Concert Diary August 2011
Monday 1st at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Barisons Chamber Choir, Ewell, Surrey
Tuesday 2nd at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Gavin Pennycook - Celtic Nyckelharpa
Wednesday 3rd at 8pm
Celebrity Organ Recital
Michael Harris
Buxtehude Praeludium in D
Muffat Toccata Undecima
Hanff Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
J.S.Bach Sonata II in C minor BWV 526
Hesse Variationen über ein Original-Thema Op 34
Wolstenholme Fantasia in E
Wolstenholme Serenata
Liszt Fantasia and Fugue on BACH
Tickets £8 (Students £5; accompanied children free) from St Giles’ Cathedral Shop (0131 226 0673) or at door.
Thursday 4th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Gavin Pennycook - Celtic Nyckelharpa
Friday 5th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Holmestrand & Botne Skolekorps, Norway
Saturday 6th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Scott Barron - Tenor
Sunday 7th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Organ Recital
Jane Gamble
Memphis, TN
Programme includes Elgar Sonata in G (1st movement) and music by J.S.Bach, Duruflé and John Weaver.
Monday 8th at 12:15
Lunchtime Concert
Freddie King and Lachlan McColl
Jazz
Tuesday 9th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Rowan McGirr – Violin
Wednesday 10th at 8pm
Celebrity Organ Recital
Peter Backhouse
Couperin Offertoire sur les Grands jeux (Messe pour les Paroisses)
J.S.Bach Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582
Alain Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta
Jackson Toccata, Chorale and Fugue
Boëllmann Suite Gothique
Tickets £8 (Students £5; accompanied children free) from St Giles’ Cathedral Shop (0131 226 0673) or at door.
Thursday 11th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
A concert by piano students from Birmingham Conservatoire
Friday 12th at 12:15
Lunchtime Concert
Fine wines and bass lines
Piano and Violins
Saturday 13th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Caledonian Voices
Sunday 14th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
From early to contemporary music from Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and America , Rudsambee Company of Singers, based in Edinburgh - 20 singers singing mostly a cappella music - are once again at St Giles’ during the Festival Fringe.
Monday 15th 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 16th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
Tuesday 16th at 2.00pm
Informal Concert
Youth cultural exchange concert
Scotland – South Africa
Wednesday 17th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Gavin Pennycook - Celtic Nyckelharpa
Thursday 18th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
Friday 19th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
Saturday 20th at 7.30pm
Singing the Reformation
A programme of music from the Thomas Wode Partbooks, commissioned by the Regent Moray, to coincide with an exhibition of all eight surviving partbooks in the Edinburgh University Library.
Music by Scottish 16th century composers and by Tallis, Palestrina, Lassus and others.
Tickets £12 available from the Fringe Box Office or at the door
Tickets £12 available from the Fringe Box Office or at the door
Sunday 21st at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Andrew Tipple – Bass
John Bryden – Piano
A programme of Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf.
Monday 22nd at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Corran Raa, Scotland
Tuesday 23rd at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Alba Brass
Wednesday 24th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Aquillos Ensemble
Thursday 25th at 12:15
Lunchtime Concert
Freddie King and Lachlan McColl
Lunchtime Concert
Freddie King and Lachlan McColl
Jazz
Friday 26th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Alanna Tonetti-Tieppo
Sunday 28th at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Cerberus
Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Monday 29th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
Tuesday 30th at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous
Wednesday 31st at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
Bellevue Rendezvous