name with recreations of the punch ups, gunshots and jangling spurs. View full details
City Halls	12 Mar 7.30pm	0141 353 8000 £25 (£20)

Strathclyde BA Applied Music Jazz Orchestra

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	Concert by student jazz players. View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 17 Apr 5.30pm	0141 353 8000 £4

Strathclyde University BA Applied Music Jazz Majors 1

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	50s and 60s bop and hard bop from student jazz musicians. View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 20 Mar 5.30pm	0141 353 8000 £4

Strathclyde University BA Applied Music Jazz Majors 2

Location	Date	Tickets
	The ensemble focuses on 50s and 60s Blue Note-style bop and hard bop classics by the likes of Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley and Mingus: funky. View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 6 Mar 5.30pm	0141 353 8000 £4

Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra

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	Student jazz players in full flight. View full details
City Halls	Recital Room 28 Feb 5.30pm 27 Mar 5.30pm 1 May 5.30pm 29 May 5.30pm	0141 353 8000 £4

Venice by Night

Location	Date	Tickets
	Music by Vivaldi and his contemporaries, performed by La Serenissima under the direction of Adrian Chandler, with Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Simon Munday (trumpet), Peter Whelan (bassoon) and Chandler himself on violin. View full details
City Halls	29 Apr 8pm	0141 353 8000 £15–£17.50

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