Concert Diary August 2010
Sunday 1st at 6.00pm
St Giles’ at Six
Agnieszka Opiola – Solo Violin
J.S.Bach – Sonatas and Partitas I
Monday 2nd at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
are an inventive Scottish based trio of Gavin Marwick (fiddle), Cameron Robson (cittern, jaw harp) and Ruth Morris (nyckelharpa) plundering Europe for strange and interesting tunes. The nyckelharpa is a traditional Swedish instrument, a beautifully toned keyed fiddle in the viola register, rarely seen in the UK.
Tuesday 3rd at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
Wednesday 4th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
Wednesday 4th at 8pm
Celebrity Organ Recital
Peter Backhouse
Hindemith Sonata II
J.S.Bach Sonata II in C minor BWV 526
Peeters Heer Jezus heeft een hofken
Bairstow Sonata
Duruflé Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain
Tickets £8 (accompanied children free) from St Giles’ Cathedral Shop (0131 226 0673) or at the door
Thursday 5th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
Saturday 7th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Jessheim Hovin Mogreina skolekorps Norway
Sunday 8th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Agnieszka Opiola – Solo Violin
J.S.Bach – Sonatas and Partitas II
Monday 9th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Choir of St Marys United Church, St Marys, ON, Canada
Tuesday 10th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Rowan McGirr – Violin
Wednesday 11th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Simon Kempston
Thursday 12th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Sangkoret Mix, Norway
Friday 13th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Uangel Voice Choir, Korea
Saturday 14th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Teresa Maria Vicario, Stamford, CT, USA
Sunday 15th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Organ Recital
Paul Carr
Music by Naji Hakim, J.S.Bach, Mozart, David Briggs, Louis Vierne and others
Tuesday 17th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Southwest Camerata
Concertante Ensemble
Saturday 21st at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Southwest Camerata
A String Serenade
Saturday 21st at 8pm
Yong-In Youth Orchestra
South Korea
Joong-Yeop Lee – Conductor
Dvorak Symphony No 8
Sunday 22nd at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Duo Concertante
Sharon Dowsett – Flute
Adele Neilson – Guitar
Music by Piazzolla and Giuliani
Sunday 22nd at 10.30pm
A Festive Flourish
Three organists at one organ; Peter Backhouse, Michael Harris and John Kitchen in a festive programme celebrating the many colours of the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ Cathedral.
Tickets £8 from St Giles’ Cathedral Shop (0131 226 0673), Fringe Box Office, or at the door.
Monday 23rd at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
WichVoice
Exciting new London-based vocal quartet WichVoice perform songs from all genres, including religious settings, early English madrigals and present day pop music.
Thursday 26th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
WichVoice
Friday 27th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
WichVoice
Sunday 29th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Rudsambee
A programme including Eric Whitacre’s rarely performed Cloudburst with handbells, percussion, piano, voices and “rain”!!
Sunday 29th at 10.30pm
Duruflé Requiem
St Giles’ Cathedral Choir, directed by Michael Harris, with Peter Backhouse, organ, sing Duruflé’s evocative setting of the Requiem and the Quatre Motets. Enjoy the atmospheric setting of St Giles’ and the splendour of this haunting music.
Tickets £10 from St Giles’ Cathedral Shop (0131 226 0673), Fringe Box Office, or at the door.
