|
Free
Lunchtime Concerts
|
Enjoy Scotland's finest emerging
professionals from the RSAMD: a different combination of instruments or
voices each day with popular classical to traditional music. Have lunch
at the Cathedral’s Cafe Camino next door!
All concerts run from 1:20 pm to 2 pm.
|
 |
|
Monday
9 August |
Yvonne Paterson (flute)
& Scott Mitchell (piano)
Aaron Copland: Duo
Rory Boyle: Touch (Flute Solo)
Philip Glass: Wichita Vortex Sutra (Piano Solo)
Francis Poulenc: Flute Sonata
|
Tuesday
10 August |
Donald Feist (baritone)
& Jennifer Redmond (piano)
Tchaikovsky: None but the lonely heart, op. 6 no. 6
Rachmaninoff: In the silent night, op. 4 no. 3
Schubert: Die Forelle
Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen
Vaughan Williams: From Songs of Travel (extracts)
Lloyd Webber: Close Every Door to Me
Leigh: The Impossible Dream
Sondheim: A Barber and His Wife
Gershwin: I Got Plenty o’Nuttin
Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
|
Wednesday
11 August |
Pure Brass (brass quintet)
Georg Friedrich Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Victor Ewald: Quintet No. 1
Peter Maxwell Davies arr Peter Swan: Farewell to Stromness
William Mathias: Summer Dances
Euday Bowman: 12th Street Rag
|
Thursday
12 August |
Andrew Paterson (guitar)
J.S Bach: Preludio BWV 997
Mauro Giuliani: Sonata op.15
Augustin Barrios Mangore: La Catedral
Astor Piazzolla: Verano Porteno
|
Friday
13 August |
Elizabeth
Garton (soprano) & Catriona Morrison (mezzo soprano)
Programme
t.b.c. |
Monday
16 August |
Jessica Leary (soprano)
Programme t.b.c. |
Tuesday
17 August |
Northern
Lights Wind Quintet
Claude Debussy : Cakewalk (from Children’s Corner)
Paul Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, op. 24 no. 2
Malcolm Arnold: Dream City
Jacques Ibert: Trois Pièces Brèves for Wind Quintet |
Wednesday
18 August |
Jemma
Brown (mezzo soprano) & Maryam Sherhan (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Sechs Lieder, Op 48:
James MacMillan: Three Scottish Songs
Robert Schumann: Liederkreis, Op 39
|
Thursday
19 August |
Calum
Robertson (clarinet) & John Bryden (piano)
Howard Ferguson: Four Short Pieces
James MacMillan: From Galloway
Arthur Bliss: Pastoral
C.V. Stanford: Sonata (slow movement)
Herbert Howells: Sonata |
Friday
20 August |
Adele
Neilson (guitar) & Simon Nieminski (organ & piano)
Programme t.b.c. |
Monday
23 August |
Emily
Mitchell (soprano) Lynda-Jane Workman (mezzo soprano)
& Chjristopher Baxter (piano)
Purcell: Sound the Trumpet
Vivaldi: Laudamus Te from Gloria
Schumann: Du Ring am meinem Finger from Frauenliebe und Leben
Schumann: An meinem Herzen from Frauenliebe und Leben
Wolf: Die Bekehrte
Wolf: Die Sprode
Chopin: Nocturne in B major Op.62/1
Mozart: Ah guarda sorella from Cosi fan tutti
Mozart: Porge amor from Le Nozze di Figaro
Gounod: Faites-lui mes aveux from Faust
Delibes: Flower duet from Lakme
arr. Hughes: The Leprechaun
arr. Liddel: Ye banks and braes
Offenbach: Barcarolle from Les contes d'Hoffmann |
Tuesday
24 August |
The Sonic
Trio: Nikola Kyosev (flute) Cristina Montesdeoca Suarez (clarinet)
Silviya Mihaylova (piano)
Gabriel Faure: Dolly Suite
Andre Messager: Solo de Concours (clarinet/piano)
Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque (piano)
Arthur Honegger: Danse de la chevre (flute)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Tarantella |
Wednesday
25 August |
Bede
Williams, Vicky Blair (trumpets) & Simon Nieminski (organ)
JHandel arr. Marlett: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel arr. Alain: Concerto in Eb Major Op. 4 No. 2
Bach arr. Naulais: Air from 3rd Orchestral Suite
Jan Koetsier: Echo Concerto op. 124
Eddie McGuire: Chinese Dances for two solo trumpets |
Thursday
26 August |
Anna Yang
(piano)
Mozart: Sonata No.1 in C major, K279
Brahms: Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118 (Nos 1-3)
Debussy: Rêverie
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47 |
Friday
27 August |
The
Philogène Piano Trio
Rachmaninov: Trio in G minor
Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D major "Ghost" |
|
|
| Free Cathedral
Organ Concerts |
The
Cathedral's new organ has nearly 4000 pipes, up to 32 feet in length.
See and hear it put through its paces with three popular solo concerts.
All concerts run from 5-5.30pm on Sundays, immediately following Choral Vespers. |
Sunday
8 August |
Nigel
McClintock (St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast)
Dieterich Buxtehude: Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Dan Locklair: The Peace is exchanged (from A Liturgical Suite)
Philip Hammond: Toccata
Louis Vierne: Etoile du Soir (from Pieces de Fantasie)
J S Bach: Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland (Chorale Prelude)
Naji Hakim: Tantum Ergo (from "Agape") |
Sunday
15
August |
Morley
Whitehead (Morningside Parish Church, Edinburgh.)
Herbert Murrill: Carillon
Henry Purcell, arr. Harvey Grace: Trumpet Tune and Peal
Henry Purcell, arr. Harvey Grace: Variations on a Ground (Evening Hymn)
Léon Boëllmann: Suite Gothique |
Sunday
21
August |
Simon
Nieminski (St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral)
Charles-Marie Widor: Allegro (from
Symphony No 6)
Richard Purvis: from 'Four Dubious Conceits:
i. Cantilena (‘Green Boughs’)
iv. Marche Grotesque
Giles Swayne: Mr Bach's Bottle Bank
Francis Jackson: Improvisation on a Chant of John Goss
Frederic Wood: from Suite 'Scenes on the Wye':
iv. Symonds Yat |
|
|
| Free Cathedral
Late Night Voices |
Late
concerts for end-of-the-day relaxation.
All concerts run from 9.45-10.30pm. |
Tuesday
17
August |
Emma
Turnbull (soprano) & Simon Nieminski (organ & piano)
Including:
Vierne: Les Angelus
Songs by Korngold and Mozart. |
Thursday
19
August |
Jessica
Leary (soprano) & Simon Nieminski (piano)
William Walton: A Song for the Lord
Mayor's Table
André Caplet: Trois Fables
A selection of popular arias and folk songs. |
Tuesday
24
August |
Twelfth
Day (Esther Swift & Catriona Price - fiddle, harp, vocals)
Playing a mixture of traditional and
self-penned tunes and songs, this vibrant young duo have been
entrancing audiences at folk festivals and venues UK wide. The music of
Twelfth Day is fast and furious yet subdued, playful yet reflective,
mixing Scottish folk music with jazz, opera and anything in between.
More information at www.twelfthdaymusic.com |
Thursday
26
August |
Bartek
Matuszak (tenor) & Simon Nieminski (piano)
Including:
Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe |
